A quota de homens da Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom's chief human resources officer had long wanted to increase the percentage of female employees. He says the company's decision to introduce a 30-percent quota for women in management isn't just about Telekom's reputation, but about ensuring that it gets and promotes the best-qualified people. [...]

Ver notícia no Der Spiegel.

Peace Village, enclave islâmico no Canadá

À une cinquantaine de kilomètres au nord de Toronto, des musulmans ahmadis bâtissent leur ville depuis dix ans, à l'écart des banlieues traditionnelles.

L'appel à la prière tombe sur Peace Village, terre d'islam en plein Canada. Les 3 000 habitants y sont tous musulmans. Des Pakistanais pour la plupart, mais aussi des Bengalis ou des Nigériens. Comme tous les vendredis, à 13h30 tapantes, la foi transporte ce petit peuple voilé ou moustachu de l'avenue Abdus Salam vers une immense mosquée blanche. Les dômes d'acier de Bait'ul Al Islam dominent l'horizon. Des croyantes, vêtues du niqab noir ou de voiles aux couleurs chatoyantes, se pressent vers la mosquée. Journaux en ourdou sous le bras, les hommes vêtus du ­salwar kameez, longue chemise traditionnelle pakistanaise, entrent par une porte séparée. La mosquée fait salle comble. Un millier de fidèles se tourne vers La Mecque. [...]

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Baile de finalistas de uma estudante lésbica no Mississipi acaba em tribunal

Dealing with a lesbian in their midst has proved a challenge too far for school officials in rural Itawamba County, Mississippi.

When e-mails poured in from around the world branding them “hillbilly idiots” for barring her from wearing a tuxedo to the school prom and slow-dancing with her girlfriend, they realised that they had an even bigger problem on their hands.

Yesterday, clutching documents and accompanied by lawyers, they went before a federal judge to defend their handling of the Constance McMillen case, telling how, in denying the teenager the right to dress up and take her same-sex sweetheart to the dance, they had brought a deluge of criticism on their community of 3,882 people. [...]

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Casamento: um direito inalienável?

In a ruling last week, the European Court of Justice ruled the income requirement for Dutch residents to bring their partners from abroad was a clear violation of European laws for family reunification.

Since 2004, anybody who wants to bring his or her partner to live in the Netherlands needs to earn at least 120 percent of the minimum wage. This condition effectively makes it impossible for people on welfare to marry a foreigner and live together in the Netherlands, but also excludes students and those working part-time [...].

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Aumento do casamento entre primos nos imigrantes muçulmanos ‘está a colocar a saúde das crianças em risco’

The dangers of marriage between first cousins are to be highlighted by a leading professor, with a warning that their children are at risk of genetic defects.

Baroness Deech, a family law professor and crossbencher, will call next week for a “vigorous” public campaign to deter the practice, which is prevalent in Muslim and immigrant communities and on the rise. She will reignite a debate started five years ago when Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley, drew attention to the number of disabled babies being born in the town and called for cousin marriage to be stopped.

Fifty-five per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins and in Bradford the figure is 75 per cent. British Pakistanis represent 3 per cent of all births in Britain but one third of children with recessive disorders. [...]

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Soldados gay holandeses responsáveis pelo massacre de Srebrenica, segundo general norte-americano

The Dutch government condemned the comments by Gen John Sheehan, a former Nato commander and senior marine officer, as outrageous.

Gen Sheehan made the remarks at a Senate hearing where he argued against plans by President Barack Obama to end a ban on allowing gays to serve openly in the US military.

Gen Sheehan said that after the end of the Cold War, European militaries changed and concluded "there was no longer a need for an active combat capability."

He said this process included "open homosexuality" which resulted in "a focus on peacekeeping operations because they did not believe the Germans were going to attack again or the Soviets were coming back.

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Quotas ilusórias para as mulheres na Índia

Le projet de loi sur les quotas de femmes [voté par la Chambre haute le 9 mars, la Women’s Reservation Bill réserve un tiers des sièges de députés aux femmes, au niveau fédéral et régional] est le premier texte en faveur des femmes à se heurter à une forte opposition des députés. Son adoption risque en effet d’affecter le destin de tous les hommes politiques indiens. Si la Chambre basse [Lok Sabha] décide de voter à bulletins secrets [et non à main levée, comme ce fut le cas à la Chambre haute], Mme Gandhi, présidente du Parti du Congrès, et les dirigeants du BJP (parti nationaliste indien), qui ont donné comme con­signe l’approbation du texte, découvriront à quel point les députés de leur propre parti lui sont hostiles. [...]

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‘Criminosos marroquinos‘ podem ser juventude frustrada

In no time at all, “criminal Moroccans” has become commonplace terminology. Last week, the Dutch national police force issued a report on “Moroccan perpetrator populations” in Dutch municipalities. The report included new measures quantifying the Moroccan problem in several Dutch cities, including the local “Moroccan strain” and “problem hierarchy”.

The study was intended to give the Dutch government a fair method of distributing extra funds between municipalities. As it turns out, the city of Gouda leads the pack when it comes to these new crime statistics. One out of three perpetrators here is Moroccan, corresponding to 0.55 percent of Gouda’s entire population. [...].

