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Campaign: Cage UK – Terror Laws and Identity

According to Cage UK “The War on Terror has created an unjust system where military tactics have been fused with fantasies of pre-crime. This means that people are not being punished for their crimes but rather for their identity and beliefs.” Cage UK is a British advocacy organisation focusing on Muslim detainees in the War of Terror and has been the subject of several debates regarding it being a human rights group or apologist for terrorism. Continue reading Campaign: Cage UK – Terror Laws and Identity

NEWS – Fire bomb at Dutch mosque: attempted arson with terrorist intent

Last Saturday evening a man in the Dutch town Enschede threw a fire bomb at a mosque. People (including children) were present in the mosque when it happened and after local residents chased the man he was arrested by the police moments later. The small fire in the mosque was extinguished quickly with only little damage and no injuries. Continue reading NEWS – Fire bomb at Dutch mosque: attempted arson with terrorist intent

Threatening letters to Dutch mosques

This week various Dutch mosques received the same threatening letters. The letters are addressed to ‘all Islamic prayer houses’ in the Netherlands. It announces ‘important visits’ and then ‘pigs’and is accompanied with a nazi emblem. The letter ends with ‘anti-islam’ and ‘islam is [sic] false and devilish religion’.

Picture of the threatening letter
Picture of the threatening letter

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Proposal for a partial ban of public face-covering in the Netherlands

The Dutch government has approved a proposal of the Interior Minister Plasterk for a partial ban on the wearing of clothing that covers the face in education and care institutions, public buildings and on public transport. According to the proposed bill clear and uniform rules will be introduced on the matter:
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Dutch Mocro’s Be Like: #BornHere

*UPDATED! 9-10-2014, see below*The leader of the racist Freedom Party Geert Wilders received a lot of criticism after a comment he made on the campaign trail at a market in The Hague on Wednesday.Geert Wilders was on a market in Loosduinen with the local frontrunner for the Freedom Party, Leon de Jong, campaigning for municipal council elections which are set for the 19th of March. During the visit Wilders stated on camera: Continue reading Dutch Mocro’s Be Like: #BornHere