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"Trials, violence divide Netherlands
By Mark Houser
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, May 22, 2005

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- Arriving in this major port on the Rhine River where the Dutch hold their terrorism trials, trains pass by a building not commonly associated with the land of windmills and marijuana cafes - a blue-domed mosque with soaring twin minarets.
Ali Unal, one of the leaders of the Turkish Mevlana mosque, wants one thing to be clear about the radical Muslim Dutch teenager accused of plotting to blow up the nation's parliament.
'He is not my Muslim brother,' said Unal. In the courtyard, he showed off a sculpture, called 'Unity,' representing cooperation between Dutch Muslims and the state."

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