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A Turquia ameaça deportar imigrantes arménios

Le premier ministre turc a prévenu qu'il pourrait déporter jusqu'à 100 000 Arméniens vivant en Turquie sans citoyenneté, après que les législateurs américains et suédois aient adopté des résolutions qualifiant les massacres d'Arméniens par les Turcs ottomans au moment de la Première guerre mondiale de génocide. [...]

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Actrizes brancas britânicas objecto de campanha para abandonar Bollywood na Índia

Stars including Alice Patten, the daughter of Lord Patten of Barnes, and Hazel Crowney, a former model from Kent, have been accused of stealing jobs from local girls.

Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), a Mumbai nationalist street gang and political party which inspires terror throughout the city, has called on foreign white actresses to go home [...].

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Treze cristãos massacrados perto da cidade de Jos na Nigéria

Treize personnes, dont des femmes et des enfants, ont été tuées la nuit dernière dans l'attaque d'un village près de Jos, dans le centre de Nigeria, théâtre de violences récurrentes entre chrétiens et musulmans, rapporte la radio d'Etat mercredi.

La plupart des victimes ont été tuées à coups de machette et trois cabanes ont été incendiées.

L'attaque qui s'est produite vers 01h30 (00h30 GMT) visait le village de Byei, dans la région de Riyom, à 30 kilomètres au sud de Jos, la capitale de l'Etat du Plateau, a précisé la radio citant le président de la municipalité de Riyom. [...]

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Professora que explicou que a Al-Qaeda é uma organização terrorista foi agredida por aluno

Un élève de troisième d'un collège ardéchois a été convoqué devant la justice pour avoir aspergé de gaz lacrymogène vendredi son enseignante d'Histoire qui venait d'expliquer qu'al-Qaïda était une organisation terroriste, a indiqué l'enseignante aujourd'hui.

Le parquet de Privas a confirmé l'agression, sans en préciser les circonstances. "Je venais d'expliquer que les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 étaient dus à l'organisation terroriste al-Qaïda, comme c'est écrit sur leur livre. Il s'est levé, a dit qu'al-Qaïda n'était pas terroriste, que les talibans non plus", a expliqué l'enseignante, également chef de ce petit établissement de Largentière. [...]

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Malásia critica a Suécia pela publicação dos cartoons

The Malaysian foreign minister has asked Sweden to take action against newspapers which reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog last week.

"Malaysia strongly denounces the reprinting of the caricature of Prophet Muhammad by three Swedish newspapers on 10 March 2010," foreign minister Anifah Aman said in an unusually outspoken statement yesterday.

He said his country was concerned that such "despicable acts disregard the
sensitivity of the Muslim world in the name of freedom of expression."

"Such irresponsible acts are provocative and offensive in nature and hence
it is totally unacceptable," he added. [...]

Ver notícia do jornal The Local

Casal britânico condenado a um mês de prisão por se beijar num restaurante do Dubai

Ayman Najafi, 24, a marketing consultant who lives in Dubai, and Charlotte Adams, 25, an estate agent from North London, were said to have been touching each other and kissing passionately as they dined with friends in a beachfront restaurant.

They were arrested and sentenced to a month in prison after which they were told they would be deported. [...]

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Dois muçulmanos acusados de tentar matar o cartoonista sueco Lars Vilks

Two Muslim men were charged last night in the Irish Republic in connection with an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose artwork outraged many Muslims after he depicted the Prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog in 2007.

Algerian Ali Charafe Damache and Abdul-Salam Mansour al-Jehani, from Libya, were brought before a specially convened court in Waterford, south-east Ireland late last night [...]

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‘Ladies night‘ são discriminitórias na Flórida

Gainesville’s equal opportunity office will be notifying bar owners that “ladies night” drink specials violate a city ordinance banning discrimination.

A letter drafted by the city’s equal opportunity director, Cecil Howard, cites specials giving ladies two-for-one drinks and admitting them into bars free before 11 p.m. as violations. Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan said the letter will be sent in an effort to get bar owners to drop such specials.

“Most people voluntarily come into compliance,” she said.

Members of the University of Florida’s Community Alcohol Coalition — which brings together city, law enforcement and UF officials — discussed the effort Friday. Hanrahan warned the group that it could lead bars to expand drink specials to cover both men and women. [...]

Ver notícia no The Gainesville Sun

Três muçulmanos detidos por supeita de disparo sobre um gay em São Francisco

Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday.

Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam, all 24, are scheduled to be arraigned today in San Francisco Superior Court. They are free on $50,000 bond apiece.

The victim of Friday's attack was walking on the 3200 block of 16th Street near Guerrero Street about 10 p.m. when a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire with a BB rifle, police said.

The man was hit in the face but refused medical treatment, said Lt. Lyn Tomioka, spokeswoman for the Police Department. He reported the shooting to police, who pulled over a car that matched the assailants' vehicle a short distance away and arrested the three Hayward men.

Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. [...]

