Germany


Muslims urged to boycott Barclays and Lloyds TSB in support of Bolton charity

Crains Manchester Business - December 31, 2008


Two Muslim organisations have called for a boycott of Barclays Bank after it closed the accounts of Bolton-based charity the Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT). The move followed claims that the charity was indirectly helping to fund the Palestinian organisation Hamas. UWT has donated more than £200,000 over the past four years to another UK registered [...]

German Muslims oppose new record law

Press TV - December 28, 2008


An Islamic group has slammed a new law which stops German Muslims from stating their religion in their birth and marriage certificates.
Aiman Mazyek, general secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland, ZMD) criticized the change in the law, stressing that it was “unacceptable”.
“The change is opposed [...]

Germany mulls taking detainees from Guantanamo Bay

Bloomberg News - December 22, 2008


Germany joined Portugal in voicing a willingness to take detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to aid President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to shut the camp. Germany is considering taking some detainees and will have “intensive discussions” about what to do with prisoners considered innocent who cannot return to their home countries, [...]

Germany deemed fertile ground for Islamic banking

AAWSAT - December 22, 2008


The German economy is considered the strongest in the Eurozone [15-country bloc that uses the Euro currency] and the level of German exports surpassed China for the fifth year running in 2007, achieving a record export of €969 billion. Its imports amounted to €770 billion, giving Germany a trade surplus of €198 billion. According to [...]

German official urges Berlin to accept Guantanamo inmates

Deutsche Welle World - December 21, 2008


The human rights envoy for the German government has urged Berlin to help US President-Elect Obama meet his promise to close the controversial prison camp Guantanamo Bay by taking in innocent inmates. In an interview with newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published on Saturday, Dec 20, Guenter Nooke said Germany along with other European nations had to [...]

Prosecutor: Computer terrorists now key part of Islamist network

The Earth Times - December 12, 2008


Islamists who post fierce messages on the internet along with bomb-making instructions are becoming a key part of international terrorism, Germany’s prosecutor general Monika Harms said Friday. The internet served as a means of communications between different terrorist groups and as a source of information on how to mount attacks, she said in Karlsruhe.
“The [...]

Germany jails Lebanese for life over train bomb attempt

The Earth Times - December 9, 2008


A German court Tuesday gave a life-imprisonment sentence to a Lebanese man who planted bombs on two trains that would have caused mass carnage if they had exploded. Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24, was convicted by the court in Dusseldorf of multiple attempted murder. His accomplice, Jihad Hamad, was convicted at a separate trial in Lebanon [...]

Germany bails website authors on terrorism charge

The Earth Times - December 8, 2008


Karlsruhe, Germany - German authorities said Monday they have freed on bail two young men whose postings on a website led to serious charges of supporting a terrorist group. Magistrates freed Daniel P, aged 26, a German who has converted to Islam, and Harun Can A, 23, after they had admitted allegations by federal prosecutors. [...]

Mosques are ‘land grab, not a place of prayer’, says German intellectual Ralph Giordano

Times Online - December 6, 2008


The building of huge mosques throughout Germany is nothing short of a “a bid for power and influence, a land grab”, according to Ralph Giordano, 85, the German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, in an interview with The Times that is likely to stir Muslim anger. The comments from Mr Giordano came as the Muslim [...]

Terrorism suspect insists bomb in Germany was hoax

The Earth Times - December 2, 2008


A Lebanese student accused of planting a bomb on a German train pleaded his innocence before a German court Tuesday, saying that the gas-filled device in his possession was only meant to scare. “I swear by God almighty that I had no intention of killing anybody,” said Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24. “I knew when I [...]

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