The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders is leading both of the nation’s major opinion polls. While the party currently holds only nine seats of the 150 seats in the Dutch Lower House Parliament, both the Synovate Political Barometer and pollster Maurice de Hond say the party stands to be the largest […]
AMSTERDAM- Populist politician Geert Wilders’s negative views of Islam – he has called it “retarded” and “inherently violent” – are his opinions, not irrefutable facts, Dutch prosecutors argued yesterday at his criminal trial for inciting hatred. Wilders has argued that his views of Islam are supported by expert and academic analysis, and that speaking the […]
A body scanner at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport would not necessarily have detected the explosives which the would-be syringe bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had sewn into his underwear. A Dutch military intelligence source told De Telegraaf newspaper that Al Qaeda has its own security scanners and has been practicing ways of concealing explosives. The terrorist group […]
