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AMSTERDAM — A shot was fired recently at the window of the office used by Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk. She was not there at the time. Weapons experts attached to the Defence Ministry think the shot was fired at the office in the Justice Ministry complex in The Hague from a nearby building, RTL Nieuws reported on Thursday evening. Sources in the Hague confirmed the story. It is not clear when the shot was fired and when the incident was first detected. The window of her office was said to be damaged. RTL claimed that as a result...

AMSTERDAM — Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is moving to deport three Muslim clerics because of accusations they represent a threat to public order and national security. The three imams will be declared undesirable aliens and two of them will have their residence permits cancelled, the first such action has been taken against clerics. In the third imam's case, an application for an extension of a residence permit will be refused. The Dutch security service AIVD said one of the imams originates from Bosnia and a second comes from Kenya. The origin of the third imam was not released, newspaper De...

THE HAGUE, December 13 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The Netherlands is mulling plans on compulsory courses for immigrants who have already been living in the country for years. Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was facing a heated discussion of her new plans in parliament on Monday, December 12, though a decision is not expected for several weeks, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). The Netherlands already makes integration classes mandatory for newcomers as laws have been changed to oblige all new immigrants and accepted asylum seekers to take classes in Dutch language and culture. The new plans would make everyone who...

WHEN Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, collected his post from the letterbox on Wednesday he got an unpleasant surprise. Among the bills and junk mail was a letter addressing him as “ugly dog”. It told him he would soon be beheaded. It was an unnerving way to start the day. Only 24 hours earlier Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker.