On 1st January 2007, nearly one million Muslims from Bulgaria, a country having one of largest Muslim minority in Europe, became EU citizens. Muslims comprise 12% of Bulgaria´s population. Besides ethnic Turks, Bulgarian Muslims also include 300,000 Roma Gypsies and Pomaks – Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman rule. Muslims are concentrated in [...]
Yusuf Fernandez
Islam in Romania is followed by about 70,000 people, about 2% of the country´s 22 million population, who have become citizens of the European Union since the 1st January of this year. There is an important Muslim community in the Constanta Country. There are also many Muslims living in Bucharest and other big cities. [...]
Joanna Ripard
Italy’s one million Muslims could be among the first customers of a Shariah-compliant finance structure in Malta as they wait for the island to give them the opportunity to invest, finance projects and create wealth, Malta Institute of Management chairman Reuben Buttigieg believes.
Mr Buttigieg says an Islamic finance structure for Italy is under discussion [...]
By Hadi Yahmid
It’s prayer time, but the silence is deafening inside the massive prayer hall of the Islamic Cultural Center in the Italian capital, also known as Rome Grand Mosque.
“There is another small prayer room underground, there might be some worshippers there,” Ahmed Adam Ya`qoub, the mosque’s keeper, told IslamOnline.net.
Inside the 100m2 room, there [...]
An International group of scientists has uncovered clear evidence that there were massive forced conversions to Catholicism by Muslims and Sephardic Jews in the 15th and 16th centuries in Spain and Portugal. They have published a study that has been mentioned by some important mainstream media in different parts of the world, including The Guardian [...]
The establishment of a European network of media organisations dealing
with Muslim communities has been proposed by webislam.com and
saphirnews.com, the largest Spanish and French Muslim websites
respectively. This “European Media Islamic Network” seeks to
coordinate participating organisations and help promote their common
interests, without undermining the identity, language, and character
of the individual members.
The network is aimed at giving a [...]
Summary: WebIslam, Spain’s first, and the world’s largest, Spanish speaking website developed for Muslim communities, has taken the initiative to create a European Network of Muslim Technology Entrepreneurs, which would use technology to unify efforts to provide alternatives to extremist propaganda about Islam and the West and to develop a professional standard [...]
