Hollandistan Follies:City Council of Rotterdam -first predicted all Muslim city in Europe - wants to make Islamists feel at home and sign 'tolerance' agreement

THE HAGUE, December 29 (IslamOnline.net) – The best way to sum up the dying year of 2004 for Dutch Muslims is to speak about religious discrimination, xenophobes, bigotry, last but not least, racist attacks on their places of worship.

Even before the November killing of anti-Islam filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, following his insulting documentary about Islam, Dutch Muslims have been targeted by the extremist agenda of the influential right-wing parties.

The xenophobia and extremism cancer prompted Queen Beatrix to dedicate her annual address to the nation Saturday, December 25, to national unity and the importance of tolerance and moderation for the welfare of Dutch society.

"We must make sure that there is no room in our society for bigotry, racism, killing, violence and [religious] hatred to face up to the daunting challenges ahead," the Queen said. "All Dutch people should work for the common good."

The Queen felt that her people were in danger of descending into a deadly civil war especially after 20 mosques and Islamic schools had come under arson attacks linked to the murder of Van Gogh by a Dutchman of Moroccan origin.

The Muslim community was indeed quick to condemn the killing of the filmmaker.

"I abhor his views on Islam and find them hurtful for the Islamic community, but there is no motive that can justify a murder," Ayhan Tonca, of the Dutch organ for contact between Muslims and government, had said in an earlier interview.

Observers say right-wingers like Fortuyn are to blame for feelings of frustrations among the Muslim community.

Observers said some one million Dutch Muslims felt really hard done-by because of their religion, holding the right-wing and media accountable.

What added insult to injury is that extremist right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn, who was killed in May 2002, was declared the greatest Dutchman of all times in a recent nationwide survey.

"The anti-Muslim agenda of the ruling coalition of right-wing parties has, in effect, given rise to Muslim extremists and is a breeding ground for recruiting frustrated young Muslims," Ali Kurkamaz, a Dutch political analyst told IslamOnline.net Wednesday, December 29.

"This extremist agenda has given minority communities a real hard time."

The right-wing government is now mulling imposing new restrictions on Muslims, including monitoring mosques and curbing their number, censoring sermons, editing Islamic curricula, placing Islamic charities under close scrutiny and constricting visas for imams and Muslim immigrants.

In November, the right-wing Leefbaar Rotterdam (Livable Rogtterdam) party submitted a petition to Rotterdam's Local Council, asking it to deny the Muslim community in the city (around 100,000 people) licenses to build more mosques.

It was also pressing for keeping minarets below 35 meters and censoring sermons and religious classes in the city's 25 mosques.

There are more than 300 mosques in the Netherlands, 1000 Islamic cultural centers, two Islamic universities and 42 preparatory schools.

Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk faced a heated discussion over her new plans in parliament on December 12, though a decision is not expected for several weeks.

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.

Integrating immigrants has been the subject of much debate in the Netherlands since the emergence of right-wing politicians such as Fortuyn.

Aref Yaksir, an official with the largest Turkish Dianat organization in the Netherlands, heaped blame on Dutch media for its xenophobic approach.

He told IOL that some media portrayed Islam as a nightmare and a serious threat to the country.

"It seems [through media coverage] as if the country was abounding with Muslim extremists and inundated by terrorist operations," he said.

Mohammad Sharif, a journalist of Kurdish origin, gave Muslims some good advice for 2005.

"Refuse to be provoked. Let the right wingers miss the golden opportunity of enacting fresh anti-immigrants laws and justifying unfair measures."

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• MIM :Rotterdam officials think social programs instead of SWAT teams will prevent radicalisation of Muslim youth.

It appears that the city council in Rotterdam is hedging their bets in case the tolerance agreement between the Muslim an non Muslim inhabitants does not work as planned . Civil servants will not receive training on how to detect youth who appear to be susceptible to radicalisation(!).

Would possible radicalisation make them ineligible for the goverment subsidised course on how to pick to up women? http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/409 .

It must be noted that the Mayor Opstelten who is cited in the article below as being concerned about radicalisation ,is the person who ordered the police to force a Dutch artist to remove his mural saying "Thou Shalt Not Kill" from a wall in Rotterdam,one day after the Van Gogh murder, on the grounds that it was offensive to local Muslims who attended a nearby mosque. (see above).

At the end of the article Mayor Opstelten unintentionally reveals how the insanity of diversity has triumphed over common sense and survival. It is obvious that the officials in Rotterdam have failed to grasp the fact that the radicalisation of Dutch born Muslims is not going to be solved by their foreign born, non Dutch speaking parents,and that the fact of having to find ways to 'assimilate' these youth is more proof , if any was needed that taxpayer funded integration,and citizenship courses are not only redundant and oxymoronic but are perpetrating a deadly deception that the threat can be avoided . The only thing which can save Holland from turning into Hollandistan are SWAT teams - not social programs. Rotterdam Mayor Opstelten showed that the Dutch are not willing to tackle the problem when he " emphasized that;

" Rotterdam is not following either a soft or hard line. The path to integration is hard . Who doesn't want to participate will be shut out."

The municipality is thinking about , among other things, a 'last chance' trajectory for youth and an obligatory parenting and disipline courses for parents of these youths."

MIM: Which begs the question if the parents and youth who 'fail' the courses will receive an F for fundamentalism?

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