A UN racism expert on Monday criticised a Dutch ban on the wearing of face-covering garments such as the burqa in public, saying the law had “no place” in a tolerant society. Tendayi Achiume, the UN Special Rapporteur on racism, said the ban reflected a wider “consolidation of Islamophobia” in the Netherlands. The Dutch ban …
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A scientist at the University of Amsterdam is under fire because she rejected a Turkish student for an internship due to the Turkey’s operation in Syria. In response to the student’s application, the scientist said that she is “not inviting Turkish students at this time” due to the situation in Syria, AD reports. “We reject the employee’s reaction. Apologies …
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A Dutch air strike against an alleged Islamic State bomb factory in northern Iraq in 2015 killed about 70 people, including civilians and IS fighters, the Dutch Defence Ministry said on Monday. The government of the Netherlands had not previously provided a detailed estimate of the number of deaths in Hawija, near the city of …
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Amsterdam’s Islamic secondary school, the Cornelis Haga Lyceum, was the target of an attempted arson attack the night before pupils returned after the holidays, according to school leaders. Director Soner Atasoy told NRC that vandals appeared to have thrown a brick through a classroom window and poured flammable liquid over the teacher’s chair. A canister …
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A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a person to 90 days in jail for threatening Muslims on social media. According to a statement by the court, the 33-year-old person threatened Muslims with death after Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. On March 15, 2019, terrorist Brenton Tarrant attacked two mosques in the city of Christchurch during …
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The government is planning to introduce compulsory integration courses for Turkish nationals moving to the Netherlands when the new integration legislation comes into effect next year, social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees has told MPs. Turkish nationals have been exempt from the courses since 2011 because the requirement conflicted with EU treaties with Turkey. However, a …
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Ali Ghezawi was one of the millions of Syrians who fled their country during the nine-year-long brutal civil war that has devastated his country. His family immigrated to Europe after long desperate years in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Yet, the journey only exacerbated the Ghezawis’ grief, as 14-year-old Ali committed suicide after the Dutch …
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PVV leader Geert Wilders sparked outrage on social media with a tweet about coronavirus patients with a non-Western background. According to Wilders’, the treatments of “Henk and Ingrid” are being postponed, because ICU beds are occupied by “Mohamed and Fatima” who “do not speak our language and do not care about the rules”. Politicians from …
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A threatening letter was sent to a mosque in the central Netherlands, the mosque said on Friday. The threatening letter contained Islamophobic and racist threats targeting Turkish and Moroccan communities in the central city of Almere, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab mosque said on social media. The mosque has been attacked three times in the …
Hagia Sophia Mosque in Amsterdam, the Netherlands was vandalized on Sunday night, according to the National Vision Federation. The windows of the mosque, which is affiliated with the federation, were broken with a beer bottle, the federation said in a statement. Highlighting the increasing incidents of hate speech and racist attacks in the country, it …
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