Posted on 11/07/2004 2:14:57 PM PST by TrebleRebel
Dutch mosques attacked after filmmaker killing
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Several Dutch mosques were attacked by arsonists this weekend as tension in the Netherlands grew after the murder of an outspoken filmmaker by a suspected Islamist extremist, the ANP news agency has reported.
Mosques in the city of Rotterdam and the towns of Breda and Huizen were attacked, although not badly damaged, while pamphlets insulting to Islam were plastered on another mosque in Rotterdam, ANP said on Sunday.
In Amsterdam, where film director Theo van Gogh was stabbed and shot on Tuesday, a centre for immigrants was daubed with red paint. A Dutch-Moroccan man, suspected of being an Islamic extremist, was charged with Van Gogh's murder on Friday.
In the town of Huizen near Amsterdam, ANP said police had detained three people suspected of trying to start a fire at a mosque early on Saturday. Police said they were caught in the act by members of the mosque.
In the southern town of Breda, unknown suspects lit a fire at a mosque in the early hours of Sunday, but the fire had already been extinguished by the time police arrived, ANP said.
Police detained a 24-year-old man on suspicion of setting a fire at a mosque in Rotterdam on Sunday morning. Only the door was damaged. Insulting pamplets with pictures of pigs heads were plastered on another mosque in Rotterdam.
Early on Friday, several fires broke out at a new mosque belonging to a Moroccan religious association in the central town of Utrecht. Police said they were investigating arson.
Far-right protesters have marched in Amsterdam and Rotterdam to express their anger at Van Gogh's killing, while the government has urged calm amid fears of retaliation in a country where hostility towards foreigners is on the rise.
The Netherlands is home to almost a million Muslims or almost 6 percent of its population of 16 million. The majority of Muslims are from Turkey and Morocco.
A poll by RTL Nieuws showed 47 percent said they felt less tolerant of Muslims since the killing of Van Gogh, while another survey showed support for a populist who wants to stop immigration from Turkey and Morocco rising to 12 percent.
Jeez, don't tell me some of the Dutch are carrying a pair afterall.
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war."
Ok so what the Dutch are now a ravenously violent bunch ?
Or did the truth of the situation finally dawn on them as it will the rest of the world in time....
Glad to see some of them understand what's going on.
Word of warning to the dutch people: Thin your ranks while you can of the islamic scourge. They ain't jews and this isn't pre-nazi Germany. Islam is a religion of death and submission, and you will someday wake up with a knife to your collective throats if you do not wake up and smell the sensimilla.
Anyone who saw Band of Brothers knows how the Dutch dealt with Nazi collaborators after their liberation.
You're "far right" if you marched to protest this murder?
Huh?
I'm hoping the latest killing is finally opening some eyes as to what life will be like if they allow themselves to be reduced to dhimmitude.
It's about damn time.
"Jeez, don't tell me some of the Dutch are carrying a pair afterall."
Yeah. Glimmers of hope amidst the ruins. They have a long way to go and not much time. Good luck, boys.
This being a slightly different Band of Brothers than sKerry was fond of claiming membership in I would presume......
No I didn't see it.
As I recall though from history the Dutch temporarily lifted their moratorium on the death penalty so they could kill a lot of Nazi's then reinstated it.
Exellent.
"You're "far right" if you marched to protest this murder? "
In Rotterdam there are a LOT of "far-right" neo-nazi types.
The Dutch are, at the end of the day, a practical people.
Ditto
Maybe France will get a clue next.
The Dutch have, as much or more than any nation, embraced the idiocy of "multiculturalism". Reap what you sow.
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