The vast majority of Belgium's Muslim population (80 to 90 percent) comes from bilateral agreements signed in 1964 with Morocco and Turkey. Moroccans are today the largest ethnocultural minority ...

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.

Belgium has just 11 million people, and Pew estimated that about 6 percent of the population was Muslim as of 2010. But Belgian and French nationals make up around a quarter of the Europeans who ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Islam flourishing in Belgium. Islam flourishing in Belgium. Tuesday July 02, 2024 / 26 , ... Ghent is located 60 km from Brussels, with about 25,000 Muslims living there. February 27, 2014. Islam ...

Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of Ath in Belgium. Marc Duvivier the mayor of Ath, has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain ...

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 ...

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?