A gym in Rotterdam received a lawsuit from a Muslim woman, because she was told that she could not train at the facility while wearing a headscarf. The 27-year old woman does not intend to back down: “There are already various decisions by the CGB on this topic. This nationally operating gym has a general…
Thousands of demonstrators are expected to converge on central London tomorrow to demand a ceasefire in Gaza amid growing international anger over Israel’s week-long bombardment. The singer Annie Lennox, the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, comedian Alexei Sayle, Palestinian solidarity groups, Muslim organisations, the Stop the War Coalition and several MPs are among those…
The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) has been closed as per 1 January 2009, due to the lack of adequate funding. ISIM was set up ten years ago by the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen, and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The objective…
German: Ungenutzte Potentiale: Zur Lage der Integration in Deutschland Germany is currently home to some 15 million immigrants and their offspring born in the country. What this means is that close to 20 percent of the population has what is known as a migration background. In their recent report, the Berlin Institute for Population and…
