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Mosque set on fire in Netherlands
BBC ^ | Saturday, 13 November | Geraldine Coughlan

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: jihadinholland; koranimals; netherlands; religionofpeace; religionofpieces
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To: knighthawk

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.


101 posted on 11/13/2004 9:27:18 AM PST by FrankRepublican (Arlen Specter = Ted Kennedy Dem Bush = Open Borders w/ Mexico)
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To: konaice
How can this writer suggest arsonists were NOT to blame and yet still call it an attack?

I have a friend whose garage and part of his home burned down after the wiring in his garage was attacked by squirrels.
102 posted on 11/13/2004 9:28:26 AM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: clee1

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.


103 posted on 11/13/2004 9:45:22 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: FITZ

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


104 posted on 11/13/2004 10:03:27 AM PST by t2buckeye
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To: wita; knighthawk; teezle
I just remembered my Heldensagen, and thought the city name fit ;-)
105 posted on 11/13/2004 10:31:37 AM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: Haro_546

This really upsets me! As a boy Bill Clinton used to see black churches burning in Arkansas. Probably the same feeling.


106 posted on 11/13/2004 11:15:05 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: sausageseller

OOPS


107 posted on 11/13/2004 12:39:54 PM PST by dasboot
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Oh. REAL tolerant. This from another thread talkng about the foreign imam rule:

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.

108 posted on 11/13/2004 2:00:48 PM PST by America's Resolve (The countdown timer to Eurabia is ticking! Tick, Tick, Tick - "Theo rests his case.")
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To: America's Resolve
Its a darn shame that their holy building got burned instead of having a few hogs slaughtered in it. Me personally i think that instead of lighting them on fire just round up a few hogs let them go inside and then after they have defecated on every thing we then need to Make an old testament type sacrifice. Besides Its coming close to Xmas time so why not get in the holiday spirit and offer our Muslim neighbors over for Christmas pork chops! Better yet we'll have a pig roast in the masque.
109 posted on 11/13/2004 2:20:26 PM PST by RichLane
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To: johnb838

Dutch rub is a noogie?


110 posted on 11/13/2004 11:56:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: t2buckeye
My only point is that Americans, because of Iraq and the election of Bush, are painted as hateful, ignorant people by most Europeans, if you believe the press. After 9/11, we did not have the kind of "hate crimes" that many Muslim groups predicted.

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".

111 posted on 11/14/2004 2:42:56 PM PST by IonImplantGuru (PhD, School of Hard Knocks)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

yes, no problem.


112 posted on 11/14/2004 2:45:01 PM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: IonImplantGuru

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.


113 posted on 11/14/2004 4:48:45 PM PST by t2buckeye
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