Mosque set on fire in Netherlands

[emad]

BBC News
A fire has badly damaged a mosque in the Netherlands, in what may be the latest in a series of arson attacks.

Police said the small wooden mosque, in the south-eastern village of Helden, near the German border, had caught light early on Saturday.

They said it was not immediately clear if arsonists were behind the attack.

There have been more than 20 incidents of fires or vandalism at Muslim buildings since the murder of the controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4008781.stm

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Dutch terrorists

You know, I never would have thought I'd ever write those two words next to each other.

But the world has gotten very weird, and since the work has been outsourced, we Weird who have turned Pro have been scraping along on unemployment comp.

--bkl

[private_ryan]

4. that's true

yet on the other hand those muslim extremists
have taken advantage of their welcome and they need to be delt with. Not by burning mosques of course.

[BJ]

2. It's American Christian REconstructionist influence.

And remember nearly a million Hollanders volunteered for the Waffen SS in World War II.

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[smirkymonkey]

5. I don't think it is really "Christian" as much as it is a rebellion

against religious influence in a staunchly secular society. Like France, they are trying to preserve their culture, albiet this is not the right way to go about it.

[Turbineguy]

6. Oh really,

That would have been more than 10 percent of the population.

The Dutch managed to put together a 100,000 man force to halt the May 10, 1940 invasion.

[QC]

7. Yes, there was never religious persecution in Europe

until the Americans got involved.

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