Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Muslim Woman In Netherlands Beaten As an "Infidel Whore" For Not Wearing Hijab

Okay, so Europe has descended into the savagery and butchery of the Middle East and Asia....Welcome to the new 7th Century Europe.

The story comes from Jihad Watch via The Religion of Peace.


Netherlands: Muslims attack non-hijabbed Muslima as “infidel whore”

A tremendous amount of social control is often exercised in Muslim communities to ensure Sharia compliance. Ostracism and brutalization and worse all too often await those Muslims who don’t go to mosque or abide by Sharia norms. This is a key reason why we don’t see larger numbers of Muslims backing up their pro-forma condemnations of jihad violence with genuine action against jihad terror: those who stand up against the dominant views are risking losing their families, their communities, and even their lives.

“Tunisian discriminated against by fellow Muslims,” a translation of “Tunesische gediscrimineerd door mede-moslims,” by Istvan Kovi, AD.nl, June 3, 2016 (thanks to Susan):

Muslim parents berate the integrated Tunisian Radia Laabidi, 38, regularly as “infidel and unclean.” The Amersfoort mother experiences this in the schoolyard. “I do not wear headscarves, but a skirt, and do not go to the mosque. So some may consider you an infidel whore.”

Laabidi believes that her children have been for some time a target of discrimination from other Muslims in their primary school in Amersfoort. A liberal Muslim woman, she was scolded recently at the school and even attacked. “She called to me and ran her nails across my face.” Radia defended himself fiercely. The brawl, in the sight of many children and parents, was ended by single fathers. Several parents witnessed and confirmed Radia’s account of events….

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Dutch Islamic Problem Begins In Islamic High Schools

What problems could possibly arise when you allow the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Muslims into a western European country?  Let us count them....one by one...starting with the behavior of Islamic students.

The story comes from Family Security Matters.



Dutch Islamic School's Lies and Threats Offer Broader Lessons


Students threatening teachers. Teachers threatening students. Corruption in the classrooms, the hallways, and, eventually, becoming a national scandal - all part of daily life at an Islamic high school in Rotterdam. There, according to a recent article in Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, non-Muslim teachers are pressured to pass failing Muslim students, while Muslim teachers hold secretive classes instructing their pupils on the evils of European culture.

And that's only part of the story.

The Ibn Ghaldoun school has a long history of controversy, but returned recently to the spotlight after it was discovered that a group of its students had stolen copies of the national final exam, administered to all Dutch students, and were selling it over the Internet. Dozens were found to have cheated, including at least one young woman who, having researched the answers, spoke them into her smartphone and played the recording during test-taking, hiding the headphones under her hijab. The result: the tests had to be repeated, even by those who had not seen them in advance - and so students around the country whose families had planned to take their summer holidays were, in many cases, forced to forfeit flights and other travel arrangements (often at substantial cost).

Investigations into the theft have revealed deep-rooted corruption and revisited previous dirty dealings at the Islamic school, the only Islamic secondary school in the country. In 2007, for instance, Ibn Ghaldoun's directors were found to have used over €200,000 in government subsidies earmarked for books and local educational school outings to take 200 students and their families not, say, to the Rijksmuseum or Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, but to Mecca. To make matters worse, school administrators then created false receipts and invoices to cover up the misallocation of funds.

Other money also appears to have been paid that same year to local imams not officially affiliated with the school, including the radical Khalil El Moumni, known, among other things, for regularly characterizing homosexuals as being "worse than pigs."

In this latest scandal, the school has come under its most intense scrutiny yet. And the findings suggest that problems with Holland's Muslim population are far more complex - and potentially serious - than has been recognized to date.

It isn't only that several hundred of Rotterdam's Muslim youth attend a school where lying and stealing is evidently the norm for the administration, creating an environment in which the basic values and principles of Western law and social values are dismissed and disregarded; and it isn't only that the role model this establishes for these children is one that not only ignores Dutch law, but defies it. What is worse is that such lessons, according to the NRC Handelsblad, are actually taught directly: in a discussion with seven non-Muslim teachers from the school (all of whom claim to have taken jobs there in the hope of improving chances for underprivileged Muslim youth), reporter Andreas Kouwenhoven discovered that after-school "study groups" prove not to be study groups at all. Rather, one Ibn Ghaldoun teacher told him, "they were classes aimed at indoctrinating the children. The lessons were directed against Dutch culture: Girls should never marry a Dutch boy or a non-believer [non-Muslim]."

Others told the NRC that parents frequently participated in the culture of lies prevalent at the school, regularly pressuring them to raise a child's grade or even to pass a failing student. Equally distressing, however, is the fact that some teachers actually capitulated. Some cited threats (one claimed his car was vandalized when he refused to raise one student's grade). Others who admitted inflating grades and secretly giving pupils second- and third chances felt that Dutch-Muslim children experience particular difficulty navigating Dutch society and so, deserve some latitude - this even when many Ibn Ghaldoun's students were born and raised in the Netherlands. Not only have students who should have failed been allowed to pass, but even those who rightfully should have flunked out completely have received diplomas. (Ibn Ghaldoum's director, Ayhan Tonca, did not respond to requests for comment for this column.)

The consequences of all this are significant. The unemployment rate among the Dutch Muslim population, particularly among Moroccans, is 15 percent, versus 8 percent of non-Muslims. Far more live in poverty. These facts are frequently cited as reasons for the high rate of criminality in the Muslim (and especially Moroccan) community, and as proof that Muslims are discriminated against by non-Muslim employers. But the situation at the school suggests that the problems lie deeper, in a systemic, cultural approach to maneuvering through life and handling an adverse situation: the lying, the cheating, the threats.

(As for allegations of discrimination in the job market, one can't help but wonder: the fact that two kids graduate with a certain grade point average may make them appear equal as job candidates; but if one of them received that diploma despite the fact that he cannot write a coherent job solicitation letter, then there's likely more than just ethnicity involved.)

What's more, failure to assimilate appears to come, then, not from discrimination or difficulties in adapting per se, but as a deliberate strategy promoted not just be radical imams in the mosques, but by the schools.

Granted, Ibn Ghaldoun is but one of many Islamic schools in the country (though it is, significantly, the only Islamic high school). But it is by far not the only one that expressly teaches students to oppose Dutch norms or resist Westernization; in fact, a 2008 report showed that a full 86 percent had defrauded the government of a total of over €2 million, while more recent government reports have shown that 30 percent of Islamic schools in the Netherlands have ties to Hamas and/or the Muslim Brotherhood.

That may explain the rise in extremism in the country in recent years, and the growing flow of Dutch Muslims to join the jihad in Syria - trends that have caused Dutch officials to raise the terror alert to its next-to-highest level.

This is not to argue against the existence of Muslim schools in principle, any more than against the presence of, say, Yeshivas. But if this is the kind of Islam Ibn Ghaldoun and similar such schools are teaching, then not only Holland, but all of Europe - and the West would be far better off without them. The time, in any case, has come to stop mollycoddling these children, and to stop making excuses for their behavior. The West must at last demand that its Muslim children be part of our cultural and moral fabric - starting in the classroom.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Majority of Netherlands Favors Ban on Sharia Law





From Family Security Matters.




Majority of Netherlands Favors Ban on Sharia Law


Polls don't mean that much unless there are political parties and leaders willing to implement them. The Netherlands may represent the first time that the counterjihad stars have aligned in a single country. Wilders' popularity is rising and tolerance for Islamic terror is declining.

More than three quarters of the Dutch (77 percent) believe that Islam is no enrichment for our country. More than two-thirds - 68 percent - say that there is enough Islam in the Netherlands. It is striking that a majority of voters from all political parties (from PVV to VVD, CDA, D66, PvdA, SP and 50plus) share this view.

PvdA is the Netherlands Labour Party. SP is the Socialist Party.

A poll conducted by the research bureau of Maurice de Hond (the Dutch equivalent of Gallup), commissioned by the PVV, among a representative sample of over 1,900 people also shows other striking results:


A majority of 55 percent favors stopping immigration from Islamic countries.

63 percent say: no new mosques.

72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.

64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.

Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.

PVV leader Geert Wilders: “The results are very clear. The Netherlands has had enough of Islam. The majority do not want new immigrants from Islamic countries, nor any new mosques. They think that Islam is no enrichment for the Netherlands and say: Enough is enough. I will confront the Dutch government with these findings and demand that we finally stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. For a long time is has been claimed that anti-Islamic opinions are extremist. It is clear now that a majority of our people supports them!”

Maybe the new gates aren’t in Vienna after all.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Geert Wilders Tells the EU To Eff Off, Pulls Party From Coalition, Dutch Government on Brink of Collapse


Kudos to Geert Wilders...the Dutch politician who we all adore for his bitch slapping of Islam in The Netherlands...for this time, telling the European Union bureaucrats to go suck wind and pulled his party from the coalition-based Dutch government. And thinks in The Netherlands look shaky, at best.

The report comes from The National.

(Hat Tip: Poppy)



Dutch government on brink of collapse after anti-Islam politician pulls out of coalition


AMSTERDAM // Geert Wilders, a Dutch anti-Islam politician and right-wing leader, has withdrawn his support for the minority government in the Netherlands, bringing it to the brink of collapse and possibly precipitating early elections later this year.

He pulled his party out on Saturday after talks over budget cuts demanded by the European Union and austerity measures became deadlocked.

Mr Wilders cited the Brussels-based EU rather than his better-known anti-Islam policies for his decision. He said that he refused to bow to "the diktats of Brussels bureaucrats." The EU is insisting that the Netherlands bring down its projected budget deficit for 2013.

The agreement under which Mr Wilders' right-wing Party for Freedom supported a minority coalition of conservative Liberals and Christian Democrats lasted just over 18 months. In Denmark, a similar arrangement with the right-wing People's Party lasted 10 years and came to an end last year.

The reason for the break-up of the Dutch coalition appears to be the drastic budget cuts that have to be made for the Netherlands to limit its deficit to within the EU-mandated 3 per cent. The coalition and Mr Wilders had been negotiating for seven weeks to find more than €14 billion (Dh68bn) in savings.

The Netherlands had earlier this year been one of the EU countries most critical of Greece and its financial difficulties, insisting on strict conditions and targets for the European bailout. Mr Wilders resisted the bailout and has suggested that Greece should leave the single currency, the euro. He has also said that the Netherlands would be better off outside the single currency.

His party has been down in the opinion polls in recent months. The polling determined that his party has fallen from the 24 seats it captured in 2010 to 19 in the 150-seat parliament.

The decline signals the cost to Mr Wilders of supporting the government without being seen as having much influence over its policies. Apart from his anti-Islam rhetoric, Mr Wilders and his party have tried to tap into anti-EU and anti-austerity sentiment.

He scandalised Poland in February when he started a complaints hotline and website targeted at Eastern Europeans, mostly Poles, who can work legally in the Netherlands under EU rules but who are seen by some as taking away Dutch jobs and flouting tax and labour codes. The European parliament censured the Dutch government for not distancing itself strongly enough from Mr Wilders' initiative.

By withdrawing his support for the coalition over unpopular budget cuts that are set to raise the retirement age and affect health care, housing subsidies and salaries, Mr Wilders may hope to restore his flagging electoral fortunes. He said he would campaign, "against Brussels, against the 3 per cent, against the euro."

He may also be focusing once again on the anti-Islam vein that served him so well in the past. An autobiographical book aimed at his numerous American admirers is set to appear in the US on May 1. It is titled "Marked for death, Islam's war against the West and Me," a reference to the numerous death threats he is said to have received for his anti-Islam remarks.

Friday, January 27, 2012

The Netherlands Will Ban the Burqa and Face Veils Next Year


Allright! The banning of face veils and burqas in Europe is really starting to catch on as The Netherlands is following the lead of France and planning a ban for next year.

From the article at Reuters via Breitbart:

The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year.

The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public.

"People should be able to look at each other's faces and recognize each other when they meet," the interior affairs ministry said in a statement Friday.

The ban will also apply to balaclavas and motorcycle helmets when worn in inappropriate places, such as inside a store, Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen told reporters, denying that this was a ban on religious clothing.

Geert Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV), which helps give the Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition a majority in parliament, has set considerable political store on getting the so-called burqa ban passed into law.


Now, this kind of an action might seem a bit timid considering how much leeway the Europeans have given the Muslims over the past decade but it does show that there is some fight left in at least some Europeans. And as far as I look at it, the more the Europeans can fight back a little bit and at least slow down the encroachment of the Caliphate, the better that bodes for America.




