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Unknown Mass Immigration Our Biggest Mistake Ever -- The majority of the Dutch are negative on Islam and immigration. Additionally, their knowledge of Dutch history is meagre, according to a survey by three history professors. According to 56 percent of the Dutch, Islam is a threat to the Dutch identity. As well, 57 percent named admitting large groups of immigrants as "the biggest mistake in Dutch history". Link 3/27/2008
Quran Dutch TV Stations Refuse To Air Wilders' Qur'an Film -- It's no surprise that no spine would be found in such quarters. It is a bit of a surprise that the usually reliable Washington Times would headline this article "Dutch TV stations refuse anti-Muslim film." If the film, which I have not seen, vilifies Muslims, then such a headline would be justified. But if it does what Wilders says it's going to do, illustrate quotations of the Qur'an with scenes of Muslims acting upon them by committing violence, then how is that "anti-Muslim?" If Muslims commit violence and justify it by reference to the Qur'an, as they do on a more or less daily basis, why is it "anti-Muslim" to call attention to this? Link 3/7/2008
Fitna Anti-Quran Film To Air In Netherlands -- Protesters already have torched Dutch flags in Afghanistan ahead of a new Dutch film portraying Islam's holy book as a "fascist" text that incites violence and preaches the oppression of women and homosexuals. Link 3/3/2008
Dhimmi Dutch Government Could Ban Anti-Islam Film -- The Dutch government was today examining the legality of banning a film attacking Islam amid fears that it would fan sentiment against the Netherlands in Muslim countries. The Telegraaf newspaper reported that the coalition government was divided on the film, with the Christian Democrats leaning towards a ban but Labour favouring freedom of expression and calling on Muslim countries to prevent violence against the Netherlands. Link 3/3/2008
Fitna Dutch Film To Slam Islam -- Europe's uneasy relationship with its Muslim minority faces another blow next month, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders releases a 15-minute film that compares Islam to Nazism and communism. Link 2/29/2008
Islam "I Don't Hate Muslims. I Hate Islam," -- The Dutch politician, who sees himself as heir to a recent string of assassinated or hounded mavericks who have turned Holland upside down, has been doing a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler's Mein Kampf, he wants the 'fascist Koran' outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make that possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave and all Muslim 'criminals' stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported 'back where they came from'. But he has nothing against Muslims. "I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people." Link 2/17/2008
Iran Iran To Dutch: Don't Show Qur'an Film, Or Else -- "We must not allow the freedom of speech ... to be used as a cover for assaulting the sensibilities and exalted moral and religious values which are respected by all of humanity," said Justice Minister Gholamhossein Elham. Link 2/16/2008
Quran Dutch MP Says Anti-Islamic Film Set For Broadcast In March -- Dutch deputy Geert Wilders said in an interview published Saturday that his controversial anti-Islam film will be called "Fitna" , arabic for ordeal, and will be aired in March. The leader of the Freedom party (PVV), which has nine of 150 seats in parliament, said in November that he planned to make a short film showing that Islam's holy book, the Koran, is "a fascist book" that "incites people to murder." Link 2/10/2008
Hizb ut-Tahrir Another PvdA Politician Supports Radical Islam -- Another Labour (PvdA) politician has turned out to be supporting the radical Islamic group Hizb ut Tahrir. This time, it is Hatice Can-Engin, an alderman in the town of Gilze-Rijen. Can-Engin, of Turkish origin, signed a petition of Hizb ut Tahrir against the insulting of Islam. Gilze-Rijen Mayor Rene Roep has confirmed that Can-Engin signed the online petition. The alderman herself had initially denied this. Link 1/30/2008
Riot Public Disturbances Expected -- The Ministry of the Interior is seriously considering the possibility of widespread public disturbances lasting several days as a consequence of the Koran movie produced by Geert Wilders. The ministry therefore issued a letter to the municipalities, police, fire, and health departments, pointing to the measures they may have to take. Link 1/29/2008
Islam Geert Wilders Interviewed -- Yahoo News has video of Fox News’s Greg Palkot interviewing Dutch MP Geert Wilders on his opposition to Islamic culture, and his film on the Koran. Link 1/28/2008
Islam Holland "Governed By Fear Of Islam" -- A politician has warned that a "fear of Islam" is governing Holland after he delayed the release of a short film attacking the Koran. Geert Wilders, 44, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, who compares the Muslim holy book to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, sparked government panic after saying the anti-Islam film would be released tomorrow. Link 1/27/2008
