The Central Intelligence Agency is attempting to recruit more spies by advertising on the internet, radio, and television, and holding meetings with American Muslims to make up for a severe shortage of Arabic speakers. Leon Panetta, the new CIA director, will meet with Muslim groups in cities such as Detroit to spearhead the new drive…
According to this special news report from Le Figaro, between 300-400 French Muslims move to Dubai and Abu Dhabi annually to find work and live in a Muslim-majority country. The article follows a 27 year-old Muslim of Algerian-origin from the outskirts of Paris who, at the end of 2006, having gone through Egypt to learn…
According to research from the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College, examinations were conducted concerning the preventative measures taken in Sweden against violent extremism and radicalism. As part of the studies, the researchers conducted extensive interviews with school personnel and police officers active in the Rosengård district. The vast majority…
The secretary of state for Urban Policies, Fad_la Amara, revealed that the country will aim to launch 45,000 new jobs for the country’s young people in the next three years, centred upon those most marginal in the country’s suburbs. President Sarkozy announced the plan Hope-Suburbs (Espoir-sBanlieues) in February. The project will concentrate on 215 neighbourhoods….
For Karim Z_ribi, the highlight was shaking the hand of Barack Obama. For Ali Zahi, it was meeting his childhood hero, basketball star Magic Johnson. And Mohamed Hamidi was surprised to find a mosque in Washington that was bigger than the one in his parents’ village in Algeria. Hamidi is a well-known blogger, Zahi is…
