ROTTERDAM – National Coordinator for Anti-terrorism (NCTb) Tjibbe Joustra fears the effects of the tone that some prominent Dutch are taking in the discussion of Islam, he says in the AD on Monday. The paper claims that Joustra is referring to statements from MP Geert Wilders and Ehsan Jami, founder of the Committee for Former…
Twenty-eight year-old Aicha has been happily married to Argentinean Laurens (28) for three months-except that her marriage has left her parents completely out of the picture. They have not even seen the couple’s two young children. They met through friends. Her family does not accept her choice and would like Laurens to convert, which would…
Published in Dutch only: “Ruimte voor de islam? Stedelijk beleid, voorzieningen, organisaties” In deze minutieuze studie legt Marcel Maussen de gecompliceerde verhoudingen in de samenleving met `de’ islam bloot. Hij doet dit door de toon van het publieke en politieke debat, het gevoerde beleid en de relaties tussen islamitische groeperingen en instellingen en de gemeentelijke…
ROTTERDAM – Almost 70 new mosques will be built or extended in the next four years. AD’s own research of 485 municipalities found that most of them will be built on the outskirts of residential districts, in industrial areas, or other out-of-the-way places. According to Marcel Maussen, a researcher in Amsterdam, this is partly because…
By Emma Thomasson ROTTERDAM (Reuters) – Immigrants in the Netherlands have had enough. Four years ago, populist Pim Fortuyn promised voters in Rotterdam he would stop the building of a huge new mosque near the city’s Feyenoord soccer stadium. Today, the country’s biggest mosque is nearing completion and immigrants have helped oust Fortuyn’s party from…
