Sweden: More Police with Foreign Background The Swedish Police’s attempts to recruit a more multicultural force have reached a breakthrough, news bureau TT reports. A full 27 percent of those beginning in the police academy this January were born outside of Sweden or have at least one parent who was. That is a huge leap compared to the country’s current police force, of which only 6.7 percent have a foreign background
London: Geert Wilders call to stop Muslim immigration In his speech to the British parliament Geert Wilders called to protect freedom of speech with a First Amendment like law, to end cultural relativism, to stop Muslim mass immigration, to deport criminal immigrants, ban the construction of new mosques and to get more Churchill-like leaders. Wilders’ entire press conference is available at Tundra Tabloids . His speech in parliament is below
Debate: Is Europe Failing its Muslims?
UK: Churches against mosque 'political statement' CHURCHES in Camberley have denounced the plans to build a large traditional mosque in the town. This week the Churches Together group said it felt the domed mosque, which will have 100ft minarets, would be making a powerful cultural and political statement
Netherlands: Voting in headscarves against PVV Dutch municipal elections are today. The PVV, Geert Wilders' party is participating in the municipal elections in the Almere and the Hague. In both places they're expected to win top places. —————— A group of teachers and students in the Hague decided to protest Wilders' proposal to ban headscarves in municipal buildings and associations by urging voters, men and women, to wear headscarves when they come to vote. The idea was started by several teachers and spread fast. A spokesperson for the group stressed that this is not a demonstration but rather a 'courteous action', and that they're not demonstrating against Wilders personally, but against the idea of banning headscarves
Manchester: Muslim women barred from flight for refusing ‘naked’ full-body scan A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight to Pakistan after refusing to go through a new ‘naked’ full-body scanner at Manchester Airport on religious grounds. Her companion also declined to be scanned for ‘medical reasons’
BREAKING: Italy makes arrests for arms trafficking to Iran Nine people, including some believed to belong to the Iranian secret services, have been arrested on suspicion of arms trafficking to Iran, Italian police said on Wednesday. A statement said both Italians and Iranians had been arrested, including “some who are believed to belong to the Iranian secret services.” More details of the operation, dubbed “sniper,” would be disclosed at a news conference later on Wednesday held by anti-terrorism prosecutor Armando Spataro.
Finland: Sharp increase in asylum requests In other news from Finland, authorities are investigating an online hate site calling for the murder of immigrants and politicians who support multiculturalism. The site is registered to an American Neo-Nazi
Austria: 54% see Islam as threat to West According to a recent IMAS study, 59% of Austrians are 'somewhat opposed' to building minarets. There's a big gap between the public opinion and what is expressed. Just over 20% of Austrians describe themselves as religious, compared to 30% 35 years ago. The ethnic population differs clearly from the Muslim population. 54% of Austrians – slightly more men than women, older people more than younger – see Islam as a 'threat for the West'. The respondents have a growing sense that such views can't be talked about openly. This according to a large-scale study by the IMAS agency on the topic of 'religion and freedom', conducted for the Internationalen Instituts für Liberale Politik (International Institute for Liberal Policy) and obtained exclusive by Presse. Only 4% would agree if a family member would marry a Muslims. By 3% of respondents that was already the case, and in Vienna it was above average.
Europe: 50-70% support burka ban In a couple of related stories: 1. The Swiss government confirmed it does not intend to impose a ban on burkas, as few women actually wear the burka, and it would be difficult to enforce ( EN ) 2. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders said a ban on headscarves for all public institutions in Almere and the Hague would be central to having the PVV join the municipal coalition. Wilders stressed this ban will not affect crosses or Jewish skull caps because those are 'symbols of religions which belong to our own culture, are not, like the headscarves, a symbol of an oppressive totalitarian ideology”.