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Netherlands: Rotterdam allows pro-Hamas event, bans counter-protest

Apr 21, 2017 4:16 pm By Robert Spencer

“At the same time, the silent march in Rotterdam, which is the least one can and should do against those who preach hate, extremism and terror, was not allowed to take place.”

“Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Labor politician who was born in Morocco to a Muslim family…”

There you have it.

“Dutch city allows pro-Hamas event, bans counter-protest,” JTA, April 18, 2017:

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In an unusual rebuke, Israel’s embassy in the Netherlands expressed “great concern” over the hosting in Rotterdam of an event organized by Hamas supporters.

The embassy published the statement Friday ahead of Saturday’s gathering of several hundred people at a conference titled “Palestinians in Europe,” which the embassy said was a front for Hamas.

Authorities had denied a request by pro-Israel activists to march in Rotterdam Saturday in protest of the gathering, which was organized by the Palestinian Return Center, or PRC, Het Paroool daily reported.

Israel outlawed PRC for its alleged affiliations with Hamas in 2010. A 2011 report by the German Ministry of the Interior stated that ““Hamas does not operate openly in Europe. Instead it uses, for instance, the Palestinian Return Center in London as a forum.”

The European Union blacklisted Hamas and regards it as an illegal terrorist group.

Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Labor politician who was born in Morocco to a Muslim family and has spoken harshly against anti-Semitism, declined requests by representatives of the Jewish community to ban the gathering. He said the Dutch National Coordination Board for Counterterrorism and Security authorized the event, though a board spokesperson denied this.

Noting Israel’s concern over the gathering, the embassy’s statement also addressed the rejection of the application for the march submitted by the Christians for Israel group. “At the same time, the silent march in Rotterdam, which is the least one can and should do against those who preach hate, extremism and terror, was not allowed to take place,” the embassy wrote….

Among the speakers at the PRC conference was Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Lebanon-born activist from Belgium whom a leading daily recently fired allegedly for calling for violent attacks on Jewish Israelis. He wrote on Twitter: “by any means necessary,” in reference to an attack in which a Palestinian terrorist plowed a truck through a crowd of soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem.

Jahjah — who after the 9/11 attacks of 2001 in New York spoke of his “feeling of victory” and who has called the heavily Jewish-populated city of Antwerp the “international capital of the Zionist lobby” — reiterated at the conference the statement that got him fired.

“I know there are officers of justice in the room, waiting to write down things. Let me tell you from now on: I have no problem supporting the Palestinian resistance against occupation by any means necessary,” Jahjah said, as hundreds of listeners applauded.

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  1. no_one says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    I have seen Rotherdam from a train. It has too many mosques by the railway. It was a sad picture of once beautiful city. Too bad for the Dutch. Muslim mayor allows muslim terrorists to hold an event, bans Dutch from protesting. Disgusting.

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 4:58 pm

      And I bet that none of their multiple windmills are allowed to exceed height of minarets of those mosques.

      • no_one says

        Apr 21, 2017 at 5:09 pm

        There were more mosques than windmills. I lived in Southern Netherlands for some time. I was sad to see too many hijabs and burkas. Sometimes women would wear tight jeans and a hijab! You can see every detail of her behind, but she would have a hijab.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Apr 21, 2017 at 8:54 pm

          That tells you that it’s not about modesty.

          It’s Gang Uniform. She’s a jihad tart, a Jihad Camp Follower.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 22, 2017 at 12:40 am

          Exactly, no_one and dumbledore’s army.

        • andra says

          Apr 22, 2017 at 6:34 am

          Very true dumbledore´s army. It is a labelling for their male co-jihadies: Let me alone, I am a modest Muslim and not a kuffar b…

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 23, 2017 at 11:37 pm

          Andra, it’s a message to Muslim men saying, “Don’t rape me. Rape that uncovered slut over there”.

    • Georg says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 5:23 pm

      A fate worse than terror is manifest.

    • F. Martinez says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 10:58 pm

      Time for civil disobedience silent
      march following Gahndi and Martin Luther King guidelines.

  2. Oliver says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    Any hope that a runaway truck will crash the event?

    Preferably one with lots of flying shrapnel.

    One can hope. Undertakers need business, also.

    meanwhile, perhaps the next massacres of civilians in the Netherlands will be of Labor party supporters in Rotterdam.

    • Georg says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 5:27 pm

      “Any hope that a runaway truck will crash the event?”

      None. All the champions of Hamas can expect is assistance from those they hate.

  3. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    Banning counter-protest in order not to offend Mohammedans because everyone knows how they can be violently offended. But also everyone knows that cowardly kuffar will never ever feel offended by any pro-Hamas event: that would be “Islamofauxbic,” so you see…

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 5:35 pm

    Unbelievable, inexcusable, but hey America’s moving in the same direction fast on censoring free speech. As I recall the Queen of the Netherlands wanted to void Wilders’ reelection a couple years ago, made a public statement to that effect..

    • no_one says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 6:20 pm

      Netherlands has a king for at least 3 years.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2017 at 12:45 am

        This is likely not a reference to the old Queen Beatrix, but to Queen Máxima, who is the wife of King Willem-Alexander.

  5. salim says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    I have been in a Rotterdam metro one evening, no whites at all and that was over 10 years ago. I am not surprised the city has a Muslim mayor. Europeans must be prepared to see more and more of Muslims in key government positions. It is not only because their number is rising but also because they deliberately seek to occupy such key positions.
    Within 15 years I expect to see Muslims in control of some important media outlets, like the BBC, which is already showing the signs. More scary is to see them in control of army and navy units (which is bound to happen).
    This is exactly a repeat of what happened in the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq). Egypt was a Christian majority country up to a few centuries ago. So was Lebanon until the 1970s. The city of Bethlehem was a completely Christian city only half a century ago.
    The West may eventually wake up and fight back, which is predicted by the great British politician Enoch Powell’s famous rivers of blood speech.
    Not a cheerful picture for the future but I do hope the future proves me wrong.

    • Georg says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 6:03 pm

      Entryism (also referred to as entrism or enterism, or as infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organisation in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program.

      Waiting to see things such as streets renamed. It will all be democratic. Not a shot fired.

      • andra says

        Apr 22, 2017 at 6:44 am

        Very true.
        For those who speak/read German:
        https://hambacherfruehling.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/wann-werden-wir-verstehn-wann-werden-wir-verstehn/

        • Georg says

          Apr 22, 2017 at 7:14 pm

          Just terrible. Like a waking nightmare.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 6:12 pm

    It looks like Rotterdam has implemented Sharia blasphemy law. The Dutch will lose their freedom of speech if they do not fight for it.

    The Left is stuggling to silence all critics of its social policies of de-nationalizing the Netherlands and Europe and replacing Europeans with Africans.

    • salim says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 5:16 am

      As far as I experienced, Sharia blasphemy law has been self implemented by most newspapers, TV channels and even the Internet for over 15 years in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe.

  7. no_one says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 6:25 pm

    Off topic.

    I read somewhere that Mo was a great inventor. He invented a time machine that can take people from every century to 6th century. It is called queeran.

  8. Sam says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    Holland and Europe deserve ISLAM. At this stage of current Jihad they allow enemy, Hamas, and ban counter protests. That is nuts! I think it is too late for Holland and Europe. Like Spain they have to wait 800 hundred years to kick out muslims from their country.

    By that time, who knows what sick ideology will be dominating the world. It does not look as of now that western culture will survive. We can not even say a bad word about this evil cult called Islam.

    I think ALLAH is real. Look how it is making millions of idiots like zombies.

  9. R Russell says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    Corrie Ten Boom must be turning in her grave.

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    The Nazis left Rotterdam in 1945, but today their SPIRITUAL DESCENDANTS and ALLIES, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, have RETURNED to resume the GENOCIDE OF JEWS throughout the world.

    The Dutch who love freedom, do not love the freedom of Jews to have a democratic, modern, pluralistic homeland.

    Why not? Holland was a home to persecuted Jews for centuries. Why have the Netherlands instead chosen to support a GENOCIDAL GANG that wants to exterminate Jews?

