February 5, 2016 Three Algerians suspected of seeking to carry out an attack in Berlin were arrested in the early hours of February 4, 2016. In German media, both the Alexanderplatz – a busy shopping, transportation and entertainment hub – and the iconic former border crossing Checkpoint Charlie were named as potential targets. Little was…
February 5. 2016 In a recent episode of the ‘Forum on Friday’, a broadcast by the German public TV channel ZDF aimed to offer a forum for discussion for issues of importance to the country’s Muslim community, the psychologist and activist Ahmad Mansour discussed his new book Generation Allah: Why We Need to Rethink the…
February 5, 2016 Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party opined last week that due to the continued influx of immigrants police ought to use firearms in order to defend the German border. In an interview with the local newspaper Mannheimer Morgen, Petry asserted that “[n]o policeman wants to shoot at…
February 5, 2016 In a further instance of violence against a refugee shelter, a hand grenade was thrown at an accommodation unit for asylum seekers in the Black Forest town of Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Germany. This latest incident comes after the year 2015 witnessed a massive spike in xenophobic violence, a trend which garnered further…
Feb 7th Germany will continue its cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. After the execution of 47 detainees, among them the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, and following diplomatic crisis between Tehran and Riadh, Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticized for continuation of the relationship with the Saudi kingdom. The Shiite community of Germany reacted…
