http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/europeanmuslims/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:27:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419595/posts COPENHAGEN -- A Somali man was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Saturday for an attack on a Danish artist whose 2005 cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ignited riots and outrage in Muslim countries, authorities said. The 28-year-old Somali man with ties to al Qaeda broke into Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus, Denmark, on Friday night armed with an ax and a knife, said Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark's PET intelligence agency. The 74-year-old artist, who has been targeted with several death threats since depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, pressed an alarm and fled with... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419595/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415228/posts Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian national, is attending engineering school at the University College of London (UCL), according to federal officials. examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415228/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts The Swiss minaret ban and the leaked climate e-mails are really the same story — or, more precisely, are symptoms of the same disease. In the Times of London, Oliver Kamm deplored the results of Switzerland’s referendum, consigned it to the garbage can of right-wing populism, and for good measure dismissed my analysis of Euro-demographics (“This is nonsense,” he pronounced magisterially). Instead, Mr. Kamm called for a “secularist and liberal defense of the principles of a pluralist society.” That’s not the solution to the problem, but one of the causes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for liberalism and pluralism... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412786/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408877/posts The recent Swiss referendum vote to ban the building of minarets seemed to confirm a trend: Europeans are becoming increasingly strident in their attempts to "protect" their culture against Islam. However, a newly published report by the Open Society Institute (OSI), a think tank set up by billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros, details the complex relationship between Muslims and non-Muslim Europeans and reveals that the suspicion is mutual. Muslims believe they are being shut out of European society. About 20 million Muslims live in the European Union, mostly in capital cities and large industrial towns; they already make up... time.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408877/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406453/posts December 13, 2009 UK Muslims Are Europe’s Most Patriotic Levels of patriotism are higher among second-generation Muslims, the report found Chris Gourlay Muslims in Britain are the most patriotic in Europe — but more than a quarter in some parts of the country still do not feel British, according to a new study. The report, funded by George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist, found that on average 78% of Muslims identified themselves as British, although this dropped by six points in east London. This compares with 49% of Muslims who consider themselves French and just 23% who feel German. The findings,... London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406453/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396838/posts November 30, 2009 Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets Charles Bremner in Paris The Swiss and European establishment united today in deploring yesterday's decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets but conservative leaders warned that the referendum showed genuine fear over Islam on the continent. Swiss officials, media and business leaders voiced shame over a vote that they say will stigmatise the country's 400,000 Muslims and stain Switzerland's name in the Muslim world. In contrast, hard right leaders in France, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands hailed what they depicted as a triumph for the people... The Times (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396838/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396376/posts Bloomberg stories may not be posted on FR. Title only. Link below... Bloomberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396376/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395008/posts The Swiss are to decide this weekend whether to ban minarets on mosques, in what is in effect the first direct vote in a European country on Islam and the practices of Muslims. "The minaret has got nothing to do with religion. It's a symbol of political power, a prelude to the introduction of sharia law," argued Ulrich Schlüer, of the rightwing Swiss People's party, an architect of the campaign. UN experts and human rights activists condemned the campaign as overtly racist. The rightwing anti-immigrant lobby has led the campaign, but it has been joined by some secularist leftists and... Guardian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395008/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:40:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381203/posts Swiss Muslims Open Mosque Doors Swiss Muslims hope to promote better understanding of their religion Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques - three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets. Muslim organisations say they hope their open day will counter what they say are fears and prejudices. The conservative group that initiated the vote - the largest party in the Swiss parliament - says minarets are a symbol of Muslim political power. Opinion polls suggest the proposed ban will be rejected by voters. A Muslim community leader in Zurich,... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381203/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355302/posts The slow suicide of the West continues. Muslim communities are forming across the Netherlands, and Sharia Law is slowly taking hold. None of this apparently matters though, as the people of Rotterdam have voted in a Muslim mayor. Unifying Dutch city falls to Muslim mayor In Rotterdam, where cultural and social divides are apparent, the burden of bridging them now belongs to Morocco-born Ahmed Aboutaleb. How he fares could matter beyond his city's borders. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355302/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:46:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2325712/posts Top trumps appears to have suddenly become the in thing in the world of religion. It used to be ferraris and lamborghinis. Now a Christian version of Top Trumps, called Testament Trumps, has been released, apparently to help children learn more about biblical characters. And not to be outdone, the humanists have also launched their own version of Top Trumps, called God Trumps. A pack has been sent to me from the New Humanist magazine, and it’s brilliantly satirical, as you’d expect. With the caricatures by the Guardian’s excellent cartoonist, Martin Rowson, it pitches Catholics against Anglicans and pagans against... The Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2325712/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:56:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324751/posts Forty years after the death of the “last lion,” Great Britain is producing men of straw rather than of Churchillian iron. It was only six months ago that the British government humiliatingly and shamelessly bundled visiting Dutch politician Geert Wilders back on to a plane to his native Holland to appease Muslim public opinion. Wilders had been invited to show his documentary film, “Fitna,” at Britain’s House of Lords, but, in a gross outrage, was denied entry to the country. That watershed moment of capitulation, however, was surpassed last week when the Scottish government released Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Magrahi... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324751/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:53:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312406/posts Twenty percent of the European Union will be Muslim by 2050, according to forecasts cited in a Telegraph report Sunday. The current figure, according to the article, sits at five percent, and will be pushed up due to immigration, and low birth rates among native Europeans. The article noted that the UK, Spain and Holland would hit the 20% mark faster. According to the London-based newspaper, experts have criticized lawmakers' failure to address this "demographic time-bomb." Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312406/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:14:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306816/posts Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West” is a hot book presented under a cool, scholarly title. To observe that Mr. Caldwell’s rhetoric is “hot” is not to say that it is aggrieved or unruly. On the contrary, Mr. Caldwell, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a columnist for The Financial Times, compiles his arguments patiently, twig by twig, and mostly with lucidity and intellectual grace and even wit. But they are arguments one is not used to hearing put so baldly, at least from the West’s leading political journalists. Primary among... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306816/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 02:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2297000/posts If there is anything that should make Americans' blood run cold about immigration, it is the sight of Europe—and Britain, the home of Western civilization—being buried by millions of Muslim colonists. Europe is just hoping against hope that Islam isn't going to explode into massive rioting (or worse), or impose total cultural Islamification. Major jihadist terror occurred in London (July 7, 2005, killing 52 and injuring 700) and in Madrid (March 11, 2004, killing 191 and injuring 1841). Yet cowardly politicians continue policies of appeasement, which hostile Muslims correctly apprise as the fatal weakness of a culture too pacified to... eurabia.cz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2297000/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224048/posts The Euro leaders’ adulation of The Obama didn’t translate into providing any more combat troops for Afghanistan. Some might chalk it up to commonplace continental fecklessness. But Tucker Carlson has offered a much more chilling explanation, one with ramifications extending far beyond the specific matter at hand. Appearing on Morning Joe today, Carlson flatly stated that “Europe is afraid of its own Muslim population.” He continued: TUCKER CARLSON: And that’s one of the main reasons it doesn’t want to commit troops to Afghanistan, because it’s afraid of domestic unrest in its own countries. So that has nothing to with how... FinkelBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224048/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:00:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222925/posts To become NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen will apologize for the Mohammed cartoons. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222925/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:40:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211844/posts What is Eurabian Culture? Gates of Vienna 20 March 2009 By Baron BodisseyI’ve written so many times in this space about the OIC (the Organization of the Islamic Conference) that it sometimes feels like I do nothing but fisk Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (see the bottom of this post for a list of previous articles on Prof. Ihsanoglu and the OIC).Since the UN Human Rights Council is simply a mouthpiece for the OIC, the “human rights” working papers and resolutions that come out of Turtle Bay are, for practical purposes, OIC productions, indistinguishable in style and substance from the... europenews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211844/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:52:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195832/posts ROTTERDAM, 28/02/09 - On Friday night, a Muslim stand-up comedian was scheduled to give a show in a Rotterdam theatre with segregated seating for the men and women in his audience. Moroccan-born writer and TV producer Salaheddine Benchikhi was to make his debut as a stand-up comedian at Theater Zuidplein in Rotterdam. At his request, the theatre said it would offer female audience members the option of sitting apart from the men, as Algemeen Dagblad reported several hours before the show on Friday. According to the newspaper, 50 of the 590 seats had been reserved for women who object to... NIS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195832/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173773/posts THE HAGUE, 29/01/09 - Moroccans in the Netherlands are not allowed to give their children any Berber names any more. In this way, Islamic identity is being stressed, Trouw newspaper reported yesterday. By far the biggest group of Moroccans in the Netherlands are of Berber origin, a region in the mountainous north of Morocco. "They will now be forced to give their children a Moroccan-Islamic name," according to Trouw. "Morocco wants to secure the Moroccan identity of its nationals in this way, including the Moroccan Dutch." The Moroccan government in Rabat sent all embassies and consulates abroad a list of... NIS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173773/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:39:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173320/posts Although Linnea and Lukas/Lucas were the most popular names nationwide in 2008 in Norway, Mohammad is now the most common name in Oslo, accordring to the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics (SSB). This was also the case in 2007. 120 boys were called Mohammad in 2008. www.nettavisen.no http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173320/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:02:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159932/posts PARIS – Government officials and Jewish leaders are concerned the conflict in Gaza may spill over into violence in Europe, with attacks reported against Jews and synagogues in France, Sweden and Britain. Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in Toulouse, in southwest France, Monday night. A Jewish congregation in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, was attacked Monday night by someone who "broke a window and threw in something that was burning," said police spokesman Leif Nilsson. And on Sunday slogans, including "murderers ... You broke the cease-fire," were daubed on Israel's Embassy in Stockholm. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159932/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:56:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159739/posts Amsterdam - Moroccan-Dutch politician Ahmed Aboutaleb was sworn in on Monday as mayor of Rotterdam, the second largest city of the Netherlands. The 47-year-old Labour politician is the first mayor of a Dutch city to be born and raised outside the Netherlands. He is also the first Muslim to become a mayor in the Netherlands. Some 45 per cent of Rotterdam's half a million citizens were born outside the Netherlands or have foreign-born parents. The city suffers from a broad range of socio-economic problems. Crime involving the migrant community is an ongoing issue that causes tension with Dutch-born citizens. Speaking... earthtimes.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159739/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142882/posts STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Europe's human rights court on Thursday threw out a complaint by two French Muslim girls who were expelled from their school for refusing to remove their headscarves during sports lessons. Kyiv Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142882/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:25:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136999/posts Jews and Muslims in Denmark are in an uproar about a bill to ban circumcision for boys under the age of 15, according to Yediot Ahronot. The country's National Council for Children and Ethics Council have both endorsed the proposal and only the parliament's medical committee can prevent it from being heard. The National Council for Children argued that, "Circumcision is the irreversible damage to a child's body before he is given the chance to object." It also said the ban was a matter of equality, in the wake of a five-year-old ban on female circumscion. Denmark's Chief Rabbi Bent... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136999/posts#comment Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:08:55 GMT