Posted on 12/02/2008 12:59:15 PM PST by knighthawk
THE HAGUE, 03/12/08 - The As-Soennah mosque in The Hague is viewed by the tax service as a good cause. The ultra-extreme mosque thereby enjoys tax benefits, De Telegraaf revealed yesterday.
The tax service categorises the mosque as a 'an institution of social relevance' (ANBI), meaning a charity group, which gives it all kinds of tax benefits. For example, donations to the As-Soennah foundation are tax-deductible. The mosque is also exempted from death duties on legacies.
As-Soennah is headed by Imam Fawaz Jneid. The Syrian national, who also has a Dutch passport, apparently called for the terrorist murder of Islam critic Theo van Gogh, which was carried out on 2 November 2004 by Mohammed Bouyeri, an Amsterdam-born Moroccan.
A few weeks before Van Gogh's murder, Jneid said in a sermon: "O Allah, give Van Gogh a sickness that all the inhabitants of the earth will not be able to cure. Let him crave in vain for death."
The AIVD intelligince service sees this mosque in The Hague as a bulwark of Salafism, an ultra-orthodox and violent movement within Islam. Mosques in the Netherlands cannot however be closed down because of freedom of religion, according to the government.
Former Integration Minister Rita Verdonk did try to deport Jneid, but this was impossible because he has Dutch citizenship. The Imam incidentally speaks practically no Dutch.
In the Lower House, the Party for Freedom (PVV) is demanding an explanation of the tax benefits enjoyed by the controversial mosque. PVV MP Hero Brinkman also wants "all civil servants that have cooperated with this nonsense to be fired on the spot."
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As the West continues on its merry path of multiculturalism and destruction...
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