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Project SafeCom News and Updates 23 November 2005
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Project SafeCom News and Updates 23 November 2005
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1. West Timorese in island detention
2. Bring asylum seekers to the mainland
3. Asylum seekers 'need Medicare'
4. Immigration 'biased on Muslims'
5. Inquiry told of hunger strike flight
6. Detainee 'has not eaten in a month'
7. Asylum seekers shifted to island
8. Asylum seekers' Christmas Is move 'costly'
9. Vanstone's terror speech under fire
10. ASIO intimidating Muslims: advocate
11. AUSTRALIAN LOBBY GROUP LASHES OUT AT AUSAID’S ‘BLACKLIST’
12. Muslim fanatics terrorise a nation
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1. West Timorese in island detention
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The Age
By Jewel Topsfield
November 23, 2005
THREE West Timorese asylum seekers are the sole occupants of the Christmas
Island detention centre after a family with two infant children were
released yesterday.
The seven, the first boat people to reach Australian soil since 2003, were
detained after they waded ashore near the West Australian Aboriginal
community of Kalumburu on November 5.
Last Thursday, they were transferred from Darwin to remote Christmas
Island, 2600 kilometres north-west of Perth.
It is not clear why the seven Indonesians are seeking asylum. The
Immigration Department had planned to deport the group but changed its mind
after issues were raised.
The second secretary of the Indonesian embassy in Canberra, Dino Kusnadi,
said the embassy was seeking clarification. "They were supposed to be
returned, but on their return flight two were denied entry on the plane and
it was deemed not safe for them to be flying on that flight," Mr Kusnadi
said. "At the final minutes they were not to be returned."
An Immigration Department spokesman said the family, with children aged one
and two, would live in the Christmas Island community while their
applications for protection visas were assessed. "The placement of women
and children in detention is always a last resort and the department is
committed to finding alternatives for families," he said.
Refugee advocate Kaye Bernard said she was concerned about the welfare of
the men left behind in the reopened detention centre, which had been
mothballed in July after 53 Vietnamese asylum seekers gained temporary
protection visas.
"Everyone accepts detention makes people sick," Ms Bernard said. "These
three men are being discriminated against simply on the basis of their
gender. If they do not pose a threat to Australian security, why should
they be held in a prison?"
She said a social worker tried to visit the men, but had been refused
access because her name was not on their visitor list.
Christmas Island Shire President Gordon Thompson said he was pleased about
arrangements being made for the family. But he said the three men should
also be released and he questioned why all seven had been brought to
Christmas Island.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/west-timorese-in-island-detention/2005/11/22/1132421665979.html
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2. Bring asylum seekers to the mainland
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MEDIA RELEASE
21.11.05
Office of Greens Senator
Kerry Nettle
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle called on the Government to bring
seven recently arrived Timorese asylum seekers to the mainland for
processing and questioned whether the Government had changed its policy on
the use of the Christmas Island detention centre.
"The Senate Inquiry into Migration has heard a mountain of evidence about
why remote detention centres are bad for people's mental health and their
ability to get legal representation.
"To re-open Christmas Island for seven people must have cost many thousands
of taxpayers dollars. The government initially told us these people were
not seeking protection and it turns out they are. This move appears to be
all about hiding an embarrassment from the public.
"It seems the Government has changed its policy on the use of the Christmas
Island Detention Centre. In April this year, Senator Vanstone's
spokesperson said it would only be 'used for unauthorised arrivals who
arrive in areas that are excised from the migration zone and there's no
plans to change that'. Now they are taking these people there even though
they clearly made it onto the Australian shore.
The Government's mandatory detention policy is a political, ethical and
financial debacle." Senator Nettle said.
Contact Kristian Bolwell: 0411638320 // (02) 96902038
Kristian Bolwell
Office of Greens Senator
Kerry Nettle
T: 96902038// 62773501
M: 0411638320
W: www.kerrynettle.org.au
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3. Asylum seekers 'need Medicare'
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The Age
By Tom Noble and David Wroe
November 23, 2005
THE Australian Medical Association has called on the Federal Government to
provide basic medical support to thousands of asylum seekers who are not
allowed to work.
