Netherlands: Court orders primary school to host Islamic school that teaches antisemitism and Sharia

The Dutch school objected because the Islamic school teaches values that contradict its own. The Dutch court ordered the school to host the Islamic school anyway. And so the Dutch identity and culture is gradually stripped away as the most tolerant of societies submits to a radically intolerant ideology.

“Islamization is institutional, an anecdote from practice,” translated from “Islamisering is institutioneel, een anekdote uit de praktijk,” by Bart Nijman, Nijmans Nieuwsbriefje, June 4, 2026:

In February, the municipality of Amsterdam requisitioned classrooms at an ecumenical primary school. Students from an Islamic primary school that is growing out of its djellaba are to receive lessons there. The Amsterdam Ecumenical School Group Foundation (AMOS) went to court against that claim, partly because the Islamic school teaches according to the Al Amana method. This preaches homophobia and fuels anti-Semitism. The issue and ruling provide a telling anecdote about clashing cultures and identities, with the legislature and judiciary putting their heads ever deeper into the crocodile’s mouth.

AMOS’s objection was rejected on May 22. The ruling was published on May 29 (ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2026:5239), but was not picked up anywhere. While Fidan Ekiz wonders whether she still belongs in the Netherlands as a woman with a non-Western background, and Lidewij de Vos sings the plea for ‘more white babies’ at a patriotic rusk-with-mouses conference in Porto, this case shows in a short statement how deeply the cultural, social and religious divisions have already been (irreparably?) institutionalized. In law, justice and in the daily reality of small ideological and identitarian clashes.

I do not choose the word ‘identitarian’ by chance, because it was introduced by the ecumenical school board. During the hearing, AMOS “resisted against the requisition in principle” and invoked “conflicting identities” between their school and that of the Islamic Basic Education Amsterdam (IBA) foundation. This was made literal by explicitly naming the homophobia of religious education at the IBA school, and contrasting it with the guiding principles of the AMOS school:

‘The [AMOS school] is a Protestant Christian school. In addition, tolerance for LGBTI+ people is important for the [name of school] […] The identity of the [Islamic primary school] is at odds with this [and] also provides religious education according to the Al Amana method, which teaches that Allah abhors homosexuality and that Allah curses boys who want to look like girls (and vice versa).’

— AMOS input, from the ruling of the RB Amsterdam, May 22, 2026

The names of the schools have been anonymized in the judgment, but (after triangulation on Google Maps, the Amsterdam school map and the websites of the respective school groups) it is probably the Islamic primary school De Dadelpalm in Geuzenveld. In close proximity are two AMOS schools (out of 25 in their cluster).

Al Amana: more than just homophobia
The Al Amana method was examined last year by Nieuwsuur in their reports on religious education, including in this article about the rejection of homosexuality and that article about Al Amana. This so-called “complete method of religion” is extremely negative about homosexuality, and also about Jews.

Source: Nieuwsuur, September 29, 2025
All this is only possible in ‘tolerant’ Netherlands, under Article 23 in a Constitution that was never written with Islam in mind, because in 1848 there was no mosque in the Netherlands. Only well after the School Struggle (which resulted in equal subsidization of public and special education in 1917 and was added to Article 23) did the first mosque appear in 1955. The first two Islamic primary schools did not follow until 1988.

The identity policy of the IBA Foundation, which includes De Dadelpalm primary school and which can be found on the school’s website, openly mentions this Al Amana method recommended by the ISBO umbrella club in Islam lessons. (ISBO = Islamic School Board Organization). The IBA board did not respond to questions from Nieuwsuur last year, but their own documentation confirms the use.

Source: Identity policy of IBA schools, PDF via the De Dadelpalm website
At AMOS schools, on the other hand, it is true that “everyone is seen” and valued – in line with the ecumenical idea that strives for unity and equality within the Christian community.

How much stricter it is among their Islamic counterparts is evident from the applicable dress codes alone. It is noted that the rules do not actually have to be so strict for children, but that there will of course come a day when the headscarf still has to be tied. You cannot inculcate this early enough: “Learned young is done old,” according to the IBA guideline….