by Daniel Pipes National Review Online November 2, 2010 A new German political party, Die Freiheit (The Freedom), had its inaugural meeting on October 28 in Berlin. I was in town, so its leadership invited me to be the only non-member of the nascent party to witness and report on its founding constituent assembly. As […]
by David J. Rusin • Nov 1, 2010 at 12:38 pm If you are a Muslim woman hoping to flee a forced marriage or potential honor killing in Europe, think twice about hailing a cab during your escape. The latest from Norway: Some people in the taxi business report young immigrant women and jeopardize their […]
The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders is leading both of the nation’s major opinion polls. While the party currently holds only nine seats of the 150 seats in the Dutch Lower House Parliament, both the Synovate Political Barometer and pollster Maurice de Hond say the party stands to be the largest […]
By Dan Kennedy Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:22 PM EDT I have just returned from a week in London. The food was gray, weather grayer, and their economy bleak, dark and foreboding. Their coalition government’s hastily cobbled together “austerity program” became a big U.S. news item while I was there, but our news doesn’t do […]
On the heels of an election that stunned many in this famously progressive land, Kent Ekeroth and his peers marched through the castle-like parliament doors this month on a mission to combat what they call Sweden’s greatest problem: Muslim immigration. The 20 Swedish Democrats – the first national lawmakers are working to impose a moratorium […]
EJC president says small Jewish communities being physically, verbally and psychologically threatened by Islamic fundamentalist elements
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel: “immigrants should learn to speak German” Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German. […]
Wilders has been acquitted on all counts, but that’s not quite true. Presumably all charges will now be dismissed — Radio Netherlands says the case is as good as over — but it’s not the prosecutors who have been Wilders’s chief tormentors in all this. It’s the courts, who actually forced them to press charges […]
by Chana Ya’ar France has threatened to recognize a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinian Authority if final status talks with Israel are “delayed.” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was quoted Sunday in an interview with the Arabic-language newspaper al-Ayyam as saying his government would not rule out the possibility of recognizing the unilateral […]
One more socialized medicine horror story. Greece a member of the European Union will cut your foot off if your diabetic instead of paying for a specialized boot. Don’t say it can’t happen in the USA under Obamacare, the Greeks thought it couldn’t happen there either. This Saturday, one of Greece’s most respected newspapers, To […]
