UK: Grooming of girls fuelled by unhappy arranged cousin marriages claims Muslim peer Via the Daily Mail : A senior Muslim politician has blamed unhappy arranged marriages to cousins for leading some Pakistani men to prey on vulnerable young white girls to fulfil their sexual needs. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is the first politician to make a link between first-cousin marriages and sex crimes by Pakistani men. He has spoken out after a spate of high-profile court cases where groups of Asian men have been sentenced for grooming white girls as young as 12 in Derby, Blackburn and Lord Ahmed’s home town of Rotherham

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Basque Country: New Islamic Council Via Euro-Islam : Twenty four Islamic associations have founded an Islamic Council in the Basque Country on 8th of December.

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UK: Five charged for inciting anti-gay hatred outside mosque Via the Daily Telegraph : Ihjaz Ali, 41, Umar Javed, 37, and Mehboob Hussain, 44, are accused of distributing threatening written material intending to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation after they were said to have handed out leaflets calling for the death penalty for homosexuals.

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Brussels: “We need a law to ban the burqa” Via VRT : he Prime Minister of the Brussels Region, Charles Picqué (Francophone socialist), has called for legislation to ban the burqa and the niqab, a garment that covers the face entirely except for a small split for the eyes. Mr Picqué was speaking after a court in the Brussels borough of Etterbeek acquitted a woman who was taken to court for wearing the niqab.

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Italy: Police arrest 3 Moroccans on suspicion of providing terror training material Via AP : Italian police say they have arrested three Moroccans suspected of preparing and spreading online material that could be used for training of terrorists.

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Spain: Algerians smuggle kids for better social care Via AFP : Algerian parents are risking the lives of their children by sending them to Europe aboard unsafe craft to take advantage of better social care facilities, a senior official said Monday. “It is totally deplorable,” the junior foreign minister responsible for Algerians abroad, Halim Benatallah, told Channel III radio, indicating that the same thing was happening in neighbouring countries. The youngsters are dispatched as illegal immigrants to European Union countries, with Spain the favourite destination, he said

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Europe: Protests against Mubarak (continued) (protesters in Paris) There are various protests in Europe, but they’re generally very small, with just a few hundred people at most. Denmark – 250 people protested in front of the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen on Saturday

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Germany: Thilo Sarrazin interview Thilo Sarrazin was interviewed last week on the BBC show ‘World Have Your Say’

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Copenhagen: Thrown off plane for reading about Islam Joakim Johansson (24), was leafing through a book about Islam on a plane to London, at which the pilot threw him off. “It’s totally absurd! I did nothing illegal.” Joakim, from Arlöv (Sweden), converted to Islam four years ago. A coupe of days ago he was supposed to fly from Kastrup (Copenhagen) to London to visit friends

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THE DEATHS OF ABU TALIB AND KHADIJAH: Soon after the end of the boycott, in the tenth year of prophethood, Abu Talib and Khadijah died. They had been good companions noted for their loyalty, support, and devotion.

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