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Chasing Muslims – Institutional discrimination in a Dutch tax fraud case: Discrimination of Muslims in the Netherlands has been consistent since the past decades, but appears to have become more pervasive, especially at a governmental and institutional level. This article discusses the case whereby tax fraud in matters of donations was targeted exclusively at Muslims and Islamic institutions like mosques. It analyses the ways a legitimate inquiry into tax fraud has derailed in an institutional persecution of people based on their religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How Dutch security policy has become entangled in Islam: Since 1998, Dutch policymakers have developed a terminology related to the Islam-security nexus. This terminology has been consequently maintained during 25 years, with very few changes or adaptations, even though it has always been a source of confusion among policymakers themselves as well as politicians and the public. This article demonstrates how this terminological paper trail has been established and entrenched in Dutch bureaucracy, why it is cause for such confusion, and what the effects thereof have been. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]