Turkey has announced that the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will be present at the official opening ceremony of a controversial new mosque in the Netherlands at which 2,500 people will be praying.
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Whites Need Not Apply: BBC Advertises ‘Black, Asian, Or Minority’-Only Positions
A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying. Creative Access – an organisation, registered as a charity, which offers placements at “many of the UK’s top media organisations” – has listed a number of BBC placements on its website, demanding applicants are only from “Black, Asian and non-white minority ethnic backgrounds”. The website’s list of opportunities shows that all but four of the positions currently available are for jobs at the publicly-funded BBC, and Creative Access is funded by the British tax payer despite its charity status. The BBC positions are for a period of a year, and come with a bursary of £19,480 for London placements, and £16,881 for placements outside of London. While the BBC will pay half the salary, Creative Access pays the other half. The website lists its main sources of funding, naming the quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation ‘UK Commission for Employment & Skills’ and the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. The other organisation named alongside the government departments is Creative Skillset, which has received millions of pounds of “investment” from the Scottish Parliament. Creative Access founder and boss Michael
Claim: Police Told Girl To Dye Hair From Blonde And Stay Indoors After Migrant Attack
After being beaten and mugged by migrants, a student alleges the Austrian police blamed her “blonde hair and sexy clothing” for the brutal attack. Police officers reportedly told the woman that to avoid such attacks, which they warned are now a daily fact of life in Vienna, she should stay indoors after 8pm in future, and dye her blonde hair. The 20 year old, speaking to Heute only as “Sabina”, recalled that she was waiting to catch a train at the Austrian capital’s Westbahnhof Station when a man came up and spoke to her in a foreign language. After he told her there were hardly any blonde women where he grew up, and started to touch her hair, she told the man to go away. Judging by his language and appearance the woman believed the man was from Afghanistan. Although he left after being told to go away, the man soon returned with three friends. After snatching her designer handbag, which contained her purse and credit cards, the foreign appearance men attacked Sabina, hurled her to the floor and fled. Experiencing pain in her shoulder, elbow, spine, and hip doctors later told the epileptic drama student that she’d suffered a contusion to
British Universities Drop In World Rankings ‘Because They Are Forced To Focus On Diversity’
British universities are sliding down the world rankings as a result of increased pressure to focus on diversity rather than excellence, experts say. This year’s rankings, published by the Times Higher Education, showed of the leading British universities Cambridge has fallen from second to fourth place and Oxford from third place to fifth. Phil Baty, the editor of the prestigious world university rankings, warned that “the UK’s diminishing performance occurs as institutions in Asia rapidly rise up the table; the continent has 18 representatives, up from 10 last year.” The Express reports that the director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, Alan Smithers, criticised “government interference” that insists universities increase their intake of students from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds. “Its current polices are causing universities to take their eye off the ball of recruiting the best to comply with Government demands to increase the proportions entering and graduating from state schools, ethnic minorities and postcodes from which, in the past, few students have come.” As the UK’s top institutions of learning slide down the tables and the number of British universities in the world’s top 100 drops from 12 to just ten, Mr. Smithers expressed
Front National Now Top Choice For French Youth
France’s Front National is now attracting voters of all ages, as a recent poll has revealed the Eurosceptic, anti-immigration party is now the top choice for 18-30 year olds. With between 27 and 31 per cent of French youth saying they are ready to vote for Marine Le Pen, Le Point notes that the time of the Front National’s widespread demonisation now seems long gone. Having voted decisively in the country’s 2012 elections for the current head of state, Francois Hollande, Le Monde reports that the latest study, done by Ifop for France’s National Association of Boards for Children and Youth (Anacej), shows young people in France have turned their back on the Socialist Party President. Amid violent protests over new labour reforms that will make the process of hiring and firing new staff easier for employers, Le Monde comments that never before has the bust-up between Mr Hollande and the country’s youth seemed so irreversible. If only voters between the ages of 18 and 30 went to the polls, Francois Hollande would have no chance of getting through to the second round as Frederic Dabi, deputy director of Ifop, notes that the Left Party’s Jean-Luc Melenchon is now picking
Former Finance Minister: Migrants Are Drag On Economy, Are Outbreeding Natives
