Tag: Muslim

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Anti Muslim rioting and clashes with police in southern Sweden

  

  Protesters threw stones at police and burned tires in southern Sweden late on Friday, authorities said, hours after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Quran-burning rally nearby.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 19:02 UTC

  Germany's Christian Democrats hounded by far left and far right voters

  

  German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday (Oct 28) faced a rebellion by party members angry at a humiliating election result in eastern Thuringia state where the Christian Democrats (CDU) lost voters to both the far-left and far-right.

• Friday, February 10th 2017 - 10:24 UTC

  Appeals Court rejects Trump's reinstatement of travel ban

  

  US appeals court has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to reinstate his ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Trump's travel ban on Muslims expected to reach the Supreme Court

  

  United States president Donald Trump's order temporarily banning U.S. entry to people from seven Muslim-majority countries came under intense scrutiny on Tuesday from a federal appeals court that questioned whether the ban unfairly targeted people over their religion.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

  Cameron stands by his criticism of Trump: “stupid, divisive and wrong”

  

  Downing Street has said that Prime Minister David Cameron stands by his criticism of Donald Trump but will work with whoever is elected US president. UK PM has called the Republican hopeful “stupid, divisive and wrong” over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  We won't let the voice of freedom be muzzled

  

  By David Cameron and Barack Obama - Two hundred years ago this month, Britain and the United States fought each other at the Battle of New Orleans. It was the last major battle where our nations met as enemies. In modern times, our special relationship as allies and partners has been the firm foundation of our shared security and prosperity.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 05:14 UTC

  Islamic State's ultimate goal: Saudi Arabia's oil wells

  

  For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

• Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 00:04 UTC

  UK only Muslim minister resigns protesting 'morally indefensible' policy in Gaza

  

  Sayeeda Warsi, a senior minister in Britain's Foreign Office, resigned on Tuesday, accusing Prime Minister David Cameron's government of taking a “morally indefensible” approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  EU upholds ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil: niqab

  

  The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil, the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing the veil in public violated her freedom of religion and expression.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 03:56 UTC

  Brazil a “dysfunctional country” according to the Norwegian mass killer

  

  The Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, 32, makes reference to Brazil as a ‘dysfunctional’ county in his document “A European Declaration of Independence- 2083”, which was published in Internet.