The last year witnessed over 1000 attacks on accommodation for asylum-seekers in Germany. Crimes include arson, various forms of destructive vandalism, as well as the defacement of the shelters with propaganda symbols such as swastikas. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), three quarters of the perpetrators live in the vicinity of the shelters….
Press coverage of the Cologne sexual assaults and their aftermath has focused above all on the perceptions and fears of the ethnically German majority population. The past weeks have been marked by a frantic discussion about tightening asylum legislation as well as the laws governing sexual offences, by growing alarmism about the continuing arrival of…
The Paris attacks of November 2015 and their aftermath witnessed unusually vocal denunciations of Saudi foreign policy and of Saudi-Wahhabi religious agendas. In early December, a damning report by the Federal Intelligence Agency (Bundesnachrichtendienst) on Saudi Arabia’s role in in the Middle East and on the monarchy’s alleged increasing inner instability was leaked, potentially with…
PARIS — The French Culture Ministry ruled Wednesday that a new documentary film on Islamic radicals was unsuitable for minors, saying that it offered images of violence that were “sometimes unbearable” and interviews with members of Al Qaeda and other extremist figures that provided a platform for propaganda. The documentary, “Salafistes,” will also be accompanied…
Nariman Reinke is a 36-year-old daughter of Moroccan immigrants. She is German, she is Muslim, and she is a soldier in the Bundeswehr, or the German army. And now she’s become a public figure, taking a stand against what she perceives to be the rather toxic conversation of the moment. That’s been fueled by widespread fears over…
