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...lives in Paris. "We have a conservative government that, rather than encouraging society to change, only changes things when they are absolutely sure they won't upset anyone." Under French law, Bedos cannot marry his partner of six years, 42-year-old Gilles Kleitz. Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium allow same-sex couples to wed, but France and Britain recognize only a form of civil union. And no country has yet drafted legislation that would legitimize the family structure Bedos and Kleitz have adopted. Together with Nathalie Jobard, 42, and Sophie Rajzman, 38, they are parents to daughter Louise...
...million by 2010 is already evident in and around major cities. "Morocco is utterly unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago - and in another 10, it will be totally transformed," says Hassan Belmaheb, a 64-year-old retired Moroccan Bell Telephone factory worker who has lived in Belgium since 1964 and bought a Rabat holiday home in 2002. Meanwhile, under an open-skies accord between the European Union and Morocco, current frequent daily flights between Europe and Moroccan cities will expand as low-cost carriers open routes. "I can get from Paris or London to Marrakech flying faster than...
...ARRESTED. Seventeen suspected neo-Nazi extremists; for allegedly planning a series of terrorist attacks on national institutions; in the Flanders region of Belgium. According to police, most of the detainees are soldiers believed to belong to a faction of the far-right Flemish group Blood and Honour. Raids on army barracks and homes found weapons including a homemade bomb, rifles and land-mine detonators. The federal prosecutor's office described the suspects as people "who clearly express themselves through racism, xenophobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism...
...Krauthammer explains that Hamas wants to recover any lands Muslims have conquered by force because those lands belong to them forever, in keeping with an Islamic precept. Are Americans really any different? Don't they want to keep forever those lands they took from the Indians? Malcolm Subhan Tervuren, Belgium Krauthammer invoked the wisdom of history by alluding to "the century-old Arab-Israeli dispute." The history lesson he conveniently omitted, however, is 15 centuries of anti-Semitism by Christian Europe, without which there might never have been an Arab-Israeli dispute. Europe needs to take more responsibility...
...raised the troubling possibility that jihadist groups may be drawing some of their most committed operatives from the pool of new believers. "When converts are trying to find their way in their new religion, they are vulnerable to the influence of extremists," says Didier-Yacine Beyens, former president of Belgium's Muslim Executive and a convert. "They can sometimes be persuaded by radical preachers who claim to represent the 'true' voice of Islam, when in fact they represent nothing of the sort...