Muslim Integration

Top Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind today passed a resolution stating that Kashmir is an "integral part" of India and said that the welfare of the people in the valley lies in their full integration with India.

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea by Muslim groups of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute seeking reconsideration by a larger bench the observations made by it in a 1994 verdict that a mosque was not integral to Islam.

The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the practice of female genital mutilation of minor girls in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, saying it violates the bodily "integrity" of a girl child.

Islam will collapse if prayer in mosque is not recognised as an integral part of the religion, the Supreme Court, which has resumed hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case, was told today. Rajiv Dhavan, who is representing one of the original litigants in this case from the Muslim side, said the top court's 1994 verdict had completely...

A verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case that is being heard the Supreme Court could take longer. In a new twist to the case that involves 2.77 acres of land that Hindus and Muslims claim, the Supreme Court has first decided to examine the correctness of the five-judge bench verdict of 1994 which ruled that "mosque is not an essential and integra...

Triple talaq or the practice of Muslim men getting an instant divorce by saying "talaq" three times is "cruel" and a monstrosity, the Allahabad High Court has said in a strong observation that echoes the stand taken by the central government in the Supreme Court recently. The view that "the Muslim husband enjoys an arbitrary, unilateral power to in...

President Francois Hollande speaks of "a problem with Islam" in French society, in excerpts published Wednesday of a book in which he also suggests that immigration needs to be curbed.

A Muslim father was fined in Switzerland Wednesday for refusing to allow his daughters to take swimming lessons at school, in the latest case exposing the challenges of integration in the Alpine country.

The German government is rushing to integrate hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, offering them language classes and the prospect of work. But in a country known for its matter-of-fact acceptance of public nudity and creative forms of lovemaking, it is also trying to teach the mostly-Muslim migrants about the joy of sex.

Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said Saturday that a "significant" part of the Muslim population celebrated attacks, blaming the country's policies for failing to integrate migrants into society.

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah today said yoga is deeply ingrained in the university's culture and that a number of his predecessors encouraged its practice on the campus.

Ralph Giordano, a German writer and Holocaust survivor who spoke out against anti-Semitism and the far right, and later became a prominent critic of Germany's failure to integrate Muslim immigrants, has died. He was 91.

A pink and orange all-women's gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and what some view as blatant populism in the run-up to France's municipal elections.

Top Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind today passed a resolution stating that Kashmir is an "integral part" of India and said that the welfare of the people in the valley lies in their full integration with India.

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea by Muslim groups of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute seeking reconsideration by a larger bench the observations made by it in a 1994 verdict that a mosque was not integral to Islam.

The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the practice of female genital mutilation of minor girls in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, saying it violates the bodily "integrity" of a girl child.

Islam will collapse if prayer in mosque is not recognised as an integral part of the religion, the Supreme Court, which has resumed hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case, was told today. Rajiv Dhavan, who is representing one of the original litigants in this case from the Muslim side, said the top court's 1994 verdict had completely...

A verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case that is being heard the Supreme Court could take longer. In a new twist to the case that involves 2.77 acres of land that Hindus and Muslims claim, the Supreme Court has first decided to examine the correctness of the five-judge bench verdict of 1994 which ruled that "mosque is not an essential and integra...

Triple talaq or the practice of Muslim men getting an instant divorce by saying "talaq" three times is "cruel" and a monstrosity, the Allahabad High Court has said in a strong observation that echoes the stand taken by the central government in the Supreme Court recently. The view that "the Muslim husband enjoys an arbitrary, unilateral power to in...

President Francois Hollande speaks of "a problem with Islam" in French society, in excerpts published Wednesday of a book in which he also suggests that immigration needs to be curbed.

A Muslim father was fined in Switzerland Wednesday for refusing to allow his daughters to take swimming lessons at school, in the latest case exposing the challenges of integration in the Alpine country.

The German government is rushing to integrate hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, offering them language classes and the prospect of work. But in a country known for its matter-of-fact acceptance of public nudity and creative forms of lovemaking, it is also trying to teach the mostly-Muslim migrants about the joy of sex.

Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said Saturday that a "significant" part of the Muslim population celebrated attacks, blaming the country's policies for failing to integrate migrants into society.

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah today said yoga is deeply ingrained in the university's culture and that a number of his predecessors encouraged its practice on the campus.

Ralph Giordano, a German writer and Holocaust survivor who spoke out against anti-Semitism and the far right, and later became a prominent critic of Germany's failure to integrate Muslim immigrants, has died. He was 91.

A pink and orange all-women's gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and what some view as blatant populism in the run-up to France's municipal elections.