anti-Islamic activists in Germany

The Turkish-Islamic organization DITIB has called on German authorities to do more to protect Muslims and their places of worship. The appeal ... Germany's Interior Ministry recently released figures showing that some 950 anti-Muslim offenses had been carried out in Germany in 2017. Many of those ...

Arsonists on Monday struck a Turkish community centre in western Germany, the latest in a string of attacks which Turkey has sometimes blamed on Kurdish ... in the number of attacks against Turkish mosques in Germany recently by racist and Islamophobic groups as well as the PKK terrorist organisation".

WASHINGTON – For its annual report, the Environmental Protection Agency has hired a right-wing digital media firm that has worked for the oil and gas industry and an anti-Muslim group. The EPA paid Go Big Media Inc. $6,500 to help produce the agency's 2017 end-of-the-year report, according to a ...

Eight members of a German far-right group face verdicts on Wednesday after a year-long terrorism trial over a series of explosives attacks targeting ... of the anti-Islamic street movement Pegida, which has ties with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) that has since entered Germany's parliament.

Alice Weidel, parliamentary leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is no stranger to the dark arts of publicity. The AfD's election campaign stood out for its racist, sexist, and Islamophobic messages. For its pre-election online offensive, it enlisted the help of Texas-based Harris Media, ...

Eight members of a German far-right group were jailed on Wednesday on terrorism and attempted murder charges for a series of explosives attacks ... of the anti-Islamic street movement Pegida, which has ties with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) that has since entered Germany's parliament.

Syria's regime is hosting a delegation from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, with anti-immigration officials meeting the country's notorious grand mufti who called on Syrians in Germany to return.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised Monday that her new government would start work swiftly and lend a strong voice to Europe, a day after she ... Germans frustrated about the arrival of more than a million asylum seekers in Germany since 2015 voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) voted in favour of a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Sunday, German ... under a special category, after calls by the country's Muslim community to take more serious measures against the growing number of anti-Muslim hate crimes.

At least 33 Muslims were injured in the attacks, which included assaults against Muslim women wearing headscarves and attacks against mosques and other Muslim institutions, the German Ministry of the Interior said in its reply to a parliamentary question in the Bundestag. Germany, a country of 81.8 ...

The Left Party's expert for internal affairs, Ulla Jelpke, welcomed the recent reduction in the anti-Muslim crime rate, but said there was no reason to be complacent. She also warned that “Islam haters” had made it into the German parliament, in a reference to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

The Left Party's expert for internal affairs, Ulla Jelpke, welcomed the recent reduction in the anti-Muslim crime rate, but said there was no reason to be complacent. She also warned that "Islam haters" had made it into the German parliament, in a reference to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

In a new book, the Israeli writer and politician Avraham Burg has come out for a one-state solution entailing federated Jewish and Palestinian political entities, and on Monday night he was hosted by the progressive New York synagogue B'nai Jeshurun and the New Israel Fund to talk about his ideas.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become a significant player in the country's parliament. The AFD ran in last year's elections on a nationalist anti-immigration, anti-Muslim platform. It won 94 of 630 seats in parliament. A poll published this month by Bild newspaper indicated the AfD is now more ...

Controversial Norwegian metal band Taake has officially canceled ten shows in their upcoming 19-date North American tour, reports Billboard. The news comes as the band faces resurfaced former anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim accusations, which led venues like (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City and ...

German news agency dpa said Wednesday that the food bank in the western city of Essen gave out several dozen new access cards to German ... The presence of the new migrants has stirred up anti-foreigner and especially anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany, which is reflected in the increase in the ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), gives a press conference in Berlin on February 7, 2018. ... A poll reported Tuesday that the AfD, which is a growing force and has a strong anti-Islamic stance, has surpassed the SPD to become Germany's ...

A maximum of 1,000 additional migrants will be allowed to settle in Germany every month as long as they are direct relatives of refugees already residing in the country. Unlike the AfD who voted against the government bill on family reunifications for people with subsidiary protection, the anti-Muslim party's ...

Schaeuble, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, also warned against the rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes in Germany. “We must ... Besides Schaeuble, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel also attended the commemoration event on Wednesday, marking the 73rd ...

A politician from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) who shocked colleagues by converting to Islam says he did so because he was ... AfD, which last year became the first nationalist party to win seats in the German parliament since the sixties, campaigns on an openly anti-Muslim platform.

Alternative for Germany, AfD, faction leader in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament, Andre Poggenburg, left, sits next to AfD politician Robert Farle, in Magdeburg, Germany, Thursday, March 8, 2018. Poggenburg will resign from his party posts following several controversial and anti-Muslim remarks about ...

Sri Lanka has declared a 10-day state of emergency as authorities attempt to quell violent riots between the Buddhist and Muslim communities in the city of Kandy, reports The Guardian. What's happening: The violence was reportedly set off after a group of Muslim men were accused of killing a Sinhala Buddhist in the ...

Anti-Muslim riots broke out in the central district of Kandy on the weekend after a Sinhalese man who said he had been attacked by a muslim mob died in a local hospital. Rioters damaged several muslim homes, shops and mosques. In response, the government instituted a curfew in the district and ...

There were 950 attacks reportedly on Muslims and mosques in Germany in 2017, according to new government figures. ... Special category: Last January, German police began registering Islamophobic crimes under a special category, after calls by the country's Muslim community to take more serious ...

Salt Lake City club cancels Taake concert after Norway black metal band accused of Nazi and anti-Muslim ideologies ... Music Hall received emails asking about the band's controversial past — like a 2008 show in Germany where the lead singer performed with a Nazi swastika painted on his bare chest.