Trouw Newspaper reported last week that Utrecht investigated cases of institutional racism within its municipality by research bureau Omlo. The researchers investigated several departments and found no institutional racism. That is, it was not found in their official policy and legislation.

The article in NRC that was published last Friday was not left unnoticed. This article described how at least 10 municipalities, including Rotterdam, Zoetermeer and Delft, conducted undercover investigations in mosques in their respective cities. These municipalities sent investigators of the consultancy and research agency

When the right-wing French Minister of Internal Affaris Gerald Darmanin said that in December of 2020 that Allah is in no way superior to the French republic he in truth displayed the hypocrisy of French laicity. Now the French government has established a new interministerial commission for secularism that will develop into the ‘bureau of secularism’. An act that is clearly meant to teach Muslims to ‘love the republic’.

On the 19th of June 2021, the conclusion of the Public Attorney’s office was published of the police report due to several written threats received by several mosques in Alkmaar, Culemborg, Deventer and Enschede. The letter contained diapers and the following written text: “Easter-gift for the cry-babies of our society!”