Copyright 2012 Soeren Kern Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:40:04 -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/11097/muslims-ban-dogs-europe Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are "unclean" animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an... http://kern.pundicity.com/11082/europeans-converting-to-islam Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Irish actor Liam Neeson says he is thinking about becoming a Muslim after undergoing a spiritual awakening in Turkey. Neeson, who was born into a Roman Catholic family in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, told the London-based newspaper The Sun that he was... http://kern.pundicity.com/11081/britain-islam-rising Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST The number of young Muslims in British prisons has skyrocketed over the past two decades and, according to a Muslim advisor to the United Kingdom's Prison Service, Islamic preachers are to blame, There are now almost 11,000 Muslim males, mostly in their... http://kern.pundicity.com/11080/germany-new-islamic-centers Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST One of the oldest universities in Germany has opened the country's first taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology. The Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen was inaugurated on January 16 and is the first of four planned Islamic... http://kern.pundicity.com/11029/converting-churches-into-mosques Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Muslims in Europe are increasingly converting empty Christian churches into mosques. The proliferation of mosques housed in former churches reflects the rise of Islam as the fastest growing religion in post-Christian Europe. There are now more practicing... http://kern.pundicity.com/11024/germany-silence-islam-criticism Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST German authorities have officially confirmed that they are monitoring German-language Internet websites that are critical of Muslim immigration and the Islamization of Europe. According to Manfred Murck, director of the Hamburg branch of the German... http://kern.pundicity.com/11023/andalusia-spring Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Controversies over Islam dominated the Christmas and New Year holidays in Spain this year. These conflicts reflect the growing influence of Islam in Spain after mass immigration from Muslim countries. They are a harbinger of things to come, especially as... http://kern.pundicity.com/11022/criminalize-free-speech Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam. The announcement comes less than one month after the United States... http://kern.pundicity.com/10985/france-creeping-islamization Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Muslim immigrants will find it more difficult to obtain French citizenship from now on. New citizenship rules that entered into effect on January 1, 2012 will require all applicants to pass exams on French culture and history and also to prove that their... http://kern.pundicity.com/10953/europe-march-towards-islam Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2011. As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few... http://kern.pundicity.com/10933/sabaditsch-wolff-appeal Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST An Austrian appellate court has upheld the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, for "denigrating religious beliefs" after giving a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam. The December 20... http://kern.pundicity.com/10892/belgium-islamist-state Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST An Islamist group in Belgium is intensifying a propaganda and intimidation campaign aimed at turning the country into an Islamic state. Over the past several months, Sharia4Belgium, a Muslim organization that wants to implement Islamic Sharia law... http://kern.pundicity.com/10867/germany-muslim-school-prayers Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Germany's top administrative court has ruled that a Muslim student is not entitled to perform prayers at his school because the act has the potential to create "very severe conflicts." Germany's Federal Administrative Court found that although the right... http://kern.pundicity.com/10849/muslims-intimidate-europe Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST A mob of some 20 Islamists stormed a debate in Amsterdam that was featuring two Muslim liberals, the Canadian writer and Muslim feminist Irshad Manji and the Dutch-Moroccan Green Left MP Tofik Dibi. Muslim extremists belonging to the group... http://kern.pundicity.com/10848/united-states-of-europe Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST The leaders of the 27-member European Union met in Brussels on December 8 and 9 under pressure to deliver a decisive solution to Europe's two-year-old sovereign debt crisis. But the high-profile summit — which was billed by many as the last chance to...