Reuters 14 hrs ago © REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (C) arrives for the opening of the 17th Parliament’s second ordinary session in Amman November 2, 2014. Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Tuesday he would stand for the presidency of world football’s governing […]
Petition to reject xenophobia comes amid large protests in Dresden on Monday against immigration January 6, 2015 9:15AM ET A backlash against anti-Muslim protests in German cities saw 80 prominent national figures support a petition Tuesday calling for an end to what they see as a rising xenophobia in the […]
Choosing to wear a veil in Britian Reuters Young and old, many Muslim women living in Britain choose to wear a veil or headscarf as a sign of their faith. […]
A.B.* has severed ties with Scientology, recently leaving after many years. The former member, who knows the organisation inside out, now wants to help keep people from joining the “totalitarian sect”. “It’s ingenious how Scientology manipulates people. Even though many of them know something isn’t right, they can’t escape even […]
Reuters / New York Post The Cologne cathedral in Germany.Photo: Getty Images One of Germany’s most famous landmarks, Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening to protest a march by a growing grassroots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city, cathedral authorities said. The rise of the […]
Source: The Local “The German government considers a eurozone exit (by Greece) to be almost inevitable if opposition leader Alexis Tsipras leads the government after the election and abandons budgetary discipline and does not repay the country’s debts,” Der Spiegel reported on its website. Both Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble had come […]
Source: TOI VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals from around the world to the elite group at the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, including 15 who can enter a conclave to choose his successor after his death or resignation. It is the second time the […]
Source: telegraph.co.uk Dated-Sunday, 4th January, 2015 When it comes to Muslim women, it’s still all about what we wear – and the last 12 months only serves to confirm this sad state of affairs. What we say, our achievements, opinions and self-determination continue to be brushed aside. Even as women’s […]
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 […]