Maxime Verhagen (MSN)
The "jihad" mosque in Holland, which has come under fire, is striking back — charging discrimination. From Expatica, with thanks to Nicolei:
AMSTERDAM — The directors of El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam have hit back at politicians who have called for it to face sanctions for selling a book that advocates the murder of gay people. Parliamentarians debated on Wednesday whether the book - De weg van de moslim, or the way of the Muslim – should be banned or whether the mosque should be closed down and its officials prosecuted for distributing the book. ...Officials at the mosque pointed out the book is available from many outlets in the Netherlands and that several educational institutions, including Hogeschool van Amsterdam, use the book as study material.
"El Tawheed has done nothing more that sell the book as a bookshop. It is for sale everywhere, so why is it only El Tawheed that is committing a crime by selling this book," the foundation asked in a press release.
The foundation asserted that if the book was so offensive, it and not the mosque should be banned.
The Islamic foundation accused politicians and the media of stigmatising the mosque unfairly.
"When it comes to El Tawheed, there is no question of an even-handed approach, and incorrect characterisations are unhelpful and contribute to a discordant world view," the foundation said.
The mosque denied its clerics preached hate and instead spread a message of peace and forbade oppression.
"El Tawheed therefore does not call for extremism, violence or violation of Dutch law," it said.
Meanwhile, another Expatica article tells us that "the parliamentary party leader of the Christian Democrat CDA party, Maxime Verhagen, has called for a new law to outlaw activities that threaten democracy."
Under such a law, Islamic religious leaders, or imams, and directors of mosques in the Netherlands could be held criminally accountable if, for example, the call for gay people to be murdered, Verhagen told newspaper Trouw.He was responding to his party leader, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who suggested last week that the current laws might have to be strengthened if they were not sufficient to block the dissemination of the controversial book, 'De weg van de moslim'.
There was a storm of protest last week about the book – translated as the Way of the Muslim – which is available at El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam.
The book advocates violence against women and killing gay people. Gay people should be thrown head first off high buildings, it says. If not killed on hitting the ground, they should then be stoned to death, the book suggests.
Earlier in April another book available at El Tawheed mosque, 'Fatwas of Muslim Women', caused uproar when it emerged it backed the idea of female circumcision and beating women who lie to their husbands.
The controversial mosque has been accused of preaching intolerance and the oppression of women. One of the mosque's clerics infamously described non-Muslims as "firewood for hell".
Verhagen said the book 'De weg van the moslim' would not itself be banned. "But a combative democracy would prosecute anyone who publishes the book with the intention of undermining constitutional rights," Verhagen said.
That's a strange statement. They would prosecute for intentions, but not for the book itself?
We have many relatives in the NL, so have been following these developments closely.
Pym Fortuyn's assassination by an islamist "may" have caused the Dutch to finally confront the demographic and terrorist threat facing the state. Rotterdam is imposing strict integrative regulations on muslim immigrants, and as these two stories suggest, other legislative measures are proceeding. Illegal (read, muslim) immigrants are being deported aggressively.
With almost 900K muslims in the NL (of a population of 16M), most of whom actively resist integration with the host culture and who contribute disprportionately to crime rates, the Dutch appear ready to take measures to either deport or assimilate.
Too little, too late? The Netherlands is a barometer of how Judeo-Christian Europe can deal with a nascent muslim fifth column.
Earl
"Pym Fortuyn's assassination by an islamist "may" have caused the Dutch to finally confront the demographic and terrorist threat facing the state."
Pym was not assassinated by an islamist but by a annimalrightextremist.
The rest of your information is correct alto some parties are resiting the policy.
Wodan:
Fortuyn's killer was an animal rights activist, but he was quoted that the killing was done "for the muslims" (or the equivalent). Make no mistake, this was a targeted assassination of an anti-islamist, gay politician.
The LLL draws from all four corners of the leftist globe- animal rights; tree huggers; Jew-haters; Trotskyists; anti-globalization nutters- the lot. Paradoxically, these are the same people who are obsessed with anti-sexism and gay rights- key tenets of the Religion of Peace ;
(P.S.- As a Wagnerian- are you coming to Toronto in 06 for the Ring Cycle?)
Van de Graaf was a weak-minded "animal rights activist" who, it seems, was manipulated by Islamist forces. He himself admitted that he killed Fortuyn because of his anti-Muslim immigrant stance; why this admission has been given so little attention is passing strange.
It is fascinating that Holland, which contained both Miep Gies and also Menten, may along with France be among the first countries to islamize. The schools of Rotterdam are now almost 50% Muslim. Holland, unbelievably, is one of the most anti-Israel countries in Europe -- when it was once one of the staunchest supporters. This is entirely the effect of the steady stillicide of anti-Israel propaganda in the press, by Muslims and above all by leftist fellow-travellers of Islam. A pity.
And especially a pity because at the University of Leiden (close to the church where the Pilgrim Fathers worshipped) the Institute for Islamic Studies is named after Snouck Hurgronje, one of the greatest orientalists of the last century (whom, naturally, Edward Said in his meretricious and ignorant "Orientalism" failed even to mention). Hurgronje, who served as an adviser to the government of the Dutch East Indies, knew Islam backwards and forwards, even in that supposedly "tolerant" region, and he knew that the government would have to vigilantly contain it, without any let-up. His studies do not date, for even if Patricia Crone is right, and there was no metropolis of Mecca in the Hijaz at the time of "Muhammad's" supposed existence, still Hurgronje's study of the Mecca that did become the object of pilgrimate is worth study. And like so many of the great Islamists up until World War II (and even for a few decades after) Hurgronje studied Islam and saw it for exactly what it was. It is scarcely to be believed that at one time, throughout the Western world, the understanding of Islam was in the hands not of apologists, but of people like Arthur Jeffery, Schacht, Margoliouth, and the Dutchman Snouck Hurgronje.
So, the Euros begin with laws. Muslims would do well to remember what Euros did to Jews.