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Teen girls convicted for harassing refugees
19 November 2009, 7:39 am |
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No Residence for Controversial Egyptians
19 November 2009, 8:26 am |
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First female Muslim peer Baroness Uddin claimed £100000: MPs' expenses
18 November 2009, 8:50 am |
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Terror suspect points to case flaws
19 November 2009, 2:52 am |
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Islam: First 'official' copy of Koran in Italian to be printed in Medina
18 November 2009, 6:50 am |
Oslo: Muslim students want to use gym hall for prayer, deans objectThe Muslim Student Society asked to use a gym hall at Oslo university (Blindern) for half an hour every Friday for prayer, but the university administration is skeptic. Deans Hans Petter Graver (Law) and Trygve Wyller (Theology) ...
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France: Algerians celebrate team's victorySee also AFP video here.In France, which ruled Algeria until independence in 1962, euphoria reigned in parts of Paris, where crowds of Algerians and French Algerians gathered in the Barbes area to celebrate the win with cheers, flags and firecrackers.Acro...
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Netherlands: Integration is 'largely successful'Which all comes down to what one means when one says 'integration'. Employment and housing are signs of material success. A foreign worker who does not intend to integrate at all could come to the Netherlands, own a house, obey the law and then ...
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Malta: Imam supports Sharia punishmentsEl Sadi says that such punishments are 'democratic' in countries where Muslims want them. Really? Is it also 'democratic' to demand that all Muslims be kicked out of Europe, should there be a majority who wishes it so? 'Rule of majority' or 'rule of the m...
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Quote: "The call of the muezzin will not sound here"Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz on Tuesday told voters that the call of the muezzin, or Muslim imam who calls people to prayer, would not sound in Switzerland, as he campaigned against a referendum motion seeking to ban the building of minarets...
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Geneva: Fake call to prayer, mosque attackedAs it turns out, the anti-minaret vote coincides with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.----------------For the second time in the past ten days, two weeks before the anti-minaret vote, the Petit-Saconnex mosque (Geneva), filed a complaint by the polic...
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Italy: Town to "clean up" immigrants for ChristmasThe mayor of the small town of Coccaglio, located in the northern Italian region of Lombardy has launched a campaign to "clean-up" the city of immigrants, ahead of the Christian holidays next month, Italian media said on Wednesday. The town counci...
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North America/Europe: Mosques and synagogues twinningA hundred mosques and synagogues throughout North America and Europe took part in the second edition of twinning. The annual event involves meetings between local Muslim and Jewish congregations aimed at launching joint activities. The New York...
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Terrorist freed, terrorist deportedFranceOuld-Aissa Charef (33), a French citizen of Algerian origins, has been imprisoned in Ryad for more than a year, suspected of having links to al-Qaeda. Charef, married with four children, moved to Saudi Arabia in order to study theology at the King Abdulaz...
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Helsinki: Somali family reunification challenging social servicesThe first Somali refugees arrived in Finland 20 years ago. Thus far in 2009, the figure for Somali asylum-seekers has been more than 1,000, of whom the number of minor asylum-seekers without a parent or guardian is nearly 200. I...
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Netherlands: Egyptian kids sent back homeWhich, apparently, includes Dutch converts.------------------Three hundred children from Amsterdam were sent to schools in Egypt last year – twice as many as to Morocco. An undesirable development, says the education ministry. But why are they leaving the ...
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Quote: Islamophobia vs. just fear (2)See the interview with René Danen, a Dutch anti-racism activist, for his answers to similar questions.When Sokolowsky is asked about those Muslims who do dream of world domination, he admits that they do exist, but adds that there's never been a global Jewish ...
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Netherlands: 'Religious revival' for 2nd generation MoroccansSecond generation Moroccan-Dutch go more often to the mosque. the first generation goes less often than in the past, according to the annual integration report of the Institute for Social Research (SCP).63% of older Moroccans come ofte...
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Netherlands: Minimum marriage-age for foreigners to be 18The Netherlands will soon recognize marriages only if the couple are both 18 or older. This rule will be enforced also for recognizing foreign marriage and for all foreigners who marry in the Netherlands. Currently the Netherlands recogni...
