Announcing his intention to present himself in the 2010 regional elections in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen made several “shocking” statements. He claimed that “mass immigration takes the form of an actual colonization.” He added that while today there are 300,000 Muslims in Marseille, when there will be 800,000, the mayor will…
Wilders announced plans to tour Britain, France, and Israel to present his controversial film Fitna. Wilders has said that he is traveling to promote his film to create international “alliances for peace and against Islamization.” Wilders has already received criticism for showing his film at a conference in Israel. He presented his film in Jerusalem,…
A well-known Holocaust survivor has said he strongly opposes the international anti-Islam conference slated to take place in Germany next month, despite his critical stance on Islam. German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Ralph Giordano has come out strongly against the planned so-called Anti-Islamization Congress — a meeting of extreme-right European political forces — planned…
Opponents to the building of Cologne’s great mosque are not ready to give up. On Thursday, August 9th, they invited themselves to a meeting of the city council aimed at discussing the project that makes so much ado in the capital of the Rhine region, that one of Germany’s largest Turkish communities call home. Let’s…
(Mosque construction has proved a contentious issue for German society. For more information on mosques in Germany, see the Germany country profile). In a city with the greatest Gothic cathedral in Germany and no fewer than a dozen Romanesque churches, adding a pair of slender fluted minarets would scarcely alter the skyline. Yet plans for…
