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Amsterdam: Sharia4Holland issue death threats against Wilders, passer-by arrested     (Sharia4Holland press conference, Passer-by intervened at around 4:20)  Via Expatica :  Amsterdam VVD councillor, Robert Flos, has criticised the police for the way they dealt with a hate speech on Dam Square on Friday. On local television channel AT5, the councillor says the police failed to arrest the Sharia4Holland speakers, who made death threats aimed at Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders and arrested a passer-by who tried to enter a discussion with the speakers. Mr Flos points out that making death threats is a criminal offence. The passer-by was heavy-handedly removed from the scene. The councillor told AT5 he was shocked but �a message of intolerance can even be made next to our monument of freedom.� ( source ) The group's spokesman was meanwhile arrested.  Via DutchNews : Amsterdam police have arrested the 29-year-old spokesman for radical Islamic group Sharia4Holland ...

Somalia: Al-Shabab plotting attack in Netherlands, UK Via RNW : A former commander of the Somali Al Qaeda-linked organisation al-Shabab has said that dormant cells in the Netherlands are secretly preparing terrorist attacks. The commander, who left al-Shabab because of a dispute with its leaders, said the militant Islamist group is actively recruiting and training members of the Somali diaspora in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States to launch attacks in the countries where they have a residence permit. ( source )

Netherlands: Dual nationality and burqa bans are still on the cards, says minister Via DutchNews : It is up to MPs to decide whether to drop the proposed bans on dual nationality and the burqa, not the cabinet, home affairs minister Liesbeth Spies told parliament on Tuesday evening. Spies said two weeks ago in an interview with the Volkskrant that as far as she is concerned, both pieces of legislation can be dropped. ( source )

Netherlands: Immigration minister plans speedier and tougher asylum process Via DutchNews : Immigration minister Gerd Leers is planning to tighten up the procedure for vetting asylum seekers and make it faster by cutting out several layers of the current process, he told the Volkskrant in an interview on Tuesday. Leers wants asylum seekers to be vetted on all grounds, such as family life, medical condition and the situation in the country of origin, in one go. Their asylum claim could then be considered in one day, the minister says. ( source )

Groningen : Asylum seekers' protest camp grows Via Expatica : A campsite in the province of Groningen inhabited by rejected asylum seekers continues to grow as more people join the protest. Around 300 asylum seekers are living in tents in Ter Apel. The group has gathered to protest their impending deportations; a spokesperson for the applicants said he expects the camp to continue to grow. ( source )

Netherlands: Moroccan 'lover boys'   Via Al-Jazeera (h/t Snaphanen ): As part of his research, Bovenkerk sent a group of field researchers to talk to prostitutes in De Wallen, Amsterdam's red light district. They discovered that a significant number of women had been recruited as young girls by second- and third-generation immigrant boys, largely in places where youngsters gather in outlying villages. And a series of interviews with convicted 'Lover Boys' suggested some of them had been influenced by American TV images and video clips glamorising relations between pimps and their girls. The interview evidence, coupled with an analysis of police CCTV footage, led Bovenkerk to estimate that there were around 100 'Lover Boys' operating in Amsterdam. In all likelihood, he concluded, 'Lover Boys' usually run more than one girl at a time so there could in fact be several hundred 'legal' prostitutes working for them. Bovenkerk insists that alth...

Netherlands: Turkish singer goes back home after Schiphol questioning Via DutchNews : A Dutch concert by popular Turkish singer Arif Sag was cancelled this weekend after he gave up an returned home after lengthy questioning by officials at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. According to the Telegraaf, Sag was furious at being questioned and made to wait for so long that he took the first plane back home. Turkish papers described his treatment as 'scandalous', the Telegraaf said.  ( source )

Amsterdam: Moroccan woman attacked in racist incident Via Parool h/t NRP : A pregnant Moroccan woman out walking with her Surinamese boyfriend was attacked March 26th.  The attackers, five Moroccans in their twenties, followed the couple, and called the woman a 'nigger whore'.  Her boyfriend responded, which led to a fight.  The woman was also pushed, beaten and kicked. The attackers were arrested and the woman was treated in hospital.  Her injuries seemed light, but a week later she went into premature labor and the baby did not survive.

Netherlands: Get rid of that 'allochtoon' word, advisory group tells government Via Dutch News : The government should stop categorising the population of the Netherlands according to ethnicity and parental birth places, according to the government's advisory group on social development RMO, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday. Concepts such as niet-westerse allochtoon (literally non-western non-native) should be scrapped. Instead local councils should only record the birth place of the person concerned, rather than that of their parents, the RMO says. ( source )

Netherlands: Dutch to ditch burqa ban Via RNW : Interior Minister Liesbeth Spies says the burqa ban she helped prepare can be scrapped along with a proposed ban on holding dual citizenship. Now that the cabinet�s fallen, she "wouldn�t shed a tear" if parliament were to scrap the controversial Freedom Party-sponsored bill. "Now that the cabinet�s fallen, there�s no longer any payoff," she told national daily de Volkskrant on Wednesday. ( source )