The German Muslim Council (Islamrat) has criticized the surveillance of the Muslim organization Milli Gurus by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Ali Kizilkaya, chairman of the council, accuses the Federal Office to construct a concept of the Muslim enemy in order to maintain jobs.
Salim Moumou Eljeddahoui is setting off on a 3,000 mile journey to Mecca, to perform the Muslim obligation to perform the religious pilgrimage. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather who walked from France to Mecca, Salim hopes to arrive in Saudi Arabia from his home in Nottingham before December 18th.
Members of the French charity Zoe’s Ark were detained as they were preparing to fly 103 children out of the Chadian city of Abeche. The plane’s crew, all Spanish citizens, are also being held by Chadian authorities. The children, largely from Sudan’s Darfur region, were intended to be smuggled to Europe by the charity workers…
{Racial and religious minorities tend to be under-represented in legislatures} The political representation of racial minorities troubles in almost every country, rich or poor. At one end of the income scale, Switzerland held an election on October 21st that turned on the treatment of foreigners-perhaps understandably in a country where a fifth of the population…
Eight of the thirty-five illegal immigrants who escaped from an internment camp in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district were re-captured. The internment camp serves those who await deportation for not having the proper paperwork. The escape occurred as a group effort to force open a door; Police are searching for twenty-seven escaped immigrants who are still…
