Credit:Spiegel-Germany An Analysis by Thomas Darnstädt and Dietmar Hipp DPA The judges of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court gave an important signal at Tuesday’s marathon hearing on the ESM bailout fund and fiscal pact. The judges want to help the government get the controversial EU projects […]
The German Chancellor is on a visit to Indonesia to boost bilateral relations accompanied by a heavyweight business and trade delegation. It’s Angela Merkel’s first trip to Indonesia since 1995. […]
BERLIN — Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked protests from Muslims and Christians in Germany. A court in the western city of Cologne caused an […]
Source: Tagesschau German TV Tagesschau.de http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/gespraech-assad-englisch100.html (Click on the link for English original Interview from the German TV) Jürgen Todenhöfer: Mr. President, members of the opposition and western politicians say, […]
Washington Post: A district judge in Cologne, Germany, recently ruled that ritual circumcision is a crime, violating “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity,” which outweighs other parental and […]
Germany is coming under increasing pressure over the court decision that ruled circumcision was bodily harm and thus a crime – with the Wiesenthal Centre quoting Hitler, and a Muslim group saying it was a blow against integration. The Los-Angeles-based Jewish group called on German lawmakers to provide legal safety […]
“Love for All, Hatred for None ‘: 30,000 Muslims meet in convention center in Karlsruhe, Germany – For the second time since Friday the Muslim Community Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) […]
Credit: Spiegel-Germany. France’s new president, François Hollande, has put the German chancellor on the defensive with his growth agenda. Now Angela Merkel is planning to strike back. She is calling for structural reforms to save the euro with a six-point plan aimed at harmonizing austerity and growth in Europe once […]
For printed article with photos click HERE. By Zubair Khan ” Oh Taxi Fahrer is noch mal da” Oh taxi driver is again here, is the English translation of aforementioned German sentence the receptionist uttered, when Mr Mansoor, wearing a Jean and shirt, entered a hotel to use toilet in […]
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
Source: The Local Nearly half of the women killed in Germany are considered to have been victims of their boyfriend or husband – a far greater figure than the share of men killed by their partners, new police figures show. It is the first time that police figures have […]
Source: The Local A 16-year-old schoolboy has solved a mathematical problem which has stumped mathematicians for centuries, a newspaper report said. The boy put the historical breakthrough down to “schoolboy naivety.” Shouryya Ray, who moved to Germany from India with his family at the age of 12, has baffled […]
Source: Qantara While German politicians continue to argue whether Islam is part of Germany or not, German Muslims have for quite some time been making a contribution in many social […]
Source: Qantara By: Julia Hoffmann While the debate about Muslim integration in Europe sometimes seems dominated by fears and division, Berlin-based writer Julia Hoffmann highlights one German effort to help […]
Source: Qantara By: Susanne Kappe In the “Koran School” theatre project at the National Theatre of Mannheim, theatregoers get to know places and people in their town that they’re unlikely to have had much contact with before. Susanne Kappe reports It’s an intensive course on Islam and migration in […]
Source: Spiegel International By Hubert Gude, Souad Mekhennet and Christoph Scheuermann A debate about violent Salafists has erupted in Germany after radical Muslims clashed with supporters of the anti-Islamic Pro NRW party during its recent election campaign. Three young Muslims who took part in a demonstration against the party […]
Angela Merkel and François Hollande to have first face-to-face talks in Berlin after eurozone finance ministers meet in Brussels. Europe is braced for a crucial 48 hours of high-stakes summitry […]
Germany’s education minister is facing a battle for survival following allegations that she cheated in her university dissertation. The founder of VroniPlag, a website dedicated to unearthing academic cheats, claims […]
Russian TV: One of the most radical Muslim confessions is on an aggressive campaign of preaching ultra-conservative Islam in Germany. Protected by the freedom of religion act, they spread a […]