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Reports of Muslim Discrimination in the Netherlands Increase

Dutch police have registered more than three times as many incidents related to the discrimination of Muslims this year than in 2015, research by the Verwey-Jonker Institute shows. There were 446 incidents in 2016,...

by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

Dutch police have registered more than three times as many incidents related to the discrimination of Muslims this year than in 2015, research by the Verwey-Jonker Institute shows. There were 446 incidents in 2016, compared to 142 last year. "The increase in the amount of incidents of Muslim discrimination is most likely a result of the increased societal tensions surrounding terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the arrival of Muslim refugees," the Institute says. The total number of incidents related to racism, anti-Semitism and violence by the extreme right last year grew by 73, to 4,165.

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