The great Islamic culture that all Europeans should try to copy/emulate A strictly secular European heavyweight, France is seeking to adopt the Islamic financial system just as a prelude to becoming a European center for Islamic economy, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported Saturday. Although no tangible moves have been made in this respect, the French government is determined to enact laws giving Islamic... 

Police officers and investigators at the site of the explosion on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. People, police officers and investigators seen at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan region, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the police station... 

Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday. The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton. At the town’s magistrates’... 

“Islam Will Dominate the World” because you don’t do anything to stop it and when someone tries to do something you call him “racist, islamophobic, intolerant, hateful”. Islam4UK plans a mass march-past in the English town of Wootton Bassett. The purported purpose of the muslim march-past is to honour the “real casualties” of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.... 

Firemen were attacked by rioters when they tried to put out the flames The Interior Ministry says police detained nearly 400 people in France overnight — many of them linked to car-burnings that often accompany New Year’s revelry. The ministry says 398 people were taken into police custody — nearly twice the figure of a year ago — but the final count on the number of torched... 

Islam will dominate the world if you don’t stand up today! The graffiti was removed with lightning speed and the news report of the incident doesn’t say what it said, but rather blames the “far right.” Apparently there are forces in the U.K. who don’t want people to know that some Muslims crow about how Islam will dominate. “Vandals deface the town war memorial,”... 

Muslims in Russia Every big city is international and it is impossible to avoid that. Once a city has peopled and population limit exceeded at least several millions, a sea of immigrants in the search of work and easy money start flooding the city out and it becomes hectic and busy. As soon as such a thing has already happened, it would be hardly possible to prevent the collision of different religions... 

A mysterous Muslim group with unknown sponsors has purchased a building steps away from Ground Zero. An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood, to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques. At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill... 

French Jewish President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday warned believers to be thankful for the religious freedom they enjoy in France, amid national debates over faith following a Swiss ban on minarets. In an opinion piece published in the French daily Le Monde, the president defended the Swiss referendum against widespread international condemnation of the ban. “Instead of condemning the Swiss... 

Citing religious discrimination, a diverse coalition of Jewish organizations is objecting to Switzerland’s ban of minarets on local mosques. Swiss voters this week approved by a strong majority a referendum outlawing the construction of minarets. The measure, pushed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), was supported by 57 percent of the population. However, Jewish organizations,... 

Iran warned Switzerland on Saturday of “consequences” over a referendum banning the building of new mosque minarets and urged Bern not to enforce the ban, the official IRNA news agency reported. The vote went “against the prestige of a country which claims to be an advocate of democracy and human rights,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Swiss counterpart Micheline... 

Europe’s anti-immigrant party leaders hailed a decision by Swiss voters to ban building minarets and called for similar referendums to be held in other countries. Europe’s anti-immigrant party leaders hailed a decision by Swiss voters to ban Muslims from building minarets last Monday and called for similar referendums to be held in other countries. Immediately after the 29 November Swiss... 

Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for last week’s Russian train bombing, which killed at least 26 people and injured scores of others, a Web site sympathetic to the militants said. The claim, posted on the Kavkazcenter.com site, could buttress the suspicions of officials who are tracing the attack to Islamist separatists in Russia’s North Caucasus region. It also raises fears... 

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... 

Swiss voters are to decide during a referendum on November 29 whether to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland, a proposal launched by right-wing groups and backed by the country's biggest political party, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP). Switzerland’s biggest Jewish groups said Wednesday that a far-right push to ban the construction of minarets here was a “threat”...