AMA president Mukesh Haikerwal said about 7000 asylum seekers on certain
visas were not entitled to Medicare, nor could they use public hospitals
without charge. "Even in the case of an emergency, these people only get
treated at the largesse of certain hospitals, and quite often they will be
billed," he said.
The call came as Health Minister Tony Abbott announced that refugees would
be given a new Medicare item that covers them for a full medical check-up,
particularly targeting diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cholera, malaria and
tuberculosis.
Australia accepts about 13,000 refugees a year. These people already have
access to standard Medicare cover, but the new item, which will probably be
worth $160 or more, will give them a rebate for a more comprehensive GP
visit than the standard consultation.
But it will not help the people who are on bridging visas while seeking
asylum and do not qualify for Medicare.
According to refugee advocates, some public hospitals waive fees when they
are told the patient is an asylum seeker, without a job. Other hospitals
employ debt collectors to pursue the money.
Dr Haikerwal said people seeking asylum in Australia had the right to
medical treatment without discrimination, regardless of their citizenship,
visa status or ability to pay.
An Immigration Department spokesman said this type of bridging visa was
typically used for short periods while people sorted out their legal
status. The department was reviewing the present bridging visa system.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/asylum-seekers-need-medicare/2005/11/22/1132421665982.html
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4. Immigration 'biased on Muslims'
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The Age
By Ben Cubby
November 22, 2005
A NON-GOVERNMENT inquiry into immigration detention has heard claims of
systematic human rights problems and alleged bias against Muslim asylum
seekers within the Immigration Department.
A culture of fear dominated Immigration, in which employees working with
asylum seekers were under pressure to meet targets of visa application
refusals, a former senior immigration officer told the inquiry at the
University of NSW yesterday.
Diana Goldrick, a former manager of case officers at Immigration, resigned
in 2001 because, she said, the organisation had become "ethically bankrupt".
Senior managers had spoken to junior employees, warning them to "be
careful" of asylum seekers, she said.
Since 2001, Ms Goldrick said, many officers had been replaced with "new
case officers, who were specifically vetted and trained to be more ruthless".
An Immigration spokesman said there were no quotas either for numbers of
refusals or approvals.
Kate Gauthier, a former adviser to Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett and
now a refugee advocate, also made an inquiry submission. Using statistics
from the Refugee Review Tribunal's 2003-04 annual report, she accused
Immigration of "racially based processing".
The last Sydney hearing is being held today. The report will be published
next year.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/immigration-biased-on-muslims/2005/11/21/1132421604594.html
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5. Inquiry told of hunger strike flight
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Sydney Morning Herald
By Lee Glendinning
November 21, 2005
The Department of Immigration flew detainees on private aircraft from one
detention centre to another, where they were to be punished, and chartered
international flights to deport people, an inquiry into mandatory detention
was told yesterday.
Allegations that a group of detainees on a hunger strike were removed from
Villawood detention centre in July 2000 and flown to Port Hedland, where
they were kept in isolation, were detailed to the first day of the People's
Inquiry into Detention. The inquiry was set up by the Australian Council of
Heads of Schools of Social Work.
A detainee advocate, the former ABC journalist John Highfield, told the
panel that he knew of a detained man with an infant son who remained in
isolation at Port Hedland for 13 days, with one visit to a toilet allowed
each day. The father was forced to let the little boy defecate on their
clothes, which he washed during the toilet visit every 24 hours.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has since found that Australian
authorities breached the civil and political rights in this case under a
covenant to which it is a signatory.
The inquiry's president, the former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld,
pondered aloud why the chartering of aircraft, which other speakers
confirmed happened regularly, was not itemised in Immigration Department
budgets.
