Dutch Lawmaker Urges Halting Immigration
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One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said Friday the country's democracy is under threat and called for a five-year halt to non-Western immigration in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Muslim radical.
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Queen Beatrix began discussions Friday with the leaders of the 10 parties that won sets in the new parliament, elections that could lead to an easing of the Netherlands' tough immigration policy.Comment
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Parliamentarian Geert Wilders sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy, finger in the dike, holding back a rising tide of immigrants that threatens to swamp the Netherlands and all of Europe.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The government vowed tough measures yesterday against what a leading politician called &quot;the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands&quot; after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found pinned with a knife to the body of a slain
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The killing of a filmmaker critical of Islam puts new strains on Dutch traditions of tolerance and will fuel demands for tougher treatment of immigrants, analysts and commentators said on Wednesday.
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The Iranian government calls on the Dutch to stop the screening of a film about the Koran.
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The killers of an outspoken Dutch filmmaker threatened his scriptwriter &#151; a politician who renounced Islam and has criticized its customs &#151; in a letter that was pinned to the victim's body with a knife.
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A proposal to revive a blasphemy law to calm sectarian tensions in Holland has outraged artists, writers and the political elite. The killing was followed by bomb attacks on mosques and reprisal attacks on churches.
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THE HAGUE, Nov. 23 -- Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's right-of-center Christian Democratic Appeal party, which has led efforts to curtail Muslim immigration at a time of growing xenophobia in the Netherlands, won the most seats in parliamentary elections Wednesday,  but voters voiced...
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Saudi Arabia wants an apology from a Dutch politician who said Muslims should "tear out half the Koran" if they wanted to live in his country and has asked the Dutch government to intervene, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday.
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A Dutch counterterrorism official warns right-wing politician Geert Wilders over the MP's new film on Islam.
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THE HAGUE Dutch leaders debated Tuesday about invoking a rarely used law banning blasphemy in response to a wave of ethnic tension and violence.
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An ex-minister calls for an independent body to monitor and publish statistics about immigration in the UK.
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An MP is to ask the Home Office to rethink the deportation case of a couple who took refuge in a church.
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Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.
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THE HAGUE -- The government vowed tough measures yesterday against what a leading politician called ''the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands&quot; after a death threat against a Dutch lawmaker was found in a letter pinned with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker.