(RNS) While Germany’s politicians are loudly debating whether Islam is compatible with democracy, five of its state universities are quietly developing pioneering new Islamic theology faculties to try to ensure […]
Source: The Local On Tuesday, city deacon Johannes zu Eltz showed the press the empty shrine, which is set into a wall in a side chapel next to the main altar. The gold-plated monstrance (relic container) and the remains of Saint Hedwig, a baroness of Silesia in the early 13 […]
Source: ET PHOTO: REUTERS BERLIN: Germany’s right-wing populist AfD plans to adopt an anti-Islamic manifesto at a weekend party congress, emboldened by the rise of European anti-migrant groups like Austria’s Freedom Party. The Alternative for Germany — a young protest party now polling around 14 percent — is eyeing entry into […]
Haaretz.com: Germany’s leading right-populist party has included the banning of some Jewish and Muslim rituals and symbols in its convention platform. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, or AFD, in the program to be presented at its party convention April 30-May 1 in Stuttgart, called for an end to the […]
Source: ALjazeera BY Yermi Brenner Berlin, Germany – When Sophia Deeg, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, was protesting on the streets of Berlin in support of the Palestinian cause, one passer-by spat in her face. Others shouted,”How can you do this?” and accused her of being […]
Source: The Local President Obama stands in front of European, US and German flags at the Hannover Messe on Monday. Photo: DPA On what is expected to be his last visit to Germany as President, Obama told an audience in Hanover that Europeans ought not to allow the different crises […]
ANADOLU AGENCY BERLIN PublishedApril 22, 2016 German former President Christian Wulff attends a talk on Islam in Germany in Berlin on April 21, 2016 (AFP Photo) Former German President Christian Wulff spoke against growing anti-Islam sentiment in the country and stressed that Islam belonged to Germany, contrary to what far-right […]
Source: BBC The founder of Germany’s anti-Islamist Pegida movement has gone on trial in Dresden on hate speech charges. Lutz Bachmann, 43, is accused of inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts, in which he called refugees “cattle”, “scumbags” and “filth”. Pegida’s rallies have attracted thousands of supporters in Germany. Separately, […]
Source: Reuters (Writing by Paul Carrel, editing by Louise Heavens) The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Sunday Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police say three people have been injured in an apparently deliberate explosion at a Sikh temple in the western city of Essen. A spokesman for Essen police told The Associated Press that a masked person is reported to have fled the scene shortly […]
An election poster in Hesse reads “realists vote AfD” in March. Photo: DPA Muslims label AfD ‘Nazis’ over plan to ban minarets Published: 18 Apr 2016 10:46 GMT+02:00 Updated: 18 Apr 2016 13:35 GMT+02:00 The Central Council of Muslims responded in unequivocal terms to a hard anti-Islam stance announced by […]
Source: The Guardain By Philip Oltermann Asylum seekers face cuts to support if they reject mandatory measures such as classes in language and culture Germany has announced new legal measures requiring migrants […]
Germany Turkey: Merkel allows inquiry into comic’s Erdogan insult Source: BBC Germany will allow the potential prosecution of a top comedian after the Turkish president filed a complaint. Jan Boehmermann […]
source> The Local Sven Lau (centre) is seen being bundled into a police car after his arrested in December 2015. Photo: DPA A fundamentalist Muslim preacher who started a “sharia police” force in western Germany has now been charged with aiding a terrorist group in Syria, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. […]
Source. The Local National Girls waving German flags in Hanau, Hesse, at the opening of a mosque there. Photo: DPA. A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sister party is pushing for a so-called “Islam law” that would make German the official language of mosques and impose harsh consequences for Muslims […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]
Five years of Syrian civil war A man carries a crying girl away from a bombing in Aleppo, Syria. Photo: DPA. Published: 15 Mar 2016 March 15th marks five years since protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ultimately erupted into a civil war, sending millions of refugees […]
Source: Time ByRebecca Collard/Erbil, Iraq For the Doski family, the arrival to northern Iraq’s Erbil International Airport last week was bittersweet. Fayez Al Doski waited with his wife and two children as immigration officers went over the one-way travel documents issued to them by the Iraqi embassy in Germany. Like […]
When she called the British embassy in Warsaw, a diplomat refused to believe her story Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 19 March 2016 14 comments When Suzanne and Helen opened the […]
Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionJames Reynolds watched the first group of migrants arriving on Lesbos as the new rules came into force Turkish observers have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to oversee an EU deal on sending […]