Two Dutch studies have been published this week, about the eating and vacationing habits of immigrants.
Radicalism and Terrorism
* Danish school inspectors will be visiting Muslim private schools.
* A court in Copenhagen decided the Tunisian terror suspects will remain in custody.
* French Algerians have been reported in Gaza. The Dutch military intelligence is studying radicalism in the Balkans.
* The British government is concerned about the people behind the Islam Expo.
* Morocco announced it will be sending imams to Europe to combat the local radical imams. One such imam in the Netherlands is threatening Wilders with a lawsuit.
Mosques
Bulgaria is renovating the Ottoman mosque in Stara Zagora. In Switzerland the minaret ban referendum has hit the news again, while in Milan prayers were moved to a city stadium. Right wingers and neighborhood residents protested the move (EN)
Muslim Veil
Europe's fashion designers are going for the Middle-Ages look. Following up on the burqa/citizenship debate in France, a Muslim minister made world headlines when she said there's no difference between the headscarf and the burqa.
Sharia
* Sharia courts in Britain don't deal just with civil and divorce issues. Police have agreed to let the Somali community deal with stabbing cases on its own.
* The sole Afghan female Olympic player is asking for political asylum in Europe.
Love and Marriage
* Amid stories of polygamous marriages in Italy, a Belgian constitutional court had opened up such a possibility in Belgium as well.
* Sweden is dealing with the demand for virginity-restoration operations.
* A Norwegian newspaper advertised the story of a woman who's been cooerced to marry in Pakistan. In Spain, an imam is suspected of encouraging parents to take their young daughters out of school in order to get married.
* In the Netherlands, a Muslim researcher calls upon the Muslim community to deal with the preponderance of pimps and loverboys among Turks and Moroccans.
* An Amsterdam court has ruled that it is illegal to force people of certain countries to undergo tests abroad before undergoing family reunification.
Discrimination
* Muslims protested lack of attention from the Nice mayor following the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolly birth.
* In Sweden a judge was found to have expressed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments.
Miscellaneous
* The Louvre laid the cornerstone for a new Islamic Art gallery.
* A Belgian Muslim writes about identity vs. integration in Brussels.
* Swedish authorities don't like girls named Elvis, but they have no problems with Abdel.
* Doctors suspect a link between lack of vitamin D and autism, which affects the Somali community in Sweden.
* Catalonia's largest slaughterhouse supplies both Spanish and French halal demand.
* Kadhafi's son was arrested for violence in Geneva.
* Police in Brussels are putting special effort into inspecting buses heading for Morocco.
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Radicalism and Terrorism
* Danish school inspectors will be visiting Muslim private schools.
* A court in Copenhagen decided the Tunisian terror suspects will remain in custody.
* French Algerians have been reported in Gaza. The Dutch military intelligence is studying radicalism in the Balkans.
* The British government is concerned about the people behind the Islam Expo.
* Morocco announced it will be sending imams to Europe to combat the local radical imams. One such imam in the Netherlands is threatening Wilders with a lawsuit.
Mosques
Bulgaria is renovating the Ottoman mosque in Stara Zagora. In Switzerland the minaret ban referendum has hit the news again, while in Milan prayers were moved to a city stadium. Right wingers and neighborhood residents protested the move (EN)
Muslim Veil
Europe's fashion designers are going for the Middle-Ages look. Following up on the burqa/citizenship debate in France, a Muslim minister made world headlines when she said there's no difference between the headscarf and the burqa.
Sharia
* Sharia courts in Britain don't deal just with civil and divorce issues. Police have agreed to let the Somali community deal with stabbing cases on its own.
* The sole Afghan female Olympic player is asking for political asylum in Europe.
Love and Marriage
* Amid stories of polygamous marriages in Italy, a Belgian constitutional court had opened up such a possibility in Belgium as well.
* Sweden is dealing with the demand for virginity-restoration operations.
* A Norwegian newspaper advertised the story of a woman who's been cooerced to marry in Pakistan. In Spain, an imam is suspected of encouraging parents to take their young daughters out of school in order to get married.
* In the Netherlands, a Muslim researcher calls upon the Muslim community to deal with the preponderance of pimps and loverboys among Turks and Moroccans.
* An Amsterdam court has ruled that it is illegal to force people of certain countries to undergo tests abroad before undergoing family reunification.
Discrimination
* Muslims protested lack of attention from the Nice mayor following the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolly birth.
* In Sweden a judge was found to have expressed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments.
Miscellaneous
* The Louvre laid the cornerstone for a new Islamic Art gallery.
* A Belgian Muslim writes about identity vs. integration in Brussels.
* Swedish authorities don't like girls named Elvis, but they have no problems with Abdel.
* Doctors suspect a link between lack of vitamin D and autism, which affects the Somali community in Sweden.
* Catalonia's largest slaughterhouse supplies both Spanish and French halal demand.
* Kadhafi's son was arrested for violence in Geneva.
* Police in Brussels are putting special effort into inspecting buses heading for Morocco.
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