Lead have less to do with councilor
Lead to do it provisionally 38 instead of 39 representatives. The succession of the mid-left councilor Thomas Cook appears to be a complex issue such that a quick solution is not obvious.
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Thomas Cook leaves the Leiden city council
In October 2014 Livable of Leiden divisional councilor Thomas Cook stops as councilor. Cook Group are thus disappear from the Leiden municipal politics.
Cook is currently in Leiden council due to illness for a long time. He will now focus on his recovery. That will still take some time, so he said no longer to be able to fulfill the council membership.
Decline in number of threats mosque district
The number of vandalism and threats in the area around the Ter Haar Kade has not increased in recent months. Reported Mayor Henri Lenferink according to police figures, and after asking Councillor Thomas Cook. He claimed that in the district, since it was announced that there will be a large mosque, to see a rise in the numbers would be.
PVV largest party in Leiden mosque district
In the area around the Ter Haar Kade, where the construction of a controversial mosque is allowed, PVV is the largest party emerged from the bus. It now appears the municipality of Leiden, the final results of the provincial elections last week has also broken down by polling station and published.
Identitair Resistance wants Dutch Netherlands
Have not heard a lot about, says Mayor Henri Lenferink about Identitair Resistance, the action group this weekend with a handful of men on the roof of the mosque under construction at Haagweg climbed. Yet it is not the first time that this action group, who claims to be a 'Dutch Netherlands', shows in Leiden. The group even has a Leiden department.
Mosque in Leiden targeted by anti-Islam activists
'Stop de Islam', there was a banner that Saturday was hanged at the new Al Hijra mosque in Leiden. This act and its demonstration was claimed by the Identitair Resistance who warns that it will not remain in this one action.
Occupation mosque under construction
Identitair Opposition activists have this morning while the under construction Islamic center occupied the Ter Haar Kade. Muslim Group Leiden is building a new Al Hijra mosque which is to replace the current accommodation in Rembrandtstraat.
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Incidents at mosques: risk and protection
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This research report focuses on risk and protection related to discriminatory incidents at mosques. From the book "Islamophobia and Discriminatie'1 already revealed that the broader picture of growing Islamophobia in the Netherlands merged with the incidence of violence and incidents at mosques. The number of registered cases showed a continuity of periods when it peaked, depending on the circumstances. This was the case after the attacks on the WTC in New York 11 september 2001 and after the murder of van Gogh in November 2004. In 2014 were asked first mosques themselves about their experiences in this gebied.2 Combined with data from other sources we Although this did not complete but a plausible picture of discriminatory aggression and violence against mosques in Netherlands. This picture is summarized as follows. Of the estimated 475 Mosques in the Netherlands over a third (39 %) to make in the past ten years, had with one or often more occurrences of discriminatory aggression and violence. Destruction, with discriminatory graffiti slogans, (attempts at) arson, threatening letters and hanging a pig's head are among the most common incidents. Some of these mosques made such incidents
at least annually or even more often,. 30% of the mosques has experienced no incidents of discriminatory aggression and violence. From 29% of the mosques is not known whether they have had these experiences.
Particulars: This research is part of the project monitor Islamophobia. Right-wing extremism on page 25 - 37