Residents of a quiet hamlet in northern Switzerland are up in arms over the government’s plans to convert a disused missile base into an asylum centre.

Local residents in Schmidrüti protested loudly on Wednesday against the plan to provide 100 beds for refugees and have already started collecting signatures for a petition, Tages Anzeiger reports.

The village is currently home to 90 people, but should the plans go through this number would more than double.

PARIS — French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who also holds the immigration portfolio, caused political uproar by claiming that not all civilisations are equal, with some more advanced than others.

"Contrary to what the left's relativist ideology says, for us all civilisations are not of equal value," Gueant on Saturday told a conference in the French parliament building, but closed to the media.

A Belgian politician has risked causing uproar among Muslims after starting a 'Women Against Islamization' campaign featuring his 19-year-old daughter wearing a burka and a bikini.

Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party, uses a shot of his daughter An-Sofie Dewinter in the dark blue bikini for the political campaign.

Muslims' right to rob non-Muslims has been established since their prophet (always "their", not "the") attracted fighters by allowing booty and rape when attacking non-Muslims. An anonymous Danish police officer now says that "immigrant" criminals are targeting non-Muslims because they want them to leave the area. I guess the non-Muslims could avoid such attacks if they paid jizya to the local mosque.

The use of Sharia, or Islamic religious law, is growing in Britain, with thousands of Muslims using it to settle disputes each year, but women's groups and some others are objecting.

''You must speak the truth, sister. Because Allah is listening to your every word, you can lie to us but not to Him.''

The bearded sheikh is instructing his first client of the day to explain why she is unhappy in her marriage.

España 2000 held a demonstration against the mosque in Spanish municipality Onda. 

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Friday lashed out at Qatar for investing in "Muslim" areas of French cities and for taking over Paris Saint-Germain football club.

"The massive investments which it has made in suburbs are made because of the very high proportion of Muslims who are in the French suburbs," she told reporters.

"I think this situation could be very dangerous," she said. "We are letting a foreign country choose its investments with regard to the religion of this or that part of the French population or of French territory."

Last month I made a call for there to be a proper Judicial Arbitration of the ownership of North Sea oil and gas, as between the respective national boundaries between the English and Scottish Nations.
I called for this in this blog entry, click here.

I was pleased to see that one of the leading Scottish newspapers, The Courier, reported this call (read the article and the 'interesting' comments here).

The leader of the far right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, has said she may not get enough backers to run in upcoming presidential elections scheduled for April and May.

Under French law, a candidate in the presidential election needs 500 signatures from elected officials in at least 30 different departments across the country or in France's overseas territories.