From the Orwellian Department: it’s all because people talk bad about Islam, you see. Evidently if someone points out that Islam is unique among religions in having a doctrine of warfare against unbelievers, it will provoke Muslims into fighting that war, when they wouldn’t have otherwise. Mmm-hmm. “Anti-Islamic rhetoric helps radicalisation,” from Expatica, with thanks to Nicolei:
AMSTERDAM “” The radicalisation of young Muslims is partly caused by the negative way Islam is being talked about in the Netherlands, the head of the security service AIVD has claimed.
Sybrand van Hulst made the suggestion during an interview with television current affairs programme Zembla on Wednesday night.
Van Hulst’s organisation is leading the investigation into the activities of extremists in the Netherlands and is deeply involved in the arrest and trial of 12 young Muslims said to be part of a terrorist network called the Hofstadgroep.
But he did not specify who he was referring too as being partly responsible for driving some young Muslims towards radicalism.
MPs Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders have led the criticism against aspects of Islam and the Muslim community in the Netherlands in recent years. Both have received death threats.
Filmmaker Theo van Gogh, another vocal critic of Islam, was murdered in Amsterdam on 2 November last year. Mohammed B., 26, who was arrested for the murder, was said to be on the edge of the Hofstadgroep.