The Bulgarian police have prevented about 100 imams from blockading a major in Southwestern Bulgaria in protest against the reinstatement of Nedim Gendzhev as Chief Mufti.
The Muslim priests were faced with about 200 policemen near the town of Simitli, and we unable to stage a full-fledged protest.
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'Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals.'
Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Lebanon, has said this may be Turkey’s century because it’s the only country in the Middle East actually pointing toward the future.
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs is focusing on 2010 as “Quran Year,” and as part of the project, this year’s Blessed Birth Week will focus on the Quran as well.
Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini on Friday rejected the idea of sending to jail women who wear the face-coveing Islamic burqa. Both Belgium and France are moving to ban the burqa and the niqab, which leaves only the woman's eyes visible.