By NINA BERNSTEIN Hundreds of noncitizens were swept up on visa violations in the weeks after 9/11, held for months in a much-criticized federal detention center in Brooklyn as “persons of interest” to terror investigators, and then deported. This week, one of them is back in New York and another is due today – the…
MPs have approved a bill to outlaw inciting religious hatred, although the government’s original plans were partially defeated after Lords and then MPs forced through amendments. The government’s attempts to give religious groups the same protection from incitement to hate crimes as racial groups have split opinion. Last year the proposed legislation was defeated in…
Reactions against the conscience test applied to Muslims who want to become German citizens in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg province continue. The German Alliance 90/Greens Party Federal Assembly Group submitted a parliamentary motion to terminate the practice of examining the private life of applicants. The party’s Co-Chair Claudia Roth, criticizing the test’s questions on homosexuality as well,…
Hessen State plans to implement the conscious test, which Baden Wurttemberg State has been implementing for those who want to become German citizens. Hessen Internal Minister Volker Bouffier made a statement to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Newspaper informing of their plan to implement a test named Information and Values in one month’s time for immigrants who…
48 future members of Spanish Police Force are Muslims, a fact of major importance considering the rigid mental structure of this entity. Besides this inclusion practice also represents the opening of the Guardia Civil to a multicultural reality, the acceptance of larger geographical challenges, and the portrait of a flexible, modern and tolerant institution.
