The rollercoasters of the future
Source: BBC By BBC’s Travel Show From the UK’s Alton Towers to Six Flags in the US, virtual reality is being used to rejuvenate old rollercoasters. Thrill Engineer Professor Brendan […]
Racism unleashed: True extent of the ‘explosion of blatant hate’ that followed Brexit result revealed
Exclusive: Prime Minister accused of helping create the ‘hostile environment’ that paved the way for ‘F*** off to Poland’ messages, excrement through letter boxes, and racist abuse from children as young as ten Adam Lusher The full extent and true nature of the “blatant hate” that has beset post-Brexit Britain is […]
To understand the Islamist beheading of a French priest, we must remember what happened 20 years earlier
‘It is true that we found only their heads,’ the Archbishop of Algiers said quietly to me on a hot afternoon, the sound of police sirens echoing over the city, as he spoke of monks being slaughtered. ‘Three of their heads were hanging from a tree near a petrol station’ Robert Fisk […]
Switzerland: Vote on fresh ideas to tackle immigration policy
CROWD INNOVATION Vote on fresh ideas to tackle immigration policy By Urs Geiser JUL 25, 2016 – 17:00 Workshops in Lausanne and six other Swiss cities generated ideas that help promote a fresh approach of the country’s immigration policy (foraus.crowdicity.com) How to break a perceived stalemate in Switzerland’s immigration policy? […]
Theresa May plans new immigration crackdown on student visas
Source: The Telegraph Tim Ross, senior political correspondent Theresa May’s new government is preparing the ground for a fresh crackdown on immigration amid concerns that universities have become an easy […]
German officials urge close look at gun laws in wake of shooting
Source: The Indian Express Senior German officials on Sunday called for further controls on the sale of guns after Friday’s deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine […]
Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks
Source: BBC Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our […]
Young migrant injured after jumping from window
The girl was staying in a centre for asylum seekers in Zweisimmen. Photo: Vasile Cotovanu Young migrant injured after jumping from window Published: 28 Jul 2016 10:03 GMT+02:00 A 15-year-old girl due to be deported from Switzerland is in hospital after jumping from a window on Wednesday morning. The girl, […]
German police raid mosque and apartments in crackdown on Salafists
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Tom Heneghan) German police have searched a mosque and eight apartments in Hildesheim that are believed to be a hotbed of a radical Salafist community, the interior minister of the northern state of Lower Saxony said on Thursday. Germany is on high […]
Some thoughts of comparing Jordan with Indonesia
Moving from one country to another always is accompagnied with mixed emotions. On the one hand we experienced many things in the country we are leaving and on the other […]
French Church Attacker Used Fake Identities to Evade Police, Authorities Say
Source: Time (PARIS) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church evaded police twice using relatives’ ID cards in attempts to reach Syria. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that 19-year-old Adel Kermiche was wearing an electronic surveillance bracelet when he and another attacker […]
STATEMENT OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY FOLLOWING FRANCE CHURCH ATTACK
All members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community throughout the world have been left shocked and devastated by yesterday’s murder of Father Jacques Hamel in a church in France The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community considers this to be an outrageous and evil attack that can never be justified in any way or […]
France church attack: Priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
In Germany, secular ‘confirmation’ thrives again
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore HAMBURG, Germany (RNS) In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Kurt Neumann began digging in his garden. During the previous eight years, under the […]
UK explores multi-billion pound free trade deal with China
Source: BBC By Kamal Ahmed Chancellor Philip Hammond has begun discussions with China on an ambitious free trade deal which could see greater access for major Chinese banks and businesses […]
Scotland’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community and local politicians walk for peace in memory of martyred Ahmadi Muslim Asad Shah
Source: eveningtimes.co.uk Members of Scotland’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community and local politicians have taken part in a walk for peace at Kelvingrove Park in memory of murdered shopkeeper Asad Shah. The 5km walk will raise funds for Children’s Association Scotland and Ronald McDonald House. Read more: Asad Shah murder: Tanveer Ahmed pleads guilty […]
UK Transport Secretary visits Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Post-Brexit UK, refugee crisis and various other issues discussed On 22 July 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was […]
Muslim woman strikes up friendship with ‘terrified’ passenger who saw her text the word ‘Allah’
Source: Independent By Jess Staufenberg A young Muslim woman has described how she befriended a woman too terrified to sit beside her on a plane after she texted the word “Allah”. The encounter, […]
The nation that hates to be late
Source: BBC By Eric Weiner Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re dead on. The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. […]
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]