Who should the West support? Moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan or Islamic dissidents like Ayaan Hirsi Ali? In early 2007 the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner caused a controversial debate, when publishing a polemics against an alleged liberal consensus of the West about Islam policy. Following Bruckner’s polemics, a controversial debate was carried out on the…
The German federal police has identified an Uzbek man as one of the masterminds of a suspected plot to bomb a major US base and other targets in Germany, a report said on TuesdayThe man, Gofir Salimov, ordered Islamists to attack the US military airbase in Ramstein and US and Uzbek consulates in Germany, the…
For the first time a German school introduced Muslim education. A German catholic school in Papenburg is the first German school to set up Muslim education lessons. Christine Schneider-Berents reports.
The EU unveiled a blue card plan on Tuesday, aimed to attract skilled, professional immigrants to member countries. Modeled somewhat after green cards in the United States, the blue card calls for the admission of 20 million Asian, African, and Latin American workers within the next twenty years. The immigrant-friendly proposal seeks to re-build Europe’s…
Starting in November, the Flemish job agency VDAB will visit unemployed immigrants and minorities in their home to help find them jobs and reduce unemployment among minorities. According to VDAB, one in six unemployed persons in Belgium is of ethnic background.
