tolerance is very hard to sustain when those that you wish to extend open borders and freedom to wish to bring their own intolerance into your society......are unwilling to assimilate...
bobby...tolerance?....are the europeans intolerant for not sanctioning this crap in their open and free society....the netherlands?...probably the most open and tolerant society in the world..
an article i`ll re-post....
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLAND--""Dutch authorities have confirmed that 13 young Muslims arrested on terrorism charges in the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh are members of a radical Islamic group with international links and a Syrian-born spiritual leader.
Dutch intelligence calls the group the "Hofstad Netwerk," and a Justice Ministry official says 43-year-old Syrian Redouan al-Issar, the alleged spiritual leader, has disappeared without a trace.
Van Gogh was killed on an Amsterdam street Nov. 2, apparently for criticizing Islam. His slaying set off a wave of reprisals -- attacks on more than 20 Islamic sites in the Netherlands, including a mosque gutted by fire Saturday.
The three prayer rooms, which would have been full minutes later for a service marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, were "completely destroyed and are now worthless," said Mohamed elAmriti, chairman of the Muslim foundation.
The suspect in van Gogh's killing, 26-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri, of Amsterdam, was arrested in a shootout with police minutes after the filmmaker died of gunshot wounds and a slit throat. Bouyeri had a will in his pocket saying he was prepared to die for Islamic jihad, or holy war.
(and let me add,the aricle didn`t go into detail on van gogh`s death....he was shot off his bike....and then while pleading for his life,one of these "people"walked over and slit his throat in front of witnesses)...
In the days that followed, the government has come under pressure to release details about Islamic radicals and terrorists recruiting in the Netherlands.
In correspondence sent to parliament Thursday, Interior Minister Johan Remkes, who oversees the secret service, gave the clearest picture yet of the Dutch cell allegedly behind van Gogh's murder.
Remkes said the Hofstad Network, composed mostly of young Dutch Muslims of North African ancestry, has links to networks in Spain and Belgium, several members of the group have traveled to Pakistan for training, and its members were under the influence of al-Issar for many years.
"The number of persons and networks in the Netherlands that thinks and acts in terms of actual violence is, in our opinion, limited," he wrote. "But the feeding ground from which they spring, is broader ... it's better to think in terms of thousands than hundreds," he said.
Al-Issar went by several names, including Abu Kaled, the Justice Ministry official said. The name is used by al-Qaida fugitive Muhammad Bahaiah, a courier between Osama bin Laden and European cells.
Al-Issar had sought asylum in Germany beginning in 1995, but has not been seen there since May 2004, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday""'....
this isn`t an isolated incident....and the dutch are rightfully very angry and don`t want these people in their country....
if that`s intolerance,then so be it...