"If this is done on a regular basis, one wonders who has the authority [to
charter a private plane]. Do they ever report the expenditure to anybody?"
he asked. "This systematic mistreatment of people, especially children, is
mind-blowing. It's beyond my understanding why this has not been revealed
in the media the way it should be."
The People's Inquiry into Detention is being held after demands for a
broader investigation into immigration department practices, following a
report by a former federal police commissioner, Mick Palmer, on the
wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau.
It will also examine the privatisation of detention centres, the cost of
detention and the decision-making process of the Immigration Department.
The three-day inquiry, at the University of NSW, is being conducted through
hearings and written submissions that have been completed in Port Augusta,
Melbourne, Perth, Launceston, Swan Hill and Shepparton. The final report is
expected to be published next September.
Trish Highfield told the hearing yesterday that mandatory detention had
been "a shocking chapter in our country's history". Ms Highfield, an
early-childhood professional who has been a detainee advocate for seven
years, said that if she saw the same level of trauma in children not in
detention as she had seen behind the razor wire and did not make a
mandatory report, she could be prosecuted.
"These children have been emotionally murdered in our own country in
detention … we have wrought the most shocking damage to these children."
John and Trish Highfield told how their home was raided by immigration
officials after 13 detainees had escaped from Villawood detention centre.
Justice Einfeld said it was reasonable to have rules and safeguards about
who entered Australia. However, he said: "This is Australia. If this was
done by Nazi Germany we'd be writing a book about it."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/inquiry-told-of-hunger-strike-flight/2005/11/20/1132421549058.html
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6. Detainee 'has not eaten in a month'
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news.com.au
From: AAP
November 22, 2005
A CHINESE man in immigration detention is still refusing food, a month
after starting his hunger strike.
The man, a detainee at Sydney's Villawood detention centre, has been
refusing food since October 20, when he and five other Chinese detainees
began the strike to protest against Australia's mandatory detention policy.
Immigration officials said three of the original six ended their protest
last weekend and a fourth pulled out of the hunger strike last Monday and
was taken to hospital.
He has since been discharged and a fifth detainee is now accepting food.
A spokesman for the Department of Immigration said just one man is still
refusing food.
He said the man is being closely monitored, but is urged to stop his hunger
strike.
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"The Government does not encourage actions like this," the spokesman said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17332362-29277,00.html
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7. Asylum seekers shifted to island
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The Age
November 22, 2005
THE Christmas Island detention centre has been re-opened to house a group
of seven Indonesian asylum seekers.
The Department of Immigration said the four men, one woman and two infants
from West Timor were taken from Darwin to the remote detention facility,
2600 kilometres north-west of Perth on November 17.
The seven were on board a small boat that arrived at Honeymoon Beach, near
Kalumburu in Western Australia's far north, on November 5.
Hours after several men waded ashore to ask directions, HMAS Geraldton
caught up with the group and they were taken into detention in Darwin.
They were the first asylum seekers apprehended in Australian waters since a
group of Vietnamese people arrived off the coast of Broome more than two
years ago. In that case, the Christmas Island detention centre was also
re-opened.
The Immigration Department, which originally planned to deport the group,
said the West Timorese would remain on Christmas Island while their claims
for protection were assessed.
"The group was going to be removed having initially not raised claims or
information engaging Australia's protection obligations but since that
initial screening the group raised new issues and so their claims will be
further examined now," a department spokesman said. He said a ruling on
visas would be made within 90 days of the applications being lodged.
AAP
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/asylum-seekers-shifted-to-island/2005/11/21/1132421604591.html
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8. Asylum seekers' Christmas Is move 'costly'
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ABC NEWS ONLINE
Tuesday, November 22, 2005. 6:50pm (AEDT)
A refugee advocate says the Federal Government has taken the expensive
option by moving a boat load of asylum seekers from Darwin in the Northern
Territory to Christmas Island off the coast of Western Australia.
The seven asylum seekers from West Timor landed on the remote Kimberley
coast off WA earlier this month.
