http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:06:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23533/europe-islamic-revolt-fears-fade http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23533/europe-islamic-revolt-fears-fade#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:28:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23533 Five years ago bombings and riots fuelled anxiety that Europe's Muslims were on the verge of mass radicalisation. Those predictions have not been borne out, The Observer writes.

Polls have found that Muslim communities are profoundly influenced by their countries of residence. French Muslims have absorbed the values of France, and are more secular than their German counterparts, for example.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23533/europe-islamic-revolt-fears-fade/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23323/german-crackdown-neo-nazi-music http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23323/german-crackdown-neo-nazi-music#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:35:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23323 Police raided apartments and offices throughout Germany in the biggest-ever action aimed at stamping out the radical-right music scene.

Authorities searched more than 200 locations on Wednesday, March 4, confiscating 45,000 CDs, more than 170 computers and some 70 weapons.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23323/german-crackdown-neo-nazi-music/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22449/mosque-protest-in-germany-halted http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22449/mosque-protest-in-germany-halted#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:26:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22449 German police have banned an extreme right-wing "anti-Islamification" rally in Cologne, as it was about to begin.

"The safety of our Cologne people has priority," said a police spokesman after ugly clashes between far-leftists and riot police.

The leftists, who were bent on occupying a city square set aside for the rightists to use, assaulted police and tried to snatch their pistols. Riot police advanced against them, swinging batons.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22449/mosque-protest-in-germany-halted/feed 0