Recent events have prompted me to record the anti-Islamic publications of
the late Dutch sociologist and politician Pim Fortuyn. As well as his 1998
book on the Arab-Israeli conflict (_50 jaar Israel, hoe lang nog? Tegen het
tolereren van fundamentalisme_), there seem to have been two editions of
his attack on Islam in the Netherlands: _Tegen de islamisering van onze
cultuur_ (most of his titles seem to contain the word "tegen"). The first
dates from 1997, but there was a second last year (2001). According to the
OPAC of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, it dropped the word
"Tegen" and has what seems to be a Muslim co-author, named as Abdullah
Haselhoef. This seems rather extraordinary: can anyone tell me if this is
really correct, and does it indicate a late change of view on the
part of Pim Fortuyn?
Geoffrey Roper
Editor, _Index Islamicus_
Islamic Bibliography Unit
Cambridge University Library
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