Amsterdam police chief Bernard Welten has come under fire after suggesting that, should the burqa be banned in the country, his officers would not necessarily arrest women wearing the garment. Describing the issue as ‘extremely complicated’ Welten, noting that officers would have to ‘think hard’ before taking such a step. Under the governing coalition between…
December 14 2010 Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports that Dutch Muslim women face increasing difficulties in finding husbands. In the article, Naoual Loiazizi of the Netherlands Association of Muslim Women notes that “many girls have a hard time finding a man who shares their outlook on life”. Nermin Altintas of the Yasmin foundation in the Hague…
December 5 2010 Radio Netherlands Worldwide this week runs a profile of the stories of four Muslim women in the Netherlands who have experienced sexual abuse, under the headline “Sex Abuse in Muslim families goes unreported”. The accounts, from Dutch Moroccan women victimized by male family members, are accompanied by comments, from emergency shelter Fier…
December 9 2010 Telegraaf reports that the Ansar Al Mujahideen website, a mouthpiece for al-Qaeda worldwide carefully monitored by security services, is run by a group of Dutch Muslims. The site, registered with a Brussels PO Box, also includes an Arabic and a German section in addition to primarily English and Dutch articles. According to…
September 20 2010 The Netherlands’ National Ombudsman has ruled that Muslim women who are being detained in cells, and are thus required to remove their headscarves, should not be confronted by male police officers. The decision comes after a Muslim woman was asked to hand over her headscarf to female police officers while male officers…
