November 25 2010 According to the latest integration report from the national statistics office CBS, second generation immigrants from non-western countries are more likely to consider themselves Dutch than their parents. Second generation immigrants constitute more than half of the non-western immigrants in the country.
28 October 2010 Seen from the outside, other than a sign on a wooden door, nothing seems to indicate that the Eyüp Sultan Camii in Graz is a mosque. The local imam, Fevzi Karatas, explains that a mosque is simply a space for prayer, and “in the time of the prophet Muhammad, the mosque was…
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According to a study released by multicultural research institute Forum, some 25% of youngsters with a Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese or Antillean background in the Netherlands are without a job. Compared with a 5.1% unemployment rate among white Dutch, 14% of people with a non-Western background are jobless. However, Forum director Sadik Harcahoui notes that the…
In his editorial column in the Toronto Star Haroon Siddiqui points to the errors within the two commonly cited reasons for supporting the anti-niqab bill in Quebec. Siddiqui states that the two most cited reasons in support of Quebec’s anti-niqab bill are that the veil is an imposed oppression since no woman would ever voluntarily…
