French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an uphill struggle in the second round of the presidential election, after coming second in Sunday’s first vote. He won 27.1% of the vote, while his Socialist rival Francois Hollande took 28.6%, the first time a sitting president has lost in the first round. The two men will face each [...]
A deal struck between Britain and Jordan will clear the way for the deportation of the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, but the home secretary, Theresa May, has told MPs it will still be months before he is put on a plane. Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden’s righthand man in Europe and whom [...]
The sight of a river of empty red chairs running down the length of Marshal Tito Boulevard in Sarajevo, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of the Bosnian capital, has been poignant. Twenty years on from the beginning of the war in April 1992, a conflict that would go on to [...]
Ahead of an upcoming presidential election in France, policymakers are riding a wave of Islam-dominated issues that have unwittingly taken center stage in the country’s public domain. Concerns over Islamic fundamentalism reached a peak in recent weeks when French police launched the latest of a series of raids on suspected Islamic militants, detaining 10 people [...]
Two weeks after the “scooter assassin” Mohamed Merah died in shootout with police in Toulouse, another serial killer who rides a motorcycle may be at large in the Paris suburbs. A 47-year-old woman was shot in the head on Thursday, bringing to four the number of people killed with the same revolver within a six-mile [...]
Police in France have arrested 19 suspected Islamist militants and seized weapons in a series of dawn raids, President Nicolas Sarkozy says. The raids were in Toulouse, the home of gunman Mohamed Merah, and other cities. Merah, who killed seven people in three separate attacks, was buried in Toulouse on Thursday after being killed in [...]
A British Muslim pilot who was dismissed from his position in 2010 has complained to an employment tribunal, saying he was axed because of his religion. The Metropolitan police officers arrested the Muslim pilot, who was not named by the British press, in 2007 over the allegations of being linked with terror suspects. Following the [...]
Last week’s trial over the killing of the black teenager has driven the British Prime Minister David Cameron to acknowledge that the country still has a problem with racial prejudice. Interviewing with Sky News’s Boulton & Co, Cameron admitted that people from minority ethnic backgrounds still face disadvantage and there is “a lot more” to [...]
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I am sure they take pleasure in their sadistic acts in those lands....
