Posted on 11/24/2004 6:56:47 AM PST by trashcanbred
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch leaders on Wednesday condemned comments by a Muslim teacher who said he hoped for the death of a popular politician, further stoking religious tension prompted by the murder of a filmmaker critical of Islam. Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven, a Dutch convert to Islam, told a Dutch television chat show on Tuesday he hoped anti-immigration populist Geert Wilders would soon die, although he did not want him to be killed by a Muslim.
Interior Minister Johan Remkes said he was horrified by the remarks and said the Justice Ministry would look into the matter. "It is too crazy for words," he told Dutch news agency ANP.
Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk agreed:
"How can it be that we have sunk so far in the Netherlands? I am really worried about this," she told Dutch television.
Wilders, whose popularity has soared since he called for a crackdown on Muslim militants following the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh this month, has been the subject of several death threats for his views on Islam and immigration.
Wilders is seen as a new Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch maverick killed by an animal rights activist in 2002. Wilders wants to launch a new right-wing party ahead of elections due in 2007 and a recent poll put him ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats.
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Been posting a lot of good stuff on the forces of evil.
I dunno about you...but the MAIN difference between us and the Dutch...
I am still armed!
Send them back to their jihadistans.
*** I am stilled armed***
Lets make sure we keep it that way!
Aha, here we have finally found the rare, the previously unseen, the predicted but not observed, the... long awaited... MODERATE MUSLIM.
It is all clear. The moderate ones are those that don't actually do the murder, nor support the murder, they just hope real hard for the target to die. Let's see, we've identified one "moderate muslim" - is there a second?
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