The Dutch parliament on Tuesday voted to ban ritual slaughter in landmark animal rights legislation that has been compared to Nazi persecution of the Jews by the country’s Chief Rabbi. In a rare show of unity, representatives of one million Dutch Muslims and 40,000 Jews have condemned the prohibition of halal […]
The cabinet on Friday voted to ban burkas and other face-covering garments from public places. Once the legislation has passed through parliament, the Netherlands will become the third country in Europe to ban the Islamic garment, after France and Belgium. The ban will apply to people wearing balaclavas and full-frontal […]
This morning’s papers are dominated by two events: skater Sven Kramer takes his fifth European title and the queen donned a headscarf to visit a mosque in Abu Dhabi and – predictably – raised the ire of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. All of this morning’s papers (except nrc.next) lead with a […]
Even more trade and even better relations; that is what Queen Beatrix’s state visit to the United Arab Emirates is intended to achieve. Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Maxime Verhagen made this clear during a meeting with CEOs of Dutch and UAE businesses on the second day of the Queen’s visit. […]
The burqa ban passed by the cabinet today is drawing mostly negative reactions, both among Muslim organisations and political parties. A large Turkish interest group, IOT, says the government hasn’t considered the ban’s consequences. “Women who currently only venture outside, or are allowed to go outside, wearing a burqa, will […]
Christian Democrats are worried that ‘compassion’ sounds like an anti-government slogan, Trouw reports. The coalition partners are heading for a showdown with Geert Wilders over cutbacks. Health insurance companies have been paying for therapy to ‘cure’ gays. School grades are falling as pushy parents insist their kids should study […]
On 19 October 2011, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat issued a Press Release entitled ‘World Muslim Leader sends warning to Dutch Politician Geert Wilders’ (copy attached in PDF on Alislam.org). The […]
Government By Associated Press, THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government is discussing compensation for relatives of men executed by Dutch forces in a notorious 1947 massacre during Indonesia’s battle […]
The international press reported that in August the Netherlands paid to the World Health Organization one hundred million Euros taken from confiscated ‘Ghadaffi Funds’ Approximately two month later a visit to the Ministry of Health warehouse in Benghazi showed no sign of WHO medicines. Donations of medicines had reached from […]
The former head of the Dutch secret services has criticised Dutch anti-terror legislation introduced in response to the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, saying several have proved ineffectual while others have hardly been used. One example, according to former AIVD head Sybrand van Hulst, are the […]
By ABDULLAH BAJUBAIR | AL-EQTISADIAH A study conducted by a number of Dutch researchers revealed that optimism enables men to avoid heart diseases and live a healthier life. The research was led by famous Dutch psychiatrist and expert at the Dutch Psychological Health Institution Dr. Erik Giltay. The study said […]
Source: The New York Times By Steven Erlanger Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who admitted to mass killings last month, was obsessed with Islam and had high praise for the Netherlands, an important test case in the resurgence of the anti-immigrant right in north in northern Europe. The killings could […]
In a post dated June 24, 2007, Pamela Geller, a leading light of the counter-jihadi movement, posted the following on her web site: “I am running an email I received from an Atlas reader in Norway. It is devastating in its matter-of-factness. “Well, yes, the situation is worsening. Stepping up from 29 […]
The 1,500 page document which appears to have been written by […] the Norwegian arrested for killing at least 92 people in a bombing and shooting spree, contains many references to Islam in the Netherlands. The document, which includes many references to newspaper reports and right-wing blogs, refers several times to […]
A court in the Netherlands has ruled the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. The Dutch were in charge of the UN “safe area” in July 1995 when Bosnian Serb forces overran it and killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslim […]
Dutch lawmakers Tuesday approved an animal-rights measure that would ban Jewish and Muslim methods of ritual slaughter, the Parliament press office said. It must now go to the Senate for a vote, which will likely happen in September, press officer Leon Van Schie told CNN. The Dutch Party for the […]
http://rnw.bbvms.com/p/embedPlayout/c/1153538.js Addition: Man replaced ‘Muslims’ with ‘Jews’ in Wilders pamphlet, got arrested On March 24, 2008, a man was arrested in Amsterdam for ‘making discrimanatory statements against Jews’. He had taken a text from Geert Wilders and replaced the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ with ‘Judaism’ and ‘Jews’. This resulted in […]
Image: monument for the Dutch workers who were working on the dams to protect the country. The following is an extract from the friday Sermon of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), delivered from Nunspeet, the Netherlands, on August 24, 2007: As most of you must already know, a politician from here (Holland) […]
Anti-Islam campaigner and MP Geert Wilders has been found not guilty of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and non-westerm immigrants by judges in Amsterdam. The court ruled that some of Wilders’ statements were insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptibility, but that they were made in the broad […]