France will today take a significant step towards establishing Paris as a western centre for Islamic finance when plans to attract this fast-growing sector to the city are discussed in the country’s parliament. The move is a part of the French capital’s wider aspirations to rival London as an international financial centre. Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, has already... 

BRUSSELS , May 5: The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, underlined here Monday that Islam is part and parcel of Europe and he also condemned the concept of clash of civilisations. “Islam today is part of Europe. It is important to understand this.One should not see Islam as outside Europe. We already have an important presence of Islam and Muslims among our citizens,”... 

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,... 

The U.S. State Dept.’s Office of Global Anti-Semitism now says the New Testament is a book of conspiracy theory! Yes, our government now rules that the Biblical record that Jews had Christ crucified is not only anti-Semitic; it’s conspiracy junk. This step toward criminalization of Christian beliefs directly threatens believers. It is also an act of blatant hypocrisy: While the New Testament... 

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... 

Islam teacher Suhayb Salam from Tilburg, taught his students to hate infidels, according ot journalist Patrick Pouw in his book “Salaam! Een jaar onder orthodoxe moslims” (Salam! A year among orthodox Muslims). Suhayb is the son of Tilburg imam Ahmed Salam, who had in the past refused to shake minister Verdonk’s hand. For a year Pouw learned by the ultra-orthodox Salafist Salam,... 

The increasing influence of Islam on British culture is disclosed in research today that shows the number of Muslims worshipping at mosques in England and Wales will outstrip the numbers of Roman Catholics going to church in little more than a decade. Projections to be published next month estimate that, if trends continue, the number of Catholic worshippers at Sunday Mass will fall to 679,000 by... 

LONDON — The Taliban said a deadly attack on Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan was in retaliation for an anti-Islamic film made by a politician from the Netherlands, a U.S. terrorism monitoring service said on Sunday. The son of the new chief of the Dutch military and another Dutch soldier serving with NATO-led forces were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Friday. The attack... 

Fines and prison sentences for questioning Islam – exactly whose land is this, then? Victim : Brigitte Bardot “FORMER French film star Brigitte Bardot has gone on trial for allegedly insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the... 

Carla del Ponte, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, now Switzerland’s Ambassador to Argentina, made a sensational announcement. Her autobiographical book “The Hunt” reveals that Serbian men have been kidnapped and their organs were sold to international traffickers. Carla del Ponte’s announcements have already caused... 

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population – a stable percentage – while Muslims were at 19.2 percent. “It... 

The government of the world’s most populous Islamic state says YouTube has two days to take down a Dutch lawmaker’s provocative film on the Koran or it will block access to the popular video-sharing Web site.The warning by Indonesia came as the U.N.’s primary human rights watchdog ended a month-long session amid allegations by Western member-states and non-governmental organizations... 

Comments by David Duke — In this article, a very liberal, but also very honest writer lays bare the Jewish extremist media and political power that supports multiculturalism for America but Jewish supremacism for Israel. Author Grace Halsell speaks about how the Jewish masters of media loved her books on behalf of American Indians, American Blacks, and illegal aliens, but as soon as she spoke about... 

The Taliban said today that two attacks on Dutch forces in Afghanistan were in retaliation for an anti-Islamic film by a Dutch politician.In a message on militant websites, its leadership announced reprisals against Dutch forces because “one of the members of the Dutch parliament produced a film that hurts Islam, and he published it with bad intentions”. Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader...