Source: BBC The European Commission has proposed reforms to EU asylum rules that would see stiff financial penalties imposed on countries refusing to take their share of asylum seekers. The […]
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor As Londoners go to the polls on Thursday, Sadiq Khan is widely expected to win the election to become the city’s mayor. If he does, […]
Source: Crux By Ines San Martin Vatican correspondent ROME— Probably the most trusted adviser to Pope Francis, and a man who holds the position traditionally considered the Vatican’s “Prime Minister,” […]
Source: Yahoo Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked challenged British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to crack down hard on Wednesday after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its […]
Source: Quartz By Annalisa Merelli Italy, home to the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe, has a mosque problem. Not because, as many a xenophobic politicians would claim, there are […]
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Londoners go to the polls Thursday to elect a new mayor, in a bitterly fought election that has laid bare tensions and divisions within British party politics. Polls show Labour’s Sadiq Khan, a former government minister,poised to defeat Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith, the environmentalist scion […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — When the leader of Germany’s Jews spoke out against the flow of Muslim migrants to Europe, a rabbinical student denounced his […]
Source: BBC Stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime, Italy’s highest court of appeal has ruled. Judges overturned a theft conviction against Roman Ostriakov […]
Source: Telegraph By Kate McCann, senior political correspondent Labour has secretly suspended 50 of its members over anti-Semitic and racist comments as officials struggle to cope with the crisis engulfing the party. […]
Source: AT OXFORD–As it has for over 500 years, the Magdalene College Choir sang the Hymnus Eucharisticus from a tower high above this university town on the first day of May, followed incongruously by a dirty Elizabethan ditty about nymphs in Spring. An Anglican vicar blessed the bedraggled revellers crowding the surrounding streets. Most […]
Source: The New York Times By STEPHEN CASTLE LONDON — The son of a London bus driver, Sadiq Khan has had a remarkable rise into the upper echelons of British […]
Source. The Daily Beast NICE, France — Wearing Muslim head scarves in schools has been banned all over the country since 2004. But will the mayor of Nice get away with telling Muslim football players they can’t pray on the field? Many in Nice question why Mayor Christian Estrosi is […]
Source: The Daily Beast Calls by a top member of the ruling party of Turkey for an Islamic constitution to replace the secular basic law in place in the country, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally, have been rejected by politicians from all stripes, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself […]
Unit uses local community groups to spread its anti-extremism message – without revealing its government links Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer The Home Office has defended the existence of Ricu saying they are only to ‘stop people becoming suicide bombers’ Getty Images The UK government has launched a secret propaganda campaign […]
Source: BBC The German right-wing party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has adopted an explicitly anti-Islam policy. Delegates at a party conference adopted a ban on minarets, the call to prayer […]
Australian model Mecca Laalaa in a tight-fitting Islamic swimsuit, or burqini. File photo: AFP Anger as Basel pool bans ‘maxi burqinis’ Published: 29 Apr 2016 12:23 GMT+02:00 Updated: 29 Apr 2016 14:00 GMT+02:00 A swimming pool in Basel which is popular with Muslims has banned certain types of burqinis as […]
By Matin Moslem May 2, 2016 TEHRAN- In spite of being sinful, President Nixon was on the belief that “a good politician is the one who listen more than talk, do not take action hastily and learn lesson from the past!” However, the 37th U.S. president had not observed this […]
Intelligence report May 2, 2016 – 16:02 Markus Seiler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service, presented his department’s latest report on Monday. (Keystone) In its latest report, the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) has said it is monitoring the social media activity of about 400 potential jihadis. However, no individuals have […]
Helping hands (and feet) When humanitarian assistance turns hi-tech By Isobel Leybold-Johnson May 2, 2016 – 14:45 In 2014, the ICRC helped 300,000 people via its physical rehabilitation services and prostheses (cicr) An affordable prosthetic foot for war amputees is the Lausanne-based Humanitarian Tech Hub’s first project. The research and […]
theguardian: by Tim Lott — If identity is about how power plays out inside us, then having children is the profoundest transformation a human being can experience Becoming a parent tends to be invisible in certain narrow sociological terms … a family walk (posed by models). Photograph: OJO Images/Rex Features […]