Turkish authorities have arrested former Miss Turkey, Merve Buyuksarac, 26, because she quoted a poem on social media that insults President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest is the latest in a crackdown on free speech in Turkey that has worsened since two radical Islamists slaughtered twelve people at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.
There is a tremendous controversy these days about the no-go zones in France. Fox News has apologized for covering them.
For many years, we have been hearing reports of insular Muslim communities in Europe, particularly in France and the UK, which became known as “no-go zones” because non-Muslims were not welcome there. Islamic clerics were given autonomous authority, and government agents were hesitant to assert themselves.
It’s possible Emerson was actually thinking of Bradford, where Muslims exercise cultural dominance and there have been controversies involving sharia law.
The jihadist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a spotlight on so-called no-go zones in France and other European countries.
Following the cancelation of a march that was increasingly a regular weekly occurrence in Dresden, Germany’s anti-Islamist PEGIDA movement are calling for supporters in that city to line their windows with candles and flags, as well as organizing marches in other cities.
On Friday’s broadcast of his HBO political talk show, comedian Bill Maher channeled Breitbart News on the threat that radical Islam poses to European countries, along with the dangers sharia law represents to Western freedoms.
At a joint press conference at the White House with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama warned Europe to better integrate its Muslim immigrants to help avoid terrorist attacks such as those France suffered last week.
When Western politicians and pundits speak of moderate Muslims gaining more influence and using it to defeat the forces of extremism, Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb is the sort of leader they have in mind, and then some.
This article was originally posted in the New York Times: PARIS — Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at war with radical Islam after the harrowing sieges that led to the deaths of three gunmen and four
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has said that it is “lazy and wrong” to suggest that the Paris attacks have nothing to do with Islam. Javid, who is himself of Muslim heritage, also said that the Muslim community has a “special
In Paris and in America, freedom is under assault by extremists from around the globe.
Boston (AFP) – When the trial of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins, Liz Norden plans to stop working altogether.
There’s a frequently heard complaint that while the mainstream media frequently report on jihadist attacks, they seem to ignore the attacks on Christians.
An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said.
