Press Interpreter

10/22/05 -- Islamism. There are close to 100 000 koran-schools in the three countries of the Indian sub-continent. All are not extremist, but many cultivate intolerance.

How do fundamentalist Muslims form their ideology, which rejects other religions, lives in a mentally autistic universe, and which rejects modernity? The phenomenon has touched almost 700 million believers in the world, reproduces itself earliest in Koran-schools (madrassas), which have hardly evolved their education for three centuries. To understand this mind closing education we have visited fifteen madrassas in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

06/13/05 -- The singer has been found not guilty on ten counts which had been weighing on him. He had been accused of, amongst other things, having sexually abused a minor of 13 in his Neverland ranch, that he had given him alcohol to drink in order to achieve his ends and had attempted to sequester the family to conceal it. He was risking up to 18 months in prison. The singer, aged 46, had not stopped claiming his innocence.