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Friday, November 12, 2004

Ban on missionaries in Holland?

CNN and the Associated Press report that

"The Netherlands parliament has asked the government to draft legislation compelling Dutch mosques to employ only imams who have studied Islamic religion in the Netherlands.
The proposal, supported by the government and the opposition, came after a debate in which Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's government was accused of underestimating Islamic terrorism and failing to protect a filmmaker killed by a suspected Muslim radical...

"A vote on the proposal for Dutch-educated imams was delayed. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said it may be discriminatory unless that rule is applied to all religions. If passed, it would come into force in 2008."
(emphasis added)

So... no priests, Baptist ministers, or any clergy would be allowed to function unless he or she went to school in that country?