Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent sunni Islamic institutes of higher learning, has condemned a broadcast on Dutch television that showed cartoons about the Islamic prophet Muhammed. According to the institute located in Egypt the caricatures conceal a “sick fantasy”. The video was produced by the anti-Islam political party PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) of…
The young Dutch filmmaker Paul Voors (21) travelled together with three other young filmmakers to the North of Iraq to film victims of the Islamic State (IS). “Once you return home and try to sleep you finally realize what you have actually seen.” The documentary “Long road ahead” by Felix Govers (20), Pauls Voors (21),…
A new book in Dutch was published recently on Islam in the Netherlands called: “Islam in transformation: Piety and pleasure amongst Muslims within and outside of the Netherlands,” edited by the prominent Dutch scholars on Islam Joas Wagemakers and Martijn de Koning (Radboud University). This is a translation of the pamphlet of the book: The…
A French hostage was due to return home Friday after months of captivity in war-torn Yemen, France’s foreign minister said. Isabelle Prime, a consultant on a World Bank-funded development project, was kidnapped on Feb. 24 in Yemen’s capital San’a. Ms. Prime is with French authorities and will meet her family and French President François Hollande Friday night…
Francois Hollande was invited by Egyptian president Al-Sissi for the inauguration of the new Suez Canal on August 6.The president arrived on the presidential yacht “El Horriva,” which was the first yacht to cross the Suez in 1969 and is the seventh largest in the world. Other heads of state and government arrived on boats…
