Lone children seeking refuge in the UK – many of whom have never seen a table tennis match before – find a topspin welcome on the south coast Players at Brighton table tennis club. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Kate Lyons Friday 26 August 2016 On the wall […]
Source: The Guardian Imam of Mariam mosque in Copenhagen says aim is to challenge patriarchal structures and inspire other women By Harriet Sherwood in Copenhagen t was Friday prayers with a […]
Suspension concerns single ban in southern town but is likely to set precedent for other places that prohibited full-body swimwear A Muslim woman on a beach in Marseille earlier this month. Photograph: Reuters Staff and agencies Friday 26 August 2016 France’s highest administrative court has suspended a ban on […]
File photo: C Carlstead Geneva advises teachers on religion in school Published: 24 Aug 2016 12:03 GMT+02:00 As children start the new school year, the secular canton of Geneva has issued guidelines for teachers on how to deal with religious issues in the classroom. Italian ‘ignored’ by Swiss schools in […]
It seems that oppression is only when brown men tell you how to dress; when white men do it it’s called liberation. But even French feminism has its roots in […]
After Nice, the Cannes Mayor has also passed legislation that no Muslim Burqini ladies should be seen at the Mediterranean beaches. In the meantime the ban has spread to a third coastal city. The Pakistani DAWN reports: Woman forced to remove clothing on France beach after burkini ban DAWN.COM — […]
Source: The Local A German trade union for teachers has warned of the consequences of banning certain religious attire in schools after a teen this week was told she could not wear a face veil to school. More:
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAUG. 18, 2016 A woman wearing a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, as she swims at Marseille, France. CreditReuters After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students’ skirt lengths, France’s perennial problem with Muslim women’s […]
Source: The Local Quite how the 31-year-old ended up spending over a week in a refugee home in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, is not totally clear,broadcaster WDR reported on Monday. But it appears that he has the German Red Cross (DRK) to thank for finally freeing him from his ordeal. Indeed, if […]
Source: The Local An 18-year-old Syrian refugee who was offered a traineeship with a logistics company in Nuremberg was later informed that the offer had been rescinded “due to serious attacks in Germany”, news siteNordbayern.de reported on Tuesday. The refugee, who arrived in Germany 11 months ago, wanted to secure an internship […]
Source: The Local Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is set to publish a draft law on Thursday which would create major changes, including the abolition of dual citizenship and softening […]
Source: communitynews.com.au Trees are a blessing in Islam Written by Anjum H Qaisrani, South Lake Fremantle Gazette OPINION IN Islam, planting trees is a continued charity for the one who plants them. This means that every time anyone receives any benefit from a tree such as eating its fruit or sitting under […]
Secretiveness and cult-like practices of the organisation surround it in a thick cloud of suspicion Image Credit: AP Fethullah Gulen, a 77-year-old cleric, runs schools, charities and businesses in Turkey and more than 100 other countries. He has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1997. Published: 16:25 August […]
Source. The Local At family gatherings back in Syria, Ninorta Bahno had always been a wine-drinker. After arriving in Germany three-and-a-half years ago, she took a crash course under wine experts, and now she’s the first ever refugee wine queen in Germany after she was crowned Trier’s wine queen on […]
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter A Hungarian Archbishop has warned that European nations are making a big mistake by allowing mass Muslim immigration, and said that Islam is guided by a “will to conquer,” which is driving millions to come onto the continent. “Jihad is a principle for […]
Source. The Local The Rhineland-Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern was in turmoil on Wednesday over a 15-year-old girl who entered a bank wearing a bunny costume, Western Palatinate police reported. Upon spotting her, a concerned driver immediately called the police, thinking the disguised individual would rob the place. Little did he know that the […]
Source. TOI Last month, a truck massacre in Nice on Bastille Day was followed less than a fortnight later by the grisly murder of a priest near the northern city of Rouen. Then on Wednesday in London, a knife attack by a Norwegian of Somali origin that left an American […]
Source. BBC Two police officers have been injured by a machete-wielding assailant in the Belgian city of Charleroi. The attacker was shot and wounded, Charleroi police said on Twitter (in French). The assailant is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic) during the assault outside the city’s main […]
BLOCKED By Gerhard Lob in Como and Chiasso AUG 5, 2016 – 16:29 Not all migrants are allowed to cross the Swiss-Italian border (Keystone) More and more migrants who want to travel via Switzerland to northern Europe are becoming stranded in Como, Italy, just a few kilometres from the Swiss […]
A former deputy of the far-right extreme party in Germany, Werner Klauner is now known as Ibrahim and spends his time and earnings helping refugees World Bulletin / News Desk Werner Klauner, a deputy for the far right-wing extremist extreme right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) has reverted to Islam. […]