European right wing terrorists strike!

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Dutch far-right hits Muslims
By Frederic Bichon
The Hague
November 10, 2004

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A bomb exploded at an Islamic school in the Netherlands yesterday, spreading fear among the country's 900,000 Muslims who have been subject to a wave of hate attacks in recent days.

Three mosques were targeted by arsonists and two by vandals at the weekend, one of them daubed with offensive slogans and pigs heads, in apparent reprisal attacks for the murder of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Islamic extremist.

The blast took place before dawn at a Muslim school in the southern city of Eindhoven, causing heavy damage but no injuries, authorities said. Police say they have made no arrests.

Authorities have linked the string of attacks to the murder last Tuesday week of controversial filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh by a suspected radical Muslim of Moroccan origin who is now in police custody.

Van Gogh was widely known for his criticism of Islam and recently caused an uproar with a short film linking domestic abuse with the perceived subservient position of women in the Islamic faith.

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Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende condemned the latest attacks and appealed for an end to the spiral of violence. "We must . . . avoid a climate of radicalisation. An attitude of 'us against them' will not get us far," he said.

Eindhoven Mayor Alexander Sakkers lamented the escalation in violence yesterday and appealed for calm. Amsterdam's council of churches expressed its solidarity with the Muslim community through an advertisement in a daily newspaper.

Muslim houses of worship and Islamic schools have been under surveillance since van Gogh's murder but police patrols would be stepped up, Mayor Sakkers said.

Eindhoven has about 20,000 Muslim inhabitants in a total population of 210,000.

Authorities have linked the string of attacks to the murder last Tuesday week of . . . Theo van Gogh."Driss el Boujoufi, deputy head of Ummon association, which oversees some 90 Moroccan mosques in the country, also said that security had been boosted at places of worship and in schools.

"We have asked our followers to be on the lookout around mosques and schools," he said. "But most mosques don't have the means to ensure security around-the-clock."

Interior Minister Johan Remkes yesterday described the attacks as "isolated incidents".

An internet site set up for condolences after van Gogh's murder was forced to shut down because of a flood of racist messages. Several far-right marches in Amsterdam failed to attract large crowds.

Out of a population of 16 million the Netherlands has some 900,000 Muslims and of those about 300,000 are of Moroccan descent. The authorities estimate that between 3 and 5 per cent of all Dutch Muslims support radical ideas.

In recent days Dutch authorities have stepped up security for a handful of politicians who have received threats from suspected Muslim extremists.

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CharlieG said:
Hate breeds hate, Lestat... and in this case, certainly, Muslims can point the finger at one of their own.
Agreed....and it goes both ways.

That has always been my point. Most terrorism today is a reaction to some other terrorist acts....often perpertrated by government forces.
 

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Yes of course Muslims because of thier religion abuse women, exactly the same as being a Catholic priest causes you to be a pedophile.
 

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I believe that those Europeans bombed those Mosque's because they are jelous of our beaches.

They long for the same amount of beaches as the muslim countries have, and out of spite they attack our mosques. You cannot negotiate with such evil. No matter what the muslims do...these evil Europeans will resort to terrorism to achieve there evil goals.

Your either with us or against us!

(sounds rather silly doesn't it)
 
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