The group was taken to Darwin and then relocated to Christmas Island about
2,600 kilometres north-west of Perth late last week.
The Immigration Department says three males in the group will stay at the
island's detention centre, which has not been used since a group of
Vietnamese asylum seekers were taken there two years ago.
The Department says the two infants and two adults in the group will live
in the community while their asylum claims are assessed.
Pamela Curr from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says the cost to fly and
hold the group there would have been high.
"It's very expensive for the Australian people," she said.
The Immigration Department says the cost has not yet been determined.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1514502.htm
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9. Vanstone's terror speech under fire
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The Age
By Jason Koutsoukis
Political Correspondent, Canberra
November 21, 2005
IMMIGRATION Minister Amanda Vanstone should be sacked for describing the
Howard Government's fight against terrorism as more about making people
"feel better" than doing anything real, says Opposition Leader Kim Beazley.
Senator Vanstone refused to back away from the comments made in a speech to
a South Australian Rotary Club last Wednesday and reported yesterday.
In the speech, Senator Vanstone said the Government had been too reactive
to terrorist threats.
"I think we should keep our perspective on these things. We tend to get a
bit cynical," Senator Vanstone said.
"I don't know if any of you travel that much and have the pleasure of
trying to cut soggy toast with a plastic knife, which from my experience is
not very reliable.
"But we have this (no knives policy), of course, because we're worried
about terrorists getting on planes and grabbing knives and doing bad things
with them."
Senator Vanstone then asked the audience whether it had "ever occurred to
you that you just smash your wine glass and jump at someone, grab the top
of their head and put it to their carotid artery and ask anything? And
believe me, you will have their attention."
Senator Vanstone also described a hypothetical situation where he might
poke a pencil through Prime Minister John Howard's eye.
"I asked (Mr Howard) if he was able to get on a plane with an HB pencil,
which you are able to, and I asked him if I went down and came and grabbed
him by the front of the head and stabbed the pencil into your eyeball and
wiggle it around down to your brain area, do you think you'd be focusing?"
Mr Beazley condemned Senator Vanstone, and called on Mr Howard to sack her.
"This is a wild undisciplined comment from a minister whose department has
become an incompetent turnstile for Australians who are expelled, and
potential terrorists are allowed into the country," Mr Beazley said.
"This senior cabinet minister has undermined the Government's position on
national security and unless the Prime Minister sacks her he will be
perceived to be condoning her comments."
Mr Howard, who arrived in Pakistan late last night, was unavailable for
comment.
Senator Vanstone rejected calls for her sacking. "That's a nonsense," she
said. "My comments were part of a broad-ranging speech at a function in
Adelaide and were appropriate in that context. Anyone who doesn't believe
that can talk with the Rotary people."
Federal Labor's homeland security spokesman, Arch Bevis, said Senator
Vanstone's comments made a mockery of the Howard Government's credibility
in the area of counter-terrorism.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/vanstones-terror-speech-under-fire/2005/11/20/1132421545901.html
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10. ASIO intimidating Muslims: advocate
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ABC ONLINE NEWS
Sunday, November 20, 2005. 8:38pm (AEDT)
A civil rights organisation says an increasing number of Muslims are being
interviewed by ASIO, causing the Islamic community to feel intimidated.
Waleed Kadous, from the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network,
was among thousands of people who gathered in Sydney today to celebrate the
end of Ramadan.
He says he has talked to many Muslims who are feeling isolated and
disconnected from the rest of the community.
Mr Kadous says because of events overseas, people are stereotyping all Muslims.
He also says there is concern in the community about the Federal
Government's proposed counter-terrorism laws.
"Our information from some of the people we spoken to today is that ASIO is
talking to a lot of people," he said.
"They find this intimidating at times and they feel like again they're
being targeted because of their religious affiliation and their choice to
practice Islam."
The Minister for Multicultural Affairs, John Cobb, says the Government will
do what it can to protect Muslims from harassment and racism.
Mr Cobb says he understands that the community is under pressure at the moment.
