Nikki Sterkenburg

On the Hoefkade in The Hague stood up 10 augustus 2014 a group of radical Muslims
from the Schilderswijk opposite the anti-IS demonstration of the occasional collective
Pro Patria ("For the Fatherland"). Beforehand the rumor machine was running
at full throttle. This is how Pro Patria would like to burn a Quran, reversed
would radical Muslims from the Schilderswijk fire bombs at the demonstration
from Pro Patria want to throw.1
No one on either side remembers who spread the rumours,
but it led to the groups in the heart of the Schilderswijk being diametrically opposed
came face to face. Pro Patria chanted slogans like 'No'
jihad in our street'. The other camp threw bricks and
renamed the riot 'the battle of the Schilderswijk'.2
The Mobile Unit decided that Pro Patria had to deflect, what the procession
of about 150 people eventually after much protest did.3 The group existed
including from well-known radical- and right-wing activists, Vlaamse
nationalists,
ADO fans who just came back from a lost home game
against Feyenoord, Assyrian Christians, concerned citizens and a handful
Kurds, who all marched under the banner of an anti-IS demonstration.
Due to the arrival of some familiar faces from the radical- en
extreme right environment Pro Patria announced strict rules in advance: no
extreme right-wing expressions and only Dutch flags.
Although the procession should have turned, claimed co-initiator Paul Peters
from Pro Patria a win, That's what he told me when I was three and a half years old
later spoke for Elsevier Weekblad. The then mayor of The Hague Jozias
van Aartsen (VVD) after all, the demonstration by Pro . had gotten out of hand
Patria seized the opportunity to organize demonstrations for the time being on the grounds of public order
to be banned in the Schilderswijk. And so radical Muslims could not
more demonstrations in the neighborhood - in which they en passant the Islamic
State encouraged.