Source:The Local Turkey’s religious affairs agency said on Friday it had recalled six clerics from Germany for exceeding their authority, but lashed out at German police for raiding the homes of preachers suspected of spying for Ankara. The Diyanet agency’s chief Mehmet Gormez vehemently denied there had been any wrongdoing […]
Source: The Local A Berlin mosque attended by the young Tunisian who attacked a Christmas market in December has shut its doors and been banned, as police on Tuesday launched a major raid against the capital’s Islamist scene. Berlin authorities have banned the Fussilet mosque, which Anis Amri used to […]
Source: The Local When ‘no-go’ areas are mentioned in Germany, it is usually in connection with foreign mafia families. But a UN fact-finding team have warned there are areas black men fear to enter. “When I have to go to Brandenburg for work, I go – but I wouldn’t bring […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Exterior view on a planned refugees home that burnt down in Remchingen, Germany, 18 July 2015. The cause for the fire remains unclear, police will not exclude arson. (EPA Photo) Violent attacks against refugees across Germany has drastically increased as the latest report suggests there have been […]
Reuters International FEB 26, 2017 BERLIN (Reuters) – A German driver who rammed a crowd of shoppers in Heidelberg, killing one man and injuring two others, has no apparent link to terrorism and has refused to answer questions about the incident, police said on Sunday. The 35-year-old suspect, who […]
Reuters International FEB 22, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Syrian refugees Nawar (L) and Mayar Ballish make falafel sandwiches at a German Christmas market in Schillingsfuerst, Germany, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Michelle Martin/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Michelle Martin and Ameenah Sawwan SCHILLINGSFUERST, Germany (Reuters) – More than a year ago, Mayar […]
Source: BBC Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including […]
Source: ET BERLIN: Germany saw more than 3,500 attacks against refugees and asylum shelters last year, interior ministry data showed, amounting to nearly 10 acts of anti-migrant violence a day as the country grapples with a record influx of newcomers. The assaults left 560 people injured, including 43 children, the […]
Source: The Local One person was killed and two injured Saturday when a man rammed a car into pedestrians in the southern German city of Heidelberg, said police, adding that it did not appear to be a terror attack. After the crash, the driver, a 35-year-old German man, fled on […]
Source: BBC Germany says it has received 136 asylum requests from Turks holding diplomatic passports since the July coup attempt against the Turkish president. The figure is a total for the period August 2016 to January 2017, German media report. Turkey has urged Germany not to grant asylum to any […]
Source: The Local Photo: DPA Banning the burqa has nothing to do with the Bavarian government’s care for women and everything to do with cynically bashing Islam in the build-up to elections, argues The Local reader Laeeqa Ahmed. The Bavarian Interior Minister’s recent decision to impose a Burqa ban in […]
Source: The Local German police have arrested a 26-year-old Islamist who was planning an attack against police officers or soldiers using a homemade explosive device, authorities said Thursday. The German national was arrested Wednesday and stands accused of “preparing a serious act of violence threatening state security”, prosecutors in the […]
Source: BBC The German state of Bavaria has announced plans to ban the full-face veil in government workplaces, schools, universities and while driving. “Communication happens not only via language but also looks, facial expressions and gestures,” said state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann. But critics say the ban will have little […]
Aljazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Islam is not the source of “terrorism” and that cooperating with predominantly Muslim states in the fight against it is vital. Merkel, who […]
Reuters International FEB 17, 2017 – The new Central Mosque is photographed in Cologne, Germany, February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The head of Turkey’s Diyanet religious authority denied on Friday that any of its imams had ever been involved in illegal activities and said investigations […]
Source: BBC Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe My Friend Cayla doll has been shown in the past to be hackable An official watchdog in Germany has told parents to destroy a […]
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (reuters_tickers) MUNICH (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said Europe’s ties with Russia remained challenging, but it was important to […]
Our Source: Swiss Info Reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Andrea Shalal; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber MUNICH (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen warned […]
Source: The Local The Muslim woman won an appeal before a Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday, and is set to receive nearly €9,000 after she was rejected from a teaching job due to her headscarf. The Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday ruled on the side of the woman, who was denied a […]
Source: The Local Prosecutors in Frankfurt are investigating two people for making up a crime, after they claimed in a national newspaper that dozens of Arab men rioted and sexually assaulted women at New Year. The claims first appeared in Bild newspaper on February 6th, which described the men as […]