Germany is in a state of siege.
On the busy shopping street in Giessen, a German university town twinned with Winchester, migrant Atif Zahoor tucks into a chicken dish with his brother and cousin at the curry restaurant Chillie To … Read the rest
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Xenophobia rules Soweto
The Mozambican man cowered, trying to protect his head, as the blows pounded his body on Tuesday.
The suspected thief, known only as Johannes, begged the growing crowd of angry residents of Snake Park, Soweto, to stop assaulting him.
But … Read the rest
German journalist wades into mass immigration debate
A German journalist suggested that prosecuting “Facebook rabble-rousers” – that is people who do not agree with mass immigration – while a step in the right direction, was not enough.
Reschke delivered her message just hours after Hans-Georg Maassen, head … Read the rest
Japan allows eleven asylum seekers
Last year Japan granted nearly twice as many people asylum as in 2013. The increase was not by any means spectacular.
In 2013 the country approved six applications for asylum, and in 2014 the number rose to eleven.
Japan, the … Read the rest
Another wall goes up in Europe
Nearly three decades after US President Ronald Reagan issued his much-celebrated challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, some Eastern European countries have once again begun floating the idea of building up walls in Europe, … Read the rest
Cannes: Immigrants 1, Lesbians 0
The debate around the world about what to do with growing waves of desperate migrants will be spurred by a Cannes Film Festival triumph for a movie that looks at the plight of a refugee hero.
“Dheepan”, a French movie … Read the rest
German cop probed for ‘immigrant abuse’
German prosecutors are investigating a police officer who allegedly abused two immigrants, strangling an Afghan man and forcing a Moroccan to eat pork off the floor.
The police officer has been accused of bragging about the brutal assaults in text … Read the rest
ANC defends action against foreigners
Operation Fiela by the SA Police Service was meant to eliminate criminal activities and was not a form of harassment or xenophobia, African National Congress secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday.
“Operation Fiela strives to apprehend and disarm those with … Read the rest
Bob urges migrants not to go to SA
Other African nations should stop their citizens from migrating to South Africa to prevent violence against foreigners, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday
A wave of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa has claimed seven lives in Durban and Johannesburg over … Read the rest
The rise of nationalism in Britain
As the eurozone crisis continues, anti-establishment insurgencies like the Scottish National Party, SNP’s, are surfacing all over Europe: nationalist, populist, separatist, left or right.
As the British empire was gradually dissolved after the second world war and its industrial base … Read the rest
The tsunami of Latino immigrants to the US
Critics say the ginned-up fears of terrorism is a nearly non-existent threat. Americans are not about to be overwhelmed by Islam in the U.S..
Islam is used to distract whites from an enormous existential threat to their country, they say. … Read the rest
‘Secret Swedish Asylum group’ plans 400,000 new immigrants
The Swedish government has appointed a “secret asylum-group” planning for 400,000 new immigrants over the next five years – the equivalent of a large Swedish city, the newspaper Dagens Industri revealed yesterday.
The Secret Asylum group is a group of … Read the rest
Backdoor for jihadists?
Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria.
“It’s clearly a population of concern,” the director of … Read the rest
Finland shuts door on black refugees
Finnish municipalities have significantly cut quotas on receiving refugees from foreign countries.
Refugee quotas have significantly been reduced by Finnish municipalities, with just 40 of them signaling readiness to receive refuges, local media outlets reported.
Last year, the municipalities received … Read the rest
Finnish municipalities have significantly cut quotas on receiving refugees from foreign countries.
Refugee quotas have significantly been reduced by Finnish municipalities, with just 40 of them signaling readiness to receive refuges, local media outlets reported.
Last year, the municipalities received … Read the rest