Books promoting radical Islam in Dutch high-security prison library

(Dutch News) Books by radical Muslims, including by people banned from entering the UK for praising suicide bombings, are available in the library at the high-security prison in Vught, the Telegraaf said on Friday.

MPs from the Christian Democratic party CDA and the anti-Islam PVV have asked the government to explain why the books are kept in a prison library used by people convicted of terrorism offences in the Netherlands.

“It is incomprehensible that such books are being loaned to dangerous prisoners,” MP Madeleine van Toorenburg told the paper. “It is hard enough as it is to help prisoners ditch their radical ideas and it does not help if they can read books about intolerance and armed jihad in their own cells.”

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