IF you thought that political correctness is a peculiarly British affliction, think again.
We have just learned that the Amsterdam Police Authority want their officers to read the Koran in order to engage better with members of the surly Muslim community, who find Dutch liberalism – particularly in regard to the acceptance of homosexuality – intolerable.
Not only does the authority want police to read the Koran, they are prepared to subsidise the cost of providing the book to the tune of 50 percent.
A police spokesman explained that many officers have some knowledge of the Bible, but that the Koran was often unknown territory. The police authority reckons the new version, designed to be accessible to the general Dutch public, will give officers more insight into Islam.
But will police officers get the “real” Koran – you know, the horrible one that encourages terrorism and promotes misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism?
Apparently not. This Koran appears to be a revisionist version, with all the nasty bits left out.
It has been written in Dutch by Kader Abdolah, an Iranian writer living in Holland, who appears to have his heart in the right place.
In a recent interview, this is what Abdolah said of the traditional Koran:
A country becomes a living hell when you try to govern it with the Koran! The outcome is what you can see in Iran today.
Right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) MPs are outraged by the plan, with Sietse Fritsma calling it “Islam propaganda” and saying that public money should not be spent on it.
The PVV today demanded that the government intervene to scrap the plan.
If the Amsterdam police really want their officers to understand Islam, they should hand out free copies of Abdulla Aziz’s Mohammed’s Believe it or Else, which can be downloaded in pdf format here.
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Well that oughta prove itself fruitless! The Koran isn’t going to teach the core concept of what is needed to treat humanity (people) with human decency.
Just as that Holy Bible full of hate wouldn’t do it.
Somethings the human mind and spirit oughta get, whether there is a Koran a Bible or not.
Lots of money getting ready to be spent for a very fruitless outcome.
A law enforcement agency doesn’t belong using money collected from taxes to buy copies of a book that recognises only their laws, not Dutch laws,to get better insight. PC dribble.
To use the copies to understand and combat the warped thinking of the believers of it would be one thing,but something tells me this isn’t the case.
As the Islamic people said: “A truly good Muslim never violate the law” therefore how violate the law is not a good Muslim, therefore the police don’t need to learn Koran. I can’t understand this, the polite behaviour is appreciated by every human beings, therefore the police must only use the common polite behaviour with everybody, are Muslim people more human than the rest of human beings??
If the muslims don’t like the liberal life style of the west maybe they should just go back to whence they came. I am sure they would be happy in Iran or some such place as that
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