Several candidates running in the Netherlands’ March 3 local elections have published campaign material in languages other than Dutch, sparking criticism from other campaigners. Turkish and Arabic-language election posters have appeared at various places in the country, as Labour (PvdA), the Christian democrats (CDA), centre-left D66, the Socialist Party (SP) and the leftwing Greens have…
The secretary of Austria’s social democrat party SPÖ, Laura Rudas, has stirred a new headscarf debate. While she heavily criticised the alleged “headscarf constraint” among Austrian Muslims, she later clarified that she does not support a headscarf ban, but wants to achieve a voluntary refusal to wear it in the first place by investing in…
Dutch opposition party SP has asked the government to prevent training institutions from implying that they grant university degrees. Seven institutions of the Hague have recently been registered by the Chamber of Commerce. At the Free University in the Hague all teaching is in Arabic, and students obtain training in various subjects including political science,…
Muslim teachers of Islam in Carinthia and Styria have expressed support for democracy and the rule of law in the wake of the Vienna teacher barred for allegedly distributing anti-Semitic leaflets to pupils. The teachers signed a convention to that effect at an emergency conference yesterday (Sun) in an effort to rehabilitate the image of…
LINZ – In the latest twist in the Linz primary school scandal Dietmar Keck, SP_ MP for Linz, called for a parliamentary inquiry and the resignation of Fritz Enzenhofer, Head of the State Education Department, for his role in the controversy started by three Muslim fathers, recent immigrants from Chechnya and Bosnia, who wrote a…
