A Muslim academic planning to open a liberal mosque in South Africa is vowing to push ahead, despite receiving death threats. Taj Hargey wants to counter the “Arabisation” of Islam in Africa, and says his Open mosque will welcome all-comers,
The Austrian government plans to tighten up laws on sedition and the display of provocative imagery in order to tackle Isis jihadists and their supporters within Austria, The Local has reported. Under the range of new measures, dual citizens who
A British law that allows the authorities to snoop on journalists has been slammed as “not fit for purpose”, and will be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Strasbourg. Lawyers for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ),
Nigel Farage has announced that he is “very pleased” to have been re-elected as leader of the UK Independence Party. His four year term had been due to end on the 5th November, but he will now continue to lead
The European Union and Ukraine have simultaneously ratified an association agreement designed to bring Ukraine in line with the EU on a wide range of issues from security to human rights, prompting Ukraine’s President to hail the event as a
Asylum applications to the UK have increased by 15 percent in the last two years, and now run at nearly 30,000 a year, the Express has reported. Last year 29,875 people applied for asylum, the equivalent of one every three
In further signs that the Scottish referendum on independence is inspiring secessionist movements across Europe, Germany’s Bavaria Party has signalled its support for the Scottish Yes campaign amidst hopes that Bavaria could also become independent. The Bavaria Party has long
Sweden’s nationalist anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, took 13 percent of the vote to come third in this weekend’s Swedish elections. The party now holds 49 of the 349 seats in Sweden’s Parliament, more than doubling their seat tally and
The former lover of French President Francois Hollande has threatened to publish text messages he sent her, proving that he made fun of the poor, the Daily Mail has reported. Valerie Trierweiler has published a book in which she alleges
“We are the force that’s renewing the political landscape,” claimed an ecstatic Bernd Lucke, leader of Germany’s Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party which this weekend secured gains in two eastern German state elections. The electoral wins will cause German
Scotland’s bid to join the European Union as an independent nation could be blocked by Members of the European Parliament if the new Scottish government insists on keeping British-gained opt-outs from the Euro and on open borders, and the VAT
A group of British computer hackers are being tracked down by the FBI and face extradition to the United States, after calling in a series of terrorist threats across the States. The group, two of which are believed to live
A Buckingham Palace guard may face three weeks in prison and a £1000 fine for pirouetting whilst on parade. A video in which the guard displays his nifty moves was uploaded to YouTube last month and went viral, with over
A senior police officer with the Greater Manchester Police in the United Kingdom has blamed a target-driven culture and political correctness for the lack of police response to the abuse suffered by young girls at the hands of Asian sex
British jihadists are running brothels in Syria, forcing kidnapped Yazidi women to work as sex slaves. The British women have risen to the top ranks of the all-female al-Khanssaa Brigade, a wing of the Islamic State’s (IS) Sharia police force
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans thronging the streets of Barcelona yesterday cheered as fellow Catalan separatists formed a giant ‘V’ for ‘vote’, a choir sang, and a girl strode forward to place a piece of paper in a symbolic ballot
Migrants in Calais are becoming “more violent and aggressive” in their attempts to cross the channel to England, a French policeman has told The Local. As many as 1,500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea, are camping out near the French port
Germany’s flagship Bard 1 offshore wind farm has been described as “a faulty total system” as technical problems continue to plague the project, casting major doubts on the feasibility of large scale offshore projects. The wind farm was officially turned
A feminist group has published a list of ‘top ten tips’ for preventing rape that include “don’t put drugs in women’s drinks” and “if you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape
Just one in four German jihadis finished high school, a report which describes those who travel to Syria as mainly ‘young, male failures’ has announced. The Local has reported that 90 percent of jihadis were male, and a third were
A court has been told that a south London vicar has conducted nearly 500 sham marriages within 15 months, The Times has reported. If convicted, Nigerian-born Rev Nathan Ntege, will have been found guilty of conducting the second largest number
“Once talented, now safe to ignore.” Such was the damning verdict delivered against Piers Morgan by media mogul and Twitter legend Rupert Murdoch yesterday morning. Morgan is clearly feeling unloved since his show Piers Morgan Live was axed by CNN
The majority of French people would like to see Britain ejected from the EU rather than see London’s demands for renegotiation met by Brussels, a new poll has found. The opinion is unique amongst the countries polled, as even the
Two Austrian schoolgirls have been stopped as they attempted to travel to Syria to join jihadist group ISIS. The girls, both of whom were born in Austria, have said that they planned to go as they didn’t like Austria, The
The EU has been accused of “radio silence” on the issue of migrants crossing the Mediterranean by boat, leaving Italy to cope with the crisis alone. Italy has scooped more than 100,000 from often overcrowded and unsuitable vessels under operation
