Spanish police broke up an Islamic cell of five men and one woman, suspected of using the internet to recruit fighters for the Iraq insurgency. The suspects are all from either Algeria or Morocco, and allegedly call themselves Los Ansar – a reference to Ansar el Islam, an al-Qaeda linked group operating in Iraq, the…
The question concerning the creation of man is still an agitating topic in French schools, with students from various religious traditions objecting to Darwinism and evolution. With Muslim students, the issue is a controversial one. The article mentions cases where Muslim girls sat arm crossed, arguing with their biology teacher. Use of the internet by…
Fundamentalist Christians are using populist slogans to incite against Muslims, whom they see as the new source of danger for Europe. The number of internet users who visit their websites is alarmingly high. Claudia Mende reports.
Dutch driving schools reject immigrant students in order to keep a high success rate. That’s according to Trouw newspaper on the basis of visits by 25 driving schools. The schools’ success rate is advertised on the internet and a lower success rate is a bad advertisement. Eighteen of the twenty five driving instructors confirmed that…
The verdict over a British-born Muslim student found guilty of a series of terrorism offences on Monday has been described as “tragedy for justice and for freedom of speech”. The “wannabe suicide bomber” Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, could face 15-years in jail for allegedly providing training material on booby-trap bomb making and threatening to become…
