European Muslims resort to virginity ploys
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Chastity can exact a painful price from young Muslim women, forced into lies or surgery to go to the marriage bed as virgins.
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Danish Muslims are dismayed but determined after the reprinting of a cartoon satirising the Prophet Muhammad, the BBC's Frances Harrison reports.
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The twin topics of education and Islam attract the attention of several of today's European papers.
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PARIS: With concern growing about radical Islam in their midst, governments in western Europe are debating how to ensure that Muslim prayer leaders preach in the local language and spread messages of moderation rather than hate.
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BERLIN: Turkey's bid to become the first predominantly Muslim country to gain membership of the European Union has sparked a wider debate about integrating immigrants into European countries.
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Pope Benedict may have prayed with a mufti in Istanbul's Blue Mosque, but that doesn't mean that Catholic children in his native Germany can follow his example when they gather for pre-Christmas festivities at their schools.
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In the chaos of kidnappings in Iraq and the doleful diplomatic drumbeat from disparate world capitals, notably Paris, has anyone noticed the quiet dawn of a new European Islam?
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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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Pilot projects to root out Islamist extremists grooming young Muslims are being planned for British cities.
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Chicago Tribune - A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: Anyone wondering how the struggle for the soul of Islam could play out in America should look to Europe. Islamic traditions and beliefs are prompting Europeans to re-evaluate practices and laws as well as prized principles, such as the separation of church and state. Nowhere is this more evident than in France, now home to the largest Islamic community on the continent. For the 11th part of this occasional series, a Tribune reporter traveled to a Paris suburb to examine the future that Europe is straining to handle.
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Britain's struggle to contain Muslim extremism points up a chilling trend across Europe: the rise of radical Islam, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young people to answer the call to jihad.
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Turkey's plans for new sex laws may hurt its European ambitions
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Suspects in a plot to attack the Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg were accused in court Thursday of having links to Islamic networks in Britain, Italy and Spain.
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COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.
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BERLIN -- Anger flared across the Islamic world yesterday over comments by Pope Benedict XVI, with Muslims from London to Jakarta assailing the pontiff for implicitly linking Islam with religious violence in a speech earlier this week.
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Controversy erupted when Muslims went looking for fun, but the event was a moment of harmony
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German-language papers welcome the Muslim initiative behind Sunday's anti-terror demonstration in Cologne. And France launches a seduction campaign.