Netherlands
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Friday March 13, 2009
Islam • Netherlands:
bomb threats against several stores in south-east Amsterdam today were of a terroristic nature, police has announced.7 people of Dutch nationality with a Moroccan background have been arrested for questioning.
Several of the people arrested have previously been involved in violent crimes. One of those arrested has a relationship with a person who was involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing — which was carried out by Islamic terrorists.
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Tuesday December 30, 2008
Islam • Netherlands:
At last an official message to Muslim immigrants: if you want to live here, you must integrate.
If judged on the standard scale of caution in dealing with cultural clashes and Muslims’ obligations to their new homes in Europe, the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor’s chairperson, was exceptional.
The paper said: “The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance.”
Government and politicians had too long failed to acknowledge the feelings of “loss and estrangement” felt by Dutch society facing parallel communities that disregard its language, laws and customs.
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Saturday March 29, 2008
Fitna Movie • Free Speech • Islam • Netherlands:
Calls from countries with a largely Muslim population to ban Geert Wilders film Fitna have fallen on deaf ears in the Netherlands, where freedom of expression is seen as an unassailable right.
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Thursday January 31, 2008
Ethics • Netherlands:
Media Minister Ronald Plasterk sees no possibilities nor desire for banning public broadcasters BNN and VPRO from showing the explicit porn film Deep Throat. Christian government party ChristenUnie appears to be accepting this decision.
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Ethics • Netherlands:
A stale old porn movie is at the centre of a political row involving Dutch public television. Public broadcasting corporations VPRO and BNN are planning to screen Deep Throat, a 1972 vintage production, as part of a themed night on the history of pornographic films.
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Monday December 17, 2007
Ethics • Netherlands:
The city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, is making good on its promise to clean up its world-famous Red Light District. Plans to upgrade the 750-year-old neighborhood over the next ten years include banning window prostitution from all but two locations.
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Friday November 23, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali • Islam • Netherlands:
Hirsi Ali, the former Somali refugee, is one of the success stories of Dutch immigration policy, but also one of its fiercest critics. She condemns the Dutch tradition of multiculturalism, saying tolerance for the intolerant has provided a dangerous breeding ground for Islamic radicalism.
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Thursday November 1, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali • Islam • Netherlands:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali condemns the Dutch tradition of multiculturalism — saying tolerance for the intolerant has provided a dangerous breeding ground for Islamic radicalism.
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Friday October 12, 2007
Netherlands:
The sale of hallucinogenic magic mushrooms is about to be banned by the Dutch Government in the latest sign of a conservative backlash against Amsterdam’s relaxed attitude towards sex and drugs.
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Monday October 1, 2007
Christianity • Netherlands:
Thousands here spurn television, theater, movies and dancing. Many dress in black and attend three hours of church services on Sunday. And some refuse to immunize their children or buy insurance because they believe this interferes with the will of God.
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Monday June 25, 2007
Catholic Church • Netherlands:
Though the Netherlands is frequently the target of criticism by religious conservatives and the Vatican for its tolerant policies toward marijuana, prostitution and euthanasia, many Dutch are both socially permissive and highly religious.
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Thursday March 8, 2007
Islam • Netherlands:
A Dutch-Moroccan, one of the first Muslim cabinet ministers in Europe, said yesterday he hopes he is blazing a trail for others, but said Muslims must do more to dispel fears stoked by militant Islamists.
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Islam • Netherlands:
One of the first two Muslims appointed to a Dutch Cabinet post, Ahmed Aboutaleb calls himself a “foot soldier” in the cause of immigrant integration. And as a foot soldier, he expects to be a target, he said Wednesday.
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Thursday March 1, 2007
Islam • Netherlands:
An anti-immigrant Dutch lawmaker said Thursday the first Muslims ever appointed to Cabinet posts should be stripped of their jobs because they hold dual nationality.
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Thursday February 22, 2007
Islam • Netherlands:
Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States and deadly bombings in London and Madrid, studies have focused on an intensifying clash between Europeans and a flood of immigrants who hold fast to their own cultures. But some say a new reality is emerging, even though many Europeans do not realize it.
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Saturday February 3, 2007
Netherlands:
The modern Dutch consensus is that making outlaws of prostitutes and soft-drug users only pushes them underground and into the hands of real criminals. Better to control and regulate such behaviors by legalizing–or in the case of cannabis, tolerating–the otherwise objectionable. The Dutch word for this is gedogen, which has no equivalent in English yet roughly means permitting what is officially illegal.
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Wednesday January 17, 2007
Netherlands:
Amsterdam’s Red Light District will soon be home to a bronze statue in honor of prostitutes around the world.
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Thursday January 4, 2007
Netherlands:
The number of people in Holland who are deliberately uninsured on religious grounds doubled last year to around 11,000, the social insurance bank SVB said.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
Netherlands:
A group of brothel owners representing nearly a third of the windows prostitutes in Amersterdam’s famous Red Light District have filed legal protests against a city decision to revoke their licenses.
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Friday December 1, 2006
Netherlands:
The city is making use of a new law to revoke brothels’ licenses when it suspects operators have used them for money laundering or other illegal financial activity.
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Saturday September 9, 2006
Netherlands:
A 63-year old Dutch minister has confessed to making a hoax bomb threat in an attempt to stop a concert in Amsterdam by pop icon Madonna because he objected to her show's crucifixion scene, the Amsterdam public prosecutor's office said overnight.
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Tuesday June 13, 2006
Netherlands:
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- An addiction center is opening Europe's first detox clinic for game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone.
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Wednesday June 7, 2006
Netherlands:
AMSTERDAM — One in 10 Dutch people are racist. They feel superior to immigrants and believe Dutch people should not mix with other nationalities, according to a new survey.
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Monday April 10, 2006
Islam • Netherlands:
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- The new test for foreigners who want to apply for Dutch residency is, well, very Dutch.
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Monday April 3, 2006
Netherlands:
NIJMEGEN, Netherlands This is not exactly a run-of-the-mill homework assignment: Watch a film clip of an attractive woman sunbathing topless and try not to be shocked.
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Most Read about Netherlands
- Netherlands Islamic community to hit 1 million in 2006
- Dutch urge clients to report forced prostitution
- A third of Amsterdam's Red Light District brothels to close in crackdown on crime
- Dutch to Muslims: Do you really want to settle here?
- Red light district "open day" draws curious Dutch
- Porn movie on Dutch public tv causes row
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- Dutch Minister Allows Porn Movie on Public Broadcasting
- Dutch immigration test: Can you handle a topless beach?
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