Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters The Austrian parliament has passed a controversial bill that bans foreign funding for the religion in Austria, as well as foreign imams, many of whom are paid by neighboring Turkey. While Muslim activists have claimed the law is discriminatory to the 600,000 Muslims living in Austria […]
Finland: National radio to read Koran ‘cover to cover’ 24 February 2015 Share Finland’s public broadcaster describes the series as an “unprecedented” project The Koran will be read from cover to cover on Finnish public radio as part of a new series, it’s been announced. The country’s public broadcaster, Yle, […]
Kamprad, 88, moved back to his home country of Sweden last year after living in Switzerland for almost four decades. The house in Epalinges, a bedroom suburb north of […]
theguardian: by Humaira Patel — Speaking to teenage girls from east London showed me that too many are left feeling that no one is listening to them An EDL protest in Tower Hamlets in 2011. ‘We live in the East End, where the EDL and Britain First take great […]
ARMED CONFLICT Global response to atrocities by states and armed groups ‘shameful and ineffective’ 25 February 2015, 15:54 UTC • Amnesty International releases Annual Report along with forecast of human rights trends for the coming year • Says governments must ‘stop pretending the protection of civilians is beyond their […]
The British woman previously travelled to Syria to marry an Isis fighter JON STONE Sunday 22 February 2015 The family of a British woman living with Isis fighters in Syriahas branded her a “disgrace” after it emerged she may have enticed three missing young UK girls to join her. Police […]
By Zubair Khan He has God given instinct and potential for the politics. Few years back, under this instinct, he wanted to lead Pakistan Political Party Muslim League Germany Overseas Wing. However his attention was drawn to anti Ahmadiyya stance of PML and was advised to try his luck in German Politics. He took […]
Source: OnIslam.net By Farrukh I. Younus Freelance Writer – United Kingdom Tuesday, 24 February 2015 00:00 LONDON – With the upcoming political elections in the UK a new initiative the Muslim Manifesto, was launched at the House of Lords on February 23rd. “I have been in politics for 38 years, […]
Islamic ‘radicals’ at the heart of Whitehall Baroness Warsi gave official roles to people with links to Islamist groups 5K 2K 2 32 6K Email Lady Warsi arrives in Downing Street on July 6, 2010 Photo: Getty Images By Andrew Gilligan,8:30AM GMT 22 Feb 2015, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11427370/Islamic-radicals-at-the-heart-of-Whitehall.html Entryism, the favourite tactic of […]
A Danish Answer to Radical Jihad By Manfred Ertel and Ralf Hoppe Der Spiegel If you ask Allan Aarslev, the friendly blond police commissioner from Aarhus, about his almost globally famous program, he answers with numbers. He mentions, for example, 31, 16 and one. In 2013, he says, 31 Muslim […]
WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds. Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other peoples. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything […]
YASMIN ALIBHAI BROWN Sunday 22 February 2015 As I write this, the three Muslim teenage girls from East London are still missing. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 and […]
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AFP | Feb 22, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Abase Hussen, father of 15-year old British girl Amira Abase, holds a bear that Amira gave to her mother, during an interview at New Scotland Yard, central London, on Sunday (AFP photo) LONDON — Britain debated Sunday how to stop teenage girls […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT David Gosling was for four years principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, trying to keep the Taliban from his academy in the old British North-West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan. But he could scarcely imagine receiving a letter from MI5 confirming that his […]
Russian tensions could escalate into all-out war, says Nato general General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, says Vladimir Putin could try to invade and seize Nato territory By Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent 20 Feb 2015 Tensions with Russia could blow up into all-out conflict, posing […]
Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts Homeless people in the UK are getting free meals thanks to a centuries-old Sikh tradition. Why, asks Rajeev Gupta. “We come here because we get food… A hot meal. It’s a luxury for me.” John Davidson is 55 and homeless. He is one […]
Hundreds of Turkish troops in armoured vehicles have entered into northern Syria and evacuated a historic Ottoman tomb and the soldiers guarding it. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the remains of Suleyman Shah would be moved elsewhere in Syria. He said troops had destroyed the tomb’s complex, apparently to prevent […]
Source:TOI WASHINGTON: Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has reportedly gone on record to say that his country is not on the verge of collapse and that a ceasefire agreed last week is non-existent as pro-Russia separatists continued to attack government troops in east Ukraine. Yatsenyuk also said that there was […]
The family of a British woman living with Isis fighters in Syriahas branded her a “disgrace” after it emerged she may have enticed three missing young UK girls to join her. Police believe that Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, are heading to Syria after they […]