Foreigners in Yemen say they have to go online to recall that the country is at war. They feel their surroundings are calm and normal, and that the issues highlighted by the Abdulmutallab terror attack are nothing new. Many are therefore taking the current issues with a grain of salt. All services are still in…
Eric Geoffroy, a French Islamologue points to how Sarkozy consistently positions Islam in his speeches as foreign and Muslims as foreigners.
Twenty-six foreigners suspected of links to international terrorism and aiding illegal immigration, are being investigated by Italian police, after raids carried out in several Italian cities. The raids were carried out in the northern cities of Vicenza, Venice, Padova, Brescia, Como, Cuneo, Trento, and Florence. Anti-terrorism and criminal investigators began probing fundamentalists attending the Via…
State Secretary of Social Affairs and Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has said that he thinks it is “absurd” to propose that Christian holidays of Easter Monday and Pentecost Monday ought to be replaced with Muslim holidays. Aboutaleb added that such Christian holidays have been embedded in the Dutch calendar, and cannot be touched. He does,…
Anti-terrorism police in Italy carried out at least 135 raids across Italy and are pursuing investigations of 11 foreigners suspected of having connections to an alleged Morocco-based Islamist group, Al-Adl Wal Ihsan. Investigators have called the Al-Adl Wal Ihsan – or “Justice and Charity” organization, a cover for a group seeking the restoration of an…