    • TassieR says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 5:23 am

      Why not? Because the most fashionable public behavior now is, quite obviously, a mass suicide – by London-Rotterdam Islamist mayors, by fake-certificate Islamist presidents, By the EU bureaucrats, by the UN votes etc. etc. Any resistance – as obviously – is out of fashion, looking like some bewildered Roland amidst the omnipresent “no-go” zones…

    • andra says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 8:02 am

      But why do the Jewih lobbiists in Europe (Germany, France) stand side by side with the Muslims? I really don´t get that.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 23, 2017 at 11:43 pm

        They think Muslims are another oppressed minority–but they are wrong.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    “… Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Labor politician who was born in Morocco to a Muslim family and has spoken harshly against anti-Semitism, declined requests by representatives of the Jewish community to ban the gathering. He said the Dutch National Coordination Board for Counterterrorism and Security authorized the event, though a board spokesperson denied this…”

    Does his left hand know what his right hand is doing?

  12. gravenimage says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 12:32 am

    Netherlands: Rotterdam allows pro-Hamas event, bans counter-protest
    …………………….

    As noted, Rotterdam has a Muslim mayor. Some have assumed that he is anti-Jihad–clearly not the case. Just appalling.

  13. andra says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 2:16 am

    The Dutch just had their choice some weeks ago. As they say: delivered as appointed. They could have known better.

  14. n tesdorf says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 3:16 am

    The Dutch have gone completely nuts! Within a generation they have destroyed their own country by allowing floods of Muslim immigrants to white-ant their culture from within and have enthusiastically assisted the Muslims in doing so.

    • Benedict says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 3:42 am

      When a culture is “what’s left of it” (see Theodore Dalrymple) does it not deserve the Muslims? Or does it not unwittingly call for the Muslims like a carcass for vultures?

  15. Rolf Wittwer says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    London under Islam, Rotterdam under Islam, The Netherlands without Wilders – Soros’ genocide towards Europa is in full swing.
    More and more villages, towns and ciites are suffering under islamic invaders and its bloody terror.
    Merkel and her poodle Maas (SPD) are installing a very nasty censorship-Law, aiming at those people who are opposing that further Millions of so called “refugees” will flood Germoney.
    The only Party, taking care of Germoney – the AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”) is still under pressure of the stupid “Goodies”, the violent leftists und the “Quisling”-Characters of the CDU, CSU, SPD.
    Where is the silent majority?

  16. Ric says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Another EU state with a death wish. Once again, the malignancy, Islam, has metastasized by the political collusion of the leftist politicos, and their tag-along confederates bent on the annihilation of Western civilization. Those opposing or dare censuring Islam are deemed Islamophobic while the latter’s heinous objective is the demise of the West and others not of the genocidal, perversely twisted cult’s dogma.

    One has as much to fear from our pusillanimous, flaccid leadership as Islam. They are one of the same.

  17. Johan Elzinga says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    I’m grateful mr Spencer for publishing this article, and I’m happy that it causes so many reactions already in such a short time. As a Dutch citizen, I was not even aware of either the Hamas gathering OR the silent demonstration against it. It is really appalling that both these items were not even in our national newspapers, nor were they on the state sponsored television news or even on the commercial channels.
    I loath this course of events. Mr Aboutaleb, although muslim himself, was himself a critic against muslims who tried to undermine the Dutch government – until this moment I had some faith in him. He himself is responsible for allowing these kind of events, as a Dutch mayor he has the power to stop a gathering whenever he deems it necessary to protect the law and order. He really chose the wrong side now.

  18. Ron Sommer says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    I lived in Holland for 7 years as an American, and loved it. I hate what is happening to Dutch culture now. Ron Sommer

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 23, 2017 at 1:14 am

      Ron.

      Write to the PM of the Netherlands – and to the sovereign – and say to them what you just said now.

      Say how much you loved the Netherlands – say exactly why, list all the reasons – and then state that you hate what the Muslim fifth columnists and their dhimmified enablers are doing to the Netherlands.

  19. Jeanette says

    Apr 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    To borrow a book title, The Dark is Rising.

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