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Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Extremists in The Netherlands and worldwide will be satisfied with a crime committed by a Pakistani man, Muḥammad Surūr, who shot a female Pakistani minister to death for assuming a leading office within the government, and for violating Sharī‘ah by working in politics rather than of staying at...
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2007
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the offensive statements against the Prophet Muhammad, and intends to bring the matter to the Organization of the Islamic Conference in order to take a unified stance against those who causes such offenses to Islām and the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2007
An aggressive attack against Islām and Prophet Muhammad by a member of the Dutch Parliament and the vice president of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, threatens to ignite a crisis similar to that of the offensive cartoons.
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Arab Affairs Committee of the People’s Assembly condemns the statements of a member of the Dutch Parliament, Geert Wilders, in which he described Islām as a violent religion and urged Muslims to tear up and throw away half of the Qur’ān.
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
A controversial statement by the Dutch
minister
of justice about possibility of applying the Islamic sharī‘ah in The Netherlands
sparks fury.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
Douglas Murray warns that Europe should beware, since Islamists in the Netherlands are succeeding in intimidating and silencing critics.
Date of source: Friday, December 23, 2005
It is claimed that the Dutch Minister for Immigration and Integration, Rita Verdonk, has recently announced that a law banning the hijāb in public in The Netherlands is on the cards.
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Dutch police have arrested a woman suspected of having links with a terror group. A Member of Parliament has demanded that the detention of terrorism suspects be extended without judicial complications.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.