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NOVA – Deurwaarders door Samir A.

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

NOVA

Op 14 oktober 2005 doorzoekt de Nationale Recherche de woning van Samir A. in Den Haag. Zijn computer wordt in beslag genomen en onderzocht. In een map getiteld ‘Samir’ vinden digitale rechercheurs een tekst met de titel ‘Deurwaarders’.

Het bestand is een soort autobiografisch verhaal geschreven door Samir A. zelf. In zijn zesde verhoor bij de politie verklaart hij ook dat hij een boek aan het schrijven is. In zijn negende verhoor zegt hij dat hij bij het schrijven niet is geholpen, maar het alleen heeft gedaan.

Er zijn overigens twee versies van ‘Deurwaarders’ aangetroffen. Hieronder staat de langste versie van 25 bladzijden.

Op diezelfde computer vindt de digitale recherche van de Nationale Recherche een versie van het pamflet ‘Lessen In Veiligheid’. Hiervan wordt een andere versie aangetroffen op een weblog van de Leeuwen van Tawhied.

Op datzelfde weblog – dat overigens vandaag door host Ilse Media van het internet is gehaald – heeft ook deze verklaring gestaan. Hieronder enkele citaten uit dat document.

Verklaring omtrent beschuldiging kijken naar perverse video´s

“De propaganda die deze kruisvaarders loslaten zal wel effect hebben op de zwakke gelovigen, dit zien we nadat de Nederlandse media naar buiten bracht dat onze broeder Abu Zubair naar perverse video´s keek zoals amputatie en seks met lijken . Vele moslims kregen hierdoor een slechte beeld van deze broeder die zijn hele leven aan Allah heeft opgeofferd.”

“We voelen ons verplicht om dit beeld dat is ontstaan recht te zetten , daarom hebben we een verklaring opgesteld hoe deze beelden in zijn computer zijn gekomen.”

“Mogelijk hadden de broeders geen tijd gehad om die video´s te verwijderen omdat dat tijd vergt.”

“Wij hopen hierbij dit beeld rechtgezet te hebben en vragen Allah om ons te leiden. En Allah weet het beter.”

“Jullie broeders van de Leeuwen van Tawhied (aug 2005)”

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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – Gouda heeft voorgeschreven Nederlands al verlaten

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Gouda Issues.

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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – Hulde en kritiek voor Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

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Expatica's Moroccan community to tackle troublemakers

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: Moroccans to tackle troublemakers
Moroccan community to tackle troublemakers

24 January 2006

AMSTERDAM – Representatives of the Moroccan community have pledged to act to curb the problem behaviour of an element of Moroccan youths in Amsterdam.

Some 200 people, including imams, young people, youth leaders and concerned parents, met in the Dutch capital on Sunday to discuss concerns about wayward Moroccan youth.

While no concrete measures were agreed to tackle the problems, the organisers were pleased. “Just look at who we have brought together here. That is a start,” one said.

Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen attended the meeting. He said afterwards it was good the Moroccan community recognised there was a problem in relation to an element of the young
people.

“They have indicated that they want to do something about it themselves. It must no longer be the case they remain in the role of victim,” Cohen said.

Cohen warned last week that minor incidents could lead to an outburst as calm in the city is being tested by 100 ‘problem youth’.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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Expatica’s Moroccan community to tackle troublemakers

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Dutch news in English: Moroccans to tackle troublemakers
Moroccan community to tackle troublemakers

24 January 2006

AMSTERDAM – Representatives of the Moroccan community have pledged to act to curb the problem behaviour of an element of Moroccan youths in Amsterdam.

Some 200 people, including imams, young people, youth leaders and concerned parents, met in the Dutch capital on Sunday to discuss concerns about wayward Moroccan youth.

While no concrete measures were agreed to tackle the problems, the organisers were pleased. “Just look at who we have brought together here. That is a start,” one said.

Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen attended the meeting. He said afterwards it was good the Moroccan community recognised there was a problem in relation to an element of the young
people.

“They have indicated that they want to do something about it themselves. It must no longer be the case they remain in the role of victim,” Cohen said.

Cohen warned last week that minor incidents could lead to an outburst as calm in the city is being tested by 100 ‘problem youth’.

[Copyright Expatica News ANP 2006]

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure

Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure
By Jane Beresford
Producer, Taking a Stand, BBC Radio 4

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali wanted to shape her own future
What turns a devout young Muslim woman into one of Islam’s most outspoken critics?

For the Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, it was a long journey that started with an arranged marriage.

She sought refuge in the Netherlands on her way to her new husband’s home in Canada.

“I wanted a chance at a life where I could shape my own future,” she says.

“I knew the risks – being disowned or being shunned by my father and the rest of my family. I took those risks and I don’t regret it.”

Hirsi Ali describes the anti-US attacks of 11 September 2001 as pivotal to her questioning of Islam.

She remembers the moment when she realised that Mohammed Atta, the leader of the hijackers, had studied the Koran, like her, in the mid-1980s.

She says: “I grabbed the Koran and I started to read what Bin Laden had written and… I put (his) citations next to what is written in the Koran and I realised that, yes, a lot of it is part of my religion and what do I think of that?”

Defending principles

She wrote the play Submission to “challenge the conviction that what is written in the Holy Koran is absolute”.

I have come to the conclusion that Islam can and should be reformed if Muslims want to live at peace
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It was an act that was to lead to the murder of her collaborator Theo Van Gogh.

“I still do feel guilt,” she says.

“Guilt is irrational, but for Theo it was the freedom of expression. He said ‘If I cannot make films in Holland then I am a slave… and I would rather be dead’. And I am just as principled as he is.”

Hirsi Ali now lives under 24-hour armed guard. A note pinned to Van Gogh’s body by the murderer threatened the MP directly.

It read: “You have your principles and I have mine, I am prepared to die for mine, are you prepared to die for yours?”

She says “it’s like the sword of Damocles that hangs above my head. I do realise that”.

“I live like someone who has been told ‘you have some kind of terminal disease – we just don’t know when it’s going to strike’.”

Call for reform

But Hirsi Ali has no intention of being silenced. Submission 2 is in production and Submission 3 is planned.

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh
Theo Van Gogh was a well-known critic of fundamentalist Islam
“The transition from, let’s say, pre-modern to modern, is something that Judaism and Christianity have gone through and that transition is something that Islam is experiencing right now.

“I have come to the conclusion that Islam can and should be reformed if Muslims want to live at peace… that’s why I need the freedom of expression… for other Muslims to think that through.”

Does she think she will survive?

“Yes,” she says. “And if I don’t, well, I’ve lived my life as I want to live it. So be it.”

See also the post below.

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure

Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure
By Jane Beresford
Producer, Taking a Stand, BBC Radio 4

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali wanted to shape her own future
What turns a devout young Muslim woman into one of Islam’s most outspoken critics?

For the Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, it was a long journey that started with an arranged marriage.

She sought refuge in the Netherlands on her way to her new husband’s home in Canada.

“I wanted a chance at a life where I could shape my own future,” she says.

“I knew the risks – being disowned or being shunned by my father and the rest of my family. I took those risks and I don’t regret it.”

Hirsi Ali describes the anti-US attacks of 11 September 2001 as pivotal to her questioning of Islam.

She remembers the moment when she realised that Mohammed Atta, the leader of the hijackers, had studied the Koran, like her, in the mid-1980s.

She says: “I grabbed the Koran and I started to read what Bin Laden had written and… I put (his) citations next to what is written in the Koran and I realised that, yes, a lot of it is part of my religion and what do I think of that?”

Defending principles

She wrote the play Submission to “challenge the conviction that what is written in the Holy Koran is absolute”.

I have come to the conclusion that Islam can and should be reformed if Muslims want to live at peace
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It was an act that was to lead to the murder of her collaborator Theo Van Gogh.

“I still do feel guilt,” she says.

“Guilt is irrational, but for Theo it was the freedom of expression. He said ‘If I cannot make films in Holland then I am a slave… and I would rather be dead’. And I am just as principled as he is.”

Hirsi Ali now lives under 24-hour armed guard. A note pinned to Van Gogh’s body by the murderer threatened the MP directly.

It read: “You have your principles and I have mine, I am prepared to die for mine, are you prepared to die for yours?”

She says “it’s like the sword of Damocles that hangs above my head. I do realise that”.

“I live like someone who has been told ‘you have some kind of terminal disease – we just don’t know when it’s going to strike’.”

Call for reform

But Hirsi Ali has no intention of being silenced. Submission 2 is in production and Submission 3 is planned.

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh
Theo Van Gogh was a well-known critic of fundamentalist Islam
“The transition from, let’s say, pre-modern to modern, is something that Judaism and Christianity have gone through and that transition is something that Islam is experiencing right now.

“I have come to the conclusion that Islam can and should be reformed if Muslims want to live at peace… that’s why I need the freedom of expression… for other Muslims to think that through.”

Does she think she will survive?

“Yes,” she says. “And if I don’t, well, I’ve lived my life as I want to live it. So be it.”

See also the post below.

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BBC – Radio 4 – Taking a Stand – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

BBC – Radio 4 – Taking a Stand – 24 January 2006
Taking a Stand
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24 January 2006

Tuesday 24 January 2006 9:00-9:30 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:30-22:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Interview series with Fergal Keane, in which he talks to people who, through conviction or circumstance, have taken a stand for what they believe in.

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch MP, wrote Submission, a film attacking what she believes to be the Koran’s endorsement of the subjugation of women, she knew it would cause controversy. She did not however envisage that it would lead to the murder of her collaborator Theo Van Gogh and a life under 24-hour armed guard for her. She talks to Fergal about her journey from devout Muslim to one of Islam’s most outspoken critics, and why she refuses to be silenced.

Listen to the BBC program

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