With Sarkozy Gone And Merkel Weakened, Turks Resume EU Entry Bid

The elections in France ousted from power one of the leading opponents of Turkish accession to the European Union- Nicolas Sarkozy. Although the new French President, Francois Hollande, ruled out ...

Olympic Committee Refuses to Commemorate Munich Massacre

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected a request from the families of the Israeli athletes who were murdered by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Munich Games to organize an official ...

Ahmadinejad Tells Germans Holocaust a Lie

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has surpassed previous acts of chutzpah and tells German television the Holocaust “was a colonialist plan that resulted from a lie” that Israel exploits to suppress ...

“Moderate” Muslims like the “Moderate” Germans of 75 years ago?

Hitler wrote Mien Kampf in 1923. In that book he clearly states his intention to wage war because Germany needed….“lebensraum.” While most Germans were overwhelmingly “moderate” they did virtually nothing ...

Despite Austerity Vote, Expectations Rise For Greek Exit

The Greek Parliament was ringed by firebombs, and a venerable movie theater was left a blackened shell. The Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papdemos appealed to the parliamentarians to vote for ...

The Greek Crisis Resurfaces

The batch of downgrades on European credit, delivered over the weekend by Standard Poor’s ratings agency, prompted angry threats that Europe would have to create its own ratings agencies to ...

Unemployed German Women Forced to Prostitute Themselves

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year. Prostitution was ...

2012 Will Be More Difficult Than 2011

Do you believe that 2012 will be more difficult for the global economy than 2011 was?  Well, that is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes.  The woman that has become ...

Denmark Takes EU Rotating Presidency with Many Handicaps

Denmark takes up the rotating EU presidency as the year begins, succeeding Poland. Denmark and its left-of-center government are taking the helm in most inauspicious circumstances. The main order of ...

Canadian Imam Compares Canada to Nazi Germany

A senior leader of Canada’s Muslim community compared a recent policy requiring no face-coverings be worn when new immigrants take the citizenship oath to the dire oppression of Jews in ...