Copyright 2024 Soeren Kern Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:25:53 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Soeren Kern :: Writings http://kern.pundicity.com soerenkern@hotmail.com (Soeren Kern) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://kern.pundicity.com/28183/israel-dependent-on-united-states Mon, 1 Oct 2024 09:00:00 EST The Biden administration's decision to cut off weapons supplies to Israel during the war in Gaza has raised concerns that the Jewish state is overly dependent on the United States for its security. Washington has supplied Israel with more than 10,000... http://kern.pundicity.com/27796/germany-islamists-declare-holy-war Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:00 EST The German government's laissez-faire approach to Islamism has moved the problem into a taboo zone that has strengthened the Islamists. More than a thousand Islamic extremists recently marched through the streets of Hamburg, Germany's second-largest... http://kern.pundicity.com/27789/erdogan-undermine-german-democracy Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:00 EST A new German Islamist party that is close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has obtained authorization to participate in upcoming elections for the European Parliament from Germany's Federal Election Committee (Bundeswahlausschuss). The... http://kern.pundicity.com/27617/france-fight-islamist-separatism Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:00:00 EST A new ban on foreign-appointed imams in France is aimed at combating Islamist separatism, but the policy risks making matters worse by handing future decisions about hiring imams over to local groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The French... http://kern.pundicity.com/27726/germany-facilitates-erdogan-influence Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:00:00 EST A German government plan to ease citizenship requirements for millions of Turkish immigrants, German lawmakers are warning, could lead to the creation of Germany's first national Islamist party. Such a party, they say, would be controlled by Turkish... http://kern.pundicity.com/27459/european-islamists-hamas-massacre Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:00:00 EST Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas's October 7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. That support has been expressed in different ways: explicitly approving of Hamas's murder, rape and abduction of Israeli civilians;... http://kern.pundicity.com/27463/france-abaya-ban Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:00:00 EST France's highest administrative court, the Council of State (Conseil d'État), has rejected two legal challenges aimed at overturning a ban on abayas — full-length robes worn by some Muslim women and girls — in public schools. The court's upholding of the... http://kern.pundicity.com/27181/germany-anti-muslim-hostility Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:00:00 EST A new report about "anti-Muslim hostility" commissioned by the German government has faced a barrage of criticism after it was revealed that Islamist groups linked to Iran and Turkey were involved in producing the document. Unsurprisingly, the... http://kern.pundicity.com/26970/germany-hijab-teachers Tue, 9 May 2023 09:00:00 EST Muslim teachers in Berlin, the German capital, have been authorized to wear Islamic headscarves in the classroom after a court determined that the city's religious neutrality law, which imposes a blanket ban on sectarian clothing and symbols in public... http://kern.pundicity.com/26932/france-author-islamism Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:00:00 EST Islamists have leveled death threats at an influential French academic, forcing her to live under police protection after writing a hard-hitting book about the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy to Islamize Europe. Muslim activists have, as expected,... http://kern.pundicity.com/26878/mega-mosque-germany Thu, 6 Apr 2023 09:00:00 EST The City Council of Wuppertal, a municipality in western Germany with a substantial Muslim population, has voted to approve the construction of a controversial new mega-mosque that will be controlled by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip... http://kern.pundicity.com/26868/germany-leftist-islamist-threats Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:00:00 EST Germany's parliament has rejected two legislative proposals aimed at clamping down on political Islam in Germany. The sponsors of the proposed bills argued that Islamism is subversive and must be opposed because it poses a growing threat to liberal... http://kern.pundicity.com/26851/austria-mosques Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:00:00 EST Viennese mosques are promoting Islamic separatism and actively obstructing the integration of Muslims into Austrian society, according to a new report about mosques and Islamic associations in the Austrian capital. The in-depth investigative study also... http://kern.pundicity.com/26823/french-forum-islamism Thu, 9 Mar 2023 09:00:00 EST A newly launched Muslim "dialogue forum" established by the French government to fight Islamism and promote an Islam "faithful to the values of the Republic" has been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood operatives opposed to the domestication of Islam in... http://kern.pundicity.com/26784/sweden-quran-burning Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:00:00 EST Sweden, under pressure from Islamists angered by recent Quran burnings, is embroiled in a nationwide debate over whether to curtail its long and storied tradition of constitutionally-protected freedom of expression and introduce a blasphemy law. The free...