Zurich mosque gunman was Swiss, no Islamist link: police
Source: Reuters By Silke Koltrowitz | ZURICH A gunman who shot three worshippers in a Zurich mosque on Monday evening was a 24-year-old Swiss man with Ghanaian roots and no […]
Christmas Markets Are Beloved Tradition, but a Challenge to Protect
Source: The New York Times By ALISSA J. RUBIN A Christmas tree is illuminated at the Strasbourg Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, last month.CreditPatrick Hertzof/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PARIS […]
Berlin on high alert as Christmas market attacker may still be at large
Source: The Washington Post By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner December 20 at 12:15 PM BERLIN — The German capital was on high alert Tuesday as authorities feared one or […]
What 5 Political Promises Say About the State of the World
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises. Though enough voters appear to have liked what they heard to make Trump President, some of those pledges, like deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning Muslims from entering the country, are unlikely ever to be […]
Berlin police ‘unsure’ if they have right man for truck attack
Source: The Local Live updates from Berlin after a truck ploughed into a Christmas market on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 48. What we know so far: – A large truck drove into a crowded Christmas market in west Berlin at around 8.30pm on Monday evening. – So […]
What we know about the Berlin Christmas market attacker
Source: The Local Police now have the man in custody who they believe drove the truck into the crowd at Breitscheidplatz under the capital’s iconic Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church shortly after 8pm on Monday evening, killing at least 12 people. Reports on Monday evening stated that the man fled in the direction of […]
Three people hurt in shooting at Zurich Islamic centre
Suspect fired shots at worshippers at Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing scene, leaving victims seriously wounded. Switzerland, a country of some eight million people, reportedly has around 450,000 Muslims [EPA] A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring […]
Nine dead as truck hits Berlin Christmas market in suspected attack
AFP/DPA/The Local news@thelocal.de 19 December 2016 Photo: DPA At least nine people have died and more than 50 were injured after a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night. We are shutting down the live updates for the evening. Here’s what we know so far: A […]
Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov shot dead
Source: Aljazeera Russia’s ambassador to Ankara has been shot and killed in a gun attack in the Turkish capital, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Andrey Karlov was several minutes into a […]
Sorry, Louise Casey, but Muslim women are held back by discrimination
theguardian: by Aina Khan — I thought my degree would be a passport to a dream job, but in Bradford the ladder of social mobility was always out of reach Bradford, Yorkshire. ‘Not only are Muslim women subject to high levels of unemployment and poverty, but discrimination on the basis […]
Istanbul’s Eurasia Tunnel opens Today
Source: THE DAILY SABAH The Eurasia Tunnel, one of Turkey’s most visionary mega projects, which will allow automobiles to pass beneath Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait, opens Tuesday on Dec 20, 2016, […]
Islamist radicals in Germany backed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Qatar – German media
Source: RT A number of Islamic religious groups from the Gulf States are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments, Suddeutsche Zeitung paper […]
Thousands attend Berlin rally for Aleppo
Source: The Local “What is happening there amounts to what is the worst in the world,” said Mahmoud Almizeh, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee who comes from Raqa, now the bastion of the Islamic State jihadist group. Germany has opened its doors to some 600,000 Syrian refugees since the conflict began […]
Ahmadiyya as viewed by Croatian Member of Parliament Mr Davor Bernardic.
By Zubair Khan. LINK for German Jalsa Salana-2016 (Annual Gathering) LINK for UK Jalsa Salana-2016 (Annual Gathering) Note by Editor. Just couple of weeks ago Mr Davor Bernardic has won the Social Democrats Party election and now he is also the National President of Croatian Social Democrat Party. Congratulation to […]
Switzerland makes U-turn over EU worker quotas to keep single market access
Parliament passes immigration law it hopes will offer enhanced access to single market while giving residents priority over jobs, drawing parallels to Brexit arguments The SVP, the largest party in the Swiss parliament, accused the other parties of caving in to Brussels. Photograph: Anthony Anex/EPA Jon Henley European affairs correspondent […]
Homeless shelter opens with multifaith support in Leicester
Source: The Guardian Volunteers for One Roof set up beds at the homeless shelter in Leicester. Photograph: handout BY Harriet SherwoodReligion correspondent A night shelter for rough sleepers in Leicester will […]
Government’s responsibility over sharia law
Source: The Guardian Sharia courts are a symptom rather than the cause of the problems many Muslim women face (Sharia courts have no place in UK family law, theguardian.com, 14 […]
12-year-old attempted to bomb Christmas market in south Germany: prosecutors
Source: The Local The boy, a German citizen of Iraqi heritage, attempted to blow up the device at the Ludwigshafen Christmas market on November 26th. When the device failed to detonate he gave up, before trying again on December 5th, prosecutors said on Friday. This time he took the explosive device, […]
Ahmadiyya Croatia organized event on “Woman in Islam” at Culture Information Center Zagreb.
By: Zubair K Khan On 15.12.2016 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Croatia organized an event in the auditorium of Culture Information Center Zagreb. Mainly it was a lecture on the topic of Woman in Islam. However prior to lecture, recitation from Holy Quran and its Croatian translation was read by Ahmadiyya Missionary […]
Swiss high court slaps down effort to ban university’s Islamic centre
Source: Reuters By John Miller | ZURICH Switzerland’s highest court on Wednesday blocked efforts to ban a state-funded Islamic-focused academic centre at a Swiss university, ruling that an anti-immigration political […]