NCTb Summary Terrorist Threat Assessment Netherlands 22

Threats against the Netherlands
The Netherlands still has a high international profile, which means that jihadists Netherlands see as an attractive and legitimate target. Netherlands remains in the picture because of the perceived oppression of Muslims by the Dutch government and statements which are perceived as hostile to Islam. PVV leader Wilders attracted international attention with several statements and resolutions, as his recent proposal to Jordan henceforth be called Palestine and the recently expressed desire of the PVV to international cooperation with like-minded groups and individuals.

There was also a lot of international media attention to the electoral victory of the Freedom Party and its possible role in the formation of a new cabinet, the announced Wilders speech in New York on 11 september 2010 against the establishment of an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, and statements of support from Wilders to the English website muslimsdebate.com, in which he urged Muslims worldwide to rid themselves of Islam. Some of these subjects were on a known jihadist
website raised without creating that website to concrete threats against the Netherlands or against the PVV leader. However, the Freedom Party leader and Hirsi Ali was in a hit list of people in the jihadist internet magazine Inspire (see above) met de kop ‘The dust will never settle down’, accompanied by the image of a gun.