Dutch plan ban on Muslim face veils next year


(Reuters) - The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year.

The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public.

"People should be able to look at each other's faces and recognize each other when they meet," the interior affairs ministry said in a statement Friday.

The ban will also apply to balaclavas and motorcycle helmets when worn in inappropriate places, such as inside a store, Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen told reporters, denying that this was a ban on religious clothing.

Geert Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV), which helps give the Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition a majority in parliament, has set considerable political store on getting the so-called burqa ban passed into law.

Few Muslim women in the Netherlands wear the Arabic-style niqabs which leave the eyes uncovered and Afghan-style burqas that cover the face with a cloth grid. Academics estimate the numbers at between 100 and 400, whereas Muslim headscarves which leave the face exposed are far more common.

The coalition has agreed to submit a new law to parliament next week stipulating that offenders would be fined up to 390 euros ($510), the ministry said.

Verhagen said the ban was intended to ensure that a tradition of open communication cherished in Dutch society was upheld, and to prevent people from concealing their identity in order to do harm.

Wilders, who condemned Dutch Queen Beatrix for covering her hair with a scarf on a recent royal visit to the Middle East, said on Twitter: "Great news: burqa ban will finally come to the Netherlands! Proposal approved by ministers' council. Excellent!"

Maurits Berger, professor of Islam in the contemporary West at Leiden University, said only a few hundred women wear the full face veil in the Netherlands.

"This is highly symbolic, it's part of the deal made with PVV," Berger said. "We are in the middle of a crisis. There are worse things to tackle."

The minority coalition is at odds with the Freedom Party over where to make further budget cuts, and the scale of the cuts needed.

The face-veil law, which still needs to win approval in both houses of parliament, excludes clothing worn for security reasons such as that worn by firemen and hockey players, as well as party clothing such as Santa Claus or Halloween costumes.

The ban does not apply to religious places, such as churches and mosques, nor to passengers on airplanes or en route via a Dutch airport, the interior ministry said. ($1 = 0.7615 euros)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

How's This For a Twist On Immigration? Dutch Offer To Pay Bosnian Immigrants To Leave and Go Back Home


Hey, maybe America has been approaching the whole illegal immigrant problem the wrong way! Since some in America claim that we can't feasibly deport 15 million illegal aliens, perhaps we can just pay them to go back to Mexico! LOL

This article from Adnkronos discusses a new proposal from The Netherlands that would not only pay the moving expenses of 30,000 Bosnian immigrants to go back to Bosnia, but would pay them "life benefits." I kid you not.

From the article:

The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home, Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees said on Wednesday.

The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home, Bosnian Ministry for Human Rghts and Refugees said on Wednesday.

The ministry said it was informed by Netherlands authorities that the Dutch government would pay travelling expenses to returnees of up to 1,500 euros and life benefits to persons over 45 years of age.

The monthly benefits for individuals would be 470 euros, or 670 euros per married couple, the ministry said.

It is estimated that some 30,000 Bosnians settled in the Netherlands after the war and many have failed to integrate into Dutch society.

The Dutch government said it was a “quality solution for all foreigners who have failed to integrate into Dutch society”.

Now, since the article won't come out and say it...those Bosnian immigrants who have failed to integrate or assimilate into Dutch society...let's see, who would they be? Could they just possibly be muslim immigrants? I mean, what segment of people would escape war torn Bosnia years ago and come to The Netherlands and then refuse to integrate into Dutch society that the Dutch government is willing to pay them to get out? I think we've answered that question, don't you?



Bosnia: Dutch offer Bosnians monthly repatriation benefits


The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home, Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees said on Wednesday.

Sarajevo 5 Jan. (AKI) - The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home, Bosnian Ministry for Human Rghts and Refugees said on Wednesday.

The ministry said it was informed by Netherlands authorities that the Dutch government would pay travelling expenses to returnees of up to 1,500 euros and life benefits to persons over 45 years of age.

The monthly benefits for individuals would be 470 euros, or 670 euros per married couple, the ministry said.

It is estimated that some 30,000 Bosnians settled in the Netherlands after the war and many have failed to integrate into Dutch society.

The Dutch government said it was a “quality solution for all foreigners who have failed to integrate into Dutch society”.

