Photo: An Asian slave woman lives in confinement while forced to do hard labor in Dubai. Saudi Arabia officially outlawed slavery in the 1960’s, however they still openly practice indentured servitude that international rights groups say is tantamount to slavery. Servants are brought in from countries like Bangladesh to do hard labor while living in squalid conditions. Women are also lured to Saudi... 

BRUSSELS, Belgium — A clash of civilizations may be taking place on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but it’s also happening a lot more quietly in European cities. Old Europe’s population is dwindling even as immigration and high birth rates among Muslim groups are swelling in cities all over the continent. And in Belgium, it is no different. Filip Dewinter, a leader of the... 

All over Europe Islamic banks are establishing branches, Western banks are offering Sharia-compliant financial services, and European governments are trying to outcompete each other in welcoming them. Proponents of banking along the lines of Sharia (Islamic law) claim that the Islamic banking system is “more ethical” than the West’s capitalist system. This is not true. Unfortunately, however,... 

Two French websites – Islamisation, administered by Joachim Véliocas, and Bivouac-Id – have posted reports on the laying of the first stone of the new Grand Mosque of Tours. Notable among the dignitaries present were the Algerian Minister of Religion, the Socialist mayor of Tours, Jean Germain, and… the archbishop of Tours, Monsignor Aubertin. Tours will have its Grand Mosque when the 5 million... 

A reader named Jun has collected recent immigration-related material from a Norwegian newspaper and translated it into English for Gates of Vienna. She sent us this email on Tea Party Day, and I’m still catching up with the backlog, so that’s why this post has been delayed. Jun had this to say in her cover note: Today there were two articles on the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet’s online site,... 

Oakton, Va. – Two American icons, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, lost their triple-A credit ratings. Then China, America’s largest creditor, called for a new global currency to replace the dollar just weeks after it demanded Washington guarantee the safety of Beijing’s nearly $1 trillion debt holdings. And that was just in March. These events are the latest warnings that... 

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President Barack Obama is urging the European Union to accept Turkey as a member, saying it would be a positive sign to the Muslim world. Obama spoke Sunday at a luncheon for leaders of the EU’s 27 nations in Prague. He said the West should seek greater cooperation and closer ties with Islamic nations. He said letting Turkey into the EU would be an important sign of those efforts. France, Austria... 

Croatia is investigating a mass grave of German and local soldiers executed in the wake of World War II, the deputy president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee, Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, said Friday. The site at Harmica, 50 kilometres north-west of Zagreb, on Croatia’s border with Slovenia, presumably contains 4,500 bodies of German soldiers, including 450 officers, executed by Yugoslav president... 

Minnesota Mystery: The Kensington Runestone Norse stone authenticity is put to the test By Ben Tracy It’s one of Minnesota’s greatest mysteries. It’s something that puts settlers in America well before Columbus. A Minnesota geologist thinks the controversial Kensington Runestone is the real thing and there is evidence that he says backs up the theory. The Kensington Runestone is a rock found... 

A Tel Aviv man in his late fifties is living with 32 women with whom he has fathered 89 children, an Israeli television station revealed last week. The women are subject to strict discipline, but say that they are all living with Goel Ratzon by their own accord. They are not allowed to communicate with men, be in physical contact with their biological family, eat meat, smoke, drink alcohol or... 

See the double standard, the disconnect? It is wrong to criticize Jews because they feel offended and they will accuse you of “anti-semitism” for “offending” some 16 million Jews worldwide but what happens if someone “offends” the Christians who are between 1.5 billion and 2.1 billion? Nothing! Anti-Christianity is permitted and it is wrong! A SOUTHAMPTON bus... 

A psychiatrist has given a glimpse into the warped mind of the father who was “born to rape” the daughter he held captive for 24 years. Josef Fritzl, 73, lured teenager Elisabeth into a sound-proofed cellar under their home in Amstetten, Austria, in 1984. Now 42, the daughter has told of how her father repeatedly raped her in the confined, stuffy bunker where she gave birth to seven of... 

US Catholic bishops are in favor of illegal aliens! CHICAGO – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Saturday called on the White House to end immigration raids that split up families. “I stand with other faith leaders and all of you gathered here today and with every immigrant family in this nation to call on our government to end immigration raids and the separation... 

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