Posted on 11/11/2004 10:27:54 AM PST by knighthawk
GRONINGEN, Nov 10: The Dutch EU presidency said on Wednesday that Europe risked becoming a breeding ground for Islamic extremism and that the problem had to be dealt with urgently.
"In all of Europe, young people are becoming more radical," Dutch Justice Minister Rita Verdonk told an EU conference on immigration and integration being held in this northern Dutch city.
"In the Netherlands we were able to see what happens with radicalisation," said Verdonk, who has taken a tough line on immigration since joining the conservative Dutch government.
As she spoke, Dutch police in The Hague made two arrests during a siege of a building where suspected extremists had been hiding. Earlier, three police officers were wounded by a hand grenade.
The Netherlands has been shaken by a number of serious incidents since controversial film director Theo van Gogh was murdered a week ago by a suspected Islamic radical.
Three mosques were targeted by arsonists and two by vandals over the weekend, and two Islamic schools have also been attacked.
"We must ask ourselves if we (the Netherlands) have not been naive over the past few years, and if for too long we have taken in just any one," said Verdonk.
She said the man suspected of killing van Gogh, who is in police custody, "was driven by the same dark forces which were behind the attacks on New York and Madrid," a reference to the September 11 attacks and the Spanish train bombings.
"Europe must not become a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism," she said. But she added: "We will not allow the Muslim community to be excluded and accused ... and that we enter into a spiral of fear and hate."
Speaking at the opening of the two-day conference, which is being held under tight security, Verdonk said the time for debating was short.
"We have to roll up our sleeves. Time is pressing. There are problems, we must face them," she said.
The head of the European Commission division on justice freedom and security, Jonathan Faull, said there was no place for "murder and terrorism" in a democratic society.
"Whatever the precise borderline between integration and assimilation, the law should be respected," he said.
The Ayatollah Khomeini wasn't in Paris for the food, my dear.
not "becoming"
it's "become" - over the past 30 years...but no one paid attention.
It's like the story of the frog and boiling water: Plop a frog in boiling water and he'll hop right out. Put him in cold water and bring slowly to a boil, he stays and gets cooked...
it's hardly confined to Europe - had you checked the population figures of Muslims in Canada or the US lately? and Maylasia and...
and spread out across the lands...
Smite the jihadists wherever they are to be found..
Europe must spit out the poison before it's too late.
No, The Netherlands is not naive but CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE for being accomplice of Islamic terrorists, murdering European civilians on terrorist behalf, destroying infrastructure of European country under false pretense of humanitarian concern and thus facilitating ethnic cleansing of 300,000 Europeans and allowing destruction of 150 Christian churches:
Agression on Yugoslavia in March-June 1999 was AUTHORISED by the Dutch Parliament.
The damage cased was in excess of $60B.
Casualtes were 1500 dead and over 4000 wounded.
What goes around comes around.
"I'm yummy daddy"
Europe IS a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism already.
And The Netherlands took an active role in creating the problem. Being silent about Srebrenica hoax, arming terrorists and murdering those who do not want to keep silent is a Dutch way to treat the growing problem.
Or, how's about, "He who lies downwith mangy dogs will be infested with fleas?"
Or, "What goes around, comes around." Or, better yet, "The chickens, they have come home to roost."
I only hope that we don't waste American lives and tax dollars bailing out the nations of the Euro-trash Union -- beyond what is necessary to keep the battles off of American soil.
AND CLOSE THE BORDERS AND PLACE A MORATORIUM ON ALL IMMIGRATION UNTIL THIS TERRORISTIC MESS IS RESOLVED, IF EVER.....
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