News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
31 October 2011 In advance of parliamentary elections in Morocco on 25 November, in which the king will transfer his governmental authority to a prime minister, Dutch organizations have created an online ‘Vote Compass’ for the country. The Compass, available in French and Arabic, enables participants to respond to a series of questions, indicating which
31 October 2011 Police in Amsterdam have published images of youth who threatened to kill a man last August. The photographed individuals yelled at a man that they would “shoot him in the head”, calling him a homosexual who did not comply with Ramadan. Police report that they did not previously release the images in
2 November 2011 A master’s thesis written by two sociology students at Amsterdam’s Free University concludes that the nation’s temporary job agencies participate in discrimination. The researchers note that in 76.8% of cases, temp agencies agreed when asked whether it was possible not to supply Turkish, Moroccan or Surinamese workers – a clear violation