Blast Damages Muslim School in Netherlands

[Khephra]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A suspected bomb blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in a southern Dutch town on Monday, days after a suspected Muslim radical allegedly killed a Dutch filmmaker, police said. No injuries were reported.

Television news footage showed the burned-out entrance of the school, which was empty at the time of the 3:30 a.m. attack. Windows across the street were shattered.

Police suspected it was related to the brutal murder last week of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a suspected Islamic radical, said spokesman Cees Dekkers in Eindhoven, about 75 miles south of the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

The school sustained substantial damage inside, he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-netherlands-explosion,0,3081881.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[ze_dscherman]

1. BBC reports more incidents

"Mosques in several Dutch cities have been the targets of vandalism and failed arson attempts in recent days. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3991547.stm

This could lead to a spiral of violence.

[amandabeech]

2. Yes, and it could spread to other European countries. n/t

[Burma Jones]

3. Tip of the Iceberg

Europeans have a long history of ethnic cleansing, and the Dutch are among the more tolerant of the bunch......

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. There are always a few bad apples in each bunch

There even are a few Republicans in San Francisco.

[Burma Jones]

5. It's more than that......

I apologize for not having sources, but I did hear most of this on NPR. The French have banned religious dress from schools and will require Imams to have been educated in France. The Dutch will require Imams to conduct services in Dutch. There are institutional responses to Islamic Fundamentalism that are trying to meet European Right Wingers half way. The governments have departments whose mission to to culturally change immigrants to the home nation's cultures.

We should not underestimate the power the Right Wing has in Europe.