Just as soon as Amsterdam seemed to be settling down and the curfews and military presence seemed to be quieting the population, renewed violence broke out across the city. Islamic riots and demonstrations paralyzed the city. A local Salafi Imam declared the Muslim Slotervaart district, home of Mohammed Bouyer, the murderer of Theo Van Gogh, was now under Islamic law. Utrecht was taken over by Islamists, who stormed local government buildings and burned them to the ground. In The Hague, a group of officers of Islamic descent led the army in a coup. The ranks of the military, which were forty percent Muslim, overran the House of Parliament and local administrative offices, replacing local police with members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Queda. They liberated all Muslims held in prisons or jails, which was seventy percent of the prison population. A Muslim militia crossed the land putting local imams in charge. Salafists declared Holland an Islamist regime, and Imam Fawaz Jneid was declared “emir of the faithful.” Panicked non-Muslim populations across Europe reacted swiftly, joining the rightwing Germany National Democratic Party, the French National Front, the Austrian Freedom Party, and the Flemish Interest Party. Emergency legislation in Belgium called for containment of Muslim neighborhoods and the closing of all mosques. Muslim schools were shuttered. Muslims on the streets in groups of more than three were arrested. Muslims were banned from driving in certain parts of the city. Muslims had to be indoors by eight o’clock. Muslims were forbidden to attend cinemas, theaters, and other places of entertainment. If these laws seemed reminiscent of Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws no one mentioned it.
