(NL Times) A majority in Dutch parliament wants to ban foreign financing of mosques in the Netherlands. The VVD, PVV, ChristenUnie, SGP, and FvD previously expressed support for such a ban. The SP now joined them, bringing the call for a ban […]
(Dutch News) Dutch doctors have pledged to stop carrying out operations to “restore” women’s hymens, as one of a package of measures to tackle what ministers call “damaging practices” affecting mainly women and girls. There were 120 hymen repair operations at Dutch […]
(Dutch News) Senior staff at Amsterdam’s Islamic secondary school have been involved in financial misconduct but there is no hard evidence that the school is indoctrinating pupils in the fundamentalist form of Islam know as “Salafism,” according to a report by school […]
(Dutch News) A number of prisoners held in the terrorist wing of the high-security prison in Vught have been placed in solitary confinement after they made an apparently coordinated effort to disrupt the two minutes’ silence on Remembrance Day. They will remain […]
(Dutch News) Islamic organisations in the Netherlands have called on the board of Amsterdam’s only Islamic high school to resign following claims by the security service that members of the board had links to terrorist organisations. Six organisations, including the Islamic school […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has threatened to withdraw state funding from an Amsterdam Islamic secondary school accused of having terrorist links, if it refuses to let inspections take place. The Dutch security service AIVD has warned Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema […]
(NL Times) Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security, intelligence service AIVD and National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security NCTV have major concerns about Islamic school Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam. In a letter to parliament and Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema, they […]
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