In the YouTube video "Happy Muslims" a group of British Muslims sing and dance to the tunes of the popular song "Happy" by the American artist Pharrell Williams. Although it went "viral" on the internet, it was not positively received by all who saw or heard about it. And since we also hear some voices from the Muslim youth here in the Netherlands to produce a similar video we decided…

The Dutch newspaper, "Volkskrant" interviewed a number of politicians, including a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) Party for the city of Eindhoven, the politician Ibrahim Wijbenga, and an Amsterdam Imam and a spokesman for (CMO) Foundation, Yassin Alforkani. These guests warned of what they called the risk of "polarization" of the Dutch-Muslim community" by some Muslims; polarization which leads to hatred and divisions.

Some policy makers have expressed their concern that this school will not encourage integration but leads to isolation instead. Whilst others have expressed their support for opening schools like this, including the Belgian Education Minister, Pascal Smet, who has expressed his view when he appeared on a programme called "The Seventh Day" on VRT Channel. He said that the school provides a solution for the students who do not have…

Since the deadline set by the Egyptian army to put an end to the demonstrations and mass sit-ins in Egypt last Wednesday has run out, hundreds, even thousands of protesters, according to some sources, were killed during peaceful demonstrations against the military coup carried out by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's faction that led to Morsi's ousting.