The poll was conducted to shed light on what many in the public think of the recent debate between the mainstream politicians and the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD). It was former German President Christian Wulff who typified the mainstream political opinion when he said, “Islam is a part of Germany,” a claim later repeated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This is a view that has been rebuffed by the AfD who have recently voted on a new platform at their recent party conference which states clearly that Islam is not a thoroughly German belief.

A similar poll was conducted in France earlier this week which saw French from the left and right end of the political spectrum reject the idea of Islam in general, following the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. The poll showed a huge change of attitudes in France compared to the past. In 1989 when a similar poll was conducted around 33 per cent of those surveyed were favourable to new mosques being built compared to now when the number has shrunk to only 13 per cent.

In Eastern Europe Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban rejected the idea of Islamisation in his country entirely. He said that the constitution of Hungary forbids Islamisation saying it protects Hungary’s culture and language and added, “we have the right to choose whom we want and don’t want to live with.”

“Today, when our warriors take part in combat operations in the Middle East, we know that this is not an aggression, occupation or an attempt to impose some ideology on other people, this has nothing to do with supporting certain governments,” Patriarch Kirill said as he held the Friday mass at the major Moscow memorial to those who fought in World War II. “This is the fight against the fearsome foe that is currently not only spreading evil through the Middle East but also threatening the whole of mankind.” He added: “Today, we call this evil terrorism.”

The Patriarch also said that terrorists were targeting innocent civilians to intimidate their opponents and to crush any resistance to their doctrines, causing a great number of casualties and human suffering. “This is why the war on terrorism today is the holy war today. I pray to God that people all over the world understand this and stop dividing terrorists into good and bad ones as well as connecting the war on terror with their own goals, that are often non-declared yet strongly present on the political agenda,” the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church said.

He also told Orthodox believers to pray for the Russian military to remain faithful to the spiritual course that only allows the use of armed forces against evil, for justice and to save human lives. In February this year, the chief foreign spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church said in a press interview that global leaders should overcome political dissent and unite in fighting international terrorism as the challenge to mankind at large.

But a commitment to remembrance spread far beyond the community of those most affected by the Nazis’ industrial-scale campaign to eradicate the Jews. In recent decades, Holocaust commemoration, particularly in the West, became a widespread cultural phenomenon. Countless books, lectures, and documentaries have been devoted to the topic. Academia is replete with Holocaust studies programs.

The world’s conscience was shocked, after the fact, by the scope and ferocity of the Holocaust. In the face of such monumental evil, “Never Forget,” like “Never Again,” may have seemed the only possible decent response. “After the war,” Elie Wiesel said, “we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka… to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.”

But it wasn’t. Accounts of what was done in Treblinka did not prevent mass murder in Cambodia or Bosnia or Rwanda. Holocaust remembrance has not inoculated human beings against treating other human beings with brutality. Museums and films and college courses about the Shoah have not made genocide unthinkable — not even another Jewish genocide, as the regimes in Iran and Gaza frequently make clear.

Holocaust remembrance has not prevented the onset of Holocaust forgetfulness.

Officials say the fire, now burning for a week, grew more slowly at the weekend than first feared. Firefighters held key areas and the blaze now covers about 1,610 sq km (620 sq miles). But it could be months before the fire is fully brought under control. Officials warned only significant rainfall could fully halt its spread. The fire is being blown east away from communities, but still threatens to cross from Alberta province into neighbouring Saskatchewan.

The fire is expected to be the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, with insurance costs alone already running into billions of dollars. Fort McMurray is in the heart of Canada's oil sands country, and the region has the world's third-largest reserves of oil. Workers at major oil companies have also been evacuated. As much as a quarter of the country's oil production has been halted by the fire, raising concerns about the effect on the Canadian economy.

“I don’t know how else to say it: The whole world is counting on us to win this thing,” wrote Deputy Communications Director Christina Reynolds in an email to supporters. “And we owe it to them to step up.” Trump’s domination on the domestic political battlefield has changed the dynamics of the Presidential race to such effect that it’s not just Republicans and Democrats who are terrified of what the off-the-cuff candidate may do should he be elected, but global leaders as well.

Following Trump’s de facto nomination this week, none other than the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a card carrying member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, has weighed in, closely echoing Clinton’s warnings suggesting that the whole world has a Trump problem. Like a good globalist, Blair couldn’t have chosen a better word to describe the political outcry taking place in Europe, the United States and elsewhere. To the globalist establishment this is an insurgency.

It’s clear that world leaders, including Hillary Clinton, understand there is a massive change brewing in the global populace. From East to West the established order is under threat. But as should be clear from their speeches, statements and actions, the establishment’s intent is to maintain the status quo. And that means they must stop Trump, Sanders and anti-establishment candidates running for elections in other parts of the world at any cost.

When it emerges that Mr Flanagan has been copying the text of the documents in front of him, he is ejected from the room and told to contact the Chairman of the Committee on International Trade, Bernd Lange. Mr Lange’s staff tells Mr Flanagan: “The fact that these confidential documents can be consulted in the premises of the European Parliament has been a great achievement for this institution and has enabled us MEPs to better exert our role of parliamentary scrutiny of these negotiations”.

