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Lampedusa: Again - Immigrants Set Fire to Refugee Center and Flee Lampedusa : Muslim Immigrants Riot Apparently they also burned down the "Maison de la Fraternite" (where they were given shelter) because they were getting tired of eating the same macaroni. Selon lui, les conditions de vie sont insupportables : « On nous donne toujours des macaronis, on en a assez. » Tirant de sa poche un billet de dix euros, il a expliqué : « On me l’a donné ici et je veux le dépenser pour acheter quelque chose de bon. » Translation: according to him, the conditions are...

The arrivals were few at first - small boats of a dozen or so people. But in recent days, as clenched-fist stability in Tunisia gave way to democracy and then near anarchy, the ships became larger, more crowded and more numerous. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), some 5,700 Tunisians have landed in Lampedusa since Jan. 16 - 5,000 of them in the past five days - leaving Italian authorities scrambling to accommodate what they describe as an exodus of "biblical proportions." (See pictures

The cooperation between Rev. Franz Meurer and Iranian Navid Kermani illustrates how far Germany has gone in accepting its booming Muslim minority.The recent Swiss ban on minarets reflects a climate gone sour between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. But here in Germany, two people have taken a stand to promote a dialogue that goes far beyond symbolics. Not long ago, the Rev. Franz Meurer, a Roman Catholic priest in a rough Cologne neighborhood, led his parish to raise funds for the construction of a controversial mosque there, slated to be Germany’s biggest in a city most famous for its Catholic...

Union escort for protesting Paris students PARIS, March 15 (AFP) - Thousands of French high-school students who demonstrated against the government in central Paris Tuesday were protected by an extensive security detail after violence and muggings that marred a similar march a week ago. Unions provided an escort of several hundred stewards and police controlled access to the route between Republique and Nation squares. The march passed off peacefully with only a handful of arrests. Hundreds of young rioters from poor Paris suburbs disrupted the demonstration on March 8, beating teenagers to the ground and stealing mobile telephones and cameras....

Priest fined for speaking against Islam 82-year-old guilty of 'provoking hatred' for saying Quran of the devil Posted: January 19, 2004 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A French priest has been found guilty of "provoking discrimination, hatred or violence" for comments he made critical of the Quran, Islam's holy book. Philippe Sulmont, 82, was fined $990 for expressing his thoughts in a letter to his parishioners in Domqueur in 2002, Agence France-Presse reported. "The Asiatics proliferate and invade our land, bringing with them an ideology that threatens the whole world," he wrote. "Indeed I would add there is no...

Bitten to death by ducks Posted: WorldNetDaily.com 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The cartoon is wonderful, but not funny. Uncle Sam sits on a rock, sleeping. His chin rests on one hand, the other arm outstretched, palm up. He is surrounded by a multitude of illegal aliens, piling up on and around his feet. They're climbing up the rock and surging over his lap, back, head and fill his outstretched hand. He appears to be swarming with ants. It gives me chills. I can't remember a political cartoon which so perfectly captures our situation. Illegals swarm across our borders...