French screen icon Brigitte Bardot was convicted and fined in Paris on June 3 for inciting discrimination and racial hatred toward the country’s Muslim population. This is her fifth conviction on similar charges in 11 years. Bardot was fined 15,000 Euros for her letter to then-interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy stating, I’ve had enough of being…
A Spanish judge charged eleven men with plotting suicide attacks against the public transportation network in Barcelona. The indictment says the cell of ten Pakistanis and one Indian, had plans to carry out an attack between January 18-20 of this year. The indictment said that the men were very close to achieving full technical capacity…
Members of the Rome-based Shia Muslim organization ‘Imam Mahdi’ released a statement saying that they met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad was visiting Rome to attend the global food summit organized by the UN. The statement said that the meeting took place, even though the Italian media insulted Ahmadinejad’s presence at the FAO summit…
According to a large survey organized by TV program Netwerk and the newspaper Nederlands Dagblad, 65% of Dutch either ‘agree’ or ‘completely agree’ that there should be a stop on the building of new, large mosques. Also relayed from the survey, is the concern over the growth and influence of Islam in Dutch society, and…
