Posted on 11/13/2004 1:47:34 AM PST by Haro_546
Mosque set on fire in Netherlands By Geraldine Coughlan BBC News, The Hague
There have been more than 20 attacks on Muslim buildings There has been another fire in a mosque in the Netherlands, in what appeared to be the latest in a spate of attacks. Police said the mosque, in the south-eastern village of Helden near the German border, was set on fire early on Saturday.
They said it was not immediately clear if arsonists were behind the attack.
There have been more than 20 incidents of fires or vandalism at Muslim buildings since the murder of the controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
His suspected killer, an alleged Muslim radical of Dutch-Moroccan nationality, was arrested.
Tensions are running high in the Netherlands since the killing.
There have also been a string of retaliatory attacks on Christian churches.
Parliament has been debating how to deal with the growing problem.
There have been calls from some right-wing politicians to deport radical Muslim clerics and close down mosques where they operate.
MPs have asked the government to draft new legislation forcing Dutch mosques to employ only Imams who have studied Islamic religion in the Netherlands, a proposal that is widely supported.
Minister of Justice is asking Dutch people to "learn" to live with Muslims? F-- him! The Muslims need to assimiliate but "it ain't" gonna happen.
I guess he wants Dutch people to learn to live with Muslims demand that no unkind words are spoken about incredibly intolerant Islam. Or that Dutch people need to learn to accept Muslims cutting Dutchies heads off in the street.
Sounds like the "Minister of Justice" needs to be fired by the Dutch people.
Muslims have already started trouble in remote areas of Southern China. There are few nations on this planet that do not have some form of hostile muslim infestation.
Too true!!! The Islamists really know how to use our own free society, freedom of religion and laws against us. I don't know what the answers are. I know what I would LIKE to see...a crackdown on immigration from Islamic states...a stop to student visas from states like Saudi Arabia and others. OR at LEAST an ID card that is traceable for people here on visas. That's a step in the right direction, though it doesn't address home-grown Islamic fundamentalist teachings
This really upsets me! As a boy Bill Clinton used to see black churches burning in Arkansas. Probably the same feeling.
OOPS
Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said it may be discriminatory unless that rule is applied to all religions
It's not Protestants, nor Catholics, nor Hindus, nor Bhuddists, nor Jews that are butchering people and blowing them to shreds. But MUST NOT be descrimminatory.
I think they're going to have to get hit one or two more times before they truly get the message.
Dutch rub is a noogie?
Not true. It may not have gotten press elsewhere, but here in AZ a Sikh gas station operator was offed by a redneck shortly after 9/11. Yeah, Sikhs are not Muslim, but to the redneck he was "just another rag-head".
yes, no problem.
I will say again...as horrible as ONE person going nuts and killing one person becuase of 9/11 is... (and it is horrible and the person will I am sure face justice)
in a country of this size, the kind of retribution that we are hearing about in the Netherlands did not happen here. Unless the press accounts in the Netherlands are inaccurate and inflated, a large number of people are taking to the streets and burning mosques (and churches) in retalition. That did not happen here.
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