Tomorrow, 27 April, it is King’s Day in the Netherlands; the annual festivities celebrating the king’s birthday. A group of Muslims has planned to distribute 15.000 Qurans on this day in several cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag.
Anna Holligan learns how the fear and loathing is being fuelled by the growing numbers of young people who are leaving the Netherlands to join the jihad in Syria. Many accuse the mayor of ‘selling out’ to the Western establishment and abandoning the young people who are now being forced to defend their faith. At the heart of this tension are what are known as ‘commuter-Imams’ – faith leaders who come to Holland but are accused of doing little to encourage Muslims to integrate into wider Dutch society.
Op 27 maart as. nodigen Imagine IC en de afdeling Culturele Antropologie van de Universiteit van Amsterdam je uit voor het seminar Halal in Holland: institutionalisering en erfgoedisering. Onder de deelnemende denkers en doeners zijn Mariam Aaras (Ikeethalal.nl), Abdulfatteh Ali-Salah (Halalcorrect.com) en Mirjam Shatanawi (Tropenmuseum). Abdelkader Benali en Saida Benali-Nadi, auteurs van het populaire kookboek Casa Benali, vertellen over wat en hoe er bij hen thuis wordt gekookt en wie er allemaal mee-eten. Zij verzorgen halverwege het dag-vullende programma ook de lunch. De presentatie van de dag is in handen van Naeeda Aurangzeb.
In this video he, together with Anne de Jong (assistant professor Anthropology at University of Amsterdam) and Nourdin el Ouali (leader of the Rotterdam NIDA Party) ask their own children to condemn terrorist attacks.
In this IMES Series Report the sort of activism employed in networks like Sharia4Belgium and Sharia4Holland is analysed. The authors address how the activism of such networks interact with practices of the government and media during the period 2009-2013.
In a press release today the National Dutch Mosques Organization (Contact Moslims Overheid – CMO; an official representative of Dutch Muslims uniting about 380 out of 450 Dutch mosque organizations) condemns the ‘inhumane practices and acts of terror’ of ISIS. According to CMO the Dutch Muslim community does not feel any sense of belonging with their acts and ‘human language has no words to describe the extreme acts of violence against several groups’.
In a press release today the 