The problem of 'Islamophobia' in the Netherlands has grown considerably in the past year, not only in terms of negative public opinion towards Muslims but also in terms of the increased violence directed at this community and the growing tendency to turn a blind eye to crimes of expression aimed at them. This is one of the most salient findings in the Racism & Extremism Monitor, a work published December 10, 2008 that is part of the running scholarly study being carried out by Leiden University and the Anne Frank House.
Besides this rise in Islamophobia, there have been two other striking findings. The right-wing extremist landscape in the Netherlands has undergone drastic change in recent years, caused not only by the sharp increase in extreme right-wing street activism but also by the public stance taken by the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, or the PVV), which has become more radical. The PVV can be called an extreme right-wing party.
The number of violent incidents against Muslims rose to 82 in 2007, from 62 in the preceding year. However the total number of racist attacks last year was down to 187, according to the 306-page report.
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Racism and respect
The one point missing from all the replies and comments is that local customs and laws should always be respected. If I go to Saudi Arabia I accept their law, I accept I totally cover up. In western countries this is not acceptable to the local population, therefore if Muslims wish to come to western countries the women’s face should always be visible. If they do not agree to this then they dont go to that country - I would not go to Saudi if I did not agree to cover up - the same applies in reverse. There would be no problems with muslims I believe if this policy was adopted.
Thats Silly
If the local custom said you had to cover up because you were Black would that be OK? Don’t try to justify discrimination because its the "culture". We did that in america and we were wrong too.
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRIN
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRINITY OF THE BLOODTHIRSTY ORGIES.
l. DOCUMENTS and TESTIMONIES SPEAK, as ACTIONS speak louder than WORLS.
2. VIRUS OPUS DEI, is COMPUTING TERRORISM. THOUGHTS cannot be PUNSHIED or MUTILATED as CHILDREN.
3. BEING PRO LIFE, PRO WAR and WAR MAKERS show that CHRIST is STEPPED ON and his DOCTRINE PISSED ON. WHAT ABOUT THE DAMNED BEAUTITIES?
VICARIO: EX MEMBER AND EDUCATOR OF OPUS DEI
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRIN
I spent my professional life on education of the ones who come from aristocracy, dicatorship, fascism, church slavery, nobility, highness, greatnes and with great honour ROYALTY, for over than three DECADES.
2. I am preaching WORLDWIDE the ASSAULTS on PUBLIC TREASURY AND DEAL WITH BLACK MONEY.
3. THE MACRO ISLAMOPHIC threatened me TWICE on my PRIVATE MAIL, but the PRO KNOWN ZIONIST was answered "I AM THE ONLY ONE ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHO IS ABLE TO SEAL YOUR MOUTH WITH ALL THE RUBBISH, YOU STORE INSIDE AND FEED YOUR RECUITS WITH. I ALSO PRESS ON YOUR NOSE, UNTILL YOU SWALL IT AND EXPLODE". THE CONGRESS.DEATH. I EXPECT THE TWO SHOTS WHENEVER I ENTER OR LEAVE HOME".
VICARIO
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRIN
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRINITY OF THE BLOODTHIRSY ORGIES, INNOVATORS OF THE HOLY CRUSADERS ORGIES AN CHURCHOLOCAUSTISM, have no CONCEPTS, PRECEPTS, MORALITY, IDEOLOGY and THEOLOGY.
1. I was born in a MOSLEM FAMILY, but without KNOWLEDGE about ISLAM, as my BLESSED PARENTS have educated me at CATHOLIC SCHOOLS in PALESTINE. IMPERIALISM has sèperated BELIEFS AND RELIGIONS to GOVERN and STEP ON CHRIST DOCTRINE and his CROSS. HELL to AMERICA AND EUROPEAN PUPPIES FOR BUSH BIN HITLER who all CONFESS THE RIGHT WINGERS NAZI FASCISM.
VICARIO: EX SUPERNUMERARY AND EX EDUCATOR AT OPUS DEI (DAY)
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRIN
THE HOLY EARTHLY GENOCIDE TRINITY OF THE BLOODTHIRSTY ORGIES, THE HOLY CATHOLIC CRUSADES AND VIRUS OPUS DEI.
I have been living in SPAIN for about half a CENTURY. The MACRO ISLAMOPHOBIA IS EVERYHERE HERE IN EUROPE, but IMPERIAL POWERS AND CATHOLICISM HATRED will never overcome JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, LOVE, IMMORALITY and ILLEGALITY. FAITH on REASON is completely a TREASON on REAL
Seriously
Wow some of the comments here do not appear to be helpful for the long-term stability of the world. Ghandi and the other peace loving people of this world would be beside themselves. Is there anyway to settle all the mistrust - Austrila with the native tribes being cleansed - not liking the asian coming across, europe with it ethic tension, the US with it race and religious relations. Change with vision and strenght is needed in this world and its start step by step and the first step is you.
Seriously
Why can’t people understad you can not reason with Islam, when they relegion allow them "Taqeya" to lie in order to achieve your aim,a muslim can lie to his wife"Hadith" to his enemy "Hadith" and befriend those who you hate untill you have enough strenght to sly and conquer
What is Terrorism?
any form of agression toward humanity.. ?
read about "strip searching" at IfAmericansKnew dot org
Ifamericaknew
In one of the articles on your trusted source an author asks the question "Is it genocide when a little boy is made to cry because belligerent armed men intimidate him?" Any author who imagines for a moment that making ’a little boy cry" constitutes genoice and on its front page proudly annoucnes that Palestinians have "only" killed 132 Israeli children since 2000 is not a source I would refer to for moral authority.
