Posted on 03/18/2005 12:23:35 AM PST by Eurotwit
AMSTERDAM — Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen has ordered a limited investigation into claims some primary school children are being taught to hate Jews.
He was reacting to reports of anti-Semitism at Het Mozaïek primary school in the Pijp district of the city, newspaper De Telegraaf said on Thursday.
Some students were said to have celebrated Mohammed B, the 26-year-old accused of murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and of approving of the Holocaust.
"We are sticking the thermometer into a number of schools to see if these sorts of attitudes are at play there as well," a spokesperson for the mayor told the newspaper.
She emphasised that it was unclear if the incident
at Het Mozaïek was an isolated event or a sign of wider problems.
The research will be carried out in schools in several regions of the city.
The Anne Frank House indicated that while it had received reports of anti-Semitic attitudes in secondary schools, it was not aware of any signs of anti-Jewish feelings in primary schools.
Killer Van Gogh is Hero A small message in the local newspaper (Amsterdam):
Teachers of the Mozaiek elementary school are very concerned about the radicalization of their pupils. Mohammed B. [Bouyeri :The killer of Van Gogh] is revered as a hero, when Hirsi Ali is shown on school TV they mimic ‘shooting’ movements. When they visited the Anne Frank House pupils said “they deserved it” and “They should have killed more Jews”.
The radical behavior is not new. The teachers of the Christian elementary school say they ask for years now attention to this problem. Teacher Marlene van den Berg: “After the September 11 attacks, they made a St. Nicolas [children feast where presents are packet in self made creative wrappings] surprise of the WTC towers, complete with flames and falling people. We started the dialog: What do you mean, why do you do this? Then you get a ruthless answer: They deserved it, they had to do it a long time ago”,
The radicalism dates according to Berg from before September 11. “It varies each year. Ten years ago we hearth in group 7 and 8 [age around 10-11 years old] pupil’s say: “We Moroccans take over the Netherlands”. Now we see pupil’s in-group 3 [age around 5 years old] - who can barely write – already write phonetically ‘Fuck you Netherlands’ on small papers. Pupils in-group 8 have a photo of Mohammed B. [Killer of Theo van Gogh] in their schoolbag, they seem him as their hero.
The worries of the teachers are also shared by education alderman Lieke Thesingh of the city department Oud-Zuid [old-south]. She warned burgomaster Cohen about it. “He turned pale” says Thesingh on a special neighborhood evening in the Diamand neighborhood [where Moroccans youth drove a Dutch family out of their home, but Cohen denied that their was a problem, to suggest later that the Dutch family was racist] where the teachers of the Mozaiek school told their story again.
The municipality administration knows about the problems, confirm sources on city hall. The problems are also on two other schools, which are not named. Recently safety civil servants of burgomaster Cohen have investigated the reports of the teachers. That showed who influenced the youth. They call the signs alarming.
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Dutch ping
Sometimes a country needs a little LESS tolerance and openness.
And larger cajones.
bttt
I was reading an article the other day about Fedex which was a company I use to work for. One policy they use to have was men were not allowed to have beards which use to drive a lot of employees crazy, especially the blacks who like facial hair. Don`t ask me why they had that policy, I guess Fedex likes men to look effeminate. Anyway I read this article that the policy now reads "no facial hair except for religious reasons" which means Muslims. One Muslim brought them to court it seems and sued them because they fired him for having a beard. He won something like $70,000. So now their policy basically reads "no beards on men except for Muslims". When I heard about that, I knew this country was starting to get Muslim-ized. For years every type of ethnic group on earth tried to get Fedex to change that stupid policy, but a Muslim comes along and they immediately surrender their stupid policy. Why is that? I`m sure in the past they had Orthodox Jews work for them, probably even the freggin` Amish, and bikers..Being a biker is a religion, but they never changed it until a Muslim came along.
It's because of PC: Political Cowardice.
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