Brussels: Halal hotel rooms 0
Brussels: Halal hotel rooms Starting in 2011, hotels in Brussels could get a halal label.
Belgium: Prisoner goes amok after losing Ramadan privileges 0
Belgium: Prisoner goes amok after losing Ramadan privileges Another incident of extreme violence in a Limburg prison. Last Saturday a warden was beaten by Jamal El Khaoui (20), AKA ‘the Little Pirate’, in the juvenile prison in Tongeren, incapacitating him from work for six weeks. “It’s time that the management stops with policy of pampering detainees
Flanders: TV and radio by and for Muslims 0
Flanders: TV and radio by and for Muslims ( photo ) The Muslim Executive has been trying to get broadcasting time since 2006. ——— If it depends on the Muslim Executive, the public broadcasters will send radio and TV programs made by and for Muslims starting January 1st, 2011. The Executive, which represents all Muslims in Belgium, wants to be allowed to broadcast as a third party, reports De Morgen.
Brussels: Ramadan traffic 0
Brussels: Ramadan traffic In order to avoid the traditional traffic problems during Ramadan (August 11-September 10), the municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek came up with a traffic plan.
Norway/Belgium: Plans to offer sharia loans 0
Norway/Belgium: Plans to offer sharia loans Mohamed Boulif, a Brussels-based economist and Islamic finance consultant, plans to open a Muslim bank (NL) in Brussels, he told L’Echo.
Belgium: "A homosexual can’t become the Prime Minister of a future Islamic state" 0
Belgium: “A homosexual can’t become the Prime Minister of a future Islamic state” Via Flandernews : The Flemish commercial broadcaster VTM has received a letter containing death threats addressed to the man currently leading the negotiations for the formation of a new federal coalition Elio Di Rupo (Francophone socialist). VTM passed the letter on to the Federal Judicial Police in Brussels. A police spokesman told journalists that the threats are been taken seriously and that an investigation has been launched
Flanders: Public broadcaster confirming cliches about minorities 0
Flanders: Public broadcaster confirming cliches about minorities Minorities in Flanders think that public broadcaster VRT presents immigrants in an incorrect and biased manner, in fiction and non-fiction.
Netherlands/Belgium: The link between crime and ethnicity 0
Netherlands/Belgium: The link between crime and ethnicity In the Netherlands, half the Moroccan youth get in trouble with the police by the time they’re 22. A third of this group are repeat offenders with more than 5 incidents on their record, according to a new study published in the recent issue of the Tijdschrift voor Criminologie (Journal of Criminology).
Brussels: Killed the first Moroccan he saw 0
Brussels: Killed the first Moroccan he saw The Brussels prosecutors asked the correctional court to intern (in a mental hospital) Allan D., in his thirties. the man stabbed a Moroccan stranger at the Brussels Zuid station on January 2, 2010.
Belgium: 17% of weddings are mixed 0
Belgium: 17% of weddings are mixed A sixth of the weddings in Belgium today are ‘mixed’.