Hizb ut-Tahrir Radical PvdA Councillor Refusing To Resign -- Labour (PvdA) politician Bouchra Ismaili is refusing to resign. She is ignoring requests from her party to step down because she lied about signing a petition of the radical Muslim organisation Hizb Ut Tahrir. Link 1/25/2008
Quran Dutch Politician Plans To Air Film Criticizing the Koran -- A Dutch politician known for his views against Islam plans to air a film he produced that is critical of the Koran, which he likens to Adolf Hitler's hateful writings. "I believe the Koran is, indeed, 'Mein Kampf.' They are the same package," Wilders said. "I believe that our culture is far better than the retarded Islamic culture." Link 1/24/2008
Quran Dutch Braced For "Koran Insult" Backlash -- If I insult you, am I responsible for your violence? It's a question being debated in the Netherlands this week as Dutch embassies around the world beef up their security ahead of the release of a film on the internet which allegedly insults the Koran. It's reported to show the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. Link 1/24/2008
Burqa Dutch To Ban Burqas In Schools And Government Offices -- The Dutch government is set to impose a ban on the Muslim burqa in schools and government offices, media reported on Wednesday, in a retreat from the previous cabinet's plan for a general ban. The cabinet has decided against a broad ban on burqas in public as that would violate the principle of freedom of religion. Link 1/24/2008
Riot Holland On Alert -- Holland is on high alert in anticipation of the upcoming release of yet another anti-Islam film, this one created by far right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, who has been living under high security since the death of Theo van Gogh in 2004 (van Gogh was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by a radical Muslim in retaliation for a film that he directed, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Submission"). The government has recommended the evacuation of all its embassies "in sensitive areas," and has been engaging for weeks now in discussions with police officials as to the best way to handle the riots and violence they expect will erupt when the film is aired. And even Hirsi Ali, creator of "Submission," when interviewed in the Dutch press, ironically called the film "too provocative," suggesting that violent responses are indeed likely. Link 1/22/2008
Iran Iran Warns Netherlands Not To Air Controversial "Anti-Muslim" Film -- A senior Iranian lawmaker warned the Netherlands on Monday not to allow the screening of what it called an anti-Islamic film produced by a Dutch politician, claiming it "reflects insulting views about the Holy Koran." Link 1/21/2008
Riot Violence Fear Over Islam Film -- The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. Link 1/20/2008
Islam "Listen Well, Dirty Madman, WE'LL STAY HERE, hahahahahahhahah, DROP DEAD. I Am A Dutch Moslem..." -- Feel the love, see the wondrous effects of the tranquility in her heart. Here (thanks to War on Hate) is the full text of Rotterdam district councillor Bouchra Ismaili's email to one of her constituents, discussed yesterday here: Link 1/18/2008
Islam Muslim Councillor Tells Rotterdammer: "Shut Up, Minority" -- Labour (PvdA) politician Bouchra Ismaili has reviled a citizen of Rotterdam in an e-mail. The man was told that as a member of the white minority in his district, he should not complain about the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Ismaili, who has Moroccan nationality, is a council member for PvdA in the Rotterdam district council of Charlois. "You are the immigrants here!!!", she wrote to the white man who drew her attention by e-mail to statements by the controversial Muslim organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Ismali also wrote in her e-mail reply to the man: 'Drop dead,' and 'convert to Islam,' Link 1/17/2008
Riot A Quiet New Year -- The authorities and the official media of The Netherlands told us the New Year celebrations have been reasonably quiet. Nothing to worry about. Move along now! Was it that quiet? See for yourself. Link 1/7/2008
Riot A Reasonably Quiet New Years Eve -- Apparently a reasonably quit new year means that the police get attacked and that riot police is used in many parts of the country. That in the city of Utrecht alone 30 cars were burned is just an incident (as in the other cities cars were burning). And the reports of buildings, houses, schools, and cars burning is just normal. A total of 800 fire incident were reported for last night for the city of Den Haag alone. In many instances the firefighters were attacked with stones, bricks, and fireworks. Link 1/1/2008
Jihad 3 Held On Dutch Violence Fears -- Dutch police raided five homes in Rotterdam early Monday, arresting three men suspected of planning an imminent act of violence, according to a spokeswoman for the Netherlands' Justice Department. Two of the suspects, aged 31 and 32, are Dutch-Moroccan and the third is a 39-year-old Sudanese man. Link 12/31/2007
