IMF says Britain leaving the EU is a significant risk
Source: The Guardian By Katie Allen and Anushka Asthana A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe and will spill over into to weaken […]
Fundamentalist preacher faces terrorism charges
source> The Local Sven Lau (centre) is seen being bundled into a police car after his arrested in December 2015. Photo: DPA A fundamentalist Muslim preacher who started a “sharia police” force in western Germany has now been charged with aiding a terrorist group in Syria, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. […]
German should be language of mosques’: conservatives
Source. The Local National Girls waving German flags in Hanau, Hesse, at the opening of a mosque there. Photo: DPA. A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sister party is pushing for a so-called “Islam law” that would make German the official language of mosques and impose harsh consequences for Muslims […]
Muslim sect called ‘less than animals’
LINK An interesting video by Nasim Malik of Sweden
Trevor Phillips’ research on British Muslims is dangerous and wrong. No wonder Islamophobia is on the rise
Averting mistrust between religious communities is one of the key objectives of our time, but this study plays into the hands of those who seek to spread hatred Maha Akeel Trevor Phillips is fronting a Channel 4 documentary about British Muslims, based on new research about their attitudes Charlie Forgham-Bailey […]
How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]
Sadiq Khan: Zac Goldsmith’s Divisive Campaign Is Putting Muslims Off Taking Part In Politics
Khan took aim at Zac Goldsmith in Huff Post UK interview Source: Huffington Post By Owen Bennett Political Reporter Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has warned that his Tory rival’s negative […]
Young British Muslims Need to Disinherit Anti-Ahmadi Prejudice. Here’s How.
Source: Huffington Post By Umar Nasser Writer and medic The recent tragic murder of Ahmadi Muslim Asad Shah in Glasgow by another Muslim has brought much of the anti-Ahmadi prejudice latent […]
The deal for refugees: Whose relief is it for?
EMRE GÖNEN Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma If the EU had made a deal among its member countries to find a solution for the increasing fascism in Europe, maybe their view on Syrian refugees would be something more humane After the signing of the deal between Turkey and the […]
Condolence event for killed shopkeeper Asad Shah cancelled after ‘threats’ made in MOSQUE
A CONDOLENCE event planned for Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah who was killed in a brutal attack in Glasgow has been cancelled after threats were made to the organiser at a MOSQUE. By ZOIE O’BRIEN PUBLISHED: 21:52, Fri, Apr 8, 2016 SWNS Asad Shah (left) was killed by Tanveer Ahmed UKIP […]
Five ways the Syrian conflict has changed Germany
Five years of Syrian civil war A man carries a crying girl away from a bombing in Aleppo, Syria. Photo: DPA. Published: 15 Mar 2016 March 15th marks five years since protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ultimately erupted into a civil war, sending millions of refugees […]
Why Ireland must get rid of its disgraceful blasphemy law
Source: The Guardian By Roy Greenslade Ireland is the only country in the developed western world to have introduced a blasphemy law in the 21st century. The disgraceful law, passed in […]
Fewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey in line for work permits
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Kingsley Fewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey currently stand to gain the right to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws, undermining EU claims that the […]
Shopkeeper’s killing must be ‘wake up call’ to stand up to intolerance, Bradford peace conference hears
Source: The Telegraph A PEACE conference in Bradford heard today that the religious hate killing of a shopkeeper in Glasgow must be a wake up call for people to stand […]
Hate leaflets calling for killing of Ahmadi Muslims distributed across London
Source: International Business Times By Tom Porter Leaflets calling for members of the Ahmadi Muslim community to be killed have allegedly been distributed in universities, mosques and shopping centres in London. Followers of the Muslim Ahmadi sect, which preaches a message of peace and tolerance, have long been subject to […]
‘Kill Ahmadis’ leaflets found in UK mosque
Source. BBC News. Leaflets calling for the killing of a sect of Muslims have been found in a south London mosque. Piles of the flyers, which say Ahmadis should face death if they refuse to convert to mainstream Islam, were displayed in Stockwell Green mosque. The leaflet was authored by […]
Asad Shah killing should be condemned by all Muslims, say Ahmadi community
Source: The Guardian By Libby Brooks Glasgow’s Ahmadiyya community have called on all Muslim leaders and imams in Britain to publicly condemn Asad Shah’s killer, who defended the fatal stabbing […]
Cameron Publishes Tax Details in Bid to Move on From Panama
Source: Bloomberg By Thomas Penny & Alex Morales U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron published details of the taxes he’s paid since 2009 as he sought to draw a line under the furor […]
Greece condemns Macedonia’s use of tear gas, rubber bullets on migrants
Reuters International APR 10, 2016 – 17:37 By Stoyan Nenov IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, aid workers said, an act condemned by Greece as […]
Sectarian Leaflets Call For Death Of Moderate Muslims At London Universities
Source.Bereitbart.com A Muslim hate group has distributed leaflets at leading London universities and on public streets calling for moderate Ahmadiyyahs to be killed, bringing Pakistani sectarian hate on to the streets of the UK capital. The revelation follows the brutal murder Asad Shah, an Ahmadiyya Muslim from Glasgow, Scotland who had […]