http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=33371
List of attacks since Dutch filmmaker killed
AFP: 11/10/2004
THE HAGUE, Nov 10 (AFP) - Here is a list of attacks on mosques, churches and Islamic sites in the Netherlands since Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered on November 2, by a man believed to be motivated by radical Islamic views. The murder has fuelled ethnic tensions in a traditionally tolerant society. There have been no victims from the attacks.
- Nine mosques have been either vandalised or attacked by arsonists.
- Seven of the mosques have been attacked by arsonists: Ijsselstein (centre), Utrecht (the centre), Huizen (west), Breda (south), Rotterdam (south west), Groningen (north), Heerenveen (north).
- Two other mosques have been vandalised: Rotterdam and Groningen.
- Two Islamic schools have been attacked.
- An Islamic primary school in Eindhoven in southeastern Netherlands was firebombed on Monday, November 8.
- An Islamic primary school was burned down on Tuesday, November 9.
- Five churches have been attacked by arsonists: in Utrecht (centre), Amersfoort (centre), two in Rotterdam and in Boxmeer (centre).
- The offices of two Moroccan organisations were attacked by vandals in Amsterdam.
Police have arrested five suspects, three of them for the arson attempt at Huizen, one for the attempted arson at Ijsselstein and one for the mosque attack in Rotterdam.
Excellent article:
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/11/10/do1001.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/11/10/ixopinion.html
"Now, with the manifestation of a violent form of intolerance in their midst, the iron has entered their souls. After decades of welcoming immigration and preaching multiculturalism, they now propose to expel failed asylum-seekers and to assimilate those who settle, rather than permit de facto religious segregation. If neo-conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, the Dutch are fast becoming a nation of neo-conservatives.
While the Arab-European League accused the Dutch immigration minister of giving a "Hitler speech" at a rally in protest at van Gogh's murder, the Dutch know who the real Hitlers are. Even the most liberal society is illiberal when it is a question of survival. The Dutch see those who dream of Europe under a revived caliphate as a threat to their way of life. The prospect of Islamist imams imposing sharia law on Dutch cities amounts, they feel, to a new Nazi occupation."