(AFP) Hungary and Austria on Tuesday rejected criticism from the UN’s new human rights chief over their migration policies, accusing her of spreading “half-truths” and “baseless suspicions.” In her maiden speech as UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet on Monday […]
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(Politico) Islamists have an “intellectual monopoly” over public debate among Muslims in France and the state must intervene to limit foreign influence over worshippers, according to a new report submitted to President Emmanuel Macron. The 617-page report, “The Fabric of Islam,” presents […]
(Local) A new report by a Paris think-tank underlines “the progress of Islamist ideology among Muslims in France,” suggesting that Salafi Islam can be stamped out through a “halal tax” and Arabic being taught in French schools. According to the report released […]
(Katherimini) Turkey has called on Greece to “re-examine” a provision voted through Parliament last month that stipulates Muslim religious leaders (muftis) in the Greek border region of Western Thrace must retire at the age of 67. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy […]
(Anadolu) Expanding the range of headscarf bans for students and teachers in secondary school should be discussed throughout the country, especially in parliament, Austria’s education minister said on Monday. Speaking at Austrian state television ORF on a draft law to ban Muslim […]
(Local) A much-discussed proposal that would require new Danish [citizens] to shake hands with their local mayor would also come with a tripling of the fee new Danes have to pay to receive their citizenship. Forcing all citizenship applicants to participate in […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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, […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(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 […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
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