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VIENNA (ANP) – Half of the Dutch Muslims have skilled discrimination prior to now 12 months, which is greater than the common within the European Union (38 %). That is in keeping with a report from the EU Company for Elementary Rights introduced on Thursday.
This Vienna-based EU company researches racism and discrimination and periodically releases reviews evaluating EU nations with one another and with earlier durations.
The report “Being Muslim within the European Union” additionally reveals a rise in discrimination towards Muslims throughout the European Union. Within the report, 47 % of European Muslims say they’ve been discriminated towards prior to now 5 years. In an identical research by this company in 2016, it was nonetheless 39 %.
Muslims in Austria expertise probably the most discrimination in comparison with different European nations, in keeping with the current report. Of them, 66 % indicated that they had been subjected to name-calling or encountered difficulties renting or shopping for a home the earlier 12 months.
The survey was carried out in 2021 and 2022 amongst 9,604 Muslims from 13 EU member states, of whom 1,192 had been from the Netherlands. The report factors out that the state of affairs might have modified as the information date from earlier than the beginning of the battle between Hamas and Israel on October 7, 2023.
(October 24, 2024)
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