Muslims Threaten Christians In Asylum-Seeker Centres

From NIS News.nl and Alliance Defense Fund:


'Muslims Threaten Christians in Asylum-Seeker Centres'



THE HAGUE, 21/10/10 - Christians are threatened or maltreated by Muslims in many asylum-seeker centres in the Netherlands, TV programme Uitgesproken EO has reported. The Lower House is demanding clarification.



Uitgesproken EO bases its report on a study carried out by Gave, a Christian organisation that helps asylum-seekers. It says that Christians experiene discrimination in 75 percent of the asylum-seeker centres in the Netherlands. In 67 percent of the centres, threats of violence or death occur, and in 33 percent, there is physical violence.



According to the staff of the foundation, which surveyed 28 asylum centres, Muslims are mostly responsible for the violence and the threats made to the Christian asylum-seekers. Apostates from Islam also face violent Muslims.



Small Christian party ChristenUnie MP Joel Voordewind is shocked by the results of the survey. According to Voordewind, this is a matter of "religious persecution of Christians within the borders of our own country."



A broad Lower House majority is at the initiative of ChristenUnie urging a halt to the asylum procedure for asylum-seekers repeatedly guilty of serious threats or physical violence. Parliament also wants Immigration and Asylum minister Gerd Leers to investigate the exact size of the problem and set up an independent reporting point where asylum-seekers can report threats or assaults by other asylum-seekers anonymously.



The Central Body for the Reception of Asylum-seekers (COA) denies the problems. COA said in a written statement that it "absolutely does not recognise the picture sketched."





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