{"id":7045,"date":"2019-02-06T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7045-dutch-former-anti-muslim-mp-converts-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:54:17","slug":"dutch-former-anti-muslim-mp-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7045-dutch-former-anti-muslim-mp-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch former anti-Muslim MP converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has set tongues wagging in the Netherlands after revealing he has converted and become a Muslim, news reports said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has set tongues wagging in the Netherlands after revealing he has converted and become a Muslim, news reports said Tuesday.<\/h4>\n<h4>For seven years Joram van Klaveren fought a relentless campaign in the Lower House against Islam in the Netherlands as a lawmaker for Wilders\u00b4 Freedom Party (PVV).<\/h4>\n<h4>At the time, the &#8220;hardliner pleaded for banning the burkha and minarets, saying \u00b4we don\u00b4t want any Islam, or at least as little as possible in the Netherlands\u00b4,&#8221; the daily tabloid Algemeen Dagblad (AD) said.<\/h4>\n<h4>But the 40-year-old Van Klaveren said he had changed his mind halfway through writing an anti-Islam book, which he told the respected NRC daily &#8220;became a refutation of objections non-Muslims have&#8221; against the religion.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;If everything I wrote up to that point is true, and I believe that, then I am a de facto Muslim,&#8221; he told the NRC.<\/h4>\n<h4>Van Klaveren converted to Islam on October 26 last year, the NRC added in the interview piece .<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;His conversion has surprised both friend and enemy,&#8221; the AD newspaper added.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has set tongues wagging in the Netherlands after revealing he has converted and become a Muslim, news reports said Tuesday. \u00a0 A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has set tongues wagging in the Netherlands after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1136,207,205,220],"class_list":["post-7045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-dutch","tag-islamic","tag-muslim","tag-netherlands"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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