The participants in the repatriation program would be allowed a one year trial period, after which they would have the right to return to the Netherlands. After that period, they would have to renounce Dutch citizenship and lose residential rights, the government said.

In view of Bosnia’s crippled economy, huge unemployment and average monthly wage below 300 euros, it is generally expected that the repatriation program would yield good results.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Geert Wilders Trial Started Today, Counter-Jihadist Charged With Inciting Racial Hatred


Yeah, you read the title right....Geert Wilders was in court today in Amsterdam to answer charges that he incited hatred against muslims....you know, those muslims who kill innocent people every single day of the year? Yeah, those muslims. This trial is an absolute sham and better serve as a warning to all of us in the West who don't think that the multiculturalists don't wield any sort of power. And for those of us in America that think this is a "European" thing, don't forget that the Flying Imams brought charges up on U.S. citizens for accusing them of suspicious behavior.

From the article at Breitbart:


Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, set to become a shadow partner in the next Dutch government, went on trial Monday accused of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.
The controversial politician with his signature shock of dyed-blonde hair risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600-euro fine for calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The hearing in Amsterdam was opened by presiding judge Jan Moors shortly after 9:00 am (0700 GMT) with Wilders seated in the front row of the courtroom next to his advocate Bram Moszkovicz.

Wilders, 47, is charged with five counts of giving religious offence to Muslims and inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans.

In comments made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on Internet forums, prosecutors say that Wilders described Islam as "the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed" and its holy book as "the Mein Kampf of a religion that seeks to eliminate others".

Among the exhibits is Wilders' 17-minute film, "Fitna", alleged to depict Islam as a force bent on destroying the West and whose screening in the Netherlands in 2008 prompted protests in much of the Muslim world.

Now, I don't know how many of you have seen Fitna, but I have and in that documentary, I don't see a single untruth or distortion. And, if that film incited hatred ...then the guilty party is islam. Let me ask you this - if I were to put out a documentary film on the brutal rule of Adolf Hitler, would I be brought to court on charges by Neo-Nazis in America saying that I incited hatred towards them?

I'd say that instead of Wilders being on trial in Amsterdam, the Qur'an should be on trial for inciting violence against innocents. Instead of Geert Wilders facing prison for telling the truth, Islam should be facing banishment in the Netherlands for crimes against the state.



Trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders opens


Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, set to become a shadow partner in the next Dutch government, went on trial Monday accused of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.
The controversial politician with his signature shock of dyed-blonde hair risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600-euro fine for calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The hearing in Amsterdam was opened by presiding judge Jan Moors shortly after 9:00 am (0700 GMT) with Wilders seated in the front row of the courtroom next to his advocate Bram Moszkovicz.

Wilders, 47, is charged with five counts of giving religious offence to Muslims and inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans.

In comments made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on Internet forums, prosecutors say that Wilders described Islam as "the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed" and its holy book as "the Mein Kampf of a religion that seeks to eliminate others".

Among the exhibits is Wilders' 17-minute film, "Fitna", alleged to depict Islam as a force bent on destroying the West and whose screening in the Netherlands in 2008 prompted protests in much of the Muslim world.

About 15 uprotesters gathered outside the Amsterdam district court building with a large placard that blamed Wilders for "division and polarisation", as a strong contingent of police, some in riot gear, kept watch.

"The different colours of our society is what makes us rich, but that is being threatened by Mr Wilders," Mustafa Ayranci, one of the group's organisers and head of the Turkish labour association, told AFP.

In the public gallery were about a dozen MPs of Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV), which came third in June 9 elections with 24 seats out of 150 in the Dutch lower house of parliament.

Under a coalition deal being finalised, his PVV will provide a minority cabinet of the Christian Democrats and liberals with the majority they need to pass decisions through parliament in return for a voice in policy formation.

The target of death threats, Wilders has 24-hour state-sponsored protection while pursuing his mission to "stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands".

He campaigns for a stop to Muslim immigration, banning the construction of new mosques, and a tax on headscarves.

Wilders was temporarily banned from Britain last year on race hate grounds.

In Berlin on Saturday, more than 100 people demonstrated against his presence to give a speech at the invitation of a right-wing German politician.

In June 2008, the Dutch prosecution service dismissed dozens of complaints against Wilders from around the country, citing his right to freedom of speech.

But appeals judges ordered in January 2009 that he stand trial as his utterances amounted to "sowing hatred" and exceeded the boundaries of political debate.

Judgment is expected on November 4.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

British Muslim Arrested In Amsterdam On Second Leg of Flight To Africa, Terrorism Suspected


There isn't any word out why the British allowed a Somali-born British citizen to leave Britain's John Lennon airport but their counter-terrorism people contacted The Netherlands and the chump was arrested before his flight left Amsterdam for East Africa.

From the article at The Telegraph:



The man had already flown the first leg of his flight from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to Schiphol in Amsterdam and was on the plane ready to take off for the second leg.

His arrest by the Royal Marechaussee military police followed a tip-off from British counter-terrorism officials, sources said, but it was unclear why he was allowed to leave the country.

A spokesman said: "A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Schiphol. At this moment, an inquiry is trying to determine whether or not the man belongs to a foreign terrorist organisation."
The suspect had travelled from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool en route to Entebbe in Uganda on KLM flight 561, which was delayed for two hours following the arrest on Sunday morning.

In America here, we've seen full well the connection between Somali emigrants in this country and the likes of al Shabaab in Somalia and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the connections between this guy and the same. Lord know Somalia is a big draw for people nowadays, right?

Anyway, it's good to see the Europeans on the watch right now.



British terrorism suspect arrested in Amsterdam


The man had already flown the first leg of his flight from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to Schiphol in Amsterdam and was on the plane ready to take off for the second leg.

His arrest by the Royal Marechaussee military police followed a tip-off from British counter-terrorism officials, sources said, but it was unclear why he was allowed to leave the country.

Britain has introduced a new “watch list” system in the wake of the failed attempt to blow up an airliner as it came into land at Detroit on Christmas Day, but there are two levels to the list, the second of which does not ban flying.

Somalia has become a focus of counter-terrorism operations by MI5 and Jonathan Evans, the director general of the agency, said last week that it was “only a matter of time before we see terrorism on our streets” inspired by Britons who have joined the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab, which is aligned with al-Qaeda.

Mr Evans said there were “a significant number of UK residents training in al-Shabaab camps to fight in the insurgency there” and that the country showed “many of the characteristics that made Afghanistan so dangerous as a seedbed for terrorism in the period before the fall of the Taliban.”

He added: “We need to do whatever we can to stop people from this country becoming involved in terrorism and murder in Somalia.”

Dutch prosecutors said they were investigating the man for links to a terrorist organisation but had not found any explosives.

A spokesman said: "A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Schiphol. At this moment, an inquiry is trying to determine whether or not the man belongs to a foreign terrorist organisation."

The suspect had travelled from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool en route to Entebbe in Uganda on KLM flight 561, which was delayed for two hours following the arrest on Sunday morning.

The man was being questioned last night and Dutch police said they hoped to be able to release more information on Monday. Scotland Yard said it was aware of the arrest but declined to comment further.

Up to 100 Britons from a variety of ethnic backgrounds are thought to have traveled to Somalia in recent years, where some of them have died fighting for al-Shabaab.

A number of terrorism suspects accused of trying to leave Britain to receive training have been put under control orders preventing them leaving the country but the system has recently been watered down after legal challenges.

Al-Shabaab caused shock in Uganda during the World Cup in July by setting off bombs in Kampala as fans watched the game on TV, killing 74 people.

Schiphol airport has dramatically stepped up security in response to the Christmas Day incident in which Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, a former student at University College London, tried to blow himself up with a bomb hidden in his underpants as he flew from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Last month, two Yemeni men were arrested at the Amsterdam airport after flying in from Chicago, after taped up mobile phones were found in their luggage. They were held for several days then released without charge.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Article: ' We Are All Geert Wilders Now '


I'm not totally enamored by this article at Family Security Matters use of comparison of what Geert Wilders is going through right now with that of Martin Luther King, Jr. but I think the text that describes what we in the West need to do now in support of Wilders is terrific. I encourage you to read the full article. As you know, Wilders is facing a Dutch court for inciting hate against islamists via his film, "Fitna." Here are some excerpts from the article, look at the power in the first paragraph:


