The Molenbeek, the heavily Muslim and immigrant neighborhood of Brussels, is facing a changing image. While many have previously considered Molenbeek a place to be avoided because of an image of crime and foreigners, many are praising the neighborhood as a success story. Local mayor Philippe Moureaux said that the area is a positive model…
Eighty asylum-seekers in Brussels are nearing death after going for eighty days without food. The hunger strikers are protesting the government’s refusal to grand them resident permits in the country. The asylum-seekers come from a variety of places – Nepal, the Ivory Coast, Congo, Iran, Algeria, Guinea, and Brazil, and whose applications have either been…
Serge, a forty-year old homeless man was nearly killed after being beaten up by a Muslim father and son in Brussels, because he had been drinking beer in public during Ramadan. Serge was beaten with an iron bar with nails while waiting for a doctor’s appointment. He opened a can of beer to pass the…
The decision by a school in Brussels to forbid Muslim girls from wearing the hijab/headscarf has motivated girls to protest the move. A petition circulated by students at the Institut des Ursulines read: “The hijab ban has no ground and the administration offered no explanation and did not consult with teachers or parents.” The school,…
Immigrant girls in Brussels are being warned of the violence of skinheads by the SMS. The following message was found: “Notice to veiled and not-veiled women. After the severe riots between skinheads and Moroccans we ask you to take all necessary security precautions, so as not to become victims of the aggression of skinheads (…)…
