23 May 2012 Proposals to ban the burqa and dual nationality in the Netherlands remain in process in Dutch parliament, home affairs minister Liesbeth Spies states. With the government collapsed in May, Spies has commented that the legislation could be dropped, given that the sponsoring PVV (Freedom) Party no longer formed the supporting member…
MAP, March 20, 2012 Andre Azoulay, adviser to King Mhammed VI, called, on Monday night in Rome, for a new Euro-Mediterranean partnership built on fairness, ambition, parity, respect and above all mutual knowledge. Azoulay stressed the need for all partners in the region to build together a space governed by a new road map and…
16 February 2012 Amsterdam’s Free University (VU) has cancelled a debate organized by the Islamic Student Union of Amsterdam, which was to see Haitham al-Haddad, a controversial Saudi-born scholar living in London, in conversation with Yasser Ellethy of the Centre for Islamic Theology. The subject of the debate was the role of the Muslim scholar…
14 December 2011 A debate in the Netherlands over a proposed ban on ritual slaughter continues with a majority of senators in the upper house of parliament now opposing the ban. A large majority of MPs in the lower house voted in favour of a ban in June, though Jewish and Muslim groups oppose…
6 December 2011 Dutch parliamentarians are calling for a ban on an imam who supports a young marriage age for girls. Mohamed al- Maghraoui , who is due to attend a conference later this month in the Hague, published a fatwa in Morocco (2008) accepting nine as a marriageable age for girls. Members from the…
