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The university has educated 29 Nobel prize winners and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Europe
"On the contrary as what is being told by media, politicians, Obama, David Cameron, Dutch prime-minister Rutte and leaders of Muslim organizations, it`s not a few lost young souls who are Muslim fundamentalist, but a huge minority of 44%."
"We have found that 70% of all Muslims in The Netherlands think the rules of the Koran are more important than the Dutch law.
"75% of the Muslims think there`s only one interpretation of the Koran possible and this is what every Muslim should follow, which is a typical aspect of a fundamentalist religion perceptive."
'"But what`s more disturbing is that this fundamentalist religion world view is very strong connected to an enemy view towards other groups. As an example, 40% of the Dutch Muslims don`t think the Jews can be trusted and 55 % of them think The West is out to destroy the Islam."
When asked if he`s not afraid that he`s "pouring oil on the fire" (Dutch expression about making something which is already worse even worse)?, he answers, "Yes I`m sometimes afraid of that, but on the other side I`m convinced that this problem doesn`t go away if we just act like it doesn`t exist."
If you ask Christians, what do you think is more important God`s laws or the laws which we have been thought of by us, than I think you will end up by God also don`t you think?
"That kind of fundamentalism you will also find in the Christian community. Fundamentalism is of course not an invention of the Islam, it exist in all religions. Depending about what questions are asked the percentages are significantly lower with Christians, about 15 % compared to 70/75 %."
His conclusion, after studying all the numbers is that of all the Muslims, young and old no difference, 44% is having a fundamentalist world view.
Muslim fundamentalism is more deep and spread out than we actual think, says Koopmans. A sign, which with the increasing tensions and jihadism should worry us, according to him.
You`re saying it`s not about a small group, and that it goes also about the willingness to defend your Religion with violence?
"Yes, but that`s of course a smaller group, not everyone who has such a fundamentalist view is prepared to act in a violent manner. But that`s also something which has been researched in The Netherlands by the Department of Justice in 2010, and they concluded that 11% of the Muslim thought it was acceptable because of their religion to act violently in certain cases. 11 % of the Muslim are of course about 100.000 Muslims in The Netherlands."
There are of course huge differences in saying and thinking, and actual doing it.
"There are of course not 100.000 jihadists in The Netherlands. But what this shows is that besides the couple of hundred Muslims who already became radicalized, there`s a large group outside of them of who sympathize with the world view of these jihadists, and who say they are partly willing to use violence. And they might not do it themselves, but might be willing to support it. Thus there is an breeding ground and support base potential."
"It`s of course not something of recently that we had to deal with Muslim radicalism, we already have people who have been murdered and terror attacks which have been prevented in The Netherlands."
"A couple of hundred radicals without support of their community are easy to take out for The Secret Services, but if there`s a network of sympathizers surrounding them it will be a lot more difficult."
originally posted by: stirling
Sounds about as accurate as a non muslim could get......exact %ages would be very difficult to define....
I expect a battle between European muslims and their fellow citizens at some point....(more ethnic cleansing coming up soon......)
Prinsjesdag (English: Prince's Day) is the day on which the reigning monarch of the Netherlands (currently King Willem-Alexander) addresses a joint session of the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives in the Ridderzaal or Hall of Knights in The Hague. The Speech from the Throne (Dutch: Troonrede) sets out the main features of government policy for the coming parliamentary session.
After lunch, the Minister of Finance proposes the next year's national budget and the Budget Memorandum (the Miljoenennota) to the House of Representatives. The budget submitted is carried in a special case which has printed on it in Dutch: "Third Tuesday of September", but due to the size of the case, it probably contains only a part of the entire memorandum. The presentation is followed by a cycle of parliamentary debates on the budget. These are called the algemene beschouwingen (general deliberations). It is the most important moment for parliamentary policy making, as MPs can amend the budget to finance specific plans.
originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
"We have found that 70% of all Muslims in The Netherlands think the rules of the Koran are more important than the Dutch law."
"...55% of them think The West is out to destroy the Islam."
originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
'"But what`s more disturbing is that this fundamentalist religion world view is very strong connected to an enemy view towards other groups. As an example, 40% of the Dutch Muslims don`t think the Jews can be trusted and 55 % of them think The West is out to destroy the Islam."
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There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, with 49 countries having a predominantly Muslim population. Of these countries, 4 have been bombed by Israel, and 4 have been bombed by the US this year alone.
Here are the four countries bombed by Israel in 2014
1. Sudan (35.4 million people, 96.7% Muslim)
On July 21, Israel dropped bombs on a suspected weapon warehouse in Sudan. Israel alleged that the site stored weapons that were bound for Hamas in Gaza.
Israel has carried out other bombing attacks inside Sudan in recent years. In 2009, Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy of trucks in Sudan that was believed to be carrying arms to be smuggled into Gaza. And in 2012 eight Israeli planes struck a giant military factory outside of the capital, Khartoum.