May 20, 2004Foreign Affairs

Pakistani zealot cant go Dutch

The Netherlands, that European bastion of permissiveness and liberalism, a country that has legalised everything from marijuana to prostitution has signaled that it is not woolly-headed about national security after all.

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

The Dutch government has banned Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of Pakistan’s Jamaat-i-Islami and champion of jehad, from traveling to The Hague to speak at a forum organised by a local Muslim group.

The question remains whether the Dutch government would have gone ahead and banned Hussain Ahmed if not for some lobbying by its Jewish citizens.

Update: Thanks to Schengen, Europe closes its doors to the Qazi.



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