Christians
Muslim group calls for preacher linked to Trump to be denied UK visa (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Government & Politics
Immigrants anxious over rise of Swedish far-right
(AFP) “I’m not afraid, but I am worried,” Hassan Abdullahi said while distributing voting papers at a polling station in a disadvantaged Stockholm suburb, as the far-right was set to win record support in Swedish elections Sunday. With roots in the neo-Nazi […]
Government & Politics
Shaken Dutch lawmaker Wilders says no more prophet cartoons, for now
(Reuters) Dutch lawmaker and anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders has said he has no plans, for now, to revive a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed after it emerged as a motive for a stabbing in Amsterdam last week. Wilders, speaking on […]
Crime
Germany: Anti-immigration party surges in popularity
(Gatestone) The murder of a German citizen by two failed asylum seekers in Chemnitz, and the attempted cover-up by German police, has contributed to a surge in support for the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which, according to a new poll, […]
Children & Teens
Pay-off for Scout leader expelled for making ‘Darth Vader’ veil remark (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
Sweden: Social Democrat candidate claims Islamic law more important than Swedish law
(Breitbart) The Swedish Social Democrats have had to remove a parliamentary candidate from their national election list only days before the vote after they claimed Islamic law was more important than Swedish law. The candidate, who was running in the municipality of Karlshamn in the […]
Government & Politics
Sweden ‘naive’ about integration: ex-peshmerga Swedish MP
(AFP) Sweden’s “naive” approach to integrating asylum seekers has opened the door to the far-right, an outspoken lawmaker told AFP ahead of elections expected to see the country’s once-marginal anti-immigration party make gains. Amineh Kakabaveh is an Iranian Kurdish ex-peshmerga fighter who […]
Children & Teens
Girls ‘being pressured into FGM in UK playgrounds,’ survivor warns amid international crackdown (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Sweden reports rise in forced and child marriages
(Newsweek) Sweden has seen a rise in reports of child and forced marriages, according to a hotline established by the County Administrative Board in Östergötland County, located in southeastern Sweden. At least 130 phone calls were made in 2018 to a support […]
Children & Teens
UK and US border officials join forces in bid to tackle female genital mutilation (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Cantonal initiative to ban headgear in schools ruled invalid
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court says that an initiative by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to ban head coverings in schools in the southern canton of Valais is invalid. It confirms the decision taken by the Valais parliament. The People’s Party […]
Children & Teens
Swedish far-right leader receives death threat: party
(AFP) The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) on Friday said their leader Jimmie Akesson has received a letter with a death threat as the party is on course to win record support in Sunday’s legislative election. “We hope that this threat is not […]
Government & Politics
Italian minister faces probe into treatment of stranded migrants
(AFP) Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday launched a blistering attack on prosecutors in Sicily after they confirmed a probe into his refusal to allow more than 100 rescued migrants off a coastguard ship last month. Prosecutors in Palermo on […]
Government & Politics
Islamic center of Belgium wants to retain control over Great Mosque
(Brussels Times) The Islamic and Cultural Center of Belgium (CICB) contests before the State Council the decision of Interior Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) to cancel the concession agreement for the Great Mosque of Brussels, Sudpresse newspapers report Thursday. The oral arguments were […]
Government & Politics
French police clear 500 migrants from Dunkirk camp
(AFP) Police moved in to clear 500 migrants from a camp near the French port city of Dunkirk, along the English Channel where many gather hoping to stow away on trucks or ferries heading to Britain, officials said Thursday. Around 200 officers […]
Children & Teens
Six years in jail for failure to stop female genital mutilation (LINK ONLY)
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Crime
Tariq Ramadan set to face new trial, this time in Switzerland
(Al-Arabiya) A court in Geneva hearing the Tariq Ramadan case has explained that the “threshold necessary to justify opening a criminal investigation is present and this has been the case since the beginning of the procedure,” a report in the Le Point […]
Academics & Education
Danish left veering right on immigration Mandatory language lessons, tougher sentences for ghetto crimes, buildings demolished. Integration — by force.
