If today elections would be held the Dutch anti-Islam party PVV (Party for Freedom) would win 35 seats in parliament and thus become the biggest party of the Netherlands. It is the second time since the breakaway of PVV-leader Geert Wilders from the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD) in 2004. This emerged out of the opinion…
According to the Dutch anti-Islam party leader Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom / PVV) the Netherlands has turned into one big refugee center. He called it “terrible” that “three quarters of Dutch municipalities are preoccupied with sheltering refugees.” According to the PVV 293 of 393 municipalities are working for the sheltering of refugees. During a…
When Aïcha Tabbakhe, a French nurse, went to fill out the forms for her children’s school dinners in her small town outside Paris, she was puzzled. The box she would usually tick to say that her Muslim children didn’t eat pork wasn’t there. “Confused, I called the town hall and I was bluntly told: ‘From…
WASHINGTON — Republican Ben Carson has started a petition calling on the IRS to target the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group. The retired neurosurgeon accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday of violating its nonprofit tax status in a Facebook message. Carson said the organization “brazenly violated IRS rules” when it called last month…
WASHINGTON — The candidates atop the GOP presidential field are ramping up political attacks aimed at Muslims, a move designed to appeal to hardline conservatives. But party elders worry that escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric could cost Republicans the White House in 2016. “Islamophobia is now an industry,” Ruela Jebreal said. “In the long run it will…