But Mr Flanagan asserts that there is no scrutiny, as MEPs as elected representatives of the people have no say in the documents or negotiations, but are simply allowed to read the details that have already been agreed upon by European Union and United States negotiators. “The texts I’m going to view, they have already been decided on,” he says, adding: “It’s important to point out that all I do is get a chance to read them”.

Last month US President Barack Obama travelled to the United Kingdom and Germany, claiming the UK would be ineligible for a deal like TTIP if the country votes to leave the European Union. Breitbart London has also reported on how TTIP-style deals allow major corporations to sue national government for democratically-mandated policies.

Mr Juncker claimed the “highly exciting” period which led to the catastrophic decision to create the Euro was now “totally gone” and had been replaced by division caused by certain countries wanting to look after their own people rather than the EU project. His comments may be interpreted as a poorly disguised attack on David Cameron and Britain, which is holding a referendum on its membership of the 28-nation bloc on June 23.

They are also likely to alarm pro-democracy campaigners after providing yet further evidence of the EU’s lurch towards federal centralisation and away from respecting the rights of individual member states’ right to self-determination.

The Vote Leave campaign blasted: "Juncker sees democracy as an inconvenience for his European Project." Mr Juncker's remarks come amid a series of deeply worrying EU initiatives which Brexit campaigners have warned will severely dent British sovereignty, including a drive to create an EU army and plans to station Euro police on our streets.

In a speech on the “State of the European Union” delivered yesterday, Mr Juncker said: “In former times, all those implied in the project were full-time Europeans. Now we have too many part-time Europeans. That is a problem because some of our colleagues in the European Council are listening exclusively to their national opinion.”

“And if you are listening to your national opinion, you are not developing what should be common European sense: a feeling for the need we have to put together our efforts. We are observing an increasing gap between public opinions and the European policy-makers. Unfortunately there is no European public opinion - the public opinions are still divided in national categories.”

His comments come amid a heightening resolve amongst Brussels bureaucrats to accelerate the pace of European federalisation. Spurred on by the Euro crisis and the spiralling migrant chaos, EU leaders are pushing through ever-closer integration in a number of areas from defence to security and border control.

But the German population has a very different one. More than two-thirds of Germans reject the planned trans-Atlantic free trade agreement.

And even in circles within Merkel's cabinet, the belief that TTIP will ever become a reality in its currently planned form is disappearing. That's because on Monday morning, Greenpeace published classified documents from the closed-door negotiations. Even if the papers only convey the current state of negotiations and do not document the end results, they still confirm the worst suspicions of critics of TTIP.

The leaks have resulted in a failed attempt to bypass 800 million European citizens as they negotiate the world's largest bilateral free trade agreement. From the very beginning, the government underestimated the level of resistance these incursions on virtually all aspects of life would unleash among the people.

What began as a diffuse discomfort over opaque backroom dealings grew into a true public initiative, especially in Germany. It was fueled by an international alliance of non-government organizations that has acted in a more professional and networked way than anything that has come before.

Invoking the memory of the EU founding fathers' pursuit of integration in the aftermath of World War II, the pontiff said they inspired because they had "dared to change radically the models" that had led to war. "Today more than ever, their vision inspires us to build bridges and tear down walls," he told a Vatican audience including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been at the centre of the EU's attempts to resolve its biggest refugee crisis since the war ended in 1945.

And in a rhetorical flourish with echoes of Martin Luther-King's legendary 'I have a dream' speech, the pope said he dreamed of a new European humanism that embraced the poor, the elderly, the young and the sick. "I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime but a summons to greater commitment on behalf of the dignity of every human being," he said.

Francis's comments came in a speech as the 79-year-old pontiff was presented with the EU's Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unification.

Mr Khan, a former Labour cabinet minister, became Britain’s most powerful Muslim politician when he defeated the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith by a landslide. He gained more than 1.1 million votes, the single largest mandate for any individual politician in British history.

However Downing Street made it clear David Cameron would not be withdrawing his criticisms, suggesting the Tories may plan to use Mr Khan’s controversial past in future attempts to undermine him.

A Downing Street source said: “We don't back away from the questions we raised during the campaign.” Mr Khan’s election received a hostile response from some in the US, where the influential Drudge Report website described him as the “First Muslim Mayor Of Londonistan” and he was called “an Islamist” by one major TV network.

The blaze, the largest of some 40 wildfires burning across the province of Alberta, has forced some 88,000 residents, the entire population of Fort McMurray, to flee for safety. The weather, with temperatures on Saturday expected to rise as high as 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 Fahrenheit), was hindering efforts to fight the wildfire, said Matthew Anderson, a wildfire information official with the Alberta government.

The full extent of property losses in Fort McMurray has yet to be determined, but authorities said some 1,600 structures were believed to have been destroyed. One analyst estimated insurance losses could exceed C$9 billion ($7 billion). Entire neighborhoods were reduced to ruins, but most evacuees fled without knowing the fate of their own homes. The majority got away with few possessions, some forced to leave pets behind.