(Politico) Denmark’s right-wing government might once have expected pushback from the left-wing opposition when it introduced a controversial new integration policy. No longer. A recent government proposal, to be finalized by parliament in the fall, would target the country’s so-called ghetto neighborhoods […]
Crime
German interior minister says would have joined protests over stabbing
(Reuters) Germany’s conservative interior minister said on Thursday he would have joined protests over the fatal stabbing of a German man, allegedly by two migrants, in comments likely to deepen divisions in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition. Far-right groups clashed with police and […]
Crime
The most dangerous countries in Europe for women have large Muslim immigration Statistics link Muslim immigration in Europe to sexual violence.
(FrontPage) Sweden has one of Europe’s highest rates of sexual assaults. At 120.79 violent sexual assaults per 100,000 people, and 56 rapes per 100,000, the otherwise bleak socialist country ranks as having the second highest rate of sexual violence in Europe. What […]
Clothing
Burqa ban: Danish police fine tourist after she tries to renew visa while wearing face veil (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Islam shows its female face with rise of women mosques
(Reuters) Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up their own. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of female […]
Crime
PVV councillor demands investigation into Willie Dille rape claim
(Dutch News) The head of the anti-immigration PVV on The Hague’s city council is calling for a criminal investigation into the alleged rape of fellow councillor Willie Dille who killed herself in August this year. Dille (53) placed a video online hours […]
Crime
Merkel rebuffs conservative ally over far-right protests
(Reuters) German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed comments from a conservative ally on Wednesday who had played down violence at far-right protests last week and said images of the event showed innocent people being persecuted. Germany has been shaken by the most violent […]
Children & Teens
10,000 unaccompanied minor migrants in Spain: Madrid
(AFP) Madrid estimates that 10,000 minor migrants are on Spanish soil alone without their parents and has unblocked 40 million euros ($46.5 million) for regions willing to welcome them, the health ministry said Wednesday. The new Socialist government, in power for three […]
Government & Politics
Immigration and welfare fears merge as Sweden lurches to the right
(Reuters) Those wondering why Swedish politics are set to lurch to the right in Sunday’s election need look no further than Ljusnarsberg, a tiny central county of dense pine forests and glistening lakes. Many inhabitants of this once-booming region are uneasy about […]
Demonstrations
Greek far-right party stages rally against planned mosque
(AP) Several hundred supporters of Greece’s extreme right Golden Dawn party have staged a protest near central Athens against plans to build a state-funded mosque in the Greek capital. Authorities used riot police buses to block roads near the construction site during […]
Government & Politics
EU wants to force internet firms to remove terror content
(AP) EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova says the European Commission is set to unveil new rules that could force internet companies to take down suspected terror content. Jourova told reporters Wednesday that “we should have absolute certainty that all the platforms and […]
Crime
After demos, far-right AfD overtakes German Social Democrats
(Reuters) Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), a poll showed on Tuesday, days after some of the most violent protests by radical right-wingers the country has seen in decades. Some 6,000 supporters of the AfD […]
Crime
Anti-migrant mood boosts far-right party in Swedish election
(AP) For Monica and Bengt Borg, a retired Swedish couple, Flen doesn’t feel like Sweden anymore. As they sit on a bench on the town’s main street, an Iraqi man nearby watches a Kurdish television program on his phone. Arabic pop music […]
Government & Politics
Jimmie Akesson, the architect of Sweden’s rising far-right
(AFP) Jimmie Akesson, the head of the far-right Sweden Democrats, is a charismatic speaker who has succeeded in attracting mainstream voters with his efforts to cleanse the party of its neo-Nazi roots. With his Sweden Democrats tipped to get around 20 percent […]
Arts & Entertainment
Piers Morgan asks Muslim woman to take off her full face veil during heated ‘ban the burka’ debate (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
Rabbi condemned for saying Islam ‘has no place in Britain’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Growing group of young Salafists increasingly isolated from society: report
(NL Times) There is a growing group of young Salafists in the Netherlands who politicians can’t get a grip on, according to a study by Mohammad Nazar Soroush at Tilburg University, for which he is receiving his doctorate, NOS reports. Nazar Soroush studied Salafist Muslims […]
Demonstrations
We need a ‘German Islam,’ says interior ministry ‘This may not please Ankara,’ says Markus Kerber.
