September 11, 2009Imam Fawaz Jneid: Headscarf prevents rapeThe leader of the Green Left party in the Dutch Parliament, Femke Halsema, recently said in an interview: […]
August 28, 2009Islamic school in Amsterdam fights loss of government fundingIn an unusual move, Dutch Deputy Education Minister Sharon Dijksma (Labor) has withdrawn 225,000 in national subsidies previously […]
August 18, 2009Dutch university fires Islamic scholar RamadanThe Dutch city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University have dismissed Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan as an adviser: the […]
August 13, 2009Fear of honor violence in NetherlandsMuslim Dutch girls, fearing honor violence in retribution, are often reluctant to seek counseling following sexual assault. via:[http://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/zorg/article2836954.ece/Hulp_voor_verkrachte_allochtone_meisjes.html]
July 17, 2009Young Muslims in the Netherlands fear forced marriages during summer breakMany young Dutch Muslims are afraid that they will be forced into a marriage during summer break and […]
July 13, 2009In the Netherlands, a battle is brewing over gender-segregated classes for Muslim womenCity councillor Marka Spit in Utrecht, the Netherlands, says she is going to ignore Dutch Integration Minister Eberhard […]
May 30, 2009FGM among Somali women living in the NetherlandsFour out of ten Somali and Ethiopian women who give birth in the Netherlands have been genitally mutilated. […]
May 20, 2009Rotterdam testing plan against forced marriagesThe city council of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has started a trial to prevent girls from being forced into […]
May 18, 2009Analysis: Downturn Draws a Veil Over IslamJohn Vinocur argues that Europe’s economic crisis has subordinated its other epochal problem — shaping a future life […]
April 20, 2009Dutch Defense Minister to appoint controversial Imam as plannedThe Dutch Ministry of Defense is going ahead with the appointment of a controversial Moroccan imam after the […]
April 6, 2009Rotterdam City Council Reserved Separate Seating Area for WomenDutch Minister of Integration Klink thinks it is not acceptable that the City of Rotterdam reserved separate “women’s […]
October 24, 2008Radical Imam in Netherlands pleads for Polygamy[Translated]: The controversial Imam Jneid Fawaz of the orthodox As-Shoennah Mosque in the Hague provides his followers advice […]