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Oslo: Students harassed after getting swine fluSeveral students at Jordal school in Oslo who got swine flu were harassed for being bad Muslims."The students thought that maybe they had eaten pork and therefore became sick," says the school prinicpal, Sissel Gråberg Vatn. When some of t...
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Netherlands/Belgium: News in shortVarious news stories in short.Netherlands Infant mortality - first-year mortality for children of first generation non-Western mothers is 13.6/1000, for second-generation non-Western mothers 11.8/1000 and for ethnic Dutch 8.8/1000. Infant mortality is highest am...
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Quote: "What the Turks believe today is what the Germans and British believe tomorrow"Mass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to a British scientist. Michael Reiss, who is a professor of education at the Institute of Education in London and an A...
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Sweden: Uzbek children skip classIn Strömsund (northern Sweden) some Uzbek refugee children don't participate in all the classes, due to religious issues. Nasiba Shokirova from Uzbekistan is a mother-tongue teacher at the Vattudalsskolan school. Not all children can participate in all classes. ...
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France: Top rap artist makes comebackFrance's best-selling rap singer Diam's released a new album Monday after a three-year hiatus that has seen the 29-year-old voice of Paris suburban angst undergo psychiatric treatment and embrace Islam. The musical comeback of the Cypriot-born star ca...
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Sweden: Town limits 'oriental' immigrant weddingsA local politician from Landskrona in southern Sweden has decreed that only one “immigrant wedding” can be held at the town’s local community centre every month.“We don’t want to have too many,” Lars Svensson, the centre's manager and Social Democr...
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Manchester: Preacher arrested in terrorism recruitment investigationA RELIGIOUS leader is among five men arrested on suspicion of terrorism.The Muslim preacher and three others were arrested in raids across Greater Manchester this morning. The man, who has not been named, teaches the Koran at a ...
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Netherlands: Mosque design shows movement identityTraditional mosques with domes and minarets express unwillingness to integrate. That is what Dutch people often think. But research by architectural historian Eric Roose shows that those who commission the design of Dutch mosques only want to expr...
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Admin: Fourth AnniversaryAnother year has come and gone. To all my readers - thank you! I've actually been putting off writing up something for this blog's 4th anniversary, since it is hard for me to get a feel of what happened this year. Just to try and list some of the big stories o...
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Quote: Respect vs. Jealousy(..)On one hand, Muslim community leaders told me that they respect the role Jews made for themselves, admiring the access Jewish leaders have and the influence and relative wealth the community has come to accumulate. On the other hand, there was jealousy. "I want to c...
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Pakistan: Irish Jihadist wants to fight British soldiersAn Irish jihadist living in Pakistan’s Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan.Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry, told The S...
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Marseille: Riots after Algeria World Cup lossVideo here from La Provence.Rioters smashed shop windows, hurled stones at police and set fire to several boats moored in the southern French port of Marseille after Egypt beat Algeria in a soccer World Cup qualifying match on Saturday.A police spokesm...
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EU: 54% think Islam is intolerant50.4% of Europeans think their country has too many immigrants. In general, half of the Europeans have prejudices against immigrants, religious groups or minorities, according to a German report that questioned 8,000 Europeans in 8 countries (UK, France, German...
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UK: Al-Qaeda promoting Jihad in prisonSOME of Britain’s most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting jihad from inside high-security prisons by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits.In an authoritative report, Quilliam, a think tank funded by the Home Office, claims “mis...
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Germany: Veil martyr's family to sue courtThe family of the “veil martyr” – an Egyptian woman stabbed to death in a Dresden court room in July – is suing a judge and court president for failing to protect her, a public prosecutor confirmed on Saturday.Senior Dresden public prosecutor Christian Av...
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Afghanistan: Norwegian hostage freed after converting to IslamNorwegian freelance journalist Pål Refsdal (46) and his Afghan interpreter were kidnapped in Kunar province last week. On Thursday the Foreign Office announced they had been freed.The Taliban group in Watapour who had held him captive...
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Hague: Municipality cancels separate swimmingThe Islam Democrats in the Hague municipal council denounced the municipality decision to cancel separate swimming.The mayor and aldermen said that people should meet other other while exercising, also men and women. But the supporters of separate swi...
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