The head of the German Green party Cem Özdemir and the speaker for religious affairs Volker Beck have drafted a position paper rejecting the recognition of Islamic associations as religious corporate bodies under public law. Özdemir and Beck criticise the government of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia and its legal attempts to recognize Islamic associations….
Islamophobic violence is on a rise in the Netherlands. This was written in a press release by the organization Meld Islamofobie (English: Report Islamophobia) in a report that was recently published. In the period from January to June of this year Meld Islamofobie has registered 89 cases of Muslims that were physically or verbally attacked…
In the early phases of the war in Syria, ISIS did not appear as a major threat to the West. Jihadists made their way to Syria to fight the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with little interest to carry out attacks in their respective countries. The November 13 attacks in Paris reveal a shift…
The changing patterns of contemporary immigration have initiated a new form of majority nationalism. In recent years, liberal democracies have introduced immigration and citizenship policies that are designed to defend the majority culture. This trend is fed by fears of immigration-some justified, some paranoid-which explain the rise of extreme right-wing parties in the West. Liberal…
