Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications

Leaked documents reportedly reveal the spy agency hacked into Al Jazeera internal communications   Documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden show that the US spy agency hacked into Al Jazeera’s internal communications, German magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.   One of the documents, reportedly seen by Der Spiegel and dating back to…

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Wilders Tells German Newspaper He Wants Less Islam in Europe

November 12 2010 German newspaper Der Spiegel has published the text of an interview with controversial Dutch politician in an English translation. In the interview Wilders describes his position condemning Europe’s cultural relativism and criticizing the Quran.

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“Islam Is Like a Drug”: Interview with German-Egyptian political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad

17 September 2010 In an interview with Der Spiegel, Egyptian-German political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad talks about his childhood as the son of an imam in Egypt, why he thinks Islam is a danger to society and his theories about the inevitable decline of the Muslim world. Despite his own criticism of Islam, he does not…

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German film portraying honour killing released at cinemas

The German drama “Die Fremde” (“When we leave”) portrays the subject of honour killings in a Turkish German family. Up-and-coming actress Sibel Kekilli, a Turkish German herself, acts the part of Umay, who grows up in Berlin and gets married to a Turkish man in Istanbul. When Umay escapes the brutal relationship and flees to…

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    Germany to start new de-radicalization programm combatting “home-grown” Islamists

    Germany is to set a new focus on persuading radical “home-grown” Islamists who are flirting with terrorism to moderate their views, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. The efforts are to be directed mainly at people who have been raised in Germany, both converts to Islam of German parentage and German-schooled Muslims…

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