Terror Case Throws Spotlight on German Converts to Islam

    It’s not known exactly how many have converted to Islam in Germany Two of the men held in connection with a plot to bomb US military installations and other targets in Germany are converts to Islam. It has raised the question of whether converts are more likely to become radicalized. Perhaps just as shocking to…

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      German politicians split on stiffer anti-terrorism laws

      In the wake of an unsuccessful terrorist plot against American targets in Germany, German officials are considering what was once unthinkable: spying on personal computers and other harsh measures that buck up against the German constitution. Proposals to allow security forces to spy on personal computers and to make attendance at an Islamist training camp…

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        Dutch launch curriculum on Islam

        AMSTERDAM (dpa) – As of the current school year all Dutch primary schools will have access to an official teaching curriculum about Islam for pupils aged four to 12. The new curriculum, the first of its kind in the Netherlands, was officially presented in the As Soeffah primary school in Amsterdam on Monday. The method…

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          Lines of people waiting before the Moroccan consulate of Barcelona

          Taking advantage of the holiday and the beginning of the Ramadan, many Moroccan citizens have gathered in front of the consulate of their country in Barcelona to take care of legal issues. These lines are now routine since the embassy opened a year ago. This consulate serves the entire region of Catalonia, the Spanish Mediterranean…

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          Illegal protest against the Islamization of Europe, in Brussels

          BRUSSELS, Belgium: Police arrested two leaders of a Belgian far-right party Tuesday for staging an illegal protest against the Islamization of Europe, six years to the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Police scuffled with some of the 200 people who converged on two squares in the EU district of Brussels…

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