11 November 2010 Muslims clashed with police after burning a large poppy in protest at Britain’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which was timed to coincide with Armistice Day’s two-minute silence. About 35 Islamic protesters, dressed in dark clothes and with many masking their faces, carried banners and chanted slogans such as “British soldiers: terrorists”….
News Agencies – August 24, 2010 A man of Senegalese-origin from Vénissieux was eating breakfast on the terrace of a restaurant in the center of Lyon on the weekend of August 15th when three youth jumped him because he didn’t observe the fast of Ramadan. He was hit on the head with a glass bottle,…
A hospital in the Dutch city of Leerdam has removed three paintings depicting pigs, on the grounds that they may offend Muslim patients. The removal followed a complaint by a non-Muslim patient that the images could be offensive. The clinic subsequently removed the pictures because “all visitors must feel comfortable in the institution.”
Although she’d cultivated an academic interest in Islam at university, Willow Wilson’s religious awakening really came in the hospital. She was suffering from adrenal distress, and its symptoms – including insomnia and hair loss – would last for a year and a half. “Being ill had shaken something loose in my head,” the 27-year-old writes…
In Milan, a woman, 6 months pregnant, was injured by her husband with an iron. Their children called the neighbours who phoned the police immediately. The man has been arrested on charges of aggravated assault and family maltreatment. It is not the first time that the woman has been brought to hospital as a consequence…
