More than 44,000 British passports were handed out to foreigners in just three months as the number of applications for citizenship soared 30 per cent.
Latest Home Office figures reveal that 51,315 applications were made for citizenship in the final quarter of last year – a massive rise from the 39,325 requests made for the same period in 2008. for more click here
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Europe. Video. for more click here
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe. Video. For more click here
I debated Tariq Ramadan last night in London for Intelligence Squared, the British Council and the BBC. I’ll link to the video here once the BBC put it out. The motion was “Europe is failing its Muslims”. I argued of course that it was not Europe that was failing its Muslims, but Islam that was failing Europe, indeed Islam that is failing Muslims. for more click here
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Darfur rebel group accused the Sudanese army on Thursday of attacking its positions on the same day that the president declared the Darfur war over, and aid workers said 100,000 people had fled the surge of fighting. for more click here
Wafa Sultan was one of the featured speakers at last week’s launch of the Freedom Defense Initiative, which was organized by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. While Dr. Sultan was in Washington, she took part in a panel discussion organized by Former Muslims United and sponsored by the Center for Security Policy. for more click here
Muslim antisemitism in Germany. Video. For more click here
Over the decades I was a Leftist, I lived under the evidently misguided belief that my side was for freedom and democracy and the other was rigid, old farts willing to do anything to preserve the ancien régime. for more click here
Is there a difference between “freedom of religion” and “freedom of worship”?
Some advocates for international religious freedom are monitoring what they fear is a change in the language being used by Obama administration officials – that the broad emphasis on spreading “freedom of religion” that the president used when he spoke in Cairo last June is being subtly replaced by the more limited concept of “freedom of worship.” for more click here
Police in Dubai have identified 15 more suspects in last month’s killing of a senior member of Palestinian militant group Hamas, taking the total to 26. for more click here