The Dutch parliamentary member and frontman of the new Islamic political movement DENK, Tunahan Kuzu, has fiercely criticized the Dutch Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker for her involvement into the controversy surrounding the dean of the Islamic University of Rotterdam, Ahmet Akgündüz. Kuzu thinks that the minister should not interfere with the academic side of…
Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker wants the dean of the Islamic University of Rotterdam Ahmet Akgündüz to resign his post. Akgündüz has been in the media spotlight several times for a series of controversial remarks. She will summon the board of directors of the Islamic college to the ministry and call upon them to fire…
The Dutch government want to examine the possibility to bar unwanted imams that come from European countries. At this moment only imams who are suspected of hate speech from outside of the EU are being barred. These imams will be on a blacklist but the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) also wants imams…
More than half of the jihadis travelling to Syria have mental health problems. Often these problems already existed before their traveling and radicalization. In 1/5 of the cases the jihadi suffers from a serious condition, such as schizophrenia. This is the conclusion of a research on 140 documents. Thereby it is often thought that jihadi’s…
According to political party VVD a teacher should immediately inform the police when a student expresses radical thoughts. Currently many teachers find it difficult to decide whether someone really has those thoughts or whether s/he is just expressing some ‘rebellious’ adolescent behavior. The police is in a better position to decide on this matter. VVD…
