Reuters International OCT 24, 2016 – 11:03 Migrants with their belongings queue as their evacuation and transfer to reception centers in France, and the dismantlement of the camp called the “Jungle” in Calais, France, starts October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (reuters_tickers) By Matthias Blamont CALAIS, France (Reuters) – France began […]
Source: The Local “If Angela Merkel wants to stand for Chancellor again, she has my full support,” Gerda Hasselfeldt, leader of the CSU in the Bundestag, told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.“We are prepared to resolve the few remaining differences we have and now need to concentrate our efforts on our opponents. […]
Source: The Guardian By Matthew Weaver The presenter Fatima Manji has questioned whether the press regulator will ever prohibit hate speech on the grounds of religion after it cleared the Sun […]
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi There is no doubt that the threat from international terrorism is real and that it requires proportionate and evidence-based strategies to confront it. Muslims in […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published October 22, 2016 AA Photo A 2,000-year-old Roman bath, also known as ‘Basilica Therma,’ located in Central Anatolian Turkish province of Yozgat is expected to be open to tourism in the next few years, officials have said on Saturday. The excavation site contains significant statues and Christian […]
Published October 21, 2016 Associated Press Muslim men gather for a prayer and demonstration near Rome’s ancient Colosseum, seen in the background Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. The Muslim community of Rome gathered by the Colosseum to pray and demonstrate against the alleged shutting down by police of unofficial places of […]
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR17 October 2016 Supporters of the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA march to protest against the German government during celebrations marking the German Unification Day in Dresden on October 3.Reuters The latest march in Germany by the anti-Islam protest group PEGIDA drew a fraction of the supporters […]
Growing anger after some children are placed in foster care – and even a detention centre – because background checks on family members have not been carried out Rob Merrick Dep @Rob_Merrick The refugee camp in Calais, which is due to be demolished tomorrow Getty The arrival of child refugees […]
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION Swiss court: you can’t be fired for wearing a headscarf By swissinfo.c A woman with a headscarf stands by Lake Zurich (Keystone) A Serbian Muslim woman has been awarded compensation by a Bern court after being sacked for wearing a headscarf. It is the first time in more […]
Source: Daily Time BERLIN: Owners of Islamic markets and restaurants will be exempted from paying taxes during the month of Ramazan, a decision signed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to provide food at lower prices for Muslims. More:
Source: Daily Times ROME: Several hundred Muslims staged a protest prayer outside the Colosseum in Rome on Friday over what they see as unfair restrictions on their freedom to practise their faith in Italy. Organisers said that they had called the demonstration following the recent closure on administrative grounds of […]
MCB have still not unequivocally rejected the discrimination preached by Khatme Nubuwwat against Ahmadi Muslims. Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/muslim-council-britain-anti-terror-campaign-criticised-after-unwillingness-blacklist-kill-1587548# Critics accused the organisation of dragging its feet over expelling a charity which called for apostates to be killed. By Tom Porter October 21, 2016 16:33 BST The minaret of the East London Mosque in […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly A member of the Swedish Academy called Bob Dylan“impolite and arrogant,” after the singer-songwriter declined to respond to its decision to award him the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan, 75, has stayed silent for more than a week, neither responding to the Academy nor commenting on […]
Source: Ibtimes.co.uk Critics have questioned a prominent Muslim organisation’s commitment to fighting extremism, and accused it of failing to expel a charity which has called for Ahmadi Muslims to be killed.The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which represents 500 Islamic mosques, schools and institutions in the UK, announced its intention […]
AFP | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 Migrants and refugees, aboard a ship, wait in line to be registered after being rescued, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Thursday. (AP) ROME: Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, Friday after men on a […]
Source: The Local The survey by Berlin startup Dalia published this week found that 5.9 percent of Europeans identify as LGBT when offered a choice between heterosexual or LGBT. The proportion was highest in Germany, where 7.4 percent of respondents identified as LGBT, and lowest in Hungary, at 1.5 percent. But […]
Source:ET A Swiss school has rejected the appeal of a Muslim schoolboy who refused to shake hands with female teachers on religious grounds.“The boy was one of two teenage brothers at a high school in Therwil who caused a nationwide furore earlier this year when they said shaking hands with […]
Apparent racist attack on London Underground @BTP: hope perpetrator is found & faces justice for this despicable unprovoke assault pic.twitter.com/2lbiQffLmf — Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) October 18, 2016 Source: Twitter […]
Source: The Guardian By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent British Muslims are planning to set up their own programme to stop people becoming terrorists in a direct challenge to the […]
Source: CNN A leading French presidential candidate says he will move his country’s border with Britain to the UK, amid concerns about the backlog of British-bound illegal migrants on French soil.Alain Juppé, a center-right former prime minister who is considered a frontrunner in next year’s elections, told journalists that he […]