On Monday 7th December, front-runner for the US Republican presidential candidacy, Donald Trump called for a, “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US.”
It was exactly 5 years ago in December 2010 that Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight outside the local municipal building, in an act of protest, after being humiliated by local police officers for not having a permit to run a stall .
On 7th December 2015 Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak stated, when Islam is becoming the aim of irresponsible parties, Muslims across the world must rise to explain that Islam is a peaceful, fair and inclusive religion.
Following the Minister of Internal Affairs Plasterk’s call at the Parliament last May to enact a law which bans the Niqab, the Dutch parliament has recently responded to this call and has ratified the decision of banning the Niqab, which was called a partial banning of the Niqab, which means preventing women from covering their faces in some places such as health centers, government offices, and police stations.