German economist and writer Thilo Sarrazin has warned of the consequences of mass immigration to Germany, pointing to the native low birth rate compared to migrants who, on average, have a much higher fertility rate. Looking at the facts, he said, if this continues Germans will be a minority in their own country within a few decades. The former finance minister and executive board member of the Bundesbank warned also that despite catastrophic predictions by bodies in favour of mass immigration that the country’s “ageing population” is a time bomb for Germany, migrants have “economically harmed” the country. Germany’s experience with Turks and Arabs in the labour market, after five decades, Sarrazin points out, have low participation in education and are overrepresented when it comes to unemployment and relying on state welfare, meaning that as a group they cost the country more than they pay in. Sarrazin was lukewarm towards the statement “Islam does not belong to Germany”, a declaration adopted by Alternative for Germany (AfD) as official party doctrine last weekend, instead stating that “no religion belongs to Germany”. Regardless, he warned that he saw a “big problem” in the growth of Islamism over Europe. Sarrazin’s landmark book Germany is
Poll: ‘Total Rejection’ Of Islam In France From All Across The Political Spectrum
An Ifop poll for Le Figaro measuring perceptions of Islam has found that people have a growing sense of unease about its role in France. What’s notable about the results is that where once such sentiments were perceived as the preserve of the “extreme right”, they are now felt across the political spectrum. Back in 2010, 39 per cent of Socialist Party voters felt Islam was too prominent within French society — a majority of 52 per cent feel this to be the case six years on. Le Figaro says the poll confirms a “total rejection” of the religion in France, after its capital in 2015 saw two deadly Islamist terror attacks. Seventeen people were murdered over three days in January, including most of the writers of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Then, on November 13th a series of coordinated attacks claimed 130 innocent lives, including 89 people shot dead at the Bataclan theatre. The poll also found that 47 per cent of people consider the presence of Muslim communities a threat to France’s identity, up five points from 2010. However, 19 per cent believe Muslims culturally enrich the country. Surveys by Ifop going back to 1989 have consistently measured attitudes toward aspects of Islam in French society,
All Belgians To Receive Iodine Pills In Case Of Nuclear Incident
Belgium is to provide iodine pills to its entire population of around 11 million people to protect against radioactivity in case of a nuclear accident, the health minister was quoted as saying Thursday. The BBC reported that Health Minister Maggie De Block explained that the entire population will be issued with the pills, which protect against radiation in case of a nuclear threat, as a precaution following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. “Every country has updated its plans for a nuclear emergency”, the Health Minister told Belgian TV, but it is unclear what the similarities between Belgium’s nuclear safety and Japan’s disaster, which happened when an earthquake led to a tsunami and all three reactor cores largely melted down. Iodine pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid gland, had previously only been given to people living within 20 kilometres (14 miles) of the Tihange and Doel nuclear plants. Health Minister Maggie De Block was quoted by La Libre Belgique newspaper as telling parliament that the range had now been expanded to 100 kilometres (60 miles), effectively covering the whole country. The head of Belgium’s French-speaking Green party, Jean-Marc Nollet, backed the measures but added that “just because everyone will
‘Refugees Welcome’ YouTube Adverts Accidentally Fund Anti-Immigration Groups
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website is promoting a campaign by ‘Refugees Welcome’ – a group encouraging Europeans to offer their spare rooms to migrants – by using advertising to target anti-immigration YouTube videos… on YouTube. Refugees Welcome has paid for pro-migrant adverts to play before videos tagged with keywords and phrases associated with scepticism of Germany’s open door policy to migrants, such as “refugees out” and “the truth about refugees”. The “pre roll”, 30 second adverts, which the organisation says can’t cannot be skipped, feature migrants speaking out against stereotypes they say are false, such as their being lazy, dangerous, or economic migrants. In one, a man called Arif condemns fears of migrants being criminal. Comparing his own lack of criminal record to Lutz Bachmann, founder of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida), who has convictions for drug dealing and drunk driving, the Syrian implies that people with concerns about unsustainably high levels of immigration are more likely to be criminal than migrants. Clicking on the ads redirects users to a website, which operates in English, German and Arabic, with more information about the migrants’ stories. As well as the full collection of 30 second adverts, the website features a longer video. The
The Guardian Launches Online Safe Space: Claims ‘Breitbart Is Lousy, But Big and Cheap’
The Guardian newspaper has launched a new section of its website entitled: “The Web We Want”, a series focusing on the question, “How can we end online abuse, and have better conversations on the web?” This follows on from January, when the readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard announced that because “certain subjects – race, immigration and Islam in particular – attract an unacceptable level of toxic commentary” comments would no longer be open on articles related to these topics – unless multiple moderators are available and only where they believe a “positive debate” is possible. This means that for many controversial pieces which the Guardian fears will attract negative reader reaction – including articles about feminism – commenting is now disabled. In order to understand more about below-the-line comments, with a view to “limiting abuse”, the Guardian analysed “patterns of moderation” in the comments over the years. The data revealed which writers’ articles attracted the most “blocked comments” — ones regarded by moderators to be “abusive or disruptive” and so deleted. In an article entitled “Comments on articles are valuable. So how to weed out the trolls?”, Joseph Reagle considers commenting systems on other websites and outlines what he thinks they get right and wrong. He