I am all for non-Muslim officials reading the Qur'an in order to gain more insight into Islam, but I doubt that any genuine insight that they get from reading it will be encouraged by Amsterdam police authorities.
Also, I get the impression that this new translation is a whitewash. If any Dutch readers have any insight into that, please let me know.
From Expatica, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
AMSTERDAM - Police officers in Amsterdam are to get a special deal if they buy Dutch writer Kader Abdolah's new translation of the Qur'an. The capital's police authority reckons that the new version, designed to be more accessible to the Dutch public, will give officers more insight into Islam.It is subsidising police purchases of the book by 50 percent. A police spokesman explained that while many officers have some knowledge of the Bible, the Qur'an is often unknown territory.
Right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) MPs are outraged by the plan, with Sietse Fritsma calling it "Islamic propaganda" and saying that public money should not be spent on it.
On Tuesday, the PVV will demand the government intervene to scrap the plan.
Cheap paperback versions of reliable translations can be had at hundreds (if not thousands) of bookshops in The Netherlands, already.
The police can buy their own copies for a few guilders... er, Euros... and know thy enemy on their own dime.
that's a waste of time and money. Why would the police force of a sovereign western country read the Quran? It's because there are muslim parasites living in holland. the solution is not to read the Quran, but to deport them all, even those with a Dutch ID and passport.
that's a waste of time and money. Why would the police force of a sovereign western country read the Quran? It's because there are muslim parasites living in holland. the solution is not to read the Quran, but to deport them all, even those with a Dutch ID and passport.
Even the Queen was given a (free) copy for the Kingdom to get a better understanding of Islam!
The town this store is located in (Breda) has a large population of Christian and or non practicing individuals. The (at last count-178) responses to this article, claiming to sell 60,000 so far, are all negative. Not one person posting a response would buy this "book". So how the owner can justify this large volume of sales is beyond me, other than giving them away!
http://www.telegraaf.nl/wirefeed/anp/ANPBIN/4094820/_Koranvertaling_Abdolah_vliegt_winkels_uit__.html?p=2,1
(above link is in Dutch)
All law enforcement needs to be incouraged to read the Quran/Koran because it is way to important to understand this ideology and its demanding impositions that are already making numerous inroads as officers are forced to behave as multiculturalists, and PC inforcers when dealing with this aggressive ideology.
Yes! spend a few Guilders, or Euros of your own money and let me recommend " The Koran" as translated by N.J.Dawood. This particular version has also bee recommended by Robert Spencer as well.
Wonder if they are making the same deal for the purchase of Bibles???
I'll show them a Dutch version of the Koran for free:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19786/19786-8.txt
'If any Dutch readers have any insight into that, please let me know.'
-posted by Robert Spencer
Kader Abdolah's book is a combination of a shortened Koran translation and a biography of Mohammed (Karen Armstrong-like). Abdolah, who is from Iran originnaly, claims to be no longer a muslim, though he is not an apostate of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali variety.
To me he always appears to be somewhat of a crackpot figure. The koran, to him, is "een koninklijke wandelstok", "a royal walking-stick"...
'If any Dutch readers have any insight into that, please let me know.'
-posted by Robert Spencer
Kader Abdolah's book is a combination of a shortened Koran translation and a biography of Mohammed (Karen Armstrong-like). Abdolah, who is from Iran originnaly, claims to be no longer a muslim, though he is not an apostate of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali variety.
To me he always appears to be somewhat of a crackpot figure. The koran, to him, is "een koninklijke wandelstok", "a royal walking-stick"...
for "originnaly", read "originally"
This could backfire.
I hope the Dutch police have been surreptitiously watching Wilders' "Fitna".
Then, when they read the Qur'an, they will find out that there is PLENTY MORE where all the nasty verses Wilders quoted, came from.
Maybe some Dutch police will start lurking at 'jihadwatch'.
Maybe they will watch 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know".
Wanted ASAP: Dutch translations, in cheap paperback, of 'The Truth About Muhammad"; "Onward Muslim Soldiers", and "PIG to Islam (and the Crusades)".
Where are the public-spirited philanthropists who will sponsor such translations, up to and including the price of security for the discreetly-anonymous scholarly translators?