Netherlands: Muslim Brotherhood youth group The Federation of Islamic Organizations In Europe (FIOE), representing the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, has announced that its Dutch member organization has established a new youth and student organization.
London: Geert Wilders call to stop Muslim immigration In his speech to the British parliament Geert Wilders called to protect freedom of speech with a First Amendment like law, to end cultural relativism, to stop Muslim mass immigration, to deport criminal immigrants, ban the construction of new mosques and to get more Churchill-like leaders. Wilders’ entire press conference is available at Tundra Tabloids . His speech in parliament is below
Netherlands: Highly-educated Turks, Moroccans to vote for center-left parties In related news, the Dutch Muslim Party (NMP) announced it will participate in the parliamentary elections on June 9th. The party is participating in seven of the municipal elections this Wednesday. ( NL ) ————— Highly-educated Moroccan and Turkish youth will vote for D66 in the local Dutch elections, followed by PvdA (Labor) and GroenLinks (Greens)
Netherlands: Crown-Prince studied Islam So to speak. ———- Dutch crown-prince Willem-Alexander has been working for years on his image, with some success, according to a new biography. In 2008 and 2009 Willem-Alexander studied Islam for a year and a half.
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Netherlands: VVD party against transportation to religious schools Municipalities shouldn’t be the ones paying for the transportation of students to Reformed or Islamic schools outside the region, says the VDD party. The party wants to end travel allowances for parents who chose to send their children to schools further away for religious reasons. VVD-parliamentarian Ineke Dezentjé fears that the allowance is at the expense of transporting handicapped students to a school appropriate for them
Gouda: Municipality ‘bought off’ criminals Young Moroccan criminals who were involved in the snow ball incidents in Gouda, the Netherlands, were ‘bought off’ by the municipality in order to keep them off the streets around New Year’s. They got all together 2,250 Euro in an envelop pushed at them to organize a party of their own, says the municipal VVD faction on the basis of statement by the youth from the Gouda neighborhood of Oosterwei.
Netherlands: Geert Wilders trial As a reader pointed out, I’ve been remiss in not covering the trial of Geert Wilders. I had collected stories, but I felt I was going into data overload with it all. I will try to keep up in the future
Europe: Khat smuggling finances al-Shabaab Update: Small fixes. Muhammed was just a small fish, going across the Øresund (the Sound).
Netherlands: More immigrants speaking out against FGM In Austria, 6000-8000 women have undergone FGM. According to Social Democratic MP Petra Bayr efforts by health personnel, migrant organisations and religious leaders are bearing fruit.