Migrant crisis: More than 10,000 children ‘missing’
Source: BBC More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU’s police intelligence unit says. Europol said thousands of vulnerable […]
David Cameron is right, poor literacy does fuel radicalisation
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Madiha Walker A graduate in Arabic and Islamic studies. She writes on social affairs and culture, with a specific interest in gender and Muslim women in […]
France considers recognition of a Palestinian state
Source: Dawn PARIS: France will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at an international conference fail, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday. He told […]
Sweden masked gang ‘targeted migrants’ in Stockholm
Source: BBC Up to 100 masked men, dressed in black, gathered in central Stockholm to attack people from immigrant backgrounds, reports say. Swedish police say the large gang distributed leaflets […]
Rouhani-Hollande lunch scrapped after French insistence on serving wine.
Dawn.com, IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani had been due to eat lunch with French President Francois Hollande in an upmarket restaurant on Thursday, but negotiations broke down after the Iranians requested a halal, alcohol-free meal. French officials insisted on serving traditional local food and wine, saying making a meal “Iran friendly” […]
Cat Stevens: ‘Alliance of Virtue (or Get Your Bags Together)’
Source: Huffington Post By Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens; Musician, Artist, Writer, Producer and Philanthropist As we settle down into the grip of another New Year, the past slips further […]
Sexism and Islam: ‘Where I’m From, This is Handled By Men’
AP The New Year’s Eve attacks on women in Cologne have led to a new discussion within Germany about the treatment of women in Islamic societies. The issue has become central to the country’s heated refugee debate. By SPIEGEL Staff The Erich Gutenberg College is a trade school in Mülheim, […]
Viewing an Old World with Fresh Eyes: A Visit with Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul
By Volker Weidermann Charlotte Schmitz/ DER SPIEGEL Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel-prize winning author, talks about the success of his latest book, “A Strangeness in My Mind,” the “crippled” state of Turkish politics and the January terrorist attack in Istanbul, which he could hear from his apartment. “This is where I sat,” […]
The Road to Germany: $ 2400
The Road to Germany: $2400 Each of the millions of Syrian refugees who have fled their brutalized, unrecognizable homeland did so for uniquely personal reasons — the regime bombarding cities, the Islamic State threatening a return to the dark ages, the loss of jobs in a crumbling economy. Yet their […]
Covering nude statues in Rome for Iran head draws Catholic leader’s scorn
Source: RNS ROME (RNS) Controversy over Italy’s decision to cover nude statues during the visit of Iran’s president continued to spark debate as the leader of the Syrian Catholic Church […]
Europe launches ‘most wanted’ list, Paris attack suspects featured
Reuters International JAN 29, 2016 – 18:02 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Move over FBI: Europe now has its own “most wanted” list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part of a push […]
Iran and France cancel diplomatic lunch to welcome Hassan Rouhani after French refuse to take wine off the menu
Iranian officials asked that a lunch between the two countries’ presidents be Halal and alcohol-free Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer Thursday 28 January 2016 156 comments Hollande and Rouhani were supposed to meet for lunch at an upmarket restaurant in Paris Getty Images A lunch between the French and Iranian presidents in […]
SECURITY IN GENEVA: Secret service information led to pass withdrawal
JAN 24, 2016 – 13:45 Those involved worked as baggage handlers (Keystone) More than 30 Muslim employees at Geneva airport had their runway access passes withdrawn in December. After an initial lack of information on the move, the head of Geneva’s security ministry, Pierre Maudet, has now spoken out about […]
‘The full dangers within us’
Jan 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI How should we view and respond to the growing flow of refugees and migrants from, within and beyond the Middle East? Is this mainly a temporary humanitarian challenge? An occasional security threat? A cultural and political concern for mostly white and Christian […]
Britain is at war with Yemen. So why does nobody know about it? Owen Jones Owen Jones
Saudi Arabia has British military advisers and continues to bomb Yemeni civilians with British weapons. Yet our government is strangely quiet about it Britain is arming and aiding a fundamentalist dictatorship that’s bombing and killing civilians. This is an incontestable fact. The Saudi tyranny – gay-hating women-oppressors who kicked off […]
When the West wanted Islam to curb Christian extremism
Source: Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor, who writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in […]
How One Sicilian Village Learned to Love Migrants
Source: Time The Sicilian village of Sutera, like many in rural Italy was dying. Its population fell from 5,000 in 1970 to 1,500 and there was little hope of revival. […]
Swiss immigration slows, asylum requests boom
FOREIGNER DEMOGRAPHICS JAN 28, 2016 – 13:33 Requests for asylum in Switzerland rose by two-thirds in 2015 (Keystone) The number of foreigners moving to Switzerland fell last year as emigration rose, bringing a second consecutive slowdown in net immigration – although asylum requests jumped by two-thirds. Government data released on […]
How Erdogan weakens Turkey
Jan 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Dominique Moisi Five years ago, when the so-called “Arab Spring” erupted, Turkey’s hour seemed to have arrived. Having been humiliated by the European Union after years of accession negotiations — talks marked by a chain of false promises from the EU — Turkey’s then-prime minister […]
Please continue calling me different and trying to deport me. That will help integration
Seventy-seven per cent of Brits support deporting migrants on spousal visas if they fail to learn English withinin two and a half years. Blimey Yasmin Choudhury @yasminisyasmin 26 comments British Muslims leave an East London mosque following prayers Getty Muslims this morning woke to the news that Trevor Phillips, the ex-chairman […]