In the case of Geert Wilders, a court was repulsed by his comments comparing Islamic supremacism's beliefs to those expressed in Hitler's Mein Kampf. That court was not repulsed by the daily calls for killing Jews by Islamic supremacists. That court was not repulsed by the anti-Semitic hate that is regularly channeled in the Islamic supremacist media. That court was not repulsed by the regular calls for the destruction of Israel by Islamic supremacists. That court was not repulsed by the references to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion promoted in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf within the very charter of the Islamic supremacist Hamas organization, a group defended by protestors in the Netherlands over the past few weeks. That court was not repulsed by other Netherlands politicians defending calls for an intifada against Israel, while Amsterdam crowds called for "Jews to the gas."

But our destiny is different and our future is based on who we are, not what we fear. Our destiny is not to live a lie of supremacism, but to embrace the truth of humanity's inalienable right of equality. Our destiny is not to depend on the whims of the merciless, but to extend our courage of equality and liberty to the hopeless and the helpless. Our destiny is not to find solace by cowering in a dark corner, but to shine a torch of truth even in the darkest night. Our destiny is not to ignore Islamic supremacism's war on equality and liberty, but to stand ready to defend these human rights.

I think that last sentence says it all: " Our destiny is not to ignore Islamic supremacism's war on equality and liberty, but to stand ready to defend these human rights."

What the islamists, who seek the World Caliphate, don't understand about America is this: we as Americans regard our freedom and liberties with higher regard than the islamists regard Allah or Mo. Sure, Americans have a tendency to bend...to accomodate...it's part of our nature as a nation built of immigrants but unlike Europe, we have a breaking point. There is a line in the dirt in American soil that NO ONE will be allowed to cross - that goes for radical islamists, that goes for Barack Obama, that goes for Leftists inside of America. When someone crosses that line in regards to our freedom and liberty, you will see a fight from Americans that will rival the valor of any Marines unit. And don't forget, the regular Joes and Janes of America who will defend that line in the dirt....they are armed. Very well armed.

The world has to watch this Wilders trial closely because in essence, it is a trial of truth versus lies. Geert Wilders spoke the truth in his film...that cannot be disputed and if he is convicted, it should send a signal to all Western freedom fighters that there is nothing you can do that can stop a similar legal attack anywhere. A guilty verdict for Wilders is simply a call to arms in western society.

And as the author of the article says:

We are all Geert Wilders now. We Fear No Evil.


Defying Islamic Supremacism – We Are All Geert Wilders Now
Jeffrey Imm


We know these tactics, and we know the frightened people behind them. We know those who would sell out their values and principles to totalitarian ideologues for the hope that they can declare "peace in our time." We know how much they dread acknowledging the reality that appeasement of supremacist ideologies will never quench the endless thirst for equality and liberty in humankind. We know how supremacists desperately cling to the lie of their superiority, for without it, they must acknowledge the harsh reality that their society is built on a hopeless delusion. We know how much the frightened people just desperately want to be left alone, and not be forced to have to face the difficult decisions that a world of mutuality must make to recognize the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty. Most of all, we understand the frightened people, because even though we oppose their tactics, we know that they are fellow human beings, and because if our fate had been different they could have been us.But our destiny is different and our future is based on who we are, not what we fear. Our destiny is not to live a lie of supremacism, but to embrace the truth of humanity's inalienable right of equality. Our destiny is not to depend on the whims of the merciless, but to extend our courage of equality and liberty to the hopeless and the helpless. Our destiny is not to find solace by cowering in a dark corner, but to shine a torch of truth even in the darkest night. Our destiny is not to ignore Islamic supremacism's war on equality and liberty, but to stand ready to defend these human rights.We have not sought out conflict, but we have been challenged to prove the courage of our convictions. In the struggle of promoting equality and liberty against Islamic supremacism, we have been handed the responsibility to prove our dedication to humanity's inalienable rights. The decision over whether we will defend the principles of freedom or submit to the lie of Islamic supremacism is more than a war of ideas – it is a measure of our generation's willpower and resolve.It is more than a debate by learned individuals referencing documents, organizations, actions, people, and history. It is more than an argument of who, what, where, and when. It is more than debating those who live in denial over the threat of Islamic supremacism, more than debating those who believe equality and liberty are merely relative values, and more than debating those who believe that humanity has no purpose or value at all.Most of all, the fight for equality and liberty is a struggle to protect humanity's very identity in freedom, and a commitment to preserve and protect our inalienable human rights for the helpless, the hopeless, those without a voice, and for the next generation. It is a test to see if the flame of courage in our hearts will burn bright against the darkness of a supremacist ideology that seeks to envelop our civilization.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Dutch Ban Veils and Burkas In Public Schools


