Probe over Frankfurt police neo-Nazi network widens
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES Istanbul Amid an ongoing probe over a neo-Nazi network within the Frankfurt police force, a German police officer in Hesse was identified as a suspect for […]
The day a Twitter mob came to life to hunt an MP
The political temperature is rising in the UK and Europe and don’t think Canada is immune. Opinion 05:38 AM by Heather Mallick Toronto Star Monday looked pleasant enough outside the […]
Turkish Islamic union in Germany calls for reducing tensions, returning objectivity
Source: DAILY SABAH; ISTANBUL Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in Germany called for reducing tensions and returning to “objective issues,” referring to a debate in recent years in which […]
Belgium Bans Religious Slaughtering Practices, Drawing Praise and Protest
BY MILAN SCHREUER Source: MSN BRUSSELS — A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a […]
Homosexuality at fault for sex abuse not Catholic Church, says German cardinal
Source: DPA/The Local; news@thelocal.de; @thelocalgermany 4 January 2019 One of the most senior German figures in the Catholic Church has controversially denied that sexual abuse was a problem in the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth cleaning many German cities after the New Year Eve celebrations
German Newspapers in many cities are full of reports of how the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth had cleaned their cities after the New Year’s Eve festivals. Here are just some of […]
Goethe’s tribute to Islam
Akbar Ahmed May 12, 2017 Neither immigration officials, nor border guards, nor racial or religious barriers can keep away the sense of affectionate spiritual ownership Allama Iqbal feels for […]
Goethe and Islam – Religion has no nationality
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe may have had his reservations about Islam – as he did about Christianity – and he certainly wasn′t shy of criticising it, but his credo was […]
The ‘Enemy’ Within?
Jan 04 2019 By Khaled Ahmed Mohammed al-Shaikh—AFP Baroness Warsi’s book on Muslims in the U.K. offers eye-opening insights into the community’s failure to assimilate Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former […]
The Channel migrant ‘crisis’ is really a tale of British hypocrisy
Afua Hirsch Sajid Javid’s rhetoric on refugees has less to do with reason than with appeasing anti-immigrant feeling Thu 3 Jan 2019 A lot of us have spent the […]
Immigration and asylum: It’s not just Windrush. Britain’s immigration scandal will grow in 2019
Satbir Singh The arbitrary cruelty of the ‘hostile environment’ stretches beyond any one community. Brexit will only make it worse Thu 3 Jan 2019 Tasfin came to the UK in […]
Far-right ‘neighbourhood defence groups’ patrol Bavarian town after asylum seeker attack
Source: The Local After four young asylum seekers reportedly attacked pedestrians at random in Amberg in northern Bavaria, far-right “neighbourhood defence groups” have started patrolling the streets of the town, according to German media reports. On Saturday evening the four suspects allegedly physically assaulted 12 random people while under the […]
Many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’.
Source: The Local A man who injured five people in an apparent xenophobic attack on New Year’s Eve was mentally ill. He told police that the many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’. DPA reported early on Wednesday that the man had previously been admitted to […]
Migrants who saved lives in Attica wildfire granted Greek citizenship
3 January 2019 Twitter: @NeosKosm Three migrant fishermen have been recognised for their heroic efforts, after rescuing dozens of Greeks during the devastating wildfire that broke out in […]
Malmö Imam: ‘We do not hate mosque shooter’
The Local news@thelocal.se @thelocalsweden 2 January 2019 A shot was fired through a glass door at a Malmö’s Mahmood Ahmadiyya mosque, shortly after midnight on New Years’ Day, with police […]
UK: Foreign Office makes forced marriage victims pay for their rescue
© Getty A forced marriage victim’s ordeal is not over once they return to the UK Young women rescued by the Foreign Office after being sent abroad for forced […]
4 injured after man drives into crowd of foreigners in Germany
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN German police say at least four people have been injured after a man intentionally drove into a crowd of people in western Germany in what appears to […]
Belgium’s Flemish region bans halal and kosher meat, stirring controversy
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The proposed ban on halal and kosher meats have come into effect in Belgium’s northern Flanders region, stirring controversy among the country’s Jewish and Muslim communities. […]
Young Muslims take to streets to clean up after New Year’s Eve celebrations
Adam Smith Tuesday 1 Jan 2019 Young Muslims woke up before dawn today to clean the streets of 50 UK towns and cities as a lot of the country were […]
Muslim charity aims to deliver 7000 meals to homeless by New Year’s Day
The charity is engaging youth in positive social action to counter radicalisation and challenge Islamophobic opinions Anu Shukla The Independent Muslim youth charity AMYA deliver meals to homeless people in […]