Posted on 12/15/2004 8:56:59 AM PST by thierrya
Violence flares as Dutch extreme right strengthens
15 December 2004
AMSTERDAM — Muslims have borne the brunt of politically-inspired violence as the extreme right in the Netherlands flexed its muscles in retaliation at the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in November.
The sixth Racism and Extreme Right Monitor, which was published on Wednesday said the extreme right in the Netherlands has strengthened in the past two years. Problems with right-wing youth culture worsened and new political parties have been established, the report said.
Leiden University and Anne Frank Foundation researchers found the number of extreme right-wing activists has increased, and there is little difficulty in placing extreme right-wing opinions on the internet.
The researchers noted a sudden rise in racist and extreme right-wing violence in the Netherlands in November, the month Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot dead in Amsterdam. A Muslim man, with Dutch and Moroccan nationality, has been arrested for the murder.
Some 174 incidents were recorded last month and Muslims were the victims in 106 cases, the researchers said. A decline in the number of violent incidents has been recorded in recent years, with 260 cases reported last year.
The researchers noted that November's wave of violence was similar to that witnessed after the 11 September terror attacks in the US. About 190 incidents were reported in the Netherlands in the two and a half months after the 2001 attacks.
Arson attacks were relatively frequent between 2 and 30 November this year, occurring 36 times. Almost 25 percent of cases involved personal threats. Churches were targeted 13 times, while mosques were targeted 47 times.
Native Dutch people were the victims in about 20 percent of the extreme right incidents, the researchers said.
The majority of the recorded incidents took place in North and South Holland. About one-third of all cases took place in large cities.
The study also found that the extreme right was involved in 27 cases or 15 percent of reported incidents. That is one and half times the number of cases involving the extreme right in 2003.
Extreme right web pages were a hive of comment, urging or supporting violence in the days after Van Gogh's death.
Extreme right-wing parties profited from Van Gogh's murder — allegedly committed by an Islamic militant in retaliation to his film Submission, which cast an accusing eye on domestic violence in the Islamic faith — with three of the four registered parties reporting a modest increase in membership.
In the past two years, two new extreme right parties, the National Alliance (NA) and the New Right (NR) were registered in the Netherlands. The latter is believed to stand a chance of winning a seat in the Dutch Parliament.
The four extreme right-wing parties — NA, NR, the Dutch People's Union NVU and the New National Party NNP — aim to recruit "Lonsdale youth". These are young people who associate themselves with racist and extreme right ideas by wearing Lonsdale clothing.
Estimates of the number of "Lonsdale youth" in the Netherlands vary widely, from 300 to 1,500, with a hardcore group of several dozen members. One of the researchers said there has never been such a high number of extreme right-wing groups of youth people in the Netherlands.
[Copyright Expatica News + Novum Nieuws 2004]
Big surprise.
I'm sure the "extreme right" in Holland is anyone to the right of Marx. I hope the right wing parties rise and kick the teeth of the commie, liberal crapweasels that have ruled europe for 50 years.
Extreme Right.......Is that what they call it in Holland when you resist being forced to walk slowly to your own beheading?
Go easy there......It's America who modeled the governments of post WWII Europe ya know! That was our doing! See where good intentions deliver you?
"Extreme Right.......Is that what they call it in Holland when you resist being forced to walk slowly to your own beheading?"
Anything that is not socialism is called extreme right in Europe.
I am curious, but wouldn't practicing muslims qualify as "extreme" something?
I thought the headline was: "Dutch people, fearful of the situation at home, are fleeing their country."
'Course, I can't really blame people for doing that if the government of their own country won't allow the citizens to defend themselves.
Germany yes, Holland no. Besides, we set up democracies. We did not force the people to elect the socialists.
As more and more people wake up to the fact that their desire for less immigration from islamic countries, more deportations of the muslims are being ignored by their elected officials, the far right will grow.
The study also found that the extreme right was involved in 27 cases or 15 percent of reported incidents.
Shouldn't this story be about all of the left wing violence?
These events are startling considering Holland's global reputation for understanding and tolerance. It reveals without doubt the fashion in which extremists provoke reactions - reactions they themselves then loudly condemn!
I don't condone any violence, but I strongly suspect the British Government is hoping to sidestep parallel developments by attempting to usher in new "protective" laws. That is not the answer. It serves only to alienate the inhabitants of the country who believe advantage is being taken of them in a religio/political game. The best solution is for those of other aggressive faiths which nurture terrorist activity to denounce loudly and consistently the actions of those despicable creatures, yield any information they might have in order to help counter threats, and make greater efforts to co-exist with the people of their host country - without constantly demanding additional rights and freedoms.
I am really wearied with this repeated whinge about muslims being "the victims of 9/11". The true victims were hideously consumed by that holocaust, or amongst those still struggling to live after the loss of the family's breadwinner.
The true answer is in THEIR hands...not in new laws.
I noticed this article says 'extreme right' 15 times, often linked with 'racist'. Anyone who doesn't submit to Islam is an extreme right racist, apparently.
Extreme, extreme, extreme.
There really are neo-Nazis in the Netherlands and the murder of Van Gogh is a godsend for them. They are extremely unsavoury and you shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that they have anything at all in common with conservatives who should not be applauding the firebombing of muslim schools (not saying you are but some comments on this thread make you wonder).
I think the only Govt. they "modeled" was Germany, Austria, etc.
We launched reformed government all thruout Europe, not just Germany. France, Belgium, Luxemburgh, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, etc...... were influenced mostly by American hands.
Extreme right???? I suspect that is anyone that wants their country to remain christian and Dutch...How terrible, ought to hang the lot of those people.
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