Only a few could have failed to notice the array of articles and television broadcasts of NRC Handelsblad (Dutch newspaper) and current affairs program Nieuwsuur on Islamic education in the Netherlands.

Hizb ut Tahrir / The Netherlands sent a delegation to the Chinese embassy in The Hague today as part of a world-wide campaign of Hizb ut Tahrir, the visit revolved around condemning the oppressive policy of the Chinese regime against Uighur Muslims in East-Turkestan.

Last weekend the little anti-Islam club Pegida struck yet again at one of the mosques in the Netherlands. They placed banners in front of the mosque during the morning prayer containing horrible slurs about our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) and the Noble Quran. Slurs we definitely will not repeat here.

The Council of State, the advisory organ of the Dutch government, recently ruled that three asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Somalia whose applications have been rejected still have the right to asylum because they have adopted a “western lifestyle”. The Council of State, by their shocking statement, do not only set out new criteria for the asylum policy, it also shows that they are not an objective advisory organ.