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Flanders: Poor Dutch skills among Turks, Moroccans
Islam in Europe 7 December 2011
Flemish Turks and Moroccans have poor Dutch, according to a new book by professor Johan Ackaert (Hasselt University) about the integration of immigrants. 25% of Flemish Turks and 20% of Moroccans 
Video: Angry mob beats up ‘manly’ looking girl
Emirates24/7 1 December 2011
Hundreds of Moroccan men attending an election conference in the north African Arab country last week attacked and severely beat up a girl, mistaking her for a man who was molesting another girl, press reports said on Wednesday.
Morocco: King appoints head of Islamic party as Premier
ANSAMED.info 30 November 2011
RABAT, - King Mohamed VI of Morocco has officially appointed the head of the moderate Islamic ''Justice and Development'' party, Abdelilah Benkirane as the country's Premier. The PJD took
Moroccan Crime in the Netherlands & the Myths of Multiculturalism
Hudson New York 29 November 2011
By Soeren Kern
Forty percent of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands between the ages of 12 and 24 have been arrested, fined, charged or otherwise accused of committing a crime during the past five years, according to a new report commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interior.
In Dutch neighborhoods where the majority of residents are Moroccan immigrants, the youth crime rate reaches 50%. Moreover, juvenile delinquency among Moroccans is not limited to males; girls and young women are increasingly involved in criminal activities.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Victory of the Islamist Justice and Development Party in Morocco
Jerusalem Center Blog 29 November 2011
By Jonathan D. Halevi
The Justice and Development Party (Hizb Al-Adala Wa At-tanmia), which is identified with the Muslim Brotherhood, has won the elections in Morocco held on 26 November 2011. The party won 107 of the 395 parliamentary seats. The party said in an official announcement that, according to not-yet-final results, it had won over 100 of the 395 parliamentary seats. According to a constitutional amendment, King Mohammed VI will have to assign the task of forming the government to the leader of the largest party – Abdelilah Benkirane, head of the Justice and Development Party.
Moroccan sheep in wolf’s clothing
JPost 29 November 2011
By JONATHAN D. HALEVI
The Justice and Development Party (Hizb Al-Adala Wa At-tanmia), which is identified with the Muslim Brotherhood, has won the elections in Morocco held on November 26, 2011. The party won 107 of
• 50.000 x EuropeNews & ”No Tolerance for Intolerance”
EuropeNews 28 November 2011
EuropeNews has now reached 50.000 posts, marking more than four years of uninterrupted service in basically the same form as we started
The fundamental aim of EuropeNews remains the same as well, namely providing a compact overview of news that matter. Also unchanged is our slogan:
"No Tolerance for Intolerance – No Apology for Being Free”.
The Paradox of Tolerance
The first part of our slogan derives from the Paradox of Tolerance, that a person or a group taking pride in his supreme tolerance might in fact be profoundly intolerant, not least against those he judges to be "intolerant”, be it in the form of "bigoted”, "discriminating” or even "racist”. The classical notion that discriminating is wisdom and a virtue, not a sin, seems all but forgotten.
The United Nations: The Devil's Jury
Hudson New York 28 November 2011
By David P. Goldman
In Stephen Vincent Benét's story "The Devil and Daniel Webster," Satan called a jury of the damned composed of turncoats, traitors, and Blackbeard the Pirate, "with the stench of hell still upon
Islamists win most seats in Moroccan vote
The Star 28 November 2011
By Souhail Karam
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's moderate Islamist PJD party won the most seats in the country's parliamentary election, final results showed Sunday, in the latest sign of a resurgence of faith-based
Morocco: voting in Rabat's Medina, 'backing Islamists'
ANSAMED.info 28 November 2011
RABAT, AT 10:30 a.m. there was a small number of voters coming and going at the Tawhibe elementary school, which houses one of the five voting stations in Rabat's Medina for the
Netherlands: 80% of Turks, Moroccans marry same ethnic group
Islam in Europe 23 November 2011
4,500 immigrants got married in the Netherlands in 2010. 25% were Turkish or Moroccan, most of them married a partner from the same ethnic group. As was the case since 2006, in 10% of the immigrant
Complaint against Wilders goes to UN
Radio Netherlands 18 November 2011
Three members of the Dutch-Moroccan community have made an official complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee against anti-Islam Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders. They accuse him of
Over One in Three Young Moroccans Police Suspects
Dutch News 10 November 2011
THE HAGUE - In municipalities with many Moroccan residents, an average of 38.7 percent of the Moroccan youngsters and men aged between 12 and 24 have landed up with the police one or more
Prosecutor wants death penalty in Morocco blast case
Expatica 21 October 2011
Prosecutor in Morocco on Thursday told a court that the alleged mastermind of an April bomb attack in Marrakesh and one of his accomplices should be sentenced to death. The nine men on trial for
Morocco's problem: Freelance jihadis, not al-Qaida
CBS News 17 October 2011
RABAT, Morocco — After years of promoting jihad in online forums, Muadh Irshad was ready to take his fervor to the real world. "I spent beautiful years tasting hope and pain in these forums ...
PvdA Blames Immigration on Rightwing Parties
Dutch News 14 October 2011
THE HAGUE - The mass immigration of Turks and Moroccans was the result of rightwing policy, and it is also the rightwing parties that are now responsible an influx of badly-integrated East
Moroccan imams protest government control
WTOP 12 October 2011
By PAUL SCHEMM
RABAT, Morocco - Dozens of preachers from mosques across Morocco protested Monday in the capital over tight controls on their preaching, the first time such a demonstration has been allowed to
Belgium: 40% of partner-migrants come from Morocco, Turkey
Islam in Europe 6 October 2011
There were 30,000 registered partner migrations in Flanders and Brussels between 2008 and mid-2011. Partner migrations are people from outside Europe who marry or live together with a resident of
Victory for a Moroccan Christian Convert
The Moral Liberal 5 October 2011
We are glad to inform you that our client, a former Muslim from Morocco, has been granted asylum in the United States. Our client, Z, whose name has been kept confidential for security reasons, is a
Islamist refugee fears extradition
Radio Netherlands 4 October 2011
By Michel Hoebink & Mohamed Amezian
The Netherlands granted Moroccan Islamist Hassan Bakir political asylum in 2007. He was arrested in Spain in July and fears that he will be extradited back to Morocco, where he faces the death
