BRUSSELS, March 20 (KUNA) — The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) has strongly condemned the shooting of four people including three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse on Monday. “It is in an appalling incident that represents a despicable and shocking act,” said […]
TOULOUSE, France, March 19 (Reuters) – A gunman shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, days after killing three soldiers nearby, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to put the region on its highest terrorism alert. With the attacker, who escaped on a […]
by Rachid Khechana in Doha, swissinfo.ch Switzerland is preparing to open an embassy in Qatar, a country it sees as an increasingly important player in the region. Ambassador Martin Aeschbacher tells swissinfo.ch that the small Gulf kingdom “is on the rise” economically. Aeschbacher says relations with Gulf states are growing […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Fifty years ago French and Algerian representatives signed a series of peace accords in the French town of Evian, ending Algeria’s brutal eight-year war of independence. By offering its good offices under a policy of active neutrality, which helped resolve the conflict, historian Marc Perrenoud tells […]
Charlotte exhibit shows how Albanians sheltered their neighbors from the Nazis By Michael J. Solender Like freshly discovered treasures on a receding shoreline at low tide, once buried stories of […]
Source: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl Witold Krassowski/ DER SPIEGEL Determined to develop its nuclear industry to meet its booming energy needs, Poland is tired of lectures from its environmentally conscious neighbor Germany. After all, Poles argue, the Germans have benefitted from nuclear power for decades. The differing energy philosophies threaten to strain […]
A group of Swiss Muslims has published recommendations for integration in response to a nationwide vote which banned the construction of minarets in Switzerland. The 2009 initiative to ban construction […]
Euronews: Interview by Chris Burns: “The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, wraps up his six year term at the end of this month and he’s going out […]
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante’s medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from classrooms. The epic poem, written in the 14th century, is split into three parts, tracing the poet’s journey through Inferno, Purgatorio […]
Credit: Wasim Ahmad Butt. By Zubair Khan Mamdouh Ahmed Butt with German Chancellor Chancellor Angela Merkel. When ever any Ahmadi achieves any distinction it gives immense pleasure to whole of the Jamaat. Mention of such achievements by Ahamdies pave the ways for others to follow the same path. By […]
From London, to Glasgow and across the UK, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Campaign is spreading right across the nation bringing hope in this age. Rochester Cathedral is England’s second oldest, […]
The Dailytimes; The religious schools are an opportunity for youngsters to study to be imams, ministers argue Education reforms which would allow parents to put their children in religious schools […]
by Stefania Summermatter, swissinfo.ch Some fled from a country torn by war. Others were following the dream of a better future: a job, a home, a family. At the end […]
Equality is essential, but complicated – that is why some Christians feel that Muslims get an easy ride Simple things can be so difficult. Take equality, for instance. Britain now has an Equality Act, to promote that good thing. But when you start looking at what it means in practice, […]
TOM HOLLAND IN THE SHADOW of the SWORD The Battle for Global Empire and the end of the Ancient World Published by Little, Brown on Thursday 5th April, price £25.00 […]
Fitch Ratings has warned it could downgrade the United Kingdom’s AAA rating in the next couple of years if the government fails to contain the expansion of its public debt. […]
Written by Rafiq A. Tschannen When covering News of Palestine and Israel and of the ‘open Western wars’ of Iraq and Afghanistan and the ‘covered Western wars’ of Libya, Syria and Yemen (and so many other locations…) we are sometimes accused of ‘Israel-bashing’ or ‘America-bashing’ and ‘other-nations-bashings’. It is pointed out […]
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Muslim community was in shock Tuesday after a man set fire to a Shiite mosque in Brussels, leaving the imam dead in an act some linked to tensions between Shiites and Sunnis. As investigators interrogated the suspect, a self-described Muslim in his mid-30s, members of the Shiite […]
A coach crash in Valais, southern Switzerland, on Tuesday night has left 28 people dead – 22 of them children. The dead and injured were among a Belgian school group […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited Its legacy winds back through centuries and across continents, past the birth of America to the waning days of the Enlightenment. It is a record of humanity’s […]