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Zionists Behind Revival 
Of 1932 'Hateful 
Comments' Law
Reuters/AP
11-17-4
 
THE HAGUE -- Dutch leaders debated Tuesday about invoking a rarely used
law banning blasphemy in response to a wave of ethnic tension and
violence. 
  
Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner told Parliament that he wanted to
revive a 1932 law to isolate radicals and curb "hateful comments." 
  
But he was vague on how it would be applied, which he said would be up to
the courts. 
  
Under the law, violators could face jail terms of up to three months and
a fine for insulting a person's religious faith, either orally or in
writing. It was last invoked in 1968. 
  
The debate comes two weeks after the slaying of Theo van Gogh, a
filmmaker whose film "Submission" criticized the treatment of women in
Islam and enraged many of the country's Muslims, who number about a
million. The main suspect in van Gogh's murder is Islamic. 
  
Donner did not respond when asked whether the law was intended to
restrict mosque sermons that could be considered inciting, or whether it
could target provocative films like van Gogh's. 
  
"If the opinions have a potentially damaging effect on society, the
government must act," he said. "It is not about religion specifically,
but any harmful comments in general," he said in a parliamentary debate. 
  
Political leaders angrily responded to Donner's proposal. D66, the
smallest party in the governing coalition, submitted a motion to remove
the blasphemy clause from the criminal code. 
  
"Since van Gogh's murder there are great doubts about what can and cannot
be said," said Lousewies van der Laan, parliamentary leader of D66.
Instead of addressing those concerns, he said, the minister proposes "to
dust off a barely used law on blasphemy." 
  
Van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death Nov. 2 on an Amsterdam street.
More than 20 arson attacks and reprisals against churches and mosques
followed his killing, revealing previously hidden ethnic hatreds. 
  
Donner said the law was "part of promoting integration, part of taking
away the possible explosive material in society to avoid reactions like
we had last week." 
  
Much of the recent public debate has come down to the perceived gap
between the values of Dutch natives and foreign imams who preach at Dutch
mosques. 
  
An adviser to Queen Beatrix said Tuesday that the Netherlands must clamp
down on the far-right and shun anti-immigration populists. 
  
"How is it possible that in Spain, after the attacks on trains in which
191 people died, not a single mosque was set on fire?" said Max van der
Stoel, a former Dutch foreign minister. "It happened in the Netherlands,
which makes you think." 
  
Van der Stoel, a former national minorities high commissioner for the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, urged the Dutch
government to build bridges with Muslims. His comments came a day after
Pim Fortuyn, the maverick anti-immigration populist who was killed by an
animal rights activist in 2002, was voted "Greatest Dutchman" in a
television contest. 
  
Historians expressed shock that Fortuyn had been chosen as "Greatest
Dutchman" ahead of William of Orange, the postwar Prime Minister Willem
Drees, the diarist Anne Frank, and Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt. About
300,000 people voted in the television contest broadcast late Monday. 
  
"Extreme right-wing youths must be dealt with firmly," van der Stoel told
the Algemeen Dagblad daily. "Burning mosques show tensions increasing in
an intolerable way. Then relations between natives and foreigners are
really in danger." 
  
Van der Stoel said the situation in the Netherlands reminded him in the
last few days of religious violence in Macedonia in 2001. "If we don't do
anything, the chasms will get deeper and the walls of distrust will
become ever higher," he said. 
  
  
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/16/news/dutch.html<http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/16/news/dutch.html>

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