"There are Muslims who express concern about security laws just as there
people in the wider community who express concern about security laws," he
said.
"But the overwhelming vast majority of Australians are totally behind the
Commonwealth and the state governments on security in exactly the same way
the vast and overwhelmingly majority of Australia's Muslims are behind the
Commonwealth and the state governments on security laws."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510890.htm
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11. AUSTRALIAN LOBBY GROUP LASHES OUT AT AUSAID’S ‘BLACKLIST’
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The Timor Sea Justice Campaign today labelled the Australian Government's
decision to discontinue aid funding to 13 East Timorese Non-Government
Organisations (NGOs) as political interference.
The 13 NGOs will not receive funding due to their signing of a statement
last year about the maritime boundary dispute between East Timor and
Australia. In joint press releases dated 29th of September 2004 and 27th
of October 2004, they called for maritime boundaries to be set fairly and
according to international legal principles. Timor Sea Justice Campaign
spokesperson, Vannessa Hearman, said this denial of funding by AusAID
(Australian Agency for International Development) was a blatant attempt to
silence critics of the Australian Government.
“The decision to punish Timorese NGOs which are conducting community
programs fly in the face of Australian Government claims that its aid
program in East Timor reduces poverty and benefits the people of East
Timor. Access to oil and gas resources are also key to poverty reduction
in the country and organizations which are speaking out about this issue
should not be punished by AusAID in this way,” Ms Hearman said.
The Director of Haburas Foundation, Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho, said
that AusAID informed Haburas on November 10 that it would not receive
funding for its project supporting environmental education in schools,
because it had signed the joint statements last year.
"East Timorese civil society is being punished by Australia for speaking
out about something that affects all East Timorese people. This is a
restriction of our freedom of speech and a breach of our human rights," Mr
Carvalho said.
Timor Sea Justice Campaign spokesperson, Vannessa Hearman, claims the
decision is typical of the type bullying that Alexander Downer and DFAT
have become known for in the region.
“It’s quite disturbing that the Australian Government not only takes
billions of dollars from the poorest country in Asia, but then has the
audacity to use its aid agency to try to silence those who point out that
the Australian Government is contravening International Law by doing this,”
Ms Hearman said.
Ms Hearman said the campaign will continue to push for the Australian
Government to establish permanent maritime boundaries with East Timor
halfway between the two countries, in accordance with International Law.
The 13 NGOs, some of East Timor’s oldest, largest and most respected NGOs,
signing the September and October 2004 press releases were:
- Haburas Foundation (recipients of the Goldman International
Environmental Prize 2004)
- HAK Association (Association for Law, Rights and Justice),
- La'o Hamutuk (Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis),
- Sahe Institute for Liberation,
- Kdadalak Sulimutu Institute (founded by Nobel Prize winner Bishop Belo),
- Timor Leste Community Radio Association (AKRTL),
- Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP),
- KSTL (Timor-Leste Trade Union Confederation),
- Labour Advocacy Institute for East Timor,
- FOKUPERS ( East Timor Women's Communications Forum),
- Forum Tau Matan (FTM)
- LABEH (Mirror for the People)
- and Timor Leste Students Association
For more information, please contact:
HABURAS FOUNDATION
Rua Celestino da Silva, Farol, Dili, Timor-Leste
P.O. Box 390, Telp: +670-7232851, +670-3310103
E-mail: haburas-@yahoo.com or habu-@hotmail.com
Or
Timor Sea Justice Campaign, Melbourne.
Co-ordinator, Tom Clarke, m. 0422 545 763 e. to-@timorseajustice.org
www.timorseajustice.org
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12. Muslim fanatics terrorise a nation
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Islamist murders and threats have transformed the once-tolerant Netherlands
into a place of armed bodyguards and fear, writes Anthony Browne
The Australian
November 21, 2005
A FILM about gay rights should hardly raise an eyebrow in The Netherlands,
which for centuries has prided itself as a beacon of freedom of expression
and was the first country to legalise gay marriage.