Great News ! The Dutch, showing some real signs of having balls, have finally ended a back and forth fight and have banned islamic veils and burkas in their public schools. However, an exception was made for universities. Here's the details out of the Times Online:


The veil and the burka will be banned for those working at or visiting Dutch schools, including parents, under a tightening of the law.

The proposal is a compromise after years of argument in the Netherlands in which the Government has stepped back from calls for a general ban on covered faces. “If you want to be present there [at school] as service provider, as parent, as teacher or as pupil, then you will have to let your face show,” Ronald Plasterk, the Education Minister, said.

Now, the interesting thing to see here is whether the officials of the Netherlands will go on to phase two of this and apply this ban to governmental officials and more general public areas.

The Dutch have been one of the more solid partners in the war on terror as they have committed troops since day one to the War in Afghanistan and to this day, fight valiantly against the Taliban in Afghanistan. And while the Netherlands has fallen into the general appeasement of the islamists over the years, this is just one sign that the Dutch are trying to take back their country from Mo's horde.

Hopefully, this move will be seen by neighboring countries and they will follow suit. And perhaps one day, Europe will finally get around to recognizing islam as it truly is...a political ideology and NOT a religion and all of the special protections afforded islamists will be rescinded.


Veiled faces banned under new school rules

The veil and the burka will be banned for those working at or visiting Dutch schools, including parents, under a tightening of the law.
Private Muslim schools will have to comply but universities will be exempt, ministers said, because the law was intended to ensure that children would be able to recognise and identify others.
The proposal is a compromise after years of argument in the Netherlands in which the Government has stepped back from calls for a general ban on covered faces. “If you want to be present there [at school] as service provider, as parent, as teacher or as pupil, then you will have to let your face show,” Ronald Plasterk, the Education Minister, said.
The Cabinet said earlier this year that it would not be bringing in a general ban on the burka but it did announce plans to stop civil servants wearing them. At the time it said that it expected local authorities to follow suit and extend the ban to council buildings and public transport.
There are also plans for it to include all healthcare staff.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Netherlands' Newest TV Stars: The Halal Girls


Good grief. The Netherlands has a new popular tv show featuring three muslim young women who host the talk show. The girls say they are all about dispelling taboos about islam. Remember, this is the country that still has the murder of Theo Van Gogh fresh in its memory.
Here's the classic quote from The Halal Girls:


"Our aim is to show that Islam has nothing to do with extremism," Esmaa says.

Tell me, how long will the World buy into this lie? Islam IS extremism. Islam IS violence. Islam IS death. Wake up there my Dutch friends...turn your channel quickly.

Here's the full story.


Netherland's Halal girls

THE HAGUE — They call them the Halal Girls.
They are three young sisters of Moroccan origin who have become TV stars in the Netherlands with a show that braves taboos and projects the true face of Islam.
"We are Dutch of Moroccan roots but we are above all proud Muslims," Esmaa Alariachi, 28, the elder sister, told IslamOnline.net.
Esmaa and her sisters Jihad, 24, and Hajar, 23, began their talk show, The Halal Girls, on channel TV 5 two years ago.
"It all began when Jihad applying for a screen test at TV 5," Esmaa recalls.
"I was impressed to see hijab-clad girls with excellent communication skills, sharp minds and great sense of humor," Yam Coimann, the director of the show, remembers his meeting with the trio after Jihad's test.
The channel then made the sisters an offer to host their own talk show tackling various social issues.
Since then, they have become the Netherlands's TV personalities.

"It was not easy at all for a devout hijab-clad girl to appear on TV," Esmaa, who was before the show an English language teacher, told IOL.
"But it's all behind us now."

"Our aim is to show that Islam has nothing to do with extremism," Esmaa says.
"Extremists exist in every religion. Muslims are not all Bin Laden and Bouyeri.
"We are Muslims too."