Netherlands: Feeling Dutch dependant on job and language 0
Netherlands: Feeling Dutch dependent on job and language Being fluent in Dutch plays an important role in whether non-Western immigrants feel Dutch.
Germany: Stormy debate about anti-Muslim book 0
Germany: Stormy debate about anti-Muslim book (A protest against Sarrazin: ’shut up’) Thilo Sarrazin’s new anti-immigration/anti-Muslim book continues to make waves in Germany. The Bundesbank wants to fire him and his party, the Social Democrats, wants to expel him.
Wilders: ‘Our culture … is better than the retarded Islamic culture’ 0
Wilders: ‘Our culture …
Netherlands: Somali refugee worked for al-Shabab in asylum center 0
Netherlands: Somali refugee worked for al-Shabab in asylum center Last year Dutch authorities arrested American-Somali Mahamud Said Omar by request of the American authorities. Omar is suspected of being a key figure in al-Shabab activities in the US, and specifically Minneapolis. His extradition case is still making its way through the Dutch judicial system.
Netherlands: New Muslim broadcaster loses licence 0
Netherlands: New Muslim broadcaster loses licence Via Expatica : The Dutch Media Authority has revoked the licence of Muslim broadcasting corporation OUMA Broadcasting Corporation Universal Muslim Association even before its first broadcast. The Authority says OUMA will lose its licence as a result of a rift between the two parties which formed the new broadcasting company: SMON Foundation Muslim Broadcasting Corporation Netherlands and the OUMA foundation, which was formed by the organisation Academica Islamica
Netherlands: Ramadan celebrations changing 0
Netherlands: Ramadan celebrations changing The way Muslims celebrate Ramadan in the Netherlands has been changing in recent years.
Netheralands: AIVD ran extremist website 0
Netherlands: AIVD ran extremist website De Telegraaf reports (NL) that even the American security services were not aware that this was not a real extremist website. The website was closed down since nobody wanted to take responsibility when it would come out that the AIVD facilitated Jihad-hackers.
Netherlands: Gays try to exploit minors, get extorted by Moroccans 0
Netherlands: Gays try to exploit minors, get extorted by Moroccans The minors who extorted money from gays in the area of Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands, apparently did so to dozens of victims. Five victims lodged complaints by the police, but according to the local branch of the gay interest organization COC, many of the victims don’t dare go to the police
EU: Islam in Europe now has strong local leadership 0
EU: Islam in Europe now has strong local leadership Via The National : There are major changes underway for Muslims in Europe. They go beyond threats to ban the burqa in France or plans to build the largest mosque on the continent in Marseille. They go beyond the Dutch elections last month, which doubled the number of parliamentarians from the anti-Islam Freedom Party
Netherlands: Muslims upset pig picture was removed 0
Netherlands: Muslims upset pig picture was removed About a month ago, a Muslim local councilor in the city of Venray got upset at a sculpture depicting a pig , and demanded that the feelings of Muslims be taken into account in the future. Is it that preposterous, then, to assume that Muslims would be insulted by a picture of a pig? It’s a no-win situation for non-Muslims.