Source: The Local “What is happening there amounts to what is the worst in the world,” said Mahmoud Almizeh, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee who comes from Raqa, now the bastion of the Islamic State jihadist group. Germany has opened its doors to some 600,000 Syrian refugees since the conflict began […]
Source: The Local The boy, a German citizen of Iraqi heritage, attempted to blow up the device at the Ludwigshafen Christmas market on November 26th. When the device failed to detonate he gave up, before trying again on December 5th, prosecutors said on Friday. This time he took the explosive device, […]
Source: The Local The doctor’s practice is in the vicinity of the town’s central train station, which police evacuated in the early afternoon due to a “threatening situation.”The emergency call came in after several witnesses heard gunshots at around 12.50pm in the building in which the practice is based.At the […]
Source: Time BY Simon Shuster / Berlin Merkel needs to hang onto power before she can fight Trump German Chancellor Angela Merkel knows what it’s like to be underestimated. Her political […]
Source: The Local By the end of 2018, some 410,000 refugees will have jobs in Germany, newspaper Bildreports, citing a new study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) scheduled for publication this Thursday. Of the 396,000 refugees not working, 192,000 will be signed up for integration courses or […]
Source: ET Any ban on wearing the niqab in public is one that defends secular society. In Germany today, secularism and the perceived integrity of the nation are strained with the influx of 1.2 million Syrian refugees, the rise in Islamist terrorism, and the looming threat from the so-called Islamic […]
Source: The Guardian Germany’s highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that […]
Source: The Local The German Defence Minister was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday aiming to conclude a training deal for Saudi military officers, eliciting sharp criticism from German left-leaning parties.Defence […]
Source: The Local Germany has pledged to spend €150 million helping failed asylum seekers and immigrants return home, the minister of development said in an interview published on Friday.The aid fund will benefit both failed asylum seekers and immigrants who choose to return to their home countries.”For the next three […]
Reuters International DEC 7, 2016 – BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against […]
Source: CNN By Sheena McKenzie, CNN (CNN) German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a ban on full-face veils in the country, during a speech at her party’s conference on […]
Source: Dawn Merkel, playing to the wing of her conservative party that has been deeply unsettled by last year’s record influx of asylum seekers ─ most of them Muslims fleeing war zones ─ underlined her support for a proposal in August by her interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, to outlaw […]
Source: Time She’s facing a challenge from far-right populists in next year’s elections Angela Merkel called for a ban on the burqa, a full-face veil worn mainly by Muslim women, […]
By Zubair Khan “Muslims Forced to leave German Christmas Bazaar after setting Islam Information Booth”. This is the title given to news carried by Travellers Today and Index .hr as well in other media news outlet. However when Ahmadiyya authorities in Germany were contacted then emerged entirely different scenario. Permission […]
Source: The Local The anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) blamed the crime on the “uncontrolled” influx of foreigners, while the head of a police union warned of the “dangers that always go along with massive immigration”. But Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the murder of the 19-year-old medical student should […]
Source: YouTube and DW News Germany needs a new identity—one that everyone can agree on, at least according to Islamic scholar Lamya Kaddor. She says it’s the only way to […]
Source: Index.hr CITIZENS of German city Rudesheim, a popular tourist destination during the Christmas holidays, they found themselves under fire after allegedly made several Muslims to leave the Advent market because their booth was “insulting”. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community set up the information booth in front of the […]
Source: The Local As the country enters a decisive election year with anti-migrant populists on the rise, the mass arrival of refugees’ wives and children would have created a major challenge for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she seeks a fourth term. Merkel’s popularity plunged after the arrival of nearly 900,000 asylum […]
Source: The Local The number of homophobic crimes recorded in the first three quarters of the year increased by 15 percent, an Interior Ministry official said in a response to an inquiry by the Green party, the Süddeutsche Zeitung(SZ) reported on Thursday.Between January and September, 205 crimes with a connection to […]
Source: The Local The incident took place in the southeastern neighbourhood of Friedrichshagen on Tuesday, according to the police report.The teen got onto the tram shortly after 2pm, intending to ride to the nearest S-Bahn stop. But the driver announced over the loudspeaker that she should get out of the vehicle, […]