Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch activist facing threats from her controversial criticism of Islam, will receive national protection anywhere in the European Union, said a top justice official in Brussels. Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice and home affairs said that Hirsi Ali and others who face threats for their opinions or writings…
On January 22, the French government unveiled a proposal to slash youth unemployment in high-immigrant suburbs. The plan’s architect, Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara, unveiled key proposals to local residents in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon. She pledged to create 45,000 new jobs in areas where up to one in two black and Arab men…
It’s the fastest-growing sector of the banking industry, yet few City boys know much about it and hardly any finance students are being taught it. But Islamic banking’s mysteries are now beginning to be unveiled and just this last month a business school and an accountancy body have announced new postgraduate programmes specialising in it….
To mark the two year anniversary of the deaths of two-youths Clichy-sous-Bois, Claude Dilain, the Socialist mayor, held a memorial calm memorial service to mark the events. While improvements such as increased voter turnout, funding for housing and infrastructure, and increased educational partnerships, many of the banlieues troubles remain. Unemployment is around 20% – more…
The Dutch intelligence and information service AIVD frequently checks the destination of funding provided to Muslim organisations, it emerged in a parliamentary debate late Thursday. Interior Minister Guusje Ter Hors said the government wanted to ensure the Dutch government did not support any organisation involved in fundamentalist or terrorist activities. She was speaking during a…
