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Dutch police arrest man said plotting to kill Geert Wilders over Muhammad images
[IsraelTimes] Suspect detained at Hague main railway station after firebrand... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... politician announces Moslem prophet cartoon competition Dutch police on Tuesday tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a man suspected of planning an attack against far-right politician Geert Wilders after he said he intended to hold a Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition. Police said in a statement they arrested the still unidentified suspect at the main railway station in The Hague. He was being questioned and was expected to appear before a judge on Friday, the statement said. Police said they had been alerted by a video on Facebook in which the 26-year-old man talked about attacking anti-Islam MP Wilders, as well as the Dutch parliament. Wilders, who announced plans for a competition of Muhammad cartoons earlier this year, said he had been told about the plot by the Netherlands’ counter-terrorism police, NCTb. "I was told by NCTb this morning that a man on Facebook had said that he had arrived in the Netherlands for the purpose of killing me," Wilders said via his Twitter account. "Fortunately, he has been arrested. It is madness that this is happening because of a drawing contest and that it is raining death threats." In June, Wilders tweeted that he had received clearance to hold the competition in his party’s parliamentary offices. The contest is to be judged by American cartoonist and self-defined "recovered Moslem" Bosch Fawstin,
The head of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom or PVV, Wilders is known for his virulent anti-Islam statements. Last week, Pakistain expressed objections to what it described as the "blasphemous" cartoon competition and summoned a high-ranking Dutch diplomat in Islamabad to protest. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also described the competition as "disrespectful" and "provocative," even though he defended the principle of freedom of expression. Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok also insisted that the competition was not a government initiative. Images of Muhammad ‐ prohibited according to Moslem belief ‐ have in the past been met by death threats and murder. Two French Death Eaters who had sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda killed 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...’s offices in 2015 with the Death Eaters notably seeking to punish the staunchly atheist magazine for printing cartoons of the prophet. Netherlands expresses regret to Egypt over Dutch anti-Islam cartoon contest [AlAhram] The Netherlands has "expressed its regret" to Egypt over a Dutch politician’s intention to organize a cartoon contest depicting anti-Islam cartoons, Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. In an official statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry said Minister Sameh Shoukry received a phone call from his Dutch counterpart Stef Blok, who expressed his country’s sorrow over controversial Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders’s plan to hold the anti-Islam cartoon contest inside parliament. Wilders' Dutch Party for Freedom, known for their hatred and opposition to Islam, is the second-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Blok said Wilder’s plan does not in any way represent the positions of the government or Dutch community, stressing his government’s refusal to all manifestations of hatred, incitement, and disrespect of religions. Shoukry affirmed the necessity that freedom of expression should not be confused with the adoption of hate and incitement speech. He described it as a mix up which would have a dangerous impact on the relations between nations and people with different religions. Shoukry also said that the world needs to support and spread values of tolerance and respect of other’s opinions, as well as a respect of beliefs and religions to repel religious extremism, terrorism, and violence. Since Tuesday, the Netherlands has distanced itself from the competition to several Islamic majority states opposing the contest, yet defending the right to hold it on foundations of freedom of expression. Pakistan has been leading the line of opposition to Wilder’s contest, calling for an emergency session by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the contest. The outrage comes after protests and riots made 13 years ago in several Arab and Muslim countries after a Danish newspaper published several offensive cartoons of Islam Prophet Mohamed in 2005. In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten provoked protests across the world and riots in some Muslim countries by publishing several cartoons of Muhammad, including one depicting the prophet with a bomb in his turban. In 2015, two French militants killed 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s offices as revenge for the printing of cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohamed in the past. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-30 |
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