We Are Not Making This Up Dept. – Hezbollah "moderates."

A Dutch researcher, Jan Schoonenboom, employed by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), a "governmental institute," has disgraced himself with these fatuous statements about Islam:

WRR researcher Jan Schoonenboom said at the time [April 2006] that many politicians in the Netherlands engage in "Islam-bashing", that there is no need to fear Sharia law and that the Netherlands should "support the moderate Islamic powers much more, such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hezbollah in Lebanon".^[1]

Happily, the report "enraged" many Members of Parliament.

For more on the developing Dutch debate on Islam, see: "The whisper of the people." By Kleinverzet, 9/6/07.

Notes
^[1] "Pressure on Coalition for Tougher Measures against Radical Islam." NIS News Bulletin, 9/7/07 (emphasis added).