Finland: Immigration Service to investigate suspicions of human trafficking among Somalis Via HS : Minister of Migration and European Affairs Astrid Thors (Swed. People’s Party) says that suspicions that the family unification procedure may be used for purposes of human trafficking should be investigated by the Finnish Immigration Service
Brussels: Halal hotel rooms Starting in 2011, hotels in Brussels could get a halal label.
Gaddafi: ‘Islam should become the religion of all of Europe’ ( photo ) Via Times of India : Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy on Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam. Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to a group of 500 young women hired and paid by an agency to attend his lecture. “Islam should become the religion of all of Europe,” one of the women quoted Kadhafi as saying in the Italian press.
Belgium: Halal training for prison guards, doctors Prisons According to our sources, the Federal Public Service (SPF) of Justice will soon launch a pilot project to train personnel in prisons about the problematics of halal. Apparently, though it is difficult to obtain exact figures on the percentage of Muslims in Belgian prisons. observers agree that there are many religious Muslims there
EU: ‘In every European country you can find Muslim Brotherhood’ ( Muslim Brotherhood ) Via BBC : “[In] every European country you can find Muslim Brotherhood,” says Ibrahim Mounir, a senior member of the group, who has spent many years in Egyptian prisons, but now lives in exile in London.
Denmark: Islam’s power, Europe’s new reality One day Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow drove from their home in Dragør, over the Øresund bridge, to the Rosengård district in Malmö. They drove around and felt that they’ve arrived in a different world
Norway, Belgium, UK: Terror cells part of European al-Qaeda network Via Daily Telegraph : Passport photographs of Ibrahim Adam, 23, who has been on the run for three years, have been discovered after British intelligence began unraveling one of the biggest terrorist networks discovered since September 11. Security sources told the Daily Telegraph they believe Adam is currently in Pakistan but is trying to get a passport. They fear that he may be trying to travel to the West in order to plan attacks
EU: ‘A new notion of normalcy’ ( photo ) Via New York Times : Which politician, President Nicolas Sarkozy, or Jean-Marie Le Pen, the voice of rightist extremism here for more than a generation, said the following about the role of immigrants, particularly Muslims, in their country’s future? Newcomers must avoid “self-designated victimization.” “The success of the integration process is hindered by the disproportionate number of nonnatives involved in criminality and troublemaking, by burqas, by men who refuse to shake hands with women.” And, “The street is mine, too. I don’t want to walk away if they’re standing in my path.” Answer: Neither Frenchman
Monaco: Islamic fashion festival ( photo , more at link) Via Bernama : Islamic fashion is fast becoming a lucrative business with the current market estimated to be worth more than US$96 billion (RM302 billion) a year, said Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. Rosmah, wife of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, said it was an enormous market that had yet to be fully tapped.
UK: The Talibanisation of British childhood by hardline parents Via Daily Mail h/t Veritas Universalis Last November, on the steps of Tate Britain, I witnessed a scene that troubles me still. A furious Asian father was shaking his young son and tearing up the picture his child had drawn. The boy kicked and cried