But when Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee turned Dutch MP, started making
a new film about the oppression of homosexuals under Islam, the threat to
everyone taking part was deemed so great that she decided there would be no
faces shown on screen and no end credits and that the entire production
team would remain anonymous.
Ali, a "lapsed Muslim" who revealed this week that she had finished the
script, lives in a safe house under 24-hour protection.
The precaution is as wise as the courage is extraordinary: Theo van Gogh,
the director of Ali's previous film, about domestic violence under Islam,
was killed -- repeatedly shot and almost decapitated in broad daylight in
the streets of Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist.
Impaled on a knife in van Gogh's chest was a five-page note declaring holy
war on The Netherlands and threatening death to other public figures deemed
"enemies of Islam".
A year after his murder, The Netherlands is a country transformed.
Previously, only the Queen and Prime Minister had police protection, and
ministers cycled to their ministries.
Now, many politicians, writers and artists are considered to be in such
danger that they have permanent armed guards and are driven around in
bomb-proof armoured cars. The Interior Ministry has set up a special unit
assessing death threats from Islamic extremists and providing protection
squads.
"In a democracy, strong opinion-leaders must be able to say what they want
to say. Therefore, the Government will take the responsibility to protect
them," a spokesman from the ministry said, refusing to divulge the number
of people receiving protection.
In the parliament in The Hague, inside the airport-style security, two
besuited bodyguards stand erect outside the office of Geert Wilders, Ali's
political rival, checking closely anyone who has permission to enter. "I
have been deluged with death threats," said the maverick right-wing MP, who
has called for the deportation of Islamic extremists.
Across town, police are investigating the shot fired at the window of Rita
Verdonk, the Immigration Minister, who has become a hate figure among
Muslim communities for introducing some of the strictest immigration laws
in Europe, and insisting that Muslims should integrate.
Amsterdam councillor Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Dutch-Moroccan who has said that
Moroccans who do not like The Netherlands should leave, is also under
permanent protection. "He never gives interviews on that issue," a
spokeswoman said.
Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen has tried to build bridges with the Muslim
community but, as the country's highest-profile Jew, he also needs 24-hour
protection.
At Leiden University law school, professor Afshin Ellian, an Iranian
refugee who has called for reform of Islam and even suggested that
comedians should make jokes about it, is hustled through the electronically
locked doors to his office by two bodyguards.
"In The Netherlands, terrorists want to threaten not only the public ...
they also want to kill public figures, such as artists, academics and
politicians," he said. "It is not special in terms of Islam -- in Iran, it
is normal to kill people who criticise Islam, as in Egypt and Iraq. It is
legitimised by Islamic political theology, which says it is all right to
kill someone if they are an enemy of Allah. But this is happening in Europe."
Academics and authorities in The Netherlands are trying to understand why,
in their country, Islamic extremism has gone down the path of
assassination, while in Britain and Spain it has produced bombings.
The rise in the death threats started in 2002 when Pim Fortuyn, a
flamboyant, gay, right-wing maverick, called for a halt to Islamic
immigration. He complained that police did not take the death threats
against him seriously. He was killed not by a Muslim, but by a left-wing
activist who said he did it "for the Muslims".
It was the first political killing in The Netherlands for three centuries
and was seen as a one-off. But the murder of van Gogh two years later
convinced people that the threat of political killing had become permanent.
A study by Frank Bovenkerk of the University of Utrecht confirmed the rise
in death threats across the country, and their seriousness.
"They are under real threat -- they would be killed without protection," he
said.
"We have a type of provocateur which is unprecedented in The Netherlands.
They claim it is about freedom of speech, but it is about freedom of cursing."
Even if the would-be assassins are foiled by the intelligence services and
the protection squads, the death threats are already having some success in
silencing criticism. "People are very afraid of saying things now,"
Professor Ellian said.
"There is self-censorship."
The Times
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17308340%255E2703,00.html
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