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2010-12-04 Europe

Man Arrested after Threats to Dutch Politician's Daughter

The police in Rotterdam have arrested a man on a charge of having threatened the daughter of leftwing Green (GroenLinks) party leader Femke Halsema.

The 35 year old man, as has now been made known, was arrested on Tuesday. He threatened Halsema in September via twitter.com, under the name of allah-u-akbar. He also threatened Labour (PvdA) leader Job Cohen and centre-left D66 leader Alexander Pechtold, the police said Friday.

The suspect appeared on Friday before the investigating judge, who decided to remand him in pre-trial custody for 14 days. A further investigation will be carried out into the suspect. When this is completed, the Public Prosecutor's Office will decide how the case will be concluded.

Last month, it was made known that Halsema took her children away from the 'black school' in Amsterdam which they had been attending. It is not clear whether that decision was related to the threats.

Halsema sent her twins to a school with mostly black and Islamic children in Amsterdam-Oost for idealistic reasons. "They have now gone to another school. That is better for their welfare. Children are not a social experiment. For these reasons, I do not want to say anything, it is a matter of the privacy of my children," said Halsema last month in De Telegraaf newspaper.

Posted by tipper 2010-12-04 01:38|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 They have now gone to another school. That is better for their welfare. my Children are not a social experiment.

Here, fixed it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-12-04 03:50|| 2010-12-04 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "Children are not a social experiment."

"I learned this by using my children as a social experiment, until all our lives were threatened by fanatics. And my ass being on the line made me see things a little differently."

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-04 06:57|| 2010-12-04 06:57|| Front Page Top

#3 If the definition of a neoconservative is, "a liberal who's been mugged" what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?

Posted by Steve White 2010-12-04 10:30|| 2010-12-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?

Realist?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-12-04 10:37|| 2010-12-04 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "Femke Halsema (Haarlem, April 25, 1966) is a politician in the Netherlands. She has been in parliament since 1998 for the left-wing ecologist party GroenLinks, Green Left. In November 2002 she unexpectedly became party leader, replacing Paul Rosenmöller.

During the first government of Jan Peter Balkenende she strongly criticized the new and very restrictive immigration laws.
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Further, she stressed cultural and religious tolerance as core values."

Reality hits like a brick apparently.

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/femke-halsema/

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-12-04 12:31|| 2010-12-04 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, this would be like that shudenfreed stuff, right?

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-04 12:38|| 2010-12-04 12:38|| Front Page Top

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