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Little Green Footballs - Europe is shuffling into darkness. It is proving incapable of standing up to its enemies, and in an effort to accommodate the peripheral rights of a minority is failing to protect the most basic rights of its own people. The governments of Europe have been tricked into believing that criticism of a belief is the same thing as criticism of a race. And so it is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous to criticise a growing and powerful ideology within our midst. It may soon, in addition, be made illegal.

Brussels Journal - Yesterday’s municipal elections in the Netherlands were won by the Left. The Labour Party (PvdA) gained more than 500 town hall seats, an increase of 50 per cent compared with 2002, while the far-left Socialist Party (SP) doubled its number of seats. The Christian-Democrat CDA of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his government coalition partner, the free-market Liberal VVD, suffered heavy losses.

Jihadwatch: december 23 2005 - Amsterdam: A Muslim political leader in the Netherlands on Wednesday dismissed as "ridiculous" a motion in parliament to forbid women from wearing burqas in public, calling it an overreaction to an issue that barely exists in the country.

Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 December 2005, 17:05 GMT  - BBC

The burqa, worn here by Afghan women, covers the entire body. The Dutch immigration minister says she will look into the legality of banning the burqa, the robes worn by some Muslim women to cover their bodies.
Rita Verdonk made the pledge after a majority in parliament said it would support such a ban.