New Research Funded at Tilburg University Will Study Spread of Salafism and Jihadism

Six fresh PhD’s will study the use of social media by Salafis. Approximately 3 to 5 percent of the worldwide Muslim population is an adherent to Salafism, a fundamentalist current in Islam. And since the rise of jihadism both are viewed with suspicion. Under the lead of the Dutch scholar and Professor Herman Beck six…

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16-year old Dutch girl arrested on her way to Syria

A 16-year old girl from the city of Tilburg was arrested by the Hungarian police at the border, when she was travelling by train from Budapest to Belgrado with false documents. Dutch authorities had informed the Hungarian anti-terrorism service TEK about her, because she was suspected to be fighting the jihad in Syria.

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Terror Suspect Worked as Imam in Dutch Penitentiary

15 September 2011 NIS News reports that a man convicted in Morocco for involvement in the deaths of political opponents has worked as an Imam in the Dutch city of Tilburg. Hasan B. was arrested in Spain on July 20 at the request of Moroccan authorities. Previously, B. worked as an Imam in the Tilburg…

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Freedom Party named “New Radical Right” in Netherlands

A report investigating polarization and radicalization across the Netherlands has named Geert Wilders’ Freedom Pary (PVV) the ‘new radical right’, a party with a national democratic ideology but without extreme right wing roots. The study, completed by four researchers at Tilburg University, notes that the party’s views on Islamisation and non-Western immigrants appear to have…

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Investigation into abuse at Dutch Qur’an schools

Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan has announced that Dutch health authorities will investigate reports of child abuse during Qur’an lessons in mosques. The investigation, which had already established that corporal punishment was used in the Hague, will now extend to other cities. Participation in the investigation is voluntary, as authorities can only intervene in…

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