More on the "gentle" religion Islam.......

Telegraph U.K. ^ | 06/18/2002 | Joan Clements in The Hague and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

[Dazedcat]

The Dutch government has launched a criminal inquiry into Muslim clerics accused of inciting violence from mosques in Holland.

The unprecedented move by the Justice Ministry comes after leading imams in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague were caught secretly on tape calling for the "destruction of the enemies of Islam" and encouraging Muslims to "disobey" Dutch law.

Inflammatory prayers at the El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam included recitations of "Allah make your enemies' lives an unbearable Hell" and denunciations of President George W Bush and Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister.

Martyrdom was extolled at Amsterdam's El Rahma mosque, where the imam allegedly said: "Female Palestinian Muslims who offer their lives to Allah should be praised."

The lower house of the Dutch parliament urged prosecution of the clerics after the tape was broadcast on national television last week by Nova, a prime-time current affairs programme.

The wild rhetoric appeared to go far beyond protected free speech, violating Article 6 of the Dutch constitution, which guarantees freedom for all religions and "responsibility to uphold the law of the land".

Jan Peter Balkenende, the Christian Democrat leader and likely prime minister said incitement in the mosques was "no longer acceptable". He swept the Left out of power last month pledging to reverse the state policy of promoting multi-culturalism.

Some imams have taken advantage of Holland's tolerant climate to preach radical politics at prayer time, leading to a public outcry this year when one urged the death penalty for homosexuals.

But this is the first time the authorities have been handed "a smoking gun" in the form of a tape.

Marking a dramatic shift in Dutch liberal sensibilities, both Left and Right are now calling for the expulsion of imams engaging in "flagrantly unlawful" activities.

Boris Dittrich, leader of Holland's fashionable Left-wing D'66 Liberal Party, said it was deplorable that radical clerics could operate so easily in Holland, adding: "Imams guilty of incitement to violence should immediately be expelled from Holland."

[Dazedcat]

I keep hearing how it's not the religion, it's just the "fantatical few"............

Comments?

[marvlus]

If it's just the fanatical few, then the true majority must denounce the fanatical few. I have not heard much, if any denunciation!

[Aaron_A]

Will this ever happen here in America? Will we ever rid ourselves of the Islamofascists?

(I would also pose this question to the Brits here on FR)

[Kermit]

It's amazing how an election and a political assassination can suddenly change opinions. Two months ago, the Dutch calling for prosecution would've been denounced as racists. Now, after the Left was swept from power and they have no chance of regaining power, they're singing a new tune.

I haven't heard a word about what the Imams in America are preaching. Where's are "investigative journalists"? Right now, they're too busy dislocating their elbows from patting themselves for their Watergate reporting.

[MonroeDNA]

I can't believe the Dutch are ahead of us on this.

This is like (if former) Russia in 1968 expelled commies while we stared at our navels (yes, we still do).

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

If they are Islamic Arabs between 10 and 35, shoot them - the terrorist problem would disappear and the world would be a much more peaceful place.

[oldvike]

If it's just the fanatical few, then the true majority must denounce the fanatical few. I have not heard much, if any denunciation!

EXACTLY!!!

They must also aid us in weeding out the radical freaks. Currently, they are not doing this. Until the "moderates" do this they are complicit.

[swarthyguy]

A fanatical few? That's true as far as it goes, which is not too far, since, IMO, many of the moderates do support some, if not all aspects of the radical jihadi agenda, i.e. hatred of Jews and a desire to destroy Israel.

Better to consider it a totalitarian ideology intent on world domination that's masquerading as a religion that seeks complete control over all facets of an individual's life.

Islamoborgs, in other words.

[tessalu]

All governments should develop and inquiry into Islam, and ask if it is anything that benefits humans or does it do them grave harm and brain washes them, causing them to act in a savage manner.