Why Are So Many Far-Right Extremists Converting to Islam?
By Daniel Haqiqatjou – February 5, 2019. YES, please note, this article is from February 2019 Far-right, neo-Nazi, and white nationalist groups are not having a good time […]
Middle East has failed its people, says Dutch minister
HANI HAZAIMEH April 07, 2019 No jobs, no future in the region and the public sector is bloated, says Sigrid Kaag addressing WEF PLO’s chief negotiator says Trump administration had […]
Former lawmaker from far-right Dutch party PVV becomes Muslim after writing anti-Islam book
Source: Daily Sabah A former far-right Dutch politician announced on Monday that he has converted to Islam. Writing a book on Islam changed the views of Joram van Klaveren, 39, […]
Church service stops after 96 days as asylum family pardoned
Netherlands grants amnesty for family relying on medieval law to shield them in Hague church Daniel Boffey in Brussels Thu 31 Jan 2019 10.32 GMT Pardoned family member Hayarpi Tamrazyan […]
To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends
Source: The New York Times By Patrick Kingsley THE HAGUE — Jessa van der Vaart and Rosaliene Israel, two Dutch pastors, usually get to church by cycling through the streets […]
Holocaust: Dutch rail firm NS to pay families compensation
Source: BBC News The Netherlands’ state-run rail company NS has agreed to set up a commission to compensate Holocaust survivors and their relatives for transporting Jews to a Nazi transit […]
DUTCH FM BENT RULES IN AWARDING HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD TO CONTROVERSIAL PRINCE: REPORT
By Janene Pieters on September 4, 2018 Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Wikimedia Commons The usual procedure was deviated from in awarding the Human […]
75% in France, Spain and Netherlands Want to Honor the Refugees
About three-quarters or more of adults in Spain, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom support taking in refugees from countries where people are fleeing violence and war https://t.co/PhIteHGQob pic.twitter.com/37zgqALRMh […]
Dutch Catholic church accused of widespread sexual abuse cover-up
Source: The Guardian More than half of the Netherlands’ senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010, a press report claimed on Saturday, […]
Dalai Lama meets alleged abuse victims
Source: BBC News The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has met four victims of alleged sexual abuse in the Netherlands. The group had requested the meeting to discuss abuse […]
Man who stabbed two american tourists blames Geert Wilders for motivation
Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam Source: Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last […]
View From Abroad: Cartoon furore satiates Wilders hunger for publicity
Source: Dawn By Shada Islam, Dawn’s correspondent in Brussels GEERT Wilders, the fiercely anti-Islam Dutch politician, has got what he wanted: his decision to hold a controversial cartoon competition on his party’s […]
Pakistani Islamists call for Dutch envoy’s expulsion over cartoons
Source: Reuters LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – An Islamist party in Pakistan called for the expulsion of the Dutch ambassador on Wednesday as it launched a protest against a far-right Dutch politician’s plan for a cartoon competition featuring caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Several thousand activists gathered in the eastern […]
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to hold Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition
Source: Independent, from June 13, 2018 By Chris Baynes Counter-terrorism agency gives go-ahead to contest organised by party which wants to ban Islam Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is to […]
Dutch Council denies right to wear a colander on official documents photo
Spaghetti injunction: Pastafarianism is not a religion, Dutch court rules Source: The Guardian By Jon Henley The Dutch council of state has ruled that Pastafarianism is not a religion, denying […]
Open Future: Should Geert Wilders’s cartoon contest be allowed?
Khalil Yousuf, a spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslims, argues no Open Future Jul 24th 2018 by KHALIL YOUSUF ON MAY 17TH, Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician, announced that he […]
Commentary: Integration may be key to acceptance of refugees
A researchers’ game tested how language and cultural classes helped foster acceptance of immigrants. Sunday, July 15, 2018 By Paul van Lange For The Conversation The executive branch has a […]
Dutch parliament approves limited ban on burqa, niqab
Source: Associated Press By RAF CASERT and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands has approved a limited ban on “face-covering clothing” in public places, including Islamic veils […]
ICC prosecutes Islamist militant on groundbreaking gender-based charges
Source: The Guardian Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud accused of forcing Malian women into sexual slavery BY Jason Burke Africa correspondent Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag […]
Avatar: Scientology-style sect causes concern in Netherlands
By Anna Holligan BBC News, Netherlands Reports of a Scientology-style sect infiltrating schools have aroused concern in the Netherlands. A television investigation claimed to have found at least six […]