Sharia Law Tie A Knot in It -- Papa Muslim didn’t like the idea of a male doctor treating his wife, no matter the exigency of the situation. Mohammed says, “no male doctors may perform life-saving treatments on Muslim women, no how, no way.” Just ask any Dutch Somali imam. I’m sure it’s in the hadith somewhere. Link 11/12/2007
Islam "Immigrant Youths" Rioting in Amsterdam -- Because a Muslim youth entered a police station and began stabbing two police officers. One of them, after having been stabbed multiple times, shot him to death. Rioting has followed. If the police officers had simply consented to being stabbed, there would have been no problem, you see. Link 10/19/2007
Islamofascism Moroccan-Dutch Youth Riot in Amsterdam Following Fatal Incident -- A group of dozens of youths in the Slotervaart neighbourhood in western Amsterdam set cars on fire, damaged several other cars and threw stones through the windows of a police station. Link 10/16/2007
Muslim Brotherhood The Netherlands Pays for Jihad Television -- In the Netherlands, two Islamic public broadcasting channels have now been merged into one—and that channel is in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. Link 10/16/2007
Jan Peter Balkenende Dutch PM Tells Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Scram -- Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende has told Ayaan Hirsi Ali to get out of the Netherlands, and stay out: Klein Verzet: Prime Minister: Hirsi Ali should leave the country! Link 10/5/2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali "We Are Making Fools of Ourselves in the Eyes of the World" -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the sixth person granted protection by the Dutch government. She began receiving threats when, as a Dutch citizen and member of the parliament, she spoke out critically against political Islam. Link 10/3/2007
Dhimmi Jihadist in the Netherlands Convicted ... Again -- A Dutch Muslim radical was sentenced to four years in jail by an Amsterdam appeals court on Monday for planning a terrorist attack in 2004. Samir Azzouz had already been acquitted on the same charges twice by a lower court and an appeals court which said his plans were "so clumsy and primitive" that they were not a threat. Link 9/18/2007
Carlos Hatmann Disturbed Anti-War Protester Can't Find Soldier, Kills Civilian with Axe Instead -- A U.S. citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday. "He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military - or from its NATO allies," Gremmen said in a telephone interview. When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, "he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian," Link 9/11/2007
Islamofascism Netherlands Sets Plan Against Extremism -- The Dutch government will spend $38 million over the next four years to prevent both the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and right-wing nationalism, an official said Monday. http://Link 8/27/2007
Islamofascism Police Arrest Suspected Attacker of Islam Critic -- The Hague police on Thursday announced they had arrested one of the three suspected attackers of Islam critic Ehsan Jami. A police spokeswoman said the arrest could be made thanks to the detailed description Jami gave of the 17-year-old young man. http://Link 8/23/2007
Quran Ban Koran Like Mein Kampf, Says Dutch MP -- The Koran should be banned as a “fascist book” alongside Mein Kampf because it urges Muslims to kill non-believers, says Dutch populist MP Geert Wilders. The leader of the far-right Freedom Party, which holds nine of the Dutch parliament's 150 seats has called for the ban after an alleged Islam inspired attack on a Labour councillor who had renounced the Muslim faith. http://Link 8/9/2007
Islamofascism Standing Up to Tackle Extremists -- Hans Teeuwen has found himself in some unusual situations over the last few years and the subject of what can and can't be said about Islam has been weighing on his mind since the morning of November 2, 2004. That was the day his good friend, the Dutch film director and polemicist Theo Van Gogh, was murdered in Amsterdam by Mohammed Bouyeri. Bouyeri had taken violent exception to a film Van Gogh had made called Submission, which examined violence against women in Islamic societies. Bouyeri shot Van Gogh eight times and then cut his throat. http://Link 7/29/2007
Dhimmi "Islam is a Part of Our Culture" -- "Muslims are not going away," said Ella Vogelaar (PvdA) [Dutch Labor Party] today in a interview with Trouw. The Minister for Housing, Neighborhoods, and Integration hoped to end the negativism and fear of Islam. "I want to help Muslims feel at home here. Islam and Muslims must be able to put down roots here because Muslims are also citizens of this land." http://Link 7/16/2007
Islamofascism Mermaid Statue Draped in Muslim Dress http://Link 5/20/2007

                                    


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