Germany’s Jewish community has reacted with shock to a stone-throwing attack by Muslim children as young as 10 on a Jewish dance troupe performing at a Hanover festival, media reported Thursday. About 30 children and youths, largely of Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian descent, threw stones at the dancers on Sunday, shouting “Jews out!” daily Berliner…
Approximately five hundred people attended a recent conference in the Viennese Burgtheater organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) on the subject of immigration and integration, which brought together four prominent speakers: former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato; Yale professor Seyla Benhabib; Armin Laschet, Integration Minister for the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia; and…
Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan has announced that Dutch health authorities will investigate reports of child abuse during Qur’an lessons in mosques. The investigation, which had already established that corporal punishment was used in the Hague, will now extend to other cities. Participation in the investigation is voluntary, as authorities can only intervene in…
Forum, a Dutch institute for multicultural development, confirmed on Friday it is to carry out a cost benefit analysis of immigration in the Netherlands, ANP reports. The Amsterdam-based multicultural institute will conduct the study following the government’s refusal to do so. The investigation follows considerable political controversy, as earlier this summer the right-wing Freedom Party…
Debate continues in Dutch parliament regarding the request by the Freedom Party (PVV) to undertake a study of the impact of non-Western immigrants on the nation’s budget. Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan refused, saying the government does not compile figures on specific groups in society. Van der Laan is accused of making his refusal…
