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  • Film-maker's funeral sparks violence

    11/09/2004 3:57:09 PM PST · by Trupolitik · 40 replies · 3,113+ views
    Times Online- UK ^ | Trupolitik
    Film-maker's funeral sparks violence From Anthony Browne in Amsterdam RELIGIOUS violence flared yesterday as thousands turned out to line the streets at the funeral of Theo van Gogh, the murdered film-maker and vocal critic of Islam. Two Dutch churches were attacked by arsonists, in seeming retaliation for earlier attacks on mosques, while an opinion poll showing that 40 per cent of Dutch people no longer considered Muslims welcome underlined a rapid deterioration of tolerance in the previously liberal Netherlands. Mr van Gogh, whose last film, Submission, criticised the treatment of women under Islam, was cremated in an upbeat ceremony broadcast...
  • Europe is Beginning to see the Threat of Political and Fundamental Islamism.

    11/09/2004 2:14:02 PM PST · by Trupolitik · 30 replies · 1,791+ views
    Islamic Group Issues Dutch Terror Alert Politics: 9 November 2004, Tuesday. An Islamic group has threatened to launch a series of terror attacks against the Netherlands in a Web-posted statement. The statement comes after a series of attacks hit mosques in the Netherlands and an explosive device ripped off an Islamic school in the southern part of the country, Russian RIA Novosti news agency commented.