A former Shell CEO, who volunteers in giving education to migrants in the Netherlands, gave some shocking examples of his experiences with them. Although he had a lot of fun as well, he thinks the integration of Muslims is moving in the wrong direction. For 15 years, the 78-year-old Dominic Boot gave Dutch lessons to migrants in a The Hague suburb called “De Schilderswijk”, he tells the largest... 

A dream come true turned into tragedy for a couple from Washington, D.C. Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan quit their jobs and set out on a cycling adventure around the world. But in Tajikistan, they crossed paths with supporters of the so-called Islamic State. Mike Drolet has more on how the couple is being remembered. Two Americans killed by the so-called Islamic State while cycling around the world... 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered urgent advice about the future of Belgium to a visiting delegation of Flemish youth patriots, telling them to “awaken” their nation before it’s too late. During a conversation with members of Schild & Vrienden, a prominent group for young Flemish activists in Belgium, PM Orbán encouraged them to “stand up and fight”... 

A Dutch logistics firm has said they will stop making deliveries to the UK because of the risk of attack by migrants and asylum seekers as trucks pass through Calais. Reining Transport, which has around 500 drivers and annual revenues of €55 million, has stopped trips via Calais to the UK from September due to the violent attacks. “It’s no longer possible,” said Gerrit Hes, the firms managing... 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced that Hungary will start accepting “refugees: Germans, Dutch, French and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands.” Speaking during his annual state of the nation address delivered at the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest at the end of last week, Orbán announced... 

Thousands of voters lined up in the rain to see Donald Trump in Manheim, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Including Amish voters… Several Amish voters attended the rally to support Donald Trump. Here’s a video posted in September of Amish for Trump in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is unusual because Amish don’t get usually involved with politics, apparently some backed Bush a few years ago... 

How South Africa confronts symbols of its difficult past are being discussed in newspaper columns, television talkshows and mainstream politics. A 112-year-old statue of Queen Victoria has become the latest colonial or apartheid-era monument to be vandalised in South Africa, raising fears that a racially charged debate over the country’s heritage could spiral out of control. Splashes of green paint... 

Care providers and policemen walk on the site where two trains collided between train stations Amsterdam-Sloterdijk and Amsterdam-Centraal in Amsterdam, on April 21, 2012. Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously. A spokeswoman for Dutch Railways said the injuries mainly consist of broken bones and bruises. The... 

Kuipers inside the Space Station. The Dutch astronaut is one of the most prolific photographers on the ISS An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a ‘tripod’ for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth – quite a technical feat when you’re on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second. Andre Kuipers installed ‘Nightpod’... 

The H5N1 virus A man-made virus that could wipe out half humanity has been deemed a terrorist threat. And while the scientists behind the Frankenstein-flu hoped their research would help find a cure, critics fear they have developed the ultimate bio-weapon. When virologist Ron Fouchier and his team of scientists first “mutated the hell out of” the H5N1 bird flu virus and presented their findings... 

Geert Wilders and his anti-Islam Freedom Party are pushing the Dutch government to class the grandchildren of immigrants as “allochtonen” or non-native. Under current law the third generation children of immigrants in Holland are classified as Dutch, in terms of government statistics and entitlements, as long as both their parents were born there. But the anti-Muslim Freedom Party is concerned... 

The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands. A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: “The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural... 

The slaughter of animals by halal or kosher methods could be banned in Holland. The Muslim and Jewish practices inflict unacceptable suffering on animals, campaigners say. A vote will take place later this month. An unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the Right-wing Freedom Party is heading support for the ban. The Party of the Animals, the first such party to be elected to a parliament,... 

Two foreign nationals were raped in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. A 15-year-old German girl was raped, allegedly by two armed men who broke into a chalet she was sharing with her 14-year-old brother at a bed and breakfast facility in Addo, said Captain Ernest Sigobe. “The men allegedly gained entry by breaking the back window at 06:00 yesterday (Saturday).” The... 

This is a fantastic moment in politics. The Netherlands tells it like it is to Turkeys face. While this happened some time ago in the EP, it seemed like a good time to post it given Turkey’s role in the current ‘aid’ flotilla.  Read More »