Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen distanced himself from remarks made by Geert Wilders, who praised Rasmussen in a television interview for backing the freedom of speech concerning the reprinting of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Rasmussen said he does not condone attempts to demonize religious or ethnic groups, saying I strongly condemn Geert Wilders’…
On Wednesday, a court in Milan resumed the CIA-gate trial of 26 citizens accused in the February 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in the city. Judge Oscar Magi suspended the trial last June to allow the Constitutional Court to deliberate over whether or not Milan investigators violated state secrecy laws by wiretapping military intelligence…
The Casa Arabe, the Spanish institution dedicated to the cultural Spanish Muslim Affairs, will have a new place in the historical building of the Escuelas Aguirre, in Madrid.
Immigrants living in Spain sent a record EUR 8.135 billion to their home countries in 2007 – an increase of 19.5 percent from 2006. Spain’s 4.5 million immigrants, roughly 20 percent of the total population, are now the leading senders in Europe of financial remittances to their home and developing countries, and the third largest…
The secrecy about the content and release date of the anti-Quran film made by a Dutch right-wing politician is worrying officials, who are trying to anticipate reaction and security needs. Ernst Hirsch Ballin told parliament that it would be easier to prepare and assess possible risks if the government knew when populist Geert Wilders planned…
