Blast hits Dutch Islamic school

[shamshuddin]

This latest attack on Muslims comes after attacks and murders and violence in regioins of China,Thayland, Sudan ! Is there nowhere safe for Muslims ?


Monday November 8, 05:53 PM

Blast hits Dutch Islamic school
By Heleen van Geest

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - A bomb has damaged an Islamic primary school in the southern Dutch town of Eindhoven, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim buildings since last week's murder of a filmmaker critical of Islam.

Police said they were investigating the cause of the blast in the early hours of Monday, which followed a chain of attacks against Dutch mosques since film director Theo van Gogh was killed last Tuesday by a suspected Islamist militant.

Eindhoven mayor Alexander Sakkers said nobody was hurt in the blast, which damaged the school's entrance and shattered windows in the building and in nearby houses. A local man said the blast was deafening: "It certainly woke us all up," he said.

"Residents of the area are really shocked and many have to contend with damage," Sakkers said in a statement. "We have to do everything possible to keep the community united."

Sakkers said he had ordered extra police protection for all public Muslim buildings in Eindhoven, including 5 mosques used by immigrants working for electronics group Philips and truck maker Daf.

"It is essential that we stick together," Sakkers said. "One single person who carried out such an idiotic act should not be allowed to affect Dutch society."

Dutch news agency ANP reported that police had arrested a 21-year-old man in the central town of IJsselstein on suspicion of throwing a firebomb at a local mosque.

There was also a failed arson attack on a mosque in the north-eastern town of Groningen while another mosque there was daubed with slogans referring to the killing of Van Gogh, who will be cremated in a public ceremony in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

Several demonstrations are planned to coincide with van Gogh's funeral.

At the weekend, mosques in the city of Rotterdam and the towns of Breda and Huizen were attacked but not badly damaged, while fires also broke out at a mosque in Utrecht on Friday.

Posters insulting Islam showing pictures of pigs heads were plastered on a mosque in Rotterdam, while an immigrants' centre in Amsterdam was daubed with red paint.

ANGER AGAINST MUSLIMS

Far-right protesters have marched in Amsterdam and Rotterdam to express their anger at Van Gogh's killing. The government has urged calm amid fears of retaliation in a country where hostility towards foreigners is on the rise.

The Netherlands is home to almost 1 million Muslims or almost 6 percent of its population of 16 million.

A poll by RTL Nieuws showed 47 percent said they felt less tolerant of Muslims since Van Gogh's murder, while another survey showed support for a populist who wants to stop immigration from Turkey and Morocco rising to 12 percent.

Geert Wilders, seen as an heir to murdered anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn, has received death threats for his criticism of Islam. He said last week he wanted to launch a new right-wing party to clamp down on Muslim militants.

Police are holding seven people in the Van Gogh probe, including the main suspect, a 26-year-old with dual Dutch-Moroccan citizenship, who was charged on Friday with the killing and membership of a group with "terrorist intentions".

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that investigators believed the murder suspect had contacts with Islamic militants in Spain and that the order to kill Van Gogh may even have come from a fugitive militant in Spain.

Dutch prosecutors declined comment on the report.

[Jamil]

This latest attack on Muslims comes after attacks and murders and violence in regioins of China,Thayland, Sudan ! Is there nowhere safe for Muslims ?

I would nt be surprised if the far-right instigated this film critics death, so they could justify more hate and violence, and gain more support from its vote.

Within minutes of his death being announced it seems every single Mosque and Islamic institute was targeted, where they waiting for the call ?

[blackburnashrafi]

There is so much hate against Islam! These are surely very troubled times we live in. One 'Muslim' kills a non-Muslim, and every Muslim is a legitimate target! We live in the 21st century, in the so-called civilised west BUT Mosques, that are houses of worship are seen as legitimate targets. On the same note, Churches are prime targets for bombings in Pakistan. I also totally disagree with this.

The governments of these countries in which this is happening need to address/highlight the differences between terrorists who call themselves Muslim and true Muslims who follow peace and tolerance (being the underlying factors of every religion).

So why so much hate? We live in a godless society. Poeple do not desire gnosis of God. The idea of god is despised. Religion is seen as backward, unimportant and stagnant. Islam is the most hated as it is the only religion that contains truth....truth that cannot be negated by a 'thinking' person!

[Nazma]

well said brother Shahid . But id just like to ask who is Van Gogh?

[blackburnashrafi]

BburnAshrafiJnr said:

well said brother Shahid . but id just like to ask who is Van Gogh?

Salaam sis,

It's not the Van Gogh, the famous dutch painter who painted the 'Sunflowers' and chopped off his ear for some strange reason! This Van Gogh was a dutch film maker who made a film that was critical of Islam. ;D

[Nazma]

W' assalam bro;D!
I think the artist Van Bogh was mentally disturbed (remember doing sumthing bout it in skool). Thanx for the answer. What exactly was in the film and was it in the news that a film against Islam was made? Or was it ignored as usual?

[blackburnashrafi]

BburnAshrafiJnr said:

W' assalam bro;D!
I think the artist Van Bogh was mentally disturbed (remember doing sumthing bout it in skool). Thanx for the answer. What exactly was in the film and was it in the news that a film against Islam was made? Or was it ignored as usual?

The following is an extract from www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=amnOCiDuodH0&refer=europe

Van Gogh received death threats after the broadcast on Dutch national TV of his film ``Submission,'' made with Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the broadcaster NOS said. The filmmaker last month completed a movie about the May 2002 assassination of Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician whose popularity rested partly on opposition to illegal immigrants.

So what was the film about.......

Submission, a 10-minute film, features images of a Muslim woman wearing a transparent veil, which reveals her body. Koranic texts describing physical punishments for "disobedient women'' are written on parts of her body.

By the way there was no mention in the news about the 'exact' content of the film. You only find the finer details with a bit of investigating. Internet....zindabad!

P.S. I like it! Van Bogh!!

[luqmani]

Shahid said:

There is so much hate against Islam!

So why so much hate? We live in a godless society. Poeple do not desire gnosis of God. The idea of god is despised. Religion is seen as backward, unimportant and stagnant. Islam is the most hated as it is the only religion that contains truth....truth that cannot be negated by a 'thinking' person!

The short and simple answer is ''threat'' they see the rapid rise in Muslim communities throughout the world, in otherwise christian or non-Muslim areas, and they feel threatened almost choked at the growth and conversion that has gone with it.

So to stop this new world order developing they the 'Bilderbergs', secretive, & hardly filmed but reasonably well known bulti billionaires who want to control the stocks & shares and economies of all the power bases have risen from their freemason dens and given the 'order' to the superpowers.

[blackburnashrafi]

luqmani said:

The short and simple answer is ''threat'' they see the rapid rise in Muslim communities throughout the world, in otherwise christian or non-Muslim areas, and they feel threatened almost choked at the growth and conversion that has gone with it.

So to stop this new world order developing they the 'Bilderbergs', secretive, & hardly filmed but reasonably well known bulti billionaires who want to control the stocks & shares and economies of all the power bases have risen from their freemason dens and given the 'order' to the superpowers.

Spine-chilling but very true brother Luqmani.