In a referendum Swiss voters have voted by 64 percent to reject a proposal by the far-right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) that would have made it even harder for resident foreigners to gain citizenship. Only one of Switzerland’s 26 cantons backed the plan. At present, naturalisation is decided by a commission, usually at regional level….
Vlaams Belang introduced a campaign called Stop Islamization in Ghent. The party plans to distribute twenty thousand pamphlets in neighborhoods most fiercely hit by Islamization. The campaign includes demands against subsidizing Islam, questionable marriages, ritual slaughter, and includes stricture regulations for the development of mosques and a headscarf ban for teachers.
In 1683, a Turkish army reached the suburbs of Vienna. The outcome trembled in the balance until Jan Sobieski of Poland arrived with his army, threw back the Ottomans and finally freed western Europe from the threat of Muslim domination, thus completing the work begun by Charles Martel at Poitiers in 732. Or did he?…
Muslims in the northern Italian community of Liguria are conducting a summit to discuss key issues which affect the community. An annual summit called For Our Children is held in the city of Genoa, at the Islamic centre of Genoa Pra. The leader of the Muslim community in the region, as well as women’s and…
Two main Irish opposition parties said that Muslim girls should not be allowed to wear a headscarf in public schools. Labour party’s Ruairi Quinn stated that immigrants should conform to the culture, and Fine Gael counterpart Brian Hayes said that it makes sense to have one uniform for everyone, citing that the hijab was not…
