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The New York Times > The Hague Journal: 2 Dutch Deputies on the Run, From Jihad Death Threats

Posted on March 4th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

In the New York Times an article on Hirsi Ali and Wilders:
The New York Times > International > Europe > The Hague Journal: 2 Dutch Deputies on the Run, From Jihad Death Threats
THE HAGUE JOURNAL
2 Dutch Deputies on the Run, From Jihad Death Threats
By MARLISE SIMONS

THE HAGUE – Every evening, plainclothes police officers escort two members of the Dutch Parliament to armored cars and take them to hiding places for the night. One of them, Geert Wilders, has been camping out in a cell in a high-security prison where his life, he said, has become “like a bad B-movie.” His colleague, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has grown increasingly miserable sleeping on a military base.
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Changing policies towards alleged extremist groups

Posted on February 23rd, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

The Dutch government announced after the murder on Van Gogh to expel several extremist imams. The Dutch intelligence and security agency (AIVD) is keeping an eye on six
suspicious Islamic groups. This week three imams van Al-Fourqaan mosque in Eindhoven were given notice that they had to leave the country because they were, as minister Verdonk of Integration stated in the 8 o’clock news:

radicalizing Muslims and stimulating them to Jihad. They call for a holy war and in a war their will be victims and we can not tolerate that in the Netherlands.

The groups, of which the Al-Fourqaan mosque is one of them, have been earlier described as “mosque organisations with an outspoken Salafist character originating from a mission and finance from Saudi Arabia”. This can be read in a report by the AIVD, called Saudi influences in the Netherlands (PDF file). You can read the following in this report:

The Netherlands has several mosque foundations of a straight Salafist persuasion. These are the result of missionary and funding activities carried out from Saudi Arabia. These foundations are the El Tawheed Foundation in Amsterdam, the As Soennah Foundation � Centre Sheikh Al Islam ibn Taymia in The Hague, the Islamic Centre Al Fourkaan Foundation in Eindhoven, the Mosque Al Mouahidine Foundation (Omar ibn Khattab Mosque) in Helmond, the Foundation for Islamic Youth in Breda and the Islamic Foundation for Education and Transfer of Knowledge in Tilburg. The involvement of large Saudi missionary organisations can most clearly be seen with four of these mosques. At the Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam there is a financial, organisational and personal intertwinement with the organisation referred to above, Al Haramain, whereas in case of the Fourkaan mosque in Eindhoven, the Al Mouahidine mosque in Helmond and the Foundation for Islamic Youth in Breda there is a clear intertwinement with the private (but, also, closely associated to persons within the Saudi establishment) missionary organisation Al Waqf Al Islami Foundation. Besides these mosques which can be characterised as explicitly Salafist, there are several others (probably up to several dozen) that are less easy to typify as such, but which also receive financial support from Saudi charities, private benefactors or government bodies. Although not explicitly Salafist, as a result of the very orthodox
message propagated these mosques attract certain groups of Muslims that can be characterised as Salafist, a designation which they often use themselves. This was for example the case with the Foundation Mosque Annasr in Rotterdam, to which Salafists are drawn because of the sermons and personality of the imam preaching there. As regards the financial support for these mosques from Saudi Arabia it should be noted that it is not necessarily a matter of formal financing of mosque foundations, but rather allowances to specific persons (in particular imams). Especially the large Saudi NGOs Muslim World League and Al-Haramain have �branches� in the Netherlands. These are the Muslim World League Foundation the Netherlands and the Al Haramain Humanitarian Aid Foundation in Amsterdam. The former head of the parent office of Al-Haramain in Saudi Arabia, Aqeel al Aqeel and his assistant Mansour al-Kadi, in the past also acquired board positions in the El Tawheed Foundation and the Al Haramain Humanitarian Aid Foundation in Amsterdam, in exchange for financing to build the Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam. The AIVD does not have any indications that the two board members actually used their influence to become involved in the daily running of the Tawheed mosque. In practice, the involvement of the two was restricted to formal yearly inspections.

To expel the three imams of Al Fourqaan can be seen as a first attempt to confirm the change of policies in the Netherlands. Their lawyer stated today that, according to him and what he has read in the AIVD-notes, these people are not accused of preaching Jihad and/or radicalizing young people. These AIVD-notes are not official judicial documents but experts expect that they will be allowed, the more because in this specific case they will not be tried in a penal court but in an administrative court because their permit to stay is the topic of discussion. This will shift the burden of proof more to the imams.

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Islam In The West: The Threat Of Internal Extremism

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Research International, Young Muslims.

alt.muslim – your muslim news community
Islam In The West: The Threat Of Internal Extremism
By Muqtedar Khan and John L. Esposito, February 17, 2005

The world has never been more interdependent, and the plight of Western Muslims is illustrative of how global integration is now a palpable reality. The murder of a Dutch film producer, Theo Van Gogh, allegedly by a disenchanted Dutch Muslim [Mohammed Bouyeri, 26], the denial of a visa to the US for a Swiss Muslim scholar, Tariq Ramadan, or the humiliating deportation of a British Muslim, Yusuf Islam, from the US immediately on arrival are all front page news all over the world. Not only do these episodes draw widespread attention from the media, they feed upon and fuel the new crisis in Western Civilization – “Islam in the West”.

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Protected: de Volkskrant – ‘Vrouw zal Hirsi Ali vermoorden’

Posted on February 5th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Protected: de Volkskrant – 'Vrouw zal Hirsi Ali vermoorden'

Posted on February 5th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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MaghrebOnline.NL, een wereld van kennis, verrijking en ontspanning!

Posted on February 2nd, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Misc. News, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

MaghrebOnline.NL, een wereld van kennis, verrijking en ontspanning!
Meer discriminatie van de moslimbevolking

AMSTERDAM (ANP) – Na de moord op Van Gogh is er meer sprake van discriminatie van Nederlandse moslims. Nieuws over terrorisme en de moord op de filmmaker versterkten het negatieve beeld dat mensen van de multiculturele samenleving hebben. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Vrije Universiteit.

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In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price (washingtonpost.com)

Posted on February 1st, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Misc. News, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price (washingtonpost.com)
In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price

On the “Dutch Ross Perot”: Geert Wilders.

Wilders’s transgression, according to the extremists demanding his death, is his insulting of Muslims in the Netherlands, with frequent denunciations of Islam. “Islam and democracy are fully incompatible,” he said in the interview. “They will never be compatible — not today, and not in a million years.”

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Protected: Trouw, nieuws & achtergronden – Terrorisme / Scholier vulde web met dreigementen

Posted on January 31st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Jason W. logged /3

Posted on January 28th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

There is some news on Jason W. one of the peopel who were arrested in the Hague a few weeks after the murder on Van Gogh. In his MSN-chatlogs there is a kind of death list.
PM, Nato boss ‘included on terror suspect’s death list’

The logs seem quite serious on the other hand they also contain some typical braggin’ and boasting.

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Protected: Jason W. logged /2

Posted on January 28th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

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Protected: Trouw, archief – Radicalisme is lekker simpel

Posted on January 26th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Research International, Young Muslims.

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Expatica

Posted on January 26th, 2005 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

Expatica – Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
Mohammed B. case begins in high-security courthouse

AMSTERDAM � A public prosecutor is to give a summary in court on Wednesday of the results so far in the ongoing investigation into Mohammed B., the man accused of murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh last year.

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Hirsi Ali in Buitenhof

Posted on January 23rd, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Buitenhof -> Afleveringen -> Buitenhof
Exclusief: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Het zoveelste exclusieve interview met Hirsi Ali. Wel de moeite waard. Ze doet twee opmerkelijke suggesties:
1. Vrijwilligers moeten gaan werken op zwarte scholen
2. Een gezamenlijke visie met Aboutaleb, Cohen en Wilders op de radicale islam.

Wat vinden we daarvan?

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Protected: NRC Handelsblad – Binnenland: Moskee�n: we zwegen film dood

Posted on January 12th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

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Expatica – New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 12th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.

Expatica � Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

AMSTERDAM � Members of the suspected terror network Main City Group were planning to murder MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it was reported on Wednesday.
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Expatica – New Year's Eve 'plot' to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 12th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.

Expatica � Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English
New Year’s Eve ‘plot’ to kill Dutch MP Hirsi Ali

AMSTERDAM � Members of the suspected terror network Main City Group were planning to murder MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it was reported on Wednesday.
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Reporter – Een portret van ��n van de meest beveiligde vrouwen van Nederland Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Posted on January 9th, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Misc. News, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

Reporter – Een portret van ��n van de meest beveiligde vrouwen van Nederland Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Aan de hand van gesprekken met mensen uit haar naaste omgeving zoals Cisca Dresselhuys en Herman Phillipse wordt geprobeerd de drijfveren van Ayaan Hirsi Ali te ontleden. Interessante uitzending die ingaat op het persoonlijke verleden van Hirsi Ali, de wijze waarop haar eigen strijd abstraheert naar een hoger niveau, namelijk dat van vrouwenrechten in de islam op de eerste plaats en integratie van minderheden op de tweede plaats. Het begrip ‘geloofsgevangenis’ is een leidend begrip; ze wil mensen (vrouwen) bevrijden uit de geloofsgevangenis; de onmogelijkheid, volgens haar, om uit de islam te treden en om bepaalde elementen uit de Koran te veranderen. De islam beschouwt zij als een te strak keurslijf, waar iemand mee wordt geboren en waar je niet meer van afkomt.

De uitzending is niet meer te zien volgens mij, maar de website van Reporter geeft ook een aardig inzicht.

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Protected: Trouw, nieuws & achtergronden – Mysterieuze mentor van Mohammed B. blijft spoorloos

Posted on January 8th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

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NRC Handelsblad – Binnenland: Mohammed B. was de rust zelve

Posted on January 8th, 2005 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

NRC Handelsblad – Binnenland: Mohammed B. was de rust zelve
Mohammed B. was de rust zelve

Door onze redacteuren Jaco Alberts en Steven Derix

Tientallen ooggetuigen hebben verklaringen afgelegd over de moord op Theo van Gogh. Een reconstructie op basis van het politiedossier.

ROTTERDAM, 8 JAN. ‘Die ken ik’, dacht een Britse getuige toen hij op de ochtend van 2 november uit het raam van zijn woning aan de Amsterdamse Linnaeusstraat keek.

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Protected: Trouw, nieuws & achtergronden – Bekeerlingen / Bellen met Saoedi-Arabië

Posted on December 28th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Protected: Trouw, nieuws & achtergronden – Moslimpuriteinen / Vrouwen van de Hofstadgroep

Posted on December 27th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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Dutch eye "born-again" Muslim threat – Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Posted on December 23rd, 2004 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, My Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

Dutch eye “born-again” Muslim threat – Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
Dutch eye “born-again” Muslim threat

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch secret service says combating terrorism also means tackling the problem of thousands of disaffected “born again” Muslims in the West who are open to the appeal of a radical, puritan version of Islam.

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de Volkskrant – ‘Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.’

Posted on December 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

de Volkskrant – ‘Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.’
‘Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.’

Van onze verslaggevers Janny Groen Annieke Kranenberg

ROTTERDAM – Het zal wel weer een Nederlander zijn, dachten Na�ma en Fatima toen ze hoorden van de moord op Van Gogh. De verdachte bleek een vriend, Mohammed B.

De meiden van de Hofstadgroep: ‘Mohammed B. zat altijd thuis boeken te lezen en te vertalen’

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de Volkskrant – 'Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.'

Posted on December 22nd, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

de Volkskrant – ‘Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.’
‘Ik hou van je Na�ma. Insjallah.’

Van onze verslaggevers Janny Groen Annieke Kranenberg

ROTTERDAM – Het zal wel weer een Nederlander zijn, dachten Na�ma en Fatima toen ze hoorden van de moord op Van Gogh. De verdachte bleek een vriend, Mohammed B.

De meiden van de Hofstadgroep: ‘Mohammed B. zat altijd thuis boeken te lezen en te vertalen’

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Protected: de Volkskrant – 'Mohammed B. is een broeder van ons'

Posted on December 22nd, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Young Muslims.

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