In the anti-mosque billboard posters, the distinctive towers are shown as missiles Minarets could be banned this weekend as Swiss voters go to the polls for a controversial referendum. The Right-wing Swiss People’s Party argues that the distinctive mosque features are a symbol of Islamic intolerance. The party has led an emotive campaign to outlaw them. Posters depicting a woman in a burkha in... 

Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force leave the UK for France aboard a troopship to help the French Resistance during WWII Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand. Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her. As soon as she turned... 

The Labour Government’s Equality Bill, announced yesterday in the Queen’s speech, will actively discriminate against all British people in business and put large companies under a legal obligation to employ Asians or Africans rather than British. The Catholic Church has also warned that other clauses could lead to public displays of Christmas being banned as offensive to other religions. The Equality... 

The Turkish community is not satisfied by Germany even though Germany allowed millions of Turks in. Once in Germany they are even allowed to build mosques, learn Islam in schools. What more can be done? Perhaps Turks want Germans to sing and dance for them so they can feel accepted in Germany. The vast majority of Turkish immigrants in Germany think their adopted country should do more to accommodate... 

A documentary panned at Cannes in the 1970s for depicting Hitler’s personal life is now being shown in Germany for the first time. David Wroe speaks with the director with the director about the film’s vastly different reception nearly four decades later. When “Swastika” was shown at the 1973 Cannes film festival, fights broke out and somebody threw part of a chair at the screen. “All... 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered all crucifixes removed from state schools in Italy. This decision will now be used as a precedent to clear away all Christian symbols in schools and other public offices across Europe. The ECHR in Strasbourg ruled last week that the presence of crucifixes “violates a child’s right to freedom of religion.” According to the judgement, the court... 

At his weekly general audience in the Paul the VI hall today, Pope Benedict continued his catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages. In the catechesis, the Holy Father turned to the monastic reform linked to the great monastery of Cluny in France. Founded eleven hundred years ago, Cluny restored the strict observance of the Rule of Saint Benedict and made the Church’s liturgy the centre... 

Geert Wilders, Controversial MP The Netherlands (a country with extremely liberal policies towards Muslims) warns Americans of the draconian consequences of attempting to pacify Islamists.  Read More »

Italian feminist and former far right-wing MP Daniela Santanche has sparked a controversy after calling the Prophet Mohammed a “a polygamist and paedophile” during a TV debate. Santanche appeared on a television programme aired on the commercial channel, Canale 5 with the president of Milan’s Islamic centre, Ali Abu Schwaima, on Sunday. “Mohammed was a polygamist and a paedophile... 

JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the... 

Crying policemen. Stinking traffic jams of East German Trabis on the posh streets of West Berlin. Strangers falling into each others’ arms. The night of Nov. 9, 1989 was unforgettable. A look into the SPIEGEL archives brings the historic day to life. Wearing nothing but a coat over his pajamas, the man spoke rapidly in his thick Berlin accent: “We live on Bornholmer Street, in the East,... 

The former head of the West German Military Intelligence has issued a book revealing secret details of a 1949 US-German treaty, alleging America and its allies have been deliberately suppressing the nation’s sovereignty. Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell and the most painful wounds have healed, there seems to be no more uncomfortable truths left for Germans. Yet some still manage to come... 

A controversy has erupted in a German town over a new memorial that critics say honors SS soldiers and ignores Jewish Holocaust victims. The interfaith German-Israel Society says the memorial to be unveiled Nov. 15 in Grossburgwedel, near Hannover, recognizes members of the notorious Blackshirts. But the mayor of Burgwedel, which has jurisdiction over Grossburgwedel, rejects the charge. “We were... 

Days before a scheduled rally in central London, the controversial Islam4UK group, advocating the imposition of Sharia law in Britain, has revealed its intention to turn Buckingham Palace into a mosque. Anjem Choudary, a notorious hate preacher associated with the group, claims historical evidence challenges the Queen’s right to reside at the royal property. He proposes renaming the palace Buckingham... 

Comedian Larry David is under attack from critics who say he pushed the mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles over the edge in the latest episode of his HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which the cable network defended as “playful.” On the show’s most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman...