Queen Elizabeth II listened to a recital of the Quran at an Ottoman-era mosque Wednesday, the second day of a state visit to Turkey. Her shoes removed and her head covered, the queen heard a religious scholar recite verses from the holy book at the 15th-century Green Mosque. Earlier, the British monarch watched a traditional Ottoman shadow puppet show and a fashion show. She also visited a silk market... 

A Muslim girl in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia cannot skip co-ed swimming lessons because of religious prohibitions against wearing formfitting clothing, a German court ruled on Wednesday. The administrative court in Düsseldorf ruled that the state’s responsibility to educate the girl outweighed the potential infringement on her religious freedom. The 12-year-old girl’s parents... 

ALIPAC Note: The Associated Press (AP) newswire service is the main way news travels across America into newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, etc… Again and again, we document the AP playing down these incidents, censoring material, and excluding key facts. The article on the top is the one broadcast by AP to the nation. It claims that the riot was gang related. Then when you read the LA Times... 

Faced with an alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS among African Americans and Latinos, the nation urgently needs to begin a domestic program to curb the spread of the disease, according to a nationally recognized AIDS policy expert. “It’s not on the radar screen. There are not enough voices being raised,” said Dr. Beny J. Primm, executive director of the Addiction Research and Treatment... 

Concern: The Nip/Tuck actress visited Malawi two months ago to help raise awareness about the lack of fresh water in the country. While Joely Richardson has most things in life a woman could ask for, she has revealed there’s something missing in her life – another baby. The Nip/Tuck actress has admitted she is considering adoption after visiting Malawi to help raise awareness about the... 

Global White Population to Plummet to Single Digit — Black Population to Double. The big population story of the 21st Century is shaping up to be the status reversal of whites and blacks and the Indian baby boom. As a percentage of world inhabitants, the white population will plummet to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of 27.98% in 1950. Using 2010 as the base reference, the... 

The new mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, a former fascist, has launched a campaign to promote Italian films at the expense of those featuring Hollywood stars such as Nicole Kidman and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are to be blacklisted. American actors who flocked to Rome for its film festival will no longer be invited, on the orders of Alemanno, 50, of the National Alliance party, who last week became the... 

I’m a northern European medical doctor. A senior surgeon, working in the public sector of South Africa. I have done so the last 5 years. I do not want to speak outside my discipline, so this will be about the medical demise of SA. Most visitors to South Africa, who encounter the public health sector, do so by visiting a hospital or a clinic in or near the big cities. What they get to see is a hospital... 

  Hispanics now account for more than 15% of the U.S. population, and their surge is largely the result of births among people already in the country, according to new Census Bureau data. In an annual report, the Census said there are 45.5 million Hispanics in the U.S., up from 35.7 million in 2000, when they made up 12.6% of the population. It said growth among Hispanics was responsible for... 

Teenager beaten-up in park A mother has condemned young thugs who robbed and beat her teenage son and left him naked in a park. David Procter, 16, was forced to strip and hand over jewellery and his mobile phone, before being viciously punched and kicked in the head and body. His three attackers also set two dogs on him and he was bitten on the ear. The youngster, who suffers from asthma, was... 

An Iraqi man granted asylum in Denmark after working as an interpreter for Danish troops has been told he must choose between the two wives he brought with him. “We gave him until May 26 to divorce one of his two wives, otherwise we will take the necessary measures to put an end to this situation of bigamy, which is illegal in Denmark,” Malene Vestergaard of the Justice Ministry’s... 

  A father has described his anger after he and his son were refused entry to their local swimming pool because they weren’t Muslims. David Toube and Harry, five, were turned away by staff from the men-only session. The council has now admitted that workers at Clissold Leisure Centre in Hackney, north London, made a mistake and offered the family an apology.   Mr Toube, 39, a lawyer,... 

A letter writer to VDARE.COM took umbrage at my recent attempt at a General Theory of Race, “It’s All Relative: Putting Race in its Proper Perspective.” I had inserted a few positive remarks about the harmonizing effects of interracial marriage – such as “Intermarriage is what turned the Angles and the Saxons into the Anglo-Saxons.” My correspondent declared... 

For those of you who may have missed it we were informed yesterday that a St. George’s Day parade in Bradford has been effectively banned. The official reason given is to do with “health and safety” and the ”cost of policing” – the real reason is obvious to all from reading media reports. One of which begins: “A St George’s Day parade through an inner-city area hit by race riots has... 

In Germany, Islam is often equated with fundamentalism and fanaticism, a perception that imposes a heavy burden on the country’s 3 million Muslims. Their relationship to Western society is divided between integration and sometimes self-imposed exclusion. Friday prayers: Hamburg’s central mosque in the St. Georg neighborhood is the most important gathering place for the city’s estimated...