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June 15, 2006
Holland: Muslim Extremism Causes New Study Center To Be Formed
News from Expatica states that due to the rise of extremist tendencies within the Dutch Muslim community, a new academic center to study extremism has been established in Amsterdam.
The Centrum voor Radicalisme en Extremisme Studies (CRES) is housed within the University of Amsterdam. It will assemble researchers from other universities to further understand the increase and progress of religious radicalism in Holland.
While studying the radicalisation of Moroccan youth for the Ministry for Immigration, a researcher from Amsterdam University saw the need for a new academic faculty. Frank Buijs belongs to the University of Amsterdam's Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies.
His report on Moroccan youths' attitudes had found disturbing acts, such as 40% of Moroccan young people rejected Western democracy, and six to seven percent of those surveyed were prepared to use force to defend religion.
Most were opposed to any criticism of Islam, but also were opposed to freedom of speech for offensive statements. Yesterday, Buijs said that the government must put in place alternatives to the trend of Salafism which is currently taking over. Salafy means "pious", and despite its title, it is extreme and fundamentalist in nature, deriving its ideology from early assassins of the Kharijite movement. This movement began in North Africa in the west of North Africa (where modern Morocco and Algeria now lie) in 657 AD.
As we reported on June 7, the fourth progress report on combating terrorism, presented to the Netherlands parliament, claimed that Salafism has become increasingly popular within Mosques in the nation. The report had been compiled by Interior Minister Johan Remkes and Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner.The report claimed Salafists and radical Islamists have been successfully employing the internet and lectures to recruit more members, and to hold balances of power within moderate mosques.
Buijs and his colleagues have published the results of their findings in a new book, which is called "Strijders van eigen bodem - radicale en democratische moslims in Nederland" - or "Homegrown warriors - radical and democratic Muslims in the Netherlands".
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at June 15, 2006 12:18 AM
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