Happy New Year's 2011!

Happy New Year's 2011!

2010 started and ended with terror attacks in Denmark, both related to the Danish Mohammed cartoons. I wish us all a happy and quieter 2011.

I've considered how to best present an overview of the past year. Like every other year, it's been very eventful. I don't have the time and patience to sit and summarize the year.. though two issues come to mind: the French National Assembly approving a ban on burqas and the first ever suicide bombing in Sweden.

One (easy) way of looking at the year, is to look at the top posts of every month:

January

Paris: Girl beaten for chatting on MSN

February

Norway: Allah will decide if it's peaceful

March

Netherlands: Mosque smeared with blood

April

Sweden: Muslim community fears violence after attack on elderly couple

May

Norway/Sweden: When the locals become a minority

June

Paris: Anti-Islamisation 'pork and wine' party slammed

July

BREAKING: Three arrested in Norway for terror plot

August

Norway: Mosque wants restaurant to stop serving beer

September

Copenhagen: Jyllands-Posten possible target of terror attack

October

Norway: No Saudi mosques, as long as there's no freedom of religion in Saudi-Arabia

November

Utrecht: "They pick gays, because Geert Wilders stands up for them"

December

Bosnia Mufti: 'Halal food movement can lead Muslims to rule world economy'