They began as a cry for freedom in the Middle East, but the Arab rebellions have become increasingly characterized by an ancient sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. SPIEGEL examines how the power struggle between the two groups is sparking new fears along old frontlines. In the countries that […]
Source: Hammad Haerter. Alhamdolillah the speedy “BIKE” Group of German Ahamdies under the dynamic leadership of Amir of Germany reached safe and sound Hadeeqatul Mehdi in the evening, Thursday, 06.09.2012. At arrival recieved by the special welcome team of UK. En route the service team offered delecious Pasta to the […]
The Court of Justice for the European Union has decided that those unable to openly practice their religion have the right to seek asylum. The decision is likely to affect […]
Source: Spiegel DDP Charlotte Knobloch was president of the Council of Jews in Germany from 2006 until 2010. Charlotte Knobloch, the former head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, wrote a stinging editorial on Wednesday attacking the circumcision debate, calling talk of a Jewish revival a sham and […]
Source: The Local Unknown vandals desecrated six Jewish tombstones at a cemetery in the northeastern German city of Rostock with graffiti including Nazi swastikas, police said Wednesday. More:
Credit: The Local. The Independent Flight Attendants’ Organisation (UFO) announced the strike late Wednesday, a day after its members staged eight-hour walkouts at three key German airports in a dispute over pay and conditions. The strike Friday will hit Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, said a statement on […]
Source: Hammad Haerter As reported earlier a group called Speedy Cyclists of German Ahamdies under the leadership of Mr Abdullah Wagishauser, Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany, along with Mr Muhammad Hammad Haerter, Stefan Haerter, Mr Samee Ullah Khan, Mr Shahzad Ahmad Arif and Akeel Hussain are on BIKES to […]
Debate over the practice had been causing an uproar in the Jewish and Muslim communities. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says, ‘It must be made clear that Jewish and Muslim […]
The European Court has strengthened the rights of asylum for refugees who are persecuted because of their religion in their own country. (sda / Reuters) Anyone who is persecuted in his home country because of the exercise of his/her religion, has the right to asylum in the EU – at […]
Credit: The Local A multi-cultural group of teenage girls attacked a man in a Munich metro train on Monday evening because he was talking on his mobile phone too loudly, Bavarian police reported on Tuesday. Read More:
Credit: The Local American nuclear weapons will not be removed from Germany, despite their departure being a long-term aim of the German government, it has emerged. More:
By Zubair Khan Amir and Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany, Mr Abdullah Wagishauser misses no chance of adventurism. Be it swimming, mountaineering, cycling, running or taking part in marathons. Even at the age of 62 plus physically he is more fit than any youngster of 25 to 30 years […]
Source: (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 3.Sept. 2012). (please excuse the language: ‘google translate’ is being used from the original German article. Better translation to follow, Inshallah). The Syrian civil war can be seen through from the outside only with difficulty, because it constantly changes its face. There were four phases so far. […]
Source: The Local The unnamed man was at a playground in Bavaria with three friends, who dared him to let them use adhesive tape to tie him to a roundabout and see how fast they could spin it. The group then tied the roundabout to a car and drove off […]
Source: Spiegel International An attack on a Berlin rabbi reportedly perpetrated by youths of Arab origin has sparked a debate about anti-Semitism in the country that has increased tensions between […]
Credit: The Local Germany Experts at Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are fed up with the traffic light system in the capital and have admonished the city government for failing to get it right despite numerous attempts, local paper Tagesspiegel reported. Waiting for up to four minutes for the […]
Credit: The Local Germany Premier Victor Ponta claimed that former Soviet-era agents were operating within the German media and that they were to blame for critiques of his administration. He said agents whose loyalties lay with late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu whose secret service, the Securitate, had hidden operatives in […]
Credit: The Local Newspaper. ‘Missing’ posters prompt Muslim anger Four Muslim groups have pulled out of an anti-extremism partnership with the government in protest at a poster campaign which they say puts all Muslims under general suspicion.The posters resemble those put up to try to find missing people and show […]
Credit: CNN (CNN) — The head of a survivors’ group Saturday dismissed an apology issued five decades later by the German manufacturer of a drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with disabilities. Pharmaceutical firm Gruenenthal apologized Friday for the first time over its drug, thalidomide, which caused […]
Source: Welt on Line via Zafarullah of Germany Cologne – In protest against a controversial poster campaign four Muslim organizations have denounced the current so-called security partnership with the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.The posters, Muslims under suspicion, created tension betweenh the associations and Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). […]