Denmark: ROJ TV charged with terrorism Manouchehr Zonoozi (former ROJ TV director) and Metin Yüce (ROJ NV director/Belgium) with the troops Via Politiken : Justice Minister Lars Barfoed (Cons) has decided to call for the indictment of the Denmark-based Roj-TV station for supporting terrorism, according to Prosecutor-General Jørgen Steen Sørensen in a news release. Roj-TV and Mesopotamia Broadcast A/S METV are to be charged under Paragraph 114 of the Anti-terrorism Act which makes it an offence to further the activities of a person, group of people or association which either does or plans to commit acts of terrorism

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Copenhagen: Ramadan is cause of riots, says police Twelve youth were caught by the police Sunday evening in Nørrebro in Copenhagen, after setting fires and overturning a car, and driven home to their parents. The police are blaming the lack of sugar balance

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Aarhus: Crimes dealt with in self-appointed courts Immigrants from the Middle East often deal with criminal matters themselves and fail to report violence, for example, to the police. A couple of years ago the Danish media reported about similar courts in Odense

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Finland: Terror suspects prevented from entering the country Via YLE : Finland’s Security Police(SUPO) says it has successfully prevented people who pose a threat to national security from entering the country. Security Police Commissioner Ilkka Salmi told YLE that an operation coordinated with embassy officials in Africa had prevented terrorist suspects from entering Finland

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Norway: Court rules police hijab ban is illegal Justice Minister Knut Storberget said in response that he does not intend to change the current no-hijab policy. Via AFP : A Norwegian administrative court on Friday said a ban on police women wearing the Islamic headscarf was illegal, in response to a government refusal in 2009 to allow officers to don the hijab. The Norwegian Equality Tribunal said in a non-binding opinion that the ban ran counter to the country’s freedom of religion and anti-discrimination laws by depriving a whole category of women from access to the police profession

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Norway: ‘Neither Christians nor Jews could have done something like this’ Members of the Islamic community in Fredrikstad saw red when a swastika and ‘oink Allah’ were painted on the mosque in the city center.

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UK: Police ask to ban EDL demo ( UK: EDL to target Muslim centers ) Via Daily Mail : A chief constable is seeking emergency powers to ban the far-Right English Defence League from marching through a city’s Muslim neighbourhood, amid fears it could provoke widespread violence. Up to 10,000 EDL supporters are expected to descend on Bradford over the bank holiday weekend in what is claimed will be a rally against Islamic extremism

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Bulgaria: Mufti battle turns into mosque fist-fight Via Novinite : The famous Dzumaya mosque in Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv became the scene of a fist fight among 200 Bulgarian Muslims in the eve of their holiest month of Ramadan. The brawl erupted when supporters of the two fractions – of Nedim Gendzhev and Mustafa Ali Hadzhi clashed late Tuesday evening. Eyewitnesses say they saw three Members of the Parliament from the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) being drunk and some people in the crowd fighting with knifes

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Denmark: First shelter for couples Young couples of foreign background can now seek shelter from honor related violence in Denmark’s first shelter for both men and women.

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UK: Police attend Friday prayers Via Halesowen News : POLICE officers took off their size nines and observed Friday prayers at a Cradley Heath mosque to build better community relations. Sergeant Colin Gallier and PC Brian Steatham, from the Cradley Heath and Old Hill Neighbourhood team, joined worshippers at the Baitul Mahdi mosque on School Street. Dr Masood Majoka, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Cradley Heath Branch, said: “We were delighted when officers from the local neighbourhood accepted our invitation as part of an ongoing commitment to learn more about each other and to discuss ways in which we could work together in creating a harmonious society.” He added: “Indeed that is the very purpose of Islam which means ‘peace’ and is a duty for every Ahmadiyya Muslim Man or Woman where ever they live.” Sgt Gallier explained that the visit was part of a longer process of familisation with local muslims

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