Two years ago after riots in the Schilderswijk neighborhood
in The Hague distrust of the police remains widespread among young people
living in the area. Researcher Carina Duijndam said: “They feel like second-class citizens. Every
white person they see is a policeman or a journalist who’s writing something
bad about the area, or a teacher dishing out punishments. There is a huge
divide between society and the neighbourhood.”
Onno
Eichelsheim, the director of the Dutch military intelligence service MIVD has
said that the Netherlands is an interesting "supermarket" for
countries that want to make weapons of mass destruction. A number of attempts
to buy are blocked. He added that Dutch companies and knowledge institutes are
insufficiently aware that countries like Syria and North Korea want to gain
knowledge in the Netherlands.
It has become known that Amsterdam Mayor, Eberhard van der
Laan pushed the municipality to hire Bilal L. as a youth worker. In the past, Bilal L. had been condemned to 3
years in jail for preparing a terror attack.
As a condemned criminal, the municipality could not hire him without
special dispensation which van der Laan requested. Once hired, one of his functions as youth worker, Bilan
L. was to fight prevent radicalization of youngsters. In fact, he promoted it. 
A group of Amsterdam residents marched through streets of
the old western neighborhood of their town to protest the hindrance by tourists. They carried banners and megaphones and
shouted slogans like: “Amsterdam not for
sale” and “Whose city? Our city!” 
The program-manager at the Amsterdam municipality in charge of
prevention of radicalization among youngsters has been fired. She had given various
assignments on behalf of the municipality to her friends. She is also accused
of changing the terms of proposals submitted. She is furthermore reproached of
not having adequately intervened concerning youngsters of whom it was known
that they were attracted to the jihad. A criminal investigation is still under
way. 
Dutch Sociologist who specializes in migration, Professor Ruud
Koopmans, says that Dutch Muslims should come out much more forcefully against
terrorist attacks. He said that
demonstrating against Muslim terror is a good way to fight against radicalization. He said that the general population sees that
Muslims are willing to demonstrate against Israel, or in favor of Turkish
President Erdogan. Koopmans also stated that
while it is a lie that violence has nothing to do with Islam, terrorists themselves
declare that they commit their criminal acts in the name of Islam.
Yasmina Haifi, (a Labor Party candidate in Parliamentary
elections) was dismissed by the National Cyber Security Center after she had tweeted
that “ISIS
has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are
deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name.” She was then readmitted by
the Justice Ministry as an employee in a different position. She has brought a
law suit against the Ministry saying that she had no prospects for advancement
at the Ministry. A Judge has now ruled
that Haifi (a Muslim), may take her case to a Labor Court because a written reprimand would
have been sufficient as her statement was protected by freedom of speech.