(Politico) Germany will tighten control over foreign influence of its Muslim community, State Secretary for the Interior Ministry Markus Kerber said Monday, after a week of violent far-right clashes in eastern Germany. “We have watched foreign forces dictate to German Muslims how to […]
Government & Politics
Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam
(Reuters) A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands, prosecutors said on Monday. The man, […]
Demonstrations
Sweden Democrat leader’s visit causes disquiet among Malmö’s Muslims
(Local) When Jimmie Åkesson, the 39-year-old leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, starts railing against “giant mosque complexes, with huge minarets everywhere” Adam and Mohammed begin to protest. “It’s you who want to build that!” Mohammed, 25, shouts out when Åkesson accuses […]
Citizenship
Political opposition to ‘handshake’ law growing The government’s proposal to insist that all new Danish citizens undergo a special ceremony involving shaking hands is not popular in all quarters
(Copenhagen Post) In June this year, the government plus Socialdemokratiet and Dansk Folkeparti put forward proposals to tighten up the criteria for Danish citizenship. One of the measures supported by Venstre, Liberal Alliance and Dansk Folkeparti is that budding citizens will have […]
Books
German far right fuels Muslim ‘takeover’ fears A series of violent crimes committed by refugees is unsettling the nation.
(Politico) Can Germany survive Islam? That question is once again at the center of the country’s public discourse amid the violent protests that followed last week’s brutal killing of a German man, allegedly at the hands of two Muslim refugees, and the […]
Government & Politics
Merkel to meet Macron in Marseille amid EU immigration row
(AFP) Emmanuel Macron will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille on Friday, a French official said, seeking support as he takes on nationalist EU leaders over immigration and institutional reforms. The meeting will focus on “European […]
Government & Politics
No incidents during Geert Wilders’ visit to Antwerp
(Brussels Times) There were no incidents during Geert Wilders’ visit to Antwerp. Geert Wilders is the leader of the extreme right in the Netherlands. Accompanied by members of Vlaams Belang, he left flowers at the foot of the statues of William of […]
Arts & Entertainment
TV drama lifts lid on the dark world of Britain’s undercover war on terror (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Italy and Hungary create ‘anti-immigration axis’
(Gatestone) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have pledged to create an “anti-immigration axis” aimed at countering the pro-migration policies of the European Union. Meeting in Milan on August 28, Orbán and Salvini, vowed to work together […]
Children & Teens
Cash grant to help tackle violence against women (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Muslim pastoral care training begins in Zurich
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society has announced the start of a training programme that will prepare Muslim spiritual leaders to give emergency support in hospitals, at care-homes or after an accident. The need for qualified Muslim chaplains in public institutions has been […]
Crime
Thousands protest for and against migrants in tense German town
(AFP) Thousands of opponents and supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy marched Saturday through the eastern city of Chemnitz after a wave of racist violence that followed a knife killing. The rallies, which drew 8,000 people according to police, ended […]
Children & Teens
Man and woman plead not guilty to genital mutilation of three-year-old girl The suspects, from Ghana and Uganda, have also been charged over several allegations of possessing indecent images.
(Sky News) A man and a woman have pleaded not guilty to the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a three-year-old girl. The man, a 43-year-old from Ghana, and the woman, a 36-year-old from Uganda — who cannot be named for legal reasons […]
Christians
Bible verse campaign sows discord
(Swiss Info) A series of ads that display Bible verses, currently on display on public transport in the city of Biel in canton Bern, is stirring controversy. A local politician has posted questions about the campaign to Facebook, sparking a series of […]
Arts & Entertainment
First Paris attacks feature film shown at Venice
(AFP) The first feature film to touch on the Paris jihadist attacks premiered Friday at the Venice film festival just months after another was pulled over protests by survivors. “Amanda” tells the story of a young man who is left to look […]
Crime
Dutch populist Wilders cancels Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest
(AFP) Controversial anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders late Thursday said he was cancelling plans to stage a Prophet Mohammad cartoon competition, a scheme that had angered many Muslims particularly in Pakistan. The Dutch politician’s announcement came after he said he had received several […]