‘This Reminds Us of the Times of Hitler’: In the Heart of Europe, Anti-Islam Politics are on the Rise Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post 7 June, 2016 Image: The father of Suleman Malik, a local Muslim leader, prays the noon prayer in his living room, which is open to all members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat congregation in Erfurt, Germany. (Lene Muench/For The Washington Post) ERFURT, Germany — This medieval city of timber-framed buildings

Yes, It’s Genocide The Editorial Board, The New York Times 3 June 2016 Image: Demonstrators with Turkish and German flags outside the Parliament building in Berlin on Wednesday.CreditJohn Macdougall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images   In what has become an almost annual exercise, Turkey has thrown a fit because someone has spoken the truth about its dark past. This time, it has pulled its ambassador from Berlin and threatened dire consequences

Germany: CDU councillor 'tied asylum-seeker up' BBC News 2 June, 2016 German media say a councillor for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) was one of a group of men who tied an Iraqi asylum-seeker to a tree. It happened after the asylum-seeker argued with staff in a supermarket in the town of Arnsdorf, near Dresden. Detlef Oelsner told local media (in German) that he would still have done it if the man were German. He said: "We showed civil

Germany arrests 3 suspected Syrian terrorists, foils alleged Islamic State plot Anthony Fiola, The Washington Post 2 June, 2016 Image: A first responder holds his face in his hands after a terrorist attack on the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels in March 2016.  (THIERRY ROGE/AFP/Getty Images) BERLIN — German authorities on Thursday arrested three Syrian men on suspicion of planning an Islamic State attack on the city of Düsseldorf, potentially

As Men Return From Syria, Europe Weighs Security vs. Civil Liberties Adam Nossiter, The New York Times 26 April 2016   Image: French police officers, conducting a raid near Strasbourg in 2014, detained a man suspected of receiving jihadist training in Syria. CreditJean Francois Badias/Associated Press   PARIS — Ten young Muslim men, bored by a mundane life in France and haunted by a “feeling of uselessness,” as one put it, were seduced

E.U. Migrant Proposals Aim to Overhaul Asylum Rules James Kanter, The New York Times 06 April 2016   Image: Migrants on the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday. CreditPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press     BRUSSELS — Days after a wave of deportations of migrants arriving in Europe from Turkey, the European Union’s executive arm proposed a new quota system for members accepting asylum seekers to ease the burden on the nations confronted

Suicide Bomber Kills 10 People, Mainly Germans, in Istanbul By AYLA JEAN YACKLEY, Reuters 12 January 2016 A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul's historic heart on Tuesday, in an attack Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed on Islamic State. All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia - major tourist sites in the center

Will Germany Succumb to Hate? Anna Suerberry, Contributing Op-Ed, New York Times 2September 2015   Image: Credit Simon Prades BERLIN — AMID the staccato ping of news generated by Europe’s migration crisis, perhaps nothing is more jarring than what is playing out in Germany. The country, which expects up to a million refugees to arrive this year and whose chancellor has been the Continent’s most outspoken advocate for accepting refugees,

Germany, defying Turkey, to call 1915 Armenian massacre 'genocide' Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters 20 April 2015   (Reuters) - The German government backed away on Monday from a steadfast refusal to use the term "genocide" to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 100 years ago after rebellious members of parliament forced its hand. In a major reversal in Turkey's top trading partner in the European Union and

Trial of Former Auschwitz Guard, 93, Opens in Germany Alison Smale, New York Times 21 April 2015 LÜNEBURG, Germany — Seven decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, a 93-year-old former SS guard at the Nazi death camp shuffled into a German court on Tuesday to answer charges of complicity in the murder of 300,000 mostly Hungarian Jews in two months during the summer of 1944. With Holocaust survivors watching in the stark courtroom, the former