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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 13, 2018, 03:09:05 am

Title: Anti-Muslim group not to be put on trial in Netherlands
Post by: TomSea on April 13, 2018, 03:09:05 am

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Anti-Muslim group not to be put on trial in Netherlands - World Bulletin

An Islamophobic hate group that planted crosses on a construction site for a mosque in the eastern Netherlands will not be prosecuted, Dutch prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEDIGA), a far-right anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant movement, made the construction site for a mosque look like a graveyard by planting twenty-three crosses in the city of Enschede earlier this month.

The group had also posted anti-Muslim hate messages on its social media account.

Read more at: http://www.worldbulletin.net/islamophobia/200118/anti-muslim-group-not-to-be-put-on-trial-in-netherlands (http://www.worldbulletin.net/islamophobia/200118/anti-muslim-group-not-to-be-put-on-trial-in-netherlands)

I'm posting only, the central premise of the story, whether they are a "hate group", I don't know. Maybe they aren't.