An ARTE Tv programme translated into english:
The forgotten slaves from Africa:
L'original En français
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKr57MqHnrM&sns=em
"A commission set up by countries in the Caribbean announced on Tuesday that it planned to sue Norway for its involvement in plantation slavery from the 17th to the 19th century."The Local, NorwayIt is a trend to sue states for their historical involvement in slavery. The need for entitlement shouldn't stop at the door of Western Europe or the USA, for their slavery legacy. The law of reciprocity should be implemented fairly and also cover Islamic slavery as well.
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“Allowing activities that promote occasions that are strange to our Islamic society is ridiculous and an offence to our religious teachings,” MP Hamdan Al-Azmi, Kuwait. Why did he make this statement? KUWAIT: A tribal lawmaker demanded government action to stop Christmas celebrations in Kuwait.Imagine the same situation in an European country but directed at other non-Christian celebrations? What would be the response? An outcry for sure or a riot. This is a clear example of the double standards being played out across the EU, North America and Australasia.
"Even if Christmas WAS the birthday of Isa/Jesus (as), this is not something to be celebrated as, in Islam, Muslims are not supposed to celebrate birthdays". For more "enlighted reasons why Muslims don't/ mustn't partake in Christmas festivities- LINK
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

Compare his statement with that of the Greek response by Konstantinos Koutras;"Erdogan said that Thrace is very important to Turkey.During the municipal elections tour he said that “Thrace is also Thessaloniki, Komotini and Xanthi. It’s Kardzhali and Vardar. If we go a little further it’s Skopje and Pristina, it’s Sarajevo.”
He continued: “Thrace is the living witness of our common history with Europe. It represents our past in the region. Today, Thrace is in the center of all our Balkan relations along with Adrianople, Tekirdağ, Kırklareli and of course Instanbul.” Source: Greek Reporter, December 2013
The collapse of the Soviet system has strengthened the strategic position of the Muslim world from the following perspectives:2a. 1.6 million migrants coming to Turkey (mostly from the Balkans) between 1923 and the mid-1990s. Getting to Zero Report,The Transatlantic Academy.
(iii) the geographical link of Muslim communities in the Balkans (Bosnia-Albania-Kosova-Macedonia-Western Thrace) has become a significant regional access for
Muslims to reach Europe;
Hagia Sophia had served as a Christian church for hundreds of years before Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. (In fact nearly a 1000 years).It would not be the last conversion from church to mosque in Turkey in recent times.
In recent weeks it was announced that the Monastery of Stoudios — the largest Byzantine-era monastery in Istanbul — would be converted into a mosque next year.It is indeed a litmus test being played by the Turkish authorities to gauge the reaction internally as well as internationally. It must be remembered that this is just one episode of the "path towards a more Islamification" of the country, specifically a more conservative Sunni trend.
On the night to Thursday, the Arabic words “Allahu Akbar” were painted on the portals of several churches in the city centre of Augsburg. According to local police, the Cathedral, the Church of St. Maurice and the Protestant Ullrich Church are affected. At the Cathedral both the north and the south portals were painted with white letters. Hard to imagine a mosque would have been affected. Claudia Roth (Member of Parliament for the Green Party) probably would have organized a candlelight vigil in her hometown because of an “Islamophobic attack” and would have called for an alliance against fascism. However, it were churches, and thus, that “little night time graffiti prank” is only worth small footnotes in the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine (with photos) and the broadcasting centre BR and will soon be forgotten.