On the Het Parool web page, one of the columns featured an article entitled: "Moroccan Boys Do Not Need protection". It is well known that the title has nothing to do with the statements of the mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, in October last year regarding the debate that was organized between Yassin Al-Furqani and me in the center called Arjan. Excerpts of the mayor's statements included,

The statements by the head of the VVD party, Halbe Zijlstra calling for closer ties with the despotic Muslim rulers especially rulers who are close to European borders, and that they deserve the biggest support of the opposition, have caused an uproar and shocked many.

Once again the controversy over the building of mosques in the Netherlands returns, and this time it is over the construction of Al Wihda Mosque in the Dutch city of Gouda. After a large number of CDA party members raised many questions about the construction of the mosque last November, the party is now seeking to prevent foreign aid to the mosque legally.

On Wednesday afternoon, we were catapulted to the year 2011, when the media coverage in Norway, right after the terror attack in Utøya pointed their fingers at the Muslims without any substantial evidence, as became apparent later. This time it was the attack on the office of the French satire weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo which resulted in twelve people dead.