Posted on 02/23/2005 2:32:44 PM PST by knighthawk
Minister Verdonk Deports Three Radical Imams
THE HAGUE, 23/2/05 - Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is to deport three radical imams. All preach for the Al Fourqaan mosque in Eindhoven, the Justice Ministry reported yesterday.
In consultation with Home Affairs Minister Johan Remkes, Verdonk has decided to withdraw the residence permits of two radical imams because "they posed a threat to public order and/or national security". This has never before happened in the Netherlands. She is also rejecting the third imam's application to have his residence permit prolonged. The three imams are from Kenya, Bosnia and another country that Verdonk did not disclose.
According to the secret service AIVD, the three imams are calling upon Muslims to isolate themselves from Dutch society. "They have also allowed the recruitment for the Jihad (armed struggle against non-Muslims) to take place within their mosques. In the Al Fourqaan mosque, the imams promoted Salafism, a highly anti-Western movement within the Islam".
The Al Fourqaan mosque will probably not be closed as this is in violation with the Dutch freedom of religion. In November, a school supposedly affiliated to the Al Fourqaan mosque suffered a bomb attack. It was one of the first in a whole string of incidents following the murder of Islam critic Theo van Gogh.
Salafism, also known as Wahabism, is a puritan form of Islam. The AIVD said last June that the Netherlands has six mosque foundations with an "unambiguously Salafistic signature." These are el-Tawheed in Amsterdam, As-Sunnah in The Hague, Al-Fourqaan in Eindhoven, al-Mouahidine in Helmond, the Foundation for Islamic Youth in Breda and the Islamic Foundation for Instruction and Transfer of Knowledge in Tilburg.
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Dutch Beg Govt For Hardline Measures Against Moslem Extremists
THE HAGUE, 10/11/04 - After the murder of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch people consider all means of tackling extremist Moslems justified. "The fat is really in the fire now," research agency Motivaction concludes.
A survey held by Motivaction on behalf of regional newspapers showed yesterday that the Dutch hope for firm intervention by the government. Almost 80 percent would like the murder to lead to a stricter integration policy. Some 90 percent are pressing for more freedom for police and detective services, regardless of whether this violates their own privacy. Camera surveillance, telephone and Internet taps, house searches and raids in churches and mosques are no problem, according to the large majority of the population.
The representative survey covered 1,857 people aged between 15 and 80. Motivaction said 40 percent of the population even hope that Moslems will no longer feel at home in the Netherlands. Some 90 percent think the population will become less tolerant. Almost the same percentage expect that people will act themselves more often against unlawful practices, instead of relying on the legal system. A quarter (23 percent) of those questioned also consider this a good development.
Motivaction director F. Spangenberg called the unrest in society "more concrete" now than after the assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn in May 2002. Since then, politicians have said a lot, but in the end everything stayed the way it was. "This time, a limit has been exceeded," according to Spangenberg. He predicts more deaths in the coming years. "The tensions have become so high. Feelings that were formerly kept concealed are now coming to the surface."
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Bolkestein: European Oil Addiction Fuels Islamic Influence
THE HAGUE, 18/12/04 - Due to its increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Europe gives this region large sums, which Islamic countries partly threaten to use to exert influence on countries in the West. For this reason, the use of nuclear energy should be increased, in the view of former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.
"Europe is as addicted to oil as a junkie to his needle," according to Bolkestein. "The EU will thus become the hostage of the Middle East and Russia," he predicted on Friday at a conservative (VVD) meeting in The Hague to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Telders Foundation, the VVD's research bureau.
Bolkestein said the EU will in 2030 be dependent on oil and gas from abroad for 70 percent of its needs. It is already 45 percent dependent on Arabian oil and 40 percent on Russian gas. Because oil prices will only increase, Arabian countries will have colossal sums at their disposal, part of which they can use for influencing fellow-Muslims in Western countries, the former VVD leader warned.
Bolkestein sees in a new appreciation of the use of nuclear energy a useful contribution to solving the problem. Nuclear energy can also make a contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases. But for this, some European countries that want to get rid of nuclear energy will have to be persuaded otherwise. In the Netherlands as well, nuclear energy is increasingly a taboo.
They have a right wing conservative government in Holland now!
It's a start.
could you send me the link of these 2 surveys?
Woohoo!
Interesting that one of them was from Bosnia.
"The three imams are from Kenya, Bosnia and another country that Verdonk did not disclose."
From Bosnia...how much time, money and effort did we waste in the 90s freeing up Bosnia to become an outpost of radical Islam? Seems to me Milosevic may not have been so wrong afterall.
TFB
They're obviously not looking hard enough.
At last. The Dutch have spine.
And if not it will be so as soon as the netherlands ratifies the EU constitution
Th Dutch are afraid because they know they are caught in their own net. They hav been taken by the snare they themselves have created.
I am glad to see somebody is finally standing up to these thugs and declaring their words as free speech. To bad "other" nations do not take this route.
"Bolkestein sees in a new appreciation of the use of nuclear energy a useful contribution to solving the problem."
Funny, I heard President Bush say this very thing this morning I believe.
More likely, Saudi by way of Bosnia.
By driving the desperate Bosnian government into the hands of Iran and the Saudis during the wars in the 1990's, Milosevic helped create pockets of radical Islam in Bosnia that didn't exist before the war.
whoops. declaring their words as free speech
NOT DECLARING ...
I will get it right yet. Sorry
"From Bosnia...how much time, money and effort did we waste in the 90s freeing up Bosnia to become an outpost of radical Islam? Seems to me Milosevic may not have been so wrong afterall."
Absolutely correct! There are some European nations that have not forgotten their history. Montenegro, in the 15th century, it remained the only unconquered and free oasis, surrounded by the powerful Ottoman empire and the Venetians.
My understanding is that there is not a single mosque in Greece, and I don't think there are any in Poland either.
King Jan III Sobieski of Poland saved western Europe from the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna in 1663. While Poland again be the the moral and military force that saves Europe?
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