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Translator leaves popes in Hell but saves Islam's prophet from perditionUTRECHT, Netherlands (ChurchMilitant.com) - A new Dutch translation of the Divine Comedy has erased the name of Muhammad from the opus magnum of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri to prevent the epic poem from becoming "unnecessarily offensive" to Muslims. Translator Lies Lavrijsen told Belgian Radio 1 that she expunged the founder of Islam from her translation to give it the "widest possible accessibility," particularly for "a younger audience." "We knew that if we left this passage as it is, we would have unnecessarily hurt a large part of the readers,"...

Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day — two construction workers in Holland have discovered a real-life “pot o’ gold.” The workers from water company Oasen made the stunning find when they were laying pipes in the new town of Hoef and Haag, in the province of Utrecht, LiveScience reports. During the construction work, they dug up a medieval cooking pot that contained 12 gold and 462 silver coins. The coins have been dated to the 15th century. It's unclear at this point who will keep the coins. After finding the pot, "it literally and figuratively rained coins," the company...

Utrecht jihad murderer captured, had been arrested before for suspected links to the Islamic State, but was released When they released him before, did they keep track of him? Clearly the answer is no. And why not? Because there are just too many possible or potential jihadis for authorities to keep track of them all. And that is an Islamic State strategy: they are endeavoring to overload intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the West, and cause them to collapse. They’re well on their way to success. “37-year-old Turkish ‘terror’ suspect who killed three in Utrecht shooting arrested,” RT, March...

This may not be a jihad attack. If it is, the establishment media and Dutch authorities will insist that the gunmen were mentally ill, and that this has nothing to do with Islam, and that Muslims are the real victims because of a coming “Islamophobic backlash.” This procedure is abundantly tested and proven by now. “At least one dead and multiple wounded after gunman ‘with possible terrorist motive’ opens fire on Dutch tram before going on the run, as nearby schools are put on lockdown,” by Sara Malm, Mailonline, March 18, 2019: At least one person has died and a...

LIVE VIDEO #utrecht #netherlands police special forces are surrounding building where gunmen would been hiding #terrorattack people are asked to stay inside away from windowspic.twitter.com/q9ryAOWD3f — Storm op zee (@2delavega2000) March 18, 2019 #Netherlands shooting: #Utrecht on lockdown as shooter fled in a car after the #attack. @vdbergstephanie #NetherlandsShooting pic.twitter.com/Sq5Nlv72CJ — FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) March 18, 2019 🔴 #Netherlands: Several injured in shooting "inside a tram carriage" in #Utrecht. More on this developing story ⬇ pic.twitter.com/j5jSH3vNAM — FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) March 18, 2019 The police asks you to look out for the 37 year old Gökman Tanis (born...

Dutch authorities say they have caught the man suspected of opening fire on a tram in Utrecht, killing three people this morning.

UTRECHT, Netherlands - A shooting on a Dutch tram left several people injured in Utrecht, multiple news outlets are reporting.

Subsidized indoctrination! Dutch schoolchildren at the Gregorius College in Utrecht are being taught by their leftist teachers to hate Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. The children are led in chants of "Wilders rot op," which translates roughly to "Wilders get lost" or "Wilders f--- off!". See VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLN_3r8b8-c

Barcelona’s poorest district is to pilot a “basic income” scheme that will see residents given grants to lift them above the breadline in a ground-breaking social experiment. The Barcelona district of Besós has been picked to test a €13 million European Union funded pilot scheme investigating “innovative and creative solutions” to urban poverty. The Catalan capital has been chosen alongside Utrecht in the Netherlands and the Finnish city of Helsinki to test the scheme, which will see the poorest residents in each chosen district given grants for two years to lift them above the breadline. In the B-Mincome experiment, 1,000...

The Dutch city of Utrecht is planning on experimenting with socialism to test its value and results. The Independent reports that the city has teamed up with University College Utrecht to observe “if a system of welfare without requirements will be successful.” The concept of basic income “is a universal, unconditional form of payment to individuals, which covers their living costs.” The basic income is supposed to help free up people schedules and work hours to provide more time to volunteer in the community, study at university, and care for others. …

A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday. The Nigerian soldier will go into isolation at a "calamity unit" at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen. He is expected to arrive in Amsterdam over the weekend and be transferred by ambulance to nearby Utrecht. Late Thursday, the U.N. mission announced that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier. The Ebola outbreak has sickened nearly 17,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, about 6,100...

The Utrecht neighbourhood of Ondiep is to be sealed off to outsiders for a second night on Wednesday, following two nights of clashes between youths and riot police, a city council spokesman confirmed. The area has been ringed with fences which will be pulled across all roads later today, closing the area to non-residents. At least 130 people were arrested on Tuesday following a number of incidents in both in the city centre and on the fringes of Ondiep. Police said the arrests included a number of football supporters from FC Utrecht, Rotterdam’s Feyenoord and Amsterdam’s Ajax who had come...

AMSTERDAM — A female Muslim teacher has been suspended by a school in Utrecht for refusing to shake hands with men. The management at Vader Rijn College asked the Equality Commission to examine the case to confirm whether it had acted correctly. The school teaches pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO). Newspaper 'AD' broke the story on Friday that the woman, who is not native Dutch, has been asked to stay at home after she decided on religious grounds not to shake hands with men ever again. The school feels this is unacceptable School director Bart Engbers said the woman's decision had...

Women in burkas face benefit cuts By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent A DUTCH city is to cut benefits for unemployed Muslim women whose refusal to take off their burkas stops them getting jobs. Utrecht City Council voted for the measure the day after the Dutch Government announced plans to ban women wearing the burka in some public places as a security measure, and on the same day that Maria van der Hoeven, the Education Minister, urged a ban on burkas in schools. The burka, a traditional women’s dress in some Muslim societies, covers the entire body except the eyes. The...

Clinton Has Eyes at Rosen Trial BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun May 23, 2005 LOS ANGELES - Since the criminal trial of a top fund-raising official on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign began here nearly two weeks ago, a middle-age woman has been quietly perched on one of the wooden benches in the back of the courtroom. She jots down her observations in a small notebook and regularly consults with defense lawyers, but does not socialize with the handful of journalists covering the trial. The unobtrusive and taciturn woman is the general counsel for Mrs. Clinton's campaign,...