Dutch former anti-Muslim politician converts to Islam

[Ali Tariq]

Joram Van Klaveren | Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Joram van Klaveren is the second ex-PVV politician to convert.

By ELINE SCHAART

2/4/19, 6:24 PM CET

Updated 2/4/19, 10:05 PM CET

A former member of Geert Wilders' far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam.

Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch from critic to convert while writing a book about Islam. "During that writing I came across more and more things that made my view on Islam falter," he told Dutch radio.

Van Klaveren was a member of parliament for the Freedom Party (PVV) from 2010 to 2014, but quit the party after Wilders' asked supporters during a rally in 2014 if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, to which the crowd chanted “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!”

After leaving the PVV, Van Klaveren set up his own party, For Netherlands, but failed to win a seat in the 2017 national election and quit politics.

Van Klaveren was a harsh critic of Islam during his time as PVV politician, saying "Islam is a lie" and "The Quran is poison," newspaper NRC reported.

Asked in the newspaper interview if he feels guilty about these statements, Van Klaveren said he had been "simply wrong," adding that it was "PVV policy: everything that was wrong had to be linked to Islam in one way or another."

Arnoud van Doorn, a former PVV official, was an earlier convert to Islam. Van Doorn congratulated Van Klaveren on his decision via Twitter, writing: " never thought that the PVV would become a breeding ground for converts."

 

[Ali Tariq]

Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch from critic to convert while writing a book about Islam. "During that writing I came across more and more things that made my view on Islam falter," he told Dutch radio.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

There was another anti-Muslim politician in Germany that had converted.

 

[Jobless Jack]

Funny how those who oppose Islam the most in the end turn into the tools that expand and help islam the most

They plan and Allah too plans and Allah is the best planner.

 

[War Thunder]

Joram Van Klaveren | Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Joram van Klaveren is the second ex-PVV politician to convert.

By ELINE SCHAART

2/4/19, 6:24 PM CET

Updated 2/4/19, 10:05 PM CET

A former member of Geert Wilders' far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam.

Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch from critic to convert while writing a book about Islam. "During that writing I came across more and more things that made my view on Islam falter," he told Dutch radio.

Van Klaveren was a member of parliament for the Freedom Party (PVV) from 2010 to 2014, but quit the party after Wilders' asked supporters during a rally in 2014 if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, to which the crowd chanted “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!”

After leaving the PVV, Van Klaveren set up his own party, For Netherlands, but failed to win a seat in the 2017 national election and quit politics.

Van Klaveren was a harsh critic of Islam during his time as PVV politician, saying "Islam is a lie" and "The Quran is poison," newspaper NRC reported.

Asked in the newspaper interview if he feels guilty about these statements, Van Klaveren said he had been "simply wrong," adding that it was "PVV policy: everything that was wrong had to be linked to Islam in one way or another."

Arnoud van Doorn, a former PVV official, was an earlier convert to Islam. Van Doorn congratulated Van Klaveren on his decision via Twitter, writing: " never thought that the PVV would become a breeding ground for converts."

Allah has His way of guiding people.
That's why we need to be patient with those who insult Islam or say/write hurtful things as they are doing so out of their ignorance.

And that's why some one needs to capture the mullah ignorant jahils and the mindless monkeys who follow them and beat them up day and night so they understand they are the most harmful breed to Allah's message, and they by their acts of stupidity out of sheer ignorance are responsible for turning many people away from trying to understand the true message of Islam.

People blame the cartoonists, I say the cartoonist can be forgiven for his ignorance. But the real blasphmey happens by the monkeys who go out on streets and behave like retarded apes. Because the ignorance of these monkies is entirely self inflicted and self chosen.

 

[maximuswarrior]

This is big news here in The Netherlands.

 

[zectech]

Wonderful!

 

[Village life]

This is what Europe and USA is and was afraid off, because when ever a educated person researches about Islam he realizes that islam is a true religion,thats why they created proxy's like Alqida, ISSI etc to portary Islam a religion of violence,Allah Has his plan ,and his plan is the best,

 

[Hamza913]

The truth will always prevail over falsehood. This happened with the Mongols too, first they bitterly opposed Islam, then they embraced it and became some of it's most passionate supporters. They went from Hulagu's sacking of Baghdad to Timur's enforcement of Sharia.

 

[TopCat]

Most of the right wing people are religious nutt jobs..
Its no wonder that they found Islam is nuttier than the one they followed earlier.

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

Hadayat is always from Allah, May Allah give us too (ameen).
May Allah Guide our new members and keep them on right path of Islam. (ameen)

 

[YeBeWarned]

Most of the right wing people are religious nutt jobs..
Its no wonder that they found Islam is nuttier than the one they followed earlier.

Interesting that someone like you have audacity to call 1.7 billion people nuts .. i wonder who is the real nuts here ?

 

[TopCat]

Interesting that someone like you have audacity to call 1.7 billion people nuts .. i wonder who is the real nuts here ?

I said right wing people are nuts

 

[Kompromat]

Islam's most bitter enemy, the Mongols ended up converting to Islam. The trend continues.

 

[SALMAN F]

Just cheap garbage propaganda