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Turkey Bets on Regional Influence as EU Hopes Fade
Spiegel Online 04 June 2009
By Hans-Jürgen Schlamp, Daniel Steinvorth & Bernhard Zand
Frustrated by European opposition to its EU membership bid, Turkey is looking instead to its eastern and southern neighbors in a bid to flex its regional muscles. But will courting the Arab street actually bring 
EU Elections in France – The Anti-Zionists
Brussels Journal 28 May 2009
By Tiberge
Dieudonné, the famous and infamous comedian who has built a career around his visceral anti-Semitism, and "philosopher" Alain Soral, who has built a career around his... visceral anti-Semitism, will be running together in the European elections, on a ballot for Ile-de-France, which includes Paris and its environs. This, of course, is the region of France most likely to cast votes for their party – the Anti-Zionist Party or PAS.
Report finds substantial discrimination with African muslims in Malta
Times of Malta 28 May 2009
Nearly half the African Muslims in Malta, interviewed for an EU Fundamental Rights Agency report on discrimination with Muslims, reported discrimination when looking for employment.
Fjordman: Why Christians Accepted Greek Natural Philosophy, But Muslims Did Not
Brussels Journal 26 May 2009
By Fjordman
My main thesis in this essay is that Christianity was a Greco-Roman religion in a way which Islam never was or could be. Islam was founded outside of the Greco-Roman world. Christianity was founded within this world, and gradually grew accustomed to Greco-Roman culture.
