Over the past twenty years, the Federal Republic of Germany has witnessed a slew of court cases surrounding Muslim women’s right to wear the hijab in different situations. Much litigation has revolved around two sites: schools and teaching personnel on the one hand, and courts and judicial employees on the other hand. Gradually, after years…
28 February 2012 The closure of a meditation room at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences has drawn protest from the school’s Islamic students. Without a space to conduct prayer, the students have taken to praying in a stairwell as a form of protest. Muslim students are asking for a space to pray, but a…
The Dutch right-wing Freedom Party is furious that a primary school textbook has compared Geert Wilders’ short film Fitna with Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. The textbook, which will be distributed to some 2,000 primary schools, cites both Fitna and Mein Kampf as examples of “one-sided thinking.” The Freedom Party called the comparison a disgrace,…
