Germany: Politician Blasted for Support of Islamic Law Via Spiegel : Most politicians in Germany have gotten the message: The quickest way to spark a career-damaging controversy is to make a facile comment about Nazis or the Holocaust.
Germany: Muslim arbitration affects court decisions Via DW : Joachim Wagner, who has written a book on the topic called “Judges acting outside the law,” can see the positive aspect of that tradition, but his research has also yielded many negative examples.
Germany: Urban slang should be recognized as dialect, says expert Via the Local : The street slang spoken by young people in Germany’s big cities is so defined that one language expert is arguing for it to be recognised as a dialect. (…) “Kiezdeutsch”, which differs from city to city, is most common in multicultural areas, where different languages are mixed, said Wiese.
Germany: Muslim car-pool service Via TAZ (German, h/t Snaphanen ) Selim Reid (24) is the founder of MuslimTAXI, a Muslim ride-sharing service.
Switzerland: Radical Muslim group to launch TV station Via the Local : The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) has announced plans to set up an internet TV channel, while it is also in talks with various companies to provide its members with a Swiss-Muslim discount card. The new TV studios, due to become operational this summer, will play host to a political show, a weekly series on a range of topics seen from a Muslim perspective, and a sermon series, newspaper SonntagsZeitung reports.
Germany: “Discrimination with a smile” Via Deutsche Welle : Experts call it “discrimination with a smile” when describing the practice of gently fobbing off those who don’t typically look like they fit in.
Germany: Majority of Turks believe state supports far-right terrorists Via Spiegel : Turkish immigrants in Germany have lost faith in the German state as a result of the murder series allegedly committed by the Zwickau neo-Nazi terror cell, a new study shows. Three-quarters of respondents fear there will be further racially motivated killings. Info (…) The authors of the study interviewed a representative sample of 1,058 people of Turkish descent living in Germany aged 15 years and over, between Dec.
Germany: Anti-Islamic websites come under greater scrutiny Via the National : German authorities have announced a plan to place anti-Islamic websites under surveillance because of growing concern that they are becoming more radical and fomenting right-wing violence. The domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said last week it had set up a working group to assess whether German-language sites such as Politically Incorrect and Nürnberg 2.0, whose stated aim is to oppose the “Islamisation of Europe” are in breach of the constitution
Germany: Foreigners set up a third of all new firms Via the Local : Foreigners are three times as likely to start a new business as Germans, according to a new study which showed that nearly a third of all new companies founded in 2009 were set up by migrants.
Germany: Israeli-Arab killed in antisemitic attack According to an Israeli news source , German police have an Arab suspect in custody. The victim’s mother is Jewish, and police suspect this was the reason for the murder