In the beginning of 2015 Cooperation of Dutch Moroccans (SMN) started a helpline for people worried about a persons becoming radicalized and for example planning to travel to Syria or Iraq. Since then the organization has doubled the amount of volunteers working for the initiative. There have been 51 serious reports made and they were…
The presence of Muslim youth at schools and sportclubs, changes the way teachers deal with their pupils and also how youth relate to each other. Some Muslim parents find it for example not easy to allow their children, especially daughters, to go on a school camping trip. Afraid that there will be too much mixture…
Is the high school a “nest of hypocritical vipers” loyal to Salafism as a former teacher claims or did the teacher create a “conspiracy theory” without evidence? The two arguments were vehemently opposed on Friday during a defamation trial closed to the public in Lille. The establishment, under state contract and classified in 2013 by…
In one sense, it was just an effort at rebranding a party that has suffered electoral defeat, scandal and internal divisions in the past few years. This weekend, France’s main conservative party, under the leadership of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, voted to rename itself the Republicans, dropping its rather unwieldy identity as the Union for a…
In a twist of irony, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by Islamic extremists in January after publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, has reportedly suspended one of its columnists after she received death threats for writing critically about radical Islam. The French news site Le Monde has reported that Charlie Hebdo…
