Ajib 27.03.2013 A Belgian-born Italian woman who has converted to Islam accuses the state of having denied her Belgian citizenship on the grounds of her religious conversion. The young women from Monceau-sur-Sambre, who is married to a Belgium and has four children who are all Belgian citizens, has continuously lived in the country as an…
28.03.2013 Hakim Bengladghem, 39, was killed on March 27 following a police vehicle chase and bullet exchange in which the 39-year-old was lethally hit. The incident happened on the highway connecting Lille and Belgium. Bengladghem a former French Legionnaire, has been under police surveillance and is suspected to have planned an attack against a Belgian…
20.03.2013 Le Soir A new report published by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) details how racism in Belgium increasingly manifests itself through Islamophobia. The country’s 600.000-strong Muslim community faces, according to the report, an increasing amount of structural discrimination in the employment and educational sector as well as in questions of access to public…
02.03.2013 RTBF Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said in an interview to Sud Presse that the recognition of the Muslim faith in Belgium needs to be linked to certain conditions, such as the surveillance of imams. Reynders wants to better control the training of imams and their teachings in mosques in order to prevent radicalisation….
La Libre 09.03.2013 Following the discovery of some 70 Belgian Muslims to have departed to fight alongside the Syrian rebels, an editorial published by the Belgian newspaper La Libre brings the question of Islamic radicalism in Europe to the forefront. Lamfaluss focuses upon the Belgian urban space as a futile soil for the radicalisation of…
