Sharia law “courts” are already dealing with crime on the streets of London, it emerged today. The revelation came after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, called for an “accommodation” with parts of the Islamic legal code in a speech which attracted widespread condemnation. The Archbishop said parts of civil law could be dealt with under the sharia system but... 

The French parliament Friday approved the European Union’s new reform treaty, nearly three years after rebellious French voters torpedoed the EU’s constitution. This time, the public didn’t have a say. Both the National Assembly and Senate voted resoundingly in favor of what is now known as the Treaty of Lisbon, a tailored-down version of the ill-fated constitution that was consigned... 

The city of Amsterdam has developed teaching material warning children against the politics of Geert Wilders, newspaper De Telegraaf yesterday reported. Wilders calls the campaign “sickening”. The newspaper quoted from a letter that the city council has sent to three hundred primary and secondary schools in Amsterdam. Primary school heads believe that the letter is intended to anticipate... 

  JOHANNESBURG: South African schools were the most dangerous in the world with only 23% of pupils saying they felt safe, the SA Institute of Race Relations said yesterday. An institute spokesman, Thomas Blaser, said a Progress in International Reading Literacy study had ranked South Africa last in terms of school safety. “In that study South African school pupils were asked whether they felt... 

SOUTH AFRICA’S POWER CRISIS COULD TRIGGER RECESSION With its strategic mining industry, which is dependent on cheap power and labour, its long distance from export markets and its inherent political instability, South Africa is a place where crises always wait just around the corner.  Nevertheless, over the past three-quarters of a century, the country experienced only three real crises. First... 

Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode. The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne’s Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest.... 

Have GOP Voters forgotten that just a few months ago, John McCain stood hand-in-hand with liberal icon Ted Kennedy pushing for the largest amnesty for illegal aliens in American history? While Rasmussen polling showed that Americans following the legislation very closely opposed it 3 to 1 (69% to 23%), McCain ignored the massive public outcry! The angry calls rolling into the Senate offices,... 

Most Muslims in Europe live in a parallel universe that has very little to do with the host country. Overwhelmingly they feel nothing but contempt for the liberal concept of “tolerance” and “diversity.” If not overtly hostile, their attitude to the host-society is disdainful and filled with contempt. In spite of some decades of relentless multiculturalist indoctrination and “Religion... 

Asylum seekers and migrant workers arriving in Scotland will be among those to benefit from an extra £9m being pumped into English language classes. The Scottish education and lifelong learning secretary, Fiona Hyslop, said today the extra money would be used over the next three years to create up to 7,000 more places on courses. The move is part of the Scottish parliament’s strategy for Esol... 

U.S. troops are being trained to conduct round-ups, confiscate guns and shoot American citizens, including their own friends and family members, as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the declaration of martial law, according to a soldier who recently returned from Iraq. An e mail from “Scott”, a member of a pipefitters union that runs an apprenticeship program called Helmets... 

Patriotism should be avoided in school lessons because British history is “morally ambiguous”, a leading educational body recommends. History and citizenship lessons should stick to the bare facts rather than encouraging loyalty to Britain when covering subjects such as the Second World War or the British Empire, the Institute of Education researchers said. Teachers should not instill pride in... 

Despite growing hostility toward homosexuality in Germany, where 78.9% of young Turks and 47.7% of Germans react negatively on a public poll, where they were asked what was their reaction when they see a male homosexual couple kiss in public. On February First, in Berlin some large size posters with the words “Familly is where children are” (Familie ist, wo Kinder sind) have been posted... 

According to the latest predictions from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) the number of immigrants in Britain will double over the next two decades to almost 10 million – which is broadly in line with the estimate suggested by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) as recently as last year. This nation-wrecking growth in migrant numbers is equivalent to adding a city the size of... 

South Africa is on the brink of a water contamination crisis, potentially as bad as the electricity fiasco of the past few weeks, the Business Times reported today. In an alarming report, the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has confirmed evidence of contaminated crops and water, and has acted to protect people and livestock, the newspaper said. The report – in the possession of the newspaper... 

With the elimination of both Rudy Giuliani last week and Fred Thompson the week before, neo-conservatives who were not already in his camp will be rushing to support Sen. John McCain. Of course, McCain was the early favorite of Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard back in 2000, and the latter’s most recent coverage, particularly by Dick Cheney favorite Stephen Hayes (he of the famous “Case...