Posted on 01/13/2005 5:53:21 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
AMSTERDAM — Preparations are underway to establish a new political party to represent Muslims in the Netherlands, it was reported on Thursday.
A group of Muslims in Amsterdam plan to launch the Muslim Democratic Party (MDP) in May and contest local elections in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, according to their spokesman Mohammed Jabri.
He told news agency ANP that the group was also looking at contesting the local election in a city in the province of North Brabant where a large number of Muslims live.
Depending on how well the party grows, Jabri said it might contest the next general election. But he also said the party was having some difficulty in attracting people with the expertise to lead the party.
The establishment of the MDP comes after the controversial Arab European League (AEL) was founded, originally in Antwerp, Belgium, by Dyab Abou Jahjah to fight what he said was discrimination against Muslims and Arabs. It now has a branch in the Netherlands and has forged a link with the MDP.
But the MDP also wants to remain independent and is in discussions with well-known and less-well known Muslims to get the party off the ground in the big cities. Contact was also being sought with non-Muslims, Jabri said, "in order to get a balance within the party's management".
The announcement of the new party comes days after former Immigration and Integration Minister Hilbrand Nawijn said Muslims should assimilate rather than integrate into Dutch society.
He said that Muslim schools should be banned in the Netherlands, even though the Constitution enshrines the right to establish religious schools. His remarks were not met by a public outcry.
Following the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam last November, there were a spate of tit-for-tat attacks against Muslim and Christian buildings. A Muslim school in Uden was burnt down and another Muslim school in Eindhoven was bombed.
Figures released late last year showed that the majority of attacks after the murder were targeted against Muslims.
Meanwhile, MDP spokesman Jabri is a writer and columnist for Elqalem.nl (www. Elqalem.nl), a website for Muslims in the Netherlands. The website's homepage features a cartoon of a person dropping a Jewish Star of David into a wastepaper basket.
A column on one page 'thanks' Muslim critics Ayaan Hirshi [sic] Ali, Van Gogh and Geert Wilders and people like them for helping in one go "to make young Muslims in the Netherlands more aware of their Islamic roots".
Van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death apparently because of his movie "Submission", which accused the Koran of sanctioning violence against women.
MP Hirsi Ali, who collaborated on the film, and MP Wilders went into hiding after the murder following threats to their lives for criticising Islam. Wilders has returned to the public eye and Hirsi Ali is expected to attend Parliament again next week.
The article on the website finishes by noting: "Since 9/11 [September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon] one million Americans have become Muslims. God's ways are truly unfathomable".
All of your Sharia are belong to us.
Um...
APf
the party to be named "explodierende Rückstände" or somethin' ljke it.
Oh, wait...
"exploderende faecaliÎn"
Since 9/11, two hundred million Americans have become muslim haters. God's ways are truly unfathomable.
Dang, even the Muslims are smoking some really good stuff over there.
Beside that they don't want to put their axes down long enough to do something that mundane. Why vote when you can sever your opponent's head from his body?
What is the source to substantiate that demographic?
In europe they have demographics that show this shift. I stand what I have previously posted concerning europe's fall. The only question is which nation shall fall first?
The dominos just keep falling.
I'd better get me to Amsterdam,and fast,before I have to wear a head covering.
Good Lord,where is Europe heading,or is it already too late?
I have enumerated the reasons on several previous posts. One of the most recent (a few weeks ago) when the arch bishop of cantebury acknowledged the fall was coming. There are other posts that predate that by a few months.
onother one was a article on europeans only going to church on high holy days, another was o the fallout of Van Gogh's murder last summer.
Read those and if you have some questions, I will try to answer them.
To grab control over the World Court, no doubt.
I believe I read recently that over 50% of Dutch between the ages of 18 and 25 are Muslim. If not now, Holland is soon to be lost- a victim of its own liberal abortion policies.
What's Ramsey Clark doing next?
-PJ
Noob question for ya, from someone who has been around a bit, but still doesn't know:
Where does the "All your base Are belong to us" phrase originate?
Might as well ask it here and now rather than post a Vanity asking such a question while wearing a flame proof suit lol!
LOL!
Precisely!
Thanks!
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