Muslim Broadcasters Spend Subsidies Fighting Each Other

NIS News
June 23, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1952/muslim-broadcasters-spend-subsidies-fighting-each

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The two Muslim broadcasters subsidised by the Dutch government have spent hundreds of thousands of euros of that money on legal battles against each other. This emerges from annual accounts obtained by Trouw newspaper.

Every big religious movement receives a subsidy in the Netherlands for its own public broadcaster. Islam however has two broadcasters because Muslim groups have been unable to agree among themselves on a single umbrella broadcaster.

The Foundation for the Care of Islamic Broadcasting Time (SVIZ) was set up in 2007 to keep the two Muslim broadcasters - Netherlands Muslim Broadcasting (NMO) and the Netherlands Islamic Broadcaster (NIO) - in dialogue. But due to internal fights, SVIZ now also threatens to fall apart.

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