The peace
i stand here today to say that let them fear us ,let them hide when we walk the streets ,let them be freighten when they hear the word muslim ,as long as we as muslims know that our religion means the peace and we are doing the right thing
Let them fear us
If your religion is so peaceful then why do you say let them fear us, let them hide when we walk the streets - sorry mate, your real self is showing.
Europe has already become Eurostan - it is already too late to stop the rot. Europeans can look forward to living in tents, eating from the ground, abusing your women and boys (oh yes, still practived), selling your 12 year old daughters into marriage, and the rest of the permitted and approved (by Mulla’s) items which we in Australia find disgusting.
AFGHANISTAN
I THINK U WERE IN AFGHANISTAN RECENTLY WHERE THEY SELL GIRLS OF AGE 12 YEARSM SO SORRY FOR YOU AS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT ISLAM IS ? IT IS NOT WHAT THE WEST HAS PORTRAYED AFTER 9/11, THAT WAS POLITICAL AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT OSAMA IS A PET UNDER THE U.S.A.
WE KNOW HOW TO WATCH OUR ASS, U BETTER WATCH OUT YOUR’S
read before u speak
if u don’T know the truth about what islam allowed and not, don’t say anything..
u only believe what u want to believe.
One problem
If we genuinely coem to fear Islam as you suggest then we (in the West) can snuff it out in afternoon. If there ever is a clash of civilizations (and I sincerely hope there never is) only one side is coming out of it and it ain’t yours. So perhaps you might want to think a little more about how Muslims and Islam are viewed in the West.
One Problem
And as always when threatened the west resorts to do as I say or Ill nuke you crap, luckily you do not speak on behalf of your government.
What’s so wrong?
Let me get this right, if someone threatens the West it is morally repugnant and in some way crude for the West to threaten them back? That’s a bit silly isn’t it.
@ nima
nima, you write: "It is mostly the Judeo-Fascism and its heros , the so called Neocons who are fanning the Islamophobia."
You probably dont realize. But the organisation that wrote the report on the problem of growing islamophobia is the Anne Frank House...eh...a jewish organisation...Basically, Dutch jews defending dutch muslims/arabs...
islam
Allah and his Rasool told us of this time when truth will become false and false will be accepted as truthj
Europe is NOT Islamic!
We kicked you out once already. The next time is coming!
Remember me!
Islam is going down, we are sick of your presence in our midst. Go back to where you belong!
Europe is for Europeans, not for mawzlems.
EUROPEANS
FUCK YOU EUROPEANS, U THINK U CAN THROW US OUT, BULL SHIT TRY IT & SEE WHERE U LAND.
europe is for european
and u think u can live alone without any other country?
what is so wrong in accepting that people have believe in religion as Islam, even the european?
there are european muslim u know..
think about it.
Seriously?
I apologize for being so blunt but that is one of the most ignorant comments I have ever read. What gives you the right to choose which kinds of people should live in these "free" countries & which should stay? Maybe living in the melting pot of America has opened my eyes to the necessity of acceptance & of others. Basing the respectability & eligibility of a person on their race, religion, culture, or otherwise is unacceptable. Do we as a human race not learn? Is the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. not evidence enough that people are people no matter what they look like or believe in? Shouldn’t they all be given a fair chance? The answer to that one is quite obvious in my opinion.
Seriously?
I apologize for being so blunt but that is one of the most ignorant comments I have ever read. What gives you the right to choose which kinds of people should live in these "free" countries & which should stay? Maybe living in the melting pot of America has opened my eyes to the necessity of acceptance & of others. Basing the respectability & eligibility of a person on their race, religion, culture, or otherwise is unacceptable. Do we as a human race not learn? Is the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. not evidence enough that people are people no matter what they look like or believe in? Shouldn’t they all be given a fair chance? The answer to that one is quite obvious in my opinion.
islam
allah wa akbar .. wa eezet to the islam...
Islamophobia
There is a city in the UK called Bradford. The Islamists therein openly declare that it is a Muslim city. They openly declare that in a few years the UK will be an Islamic country under Sharia law. Statements like those fan the flames of I/phobia. By the way, I differentiate between Muslims and Islamists in the same way as I do between Israelis and Zionists. Furthermore, to solve the Palestinian holocaust, how about dismantling the State of Israel in the Middle East and reassembling it in the USA?
Freedom
I agree with James in London about both issues. I am a Muslim and I just want people to know that I am against bombings and other non-Islamic acts, which are merely done for an easy way out of life and into "heaven" All Muslims know that Islam does not permit suicide, therefore, those people who do wrong by killing others and themselves are NOT MUSLIMS. So I urge people not to judge all Muslims on that basis.
Israel was given a place of permanent residence by Arabs and Muslims yet now they fight us and want to take our land away from us, that is what I call disloyalty.
oil!!!!!!!!
I am boiling with anger!!!
Holocaust
What Palestinian Holocaust? Perhaps you meant diaspora... and that could possibly be disclaimed to???
Pals are NOT our pals
The only thing they do is bomb our cities and demonstrate noisily against Israel.
Well, we reserve the freedom of choosing our friends... and enemies, too.
islamopphobia-reply
hello,i read ur comment was rational .islam and muslims are two different things ;following islam could be done wrong by "Muslims." therefor its very important to not judge the whole Islam by the actions of its so called follower...thank u any questions e-mail me ...
ps; what Israel doing to the Palestinian its a sample from the Nazis...they copied their example pretty good.
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