Ver notícia no San Francisco Chronicle

Jornal dinamarquês Politiken pede desculpa pela publicação dos cartoons

Danish newspaper enters deal with organisations and offers apology for offending them with images of the Prophet Mohammed Politiken newspaper, one of 11 Danish newspapers that reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, has issued an apology to eight Muslim organisations for offending...

Opposition leaders Helle-Thorning Schmidt of the Social Democrats and Villy Søvndal of the Socialist People’s Party called the move ‘outrageous’ and said deals should not be done involving freedom of speech.

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Vítimas do Islão radical: os mártires modernos do Cristianismo

The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world. Paradoxically, their greatest hope could come from moderate political Islam.

Kevin Ang is cautious these days. He glances around, taking a look to the left down the long row of stores, then to the right toward the square, to check that no one is nearby. Only then does the church caretaker dig out his key, unlock the gate, and enter the Metro Tabernacle Church in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

The draft of air stirs charred Bible pages. The walls are sooty and the building smells of scorched plastic. Metro Tabernacle Church was the first of 11 churches set on fire by angry Muslims -- all because of one word. "Allah," Kevin Ang whispers. [...]

Ver notícia no Der Spiegel

Pregador islâmico que chamou aos judeus ‘imundície’ vai falar numa Universidade de Londres

A London university has been condemned for inviting an Islamic preacher with anti-Semitic and homophobic views to give a lecture to students.

Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick is due to speak at King's College's Strand campus at six tonight.

Peter Tatchell, of pressure group Outrage, accused university bosses of cowardice and “complicity with fundamentalism” by giving the preacher a public platform.

Sheikh Quick has denounced the “filth” of Jews and once gave a televised lecture in which he said the Islamic position on homosexuality is “death”.

He added: “Muslims are going to have to take a stand [against homosexuals] and it's not enough to call names.”

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Centro de emprego na Suécia condenado por discriminação de homem muçulmano

The Public Employment Centre has been sentenced to pay 60 000 SEK to a Muslim man. The reason is that they have denied him his regular unemployment benefits after he refused to shake hand with a woman at his presumptive trainee-job.

In 2006, the 24 year old Alen Malik Crnalic applied for a trainee-place as welder at a company in Älmhult, south Sweden. But during the work interview, he refused to shake hands with the female CEO. As an active Muslim, Malik Crnalik is not allowed to touch women outside his family. Instead he greeted through placing his right hand on his chest and bowed [...].

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O debate sobre os minaretes na Alemanha sobe de tom

A small Muslim community in a western German town would like to build a minaret on its mosque. But the plan has triggered passionate opposition from locals, many of whom rely on rhetoric from the extreme right in railing against the "symbol of Islam's quest for power."

"Willkommen," reads the stencilled print on the wall along the riverside boardwalk in the small town of Völklingen. Not content to just welcome its German guests, however, the message is translated into a number of languages. "Bienvenue ... bienvenidos ... velkommen," it reads. And "hosgeldiniz," a nod to the city's substantial Turkish population. [...]

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Manifesto muçulmano para a Noruega

Muslims in Norway need to know how they are supposed to be, think and act. This applies both in relation to daily circumstances and to greater questions.
”Good earth gives rich produce... And poor earth gives unhealthy produce. (The Koran 7, 58) Muslims shall be good earth, and that should be noticed by their actions.
God is the highest authority. He is in fact the only authority. No one shall bend to anyone but Him.
Norwegian authorities have power in this country. Muslims shall respect this. The authorities determine laws, which the inhabitants must adhere to. But the State is secular. The authorities can also be this way. Muslims shall not adopt thoughts and norms, from the State or others, that are not compatible with Islam. [...]

Ver texto no Koranen.no

Imam em Espanha acusado de perseguir mulher por não usar véu

The prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail sentence for Mohammed Benbrahim, a Moroccan, on charges of slander, coercion and menacing behaviour against fellow Moroccan Muslim Fatima Ghailan. The two live in Cunit, a town in Catalonia, a region with a sizable Muslim population.

The court filed similar charges against the president of the Islamic Association in Cunit and lesser ones against Mr Benbrahim's wife and his daughter. In a statement to the court in the nearby town of Vendrells, Mrs Ghailan, 31, said Benbrahim had harassed her and campaigned to have her removed from her job in the town hall's cultural department purely because she had a job, dressed in a Western style, drove a car and associated with non-Muslims. [...]

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Cristãos coptas perseguidos no Egipto

Making up about 10% of the population in Egypt, most Egyptian Christians are Coptic Christians. The Coptic branch of Christianity is one of the oldest surviving branches of Christianity. The Coptic Church bears similarities to the Eastern Orthodox. Some of the oldest extant Christian texts come from the Coptic religion. Despite their crucial importance to Christian discourse and religious ideas, the suffering this branch of Christianity experiences in Egypt is not well documented or publicized.

Late at night on Christmas Eve Mass in Naj Hammadi southern Egypt on January 7^th there was a vicious drive-by shooting which resulted in the deaths of six church goers and one security official. [...]

Ver notícia no The Sop