Dutch mosques are banning radical Muslims from their houses of prayer. Out of precaution suspect persons get a ‘mosque prohibition’ out of fear recruitment will take place in the mosques for the armed jihad. This was stated by mosque organizations in the Dutch newspaper ‘NRC Handelsblad’.
Rasit Bal – chairman of the Contact Organization Muslims and Government (Dutch: Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid) – does not consider this an adequate way of handling this issue. ‘Mosques don’t have an effective response to radicalization. The mosque simply hopes is slowly fades away and if that does not work such a person most of the time is send about his business.’
He’s afraid youths that are banned from the mosque will isolate themselves and radicalize even more.
