{"id":4573,"date":"2019-02-07T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2020-06-26T23:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T04:41:01","slug":"dutch-former-anti-muslim-politician-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/dutch-former-anti-muslim-politician-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch former anti-Muslim politician converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A former member of Geert Wilders’ far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch from critic to convert \nwhile writing a book about Islam. “During that writing I came across \nmore and more things that made my view on Islam falter,” he told Dutch radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Klaveren was a member of parliament for the Freedom Party (PVV) \nfrom 2010 to 2014, but quit the party after Wilders’ asked supporters \nduring a rally in 2014 if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the \nNetherlands, to which the crowd chanted \u201cFewer! Fewer! Fewer!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving the PVV, Van Klaveren set up his own party, For \nNetherlands, but failed to win a seat in the 2017 national election and \nquit politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Klaveren was a harsh critic of Islam during his time as PVV politician, saying “Islam is a lie” and “The Quran is poison,” newspaper NRC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked in the newspaper interview if he feels guilty about these \nstatements, Van Klaveren said he had been “simply wrong,” adding that it\n was “PVV policy: everything that was wrong had to be linked to Islam in\n one way or another.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnoud van Doorn, a former PVV official, was an earlier convert to Islam. Van Doorn congratulated Van Klaveren on his decision via Twitter, writing: “[I] never thought that the PVV would become a breeding ground<\/a> for converts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/former-dutch-anti-muslim-politician-converts-to-islam-joram-van-klaveren\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former member of Geert Wilders’ far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam. Joram Van Klaveren said he made the switch from critic to convert while writing a book about Islam. “During that writing I came across more and more things that made my view on Islam falter,” he told Dutch radio. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,84,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dawah","category-new-article","category-became-muslim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",714,483,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483-300x203.jpg",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",714,483,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",714,483,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",714,483,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",714,483,false],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",300,203,false],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",400,271,false],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-489993092-714x483.jpg",600,406,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Site Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/author\/admin2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A former member of Geert Wilders’ far-right Dutch party announced Monday that he has converted to Islam. 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