News

Belgium has one of the largest Muslim communities in Europe as a percentage of its population: about 6% of 11 million Belgians. It also is the largest contributor of fighters to Islamic State.
Hundreds of Belgian Muslims — as many as 500, according to one estimate — have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS, making Belgium by far Europe's leading supplier of foreign jihadists.
A video of an Eid al-Adha gathering in a multifaith burial ground in Belgium has been falsely described on social media as “Muslim migrants” picnicking and partying in an Irish cemetery.
With Muslims among the dead and injured, many in Belgium’s Muslim communities say that they are fed up with being tarred by the actions of men whose attacks hit them as badly as the other ...
Belgium is home to larger populations of both Muslims and Jews, who fear that the restrictions on ritual slaughter could spread further throughout Europe. There are around 500,000 Muslims in ...
About 30,000 Jews and 500,000 Muslims are estimated to live in Belgium, out of a total population of 11 million. Apart from their concerns about religious freedom, they fear the ban will increase ...
Following in France’s footsteps, Belgium is now scrutinizing several associations over suspected links to the Muslim ...
Why Belgium Is Such a Hotbed for Islamic Terrorism. By Leon Neyfakh. March 22, 2016 10:48 AM.
Young Muslims born in Europe and veiled women are particularly affected. Belgium has emerged as a key area for the issues, with 43% of Muslims in that country reporting housing discrimination.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Despite concern that a Belgian law bans Jewish and Muslim religious slaughter practices, a European Union court has said the law is justified by the need to promote animal ...
BRUSSELS. It was Muslims. That was the first worry of Melek Dogan, a 21-year-old Belgian woman, when she heard of the blasts at the airport and a subway station in Brussels.
It is true that some 650,000 Muslims live in Belgium, but five times as many — 3.3 million — live in the United States. Why hasn’t America become a hotbed of Islamic extremism?