18 February 2016 With a little bit of luck a Dutch-educated imam would also be a good remedy against radicalism, the minister believes. Some of the current Dutch imams are on another frequency than the youth in their mosques. They do not always speak Dutch well, while they mostly know a lot about theology. Bussemaker:…
February 5, 2016 Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party opined last week that due to the continued influx of immigrants police ought to use firearms in order to defend the German border. In an interview with the local newspaper Mannheimer Morgen, Petry asserted that “[n]o policeman wants to shoot at…
January 13, 2015 The Moroccan-Dutch politician Khadija Arib (Labour Party) has been chosen as the new chairwoman for the Dutch parliament. She defeated Ton Elias (Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy), Martin Bosma (Party for Freedom), and Madeleine van Toorenburg (Christian Democrat Party), who were also candidates. The Labour Party-politican thanks the members of parliament…
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is criticizing President Barack Obama for allowing representatives of a Muslim civic group to attend the State of the Union address, saying their actions are “not pro-American.” Democratic lawmakers have invited two members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to attend Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night….
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — With just over two weeks until voting begins, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz firmly asserted their standing atop the GOP race in a fiery debate, overshadowing a crowded field of rivals still grappling for a way to overtake the front-runners. Trump stuck with his controversial call for temporarily…
