Source:telegraph.co.uk The floodlights of Cologne cathedral will be switched off as a counter-protest against a planned anti-immigrant march, due to take place in the city on Monday night. Thousands of […]
Source: Arab News: STOCKHOLM: Swedes expressing solidarity with Muslims have staged manifestations after a series of recent attacks on mosques.In the city of Uppsala, where anti-Muslim rhetoric was scrawled onto a mosque wall on Thursday, hundreds of people pasted red paper hearts and messages of support onto the building’s entrance […]
Published time: January 02, 2015 19:13 Get short URL Screenshot from Ruptly video Thousands of people have rallied across Sweden expressing solidarity and support for Muslims after three attacks on mosques in just one week, which left five people injured. The participants had the slogan “Do not touch my mosque.” […]
Source: Arab News. STOCKHOLM: Swedish police were hunting Thursday for at least one suspect following what is believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque in a week.“Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,” Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police told Swedish news agency […]
Source: The Local The imam of the Kocatepe mosque spoke to the Andadolu press agency about the incident, condemning the vandalism as an “unacceptable” act. The head of the Turkish-Islamist Union in Vienna (ATIB), Fatih Karadaş, condemned the attack saying that “this is not an attack against Muslims but the […]
Source: The Local Photo: DPA The chancellor mentioned demographics, the rapid ageing of the German population, as one of the key national challenges and called immigration “a gain for all of us”. Touching on the case of a Kurdish refugee who has settled in Germany, she said that it is […]
The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Jürgen Todenhöfer spent months in covert negotiations with Islamic State fighters over Skype, until he had reassurances from the very highest levels of the “Caliphate” that he would be safe in Iraq and Syria. The veteran German reporter then packed a small bag and […]
BERLIN: German chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday warned the country’s citizens not to participate in weekly anti-Islam rallies that have attracted growing numbers of supporters in the eastern German city of Dresden. Merkel condemned the organisers of the protests and said they were driven by prejudices and hatred against foreigners. The chancellor […]
theguardian: by Henry McDonald — Atheists have called the Irish government’s failure to put the controversial blasphemy laws up for a vote a betrayal. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Irish atheists and secularists have accused their government of breaking a promise to call a referendum over the Republic’s controversial blasphemy laws […]
IAN JOHNSTON Sunday 28 December 2014 Millions of the poorest people in Britain are struggling to get enough food to maintain their body weight, according to official figures published this month. The Government’s Family Food report reveals that the poorest 10 per cent of the population – some 6.4 million […]
Published: 30 Dec 2014 09:26 GMT+01:00 Swiss and Belgian researchers said on Monday they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant […]
By Frédéric Burnand swissinfo.ch DEC 29, 2014 – 11:00 In the suburbs of Aleppo on November 17, 2014: The ICRC is the only foreign aid organisation working in the contested area. (Reuters) Like many multinational organisations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will implement a restructuring plan next […]
The Telegraph: The Countess of Wessex has spoken out in support of Muslim women who express their fashion sense while wearing traditional clothes like the burka. The countess told Harper’s Bazaar magazine women from the Islamic world could be stylish and modest at the same time. In an interview by […]
Source: thestar.co.uk Green-fingered members of a Muslim youth group have planted some 500 trees in Longley Park. The youngsters, who are part of ‘Muslims for Humanity’, got their hands dirty as […]
Many leave Hungary and the rest of East-Central Europe in search of opportunity; others arrive in search of better lives. By John Feffer, December 19, 2014. People have been leaving East-Central Europe in droves to get better jobs and opportunities further to the west. These diaspora populations are now very visible in […]
Source: itv.com Volunteers from the Huddersfield Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) teamed up with care worker Clare Harwood to visit Children’s ward at Calderdale Royal Infirmary Hospital delivering […]
Bern imam named Swiss of the Year By Jeannie Wurz DEC 28, 2014 – 15:19 Imam Mustafa Memeti of Bern has been named Swiss of the Year by the newspaper SonntagsZeitung. […]
Mosque catches fire with 20 people inside Associated Press | December 26, 2014 3:59 PM ET Pontus Stenberg / Associated PressFiremen work outside a still smoking cellar mosque in Eskilstuna, Sweden on Thursday. Five of the twenty at prayer inside were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke when a burning […]
Source: The Independent Sir Winston Churchill’s family begged him not to convert to Islam, letter reveals Sunday 28 December 2014 By Matilda Battersby, who is Online Arts Editor forwww.independent.co.uk. She […]
Court backs right for schoolgirl to wear scarf Published: 13 Nov 2014 08:05 GMT+01:00 A court in the canton of Saint Gallen has overturned a ban issued by a […]