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  • Imams Compelled to Learn Dutch Language, Values, Customs

    12/03/2002 3:21:47 PM PST · by knighthawk · 39 replies · 436+ views
    Islam Online ^ | December 3 2002 | Khaled Shawkat
    AMSTERDAM, December 3 (IslamOnline) - Dutch Immigration and Integration Minister Hilbrand Nawijn asked Imams and preachers in mosques across the country to use the Dutch language in their sermons. He also pressed them to convince members of the Islamic minority to comply with the values and customs of the Dutch society. Imams play a major role in rectifying the negative image of Islam and are steering the Islamic community to merge into the Dutch society, added the minister. The statements of Nawijn, a member of the far-right List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) party, came Tuesday, October 1, during his inauguration of...
  • Netherlands May Send Back Criminals

    08/25/2002 6:24:46 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 233+ views
    Europe Daily ^ | Augustus 24 2002 | AP
    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The new minister for immigration affairs was harshly criticized by his own government after suggesting that immigrants with criminal records should be deported — even if they have Dutch nationality. The Minister for Alien and Immigration Affairs, Hilbrand Nawijn, said that a well-known Muslim cleric should be forced to leave the country because he spoke out against Dutch principles. ``If he breaks the law, he should be chased down, prosecuted, and sent out of the country,'' Nawijn said in Saturday's edition of the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. ``That counts for all criminals.'' Nawijn, the former head of...