For the fourth time in two years time, a Dutch jihadi has committed a suicide attack in Iraq or Syria. It has been said, but not yet confirmed, that Lotfi S. from northern Amsterdam has committed a suicide attack in Fallujah, Iraq. The question is: shouldn’t we be ashamed when a fellow countryman is capable…
25 May 2012 Police intervened to break up an impromptu camp established by failed asylum seekers near Ter Apel, the Netherlands. Riot police arriving in 20 minibuses used force to dismantle the site and arrested about 110 individuals at the site, failed asylum seekers from Iran and Somalia who claim that they will come…
A mosque in Groningen was smeared with blood, and animal innards and the head of a boar left at the site, NU.nl reports. Deputy mayor Frank de Vries spoke out against the action, saying, “this doesn’t belong in our city. We immediately promised the mosque board our support.” Police have opened an investigation.
While Muslims in the Netherlands are often regarded as ‘strange’ and ‘different,’ a recent study shows that imams often use their sermons to discuss values and issues which the mainstream Dutch population also believes is important. Fred Leemhuis, professor of Arabic at Groningen University, is using the research on Dutch imams for his PhD dissertation,…
