{"id":3644,"date":"2014-05-18T06:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2014-05-18T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T06:05:36","slug":"saudi-holland-ties-in-crisis-over-wilders-anti-islam-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/18\/3644\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-Holland ties in crisis over Wilders&#8217; anti-Islam slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/saudi_4.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Saudi Arabia is considering trade sanctions against the Netherlands because of stickers printed by far-right politician Geert Wilders which display anti-Islam slogans in the colours of the Saudi flag, a Dutch foreign ministry spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party, is tied in first place with the Democrats in national opinion polls before European Parliament elections that will be held in the Netherlands on Thursday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His virulent anti-Islam statements have angered many and Wilders has lived under round-the-clock armed guard since he received death threats in 2004.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We have indications that Saudi Arabia is considering measures because of the insults to its flag and religion by Geert Wilders,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesman Friso Wijnen said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wijnen could not say what these indications are, but that the Dutch government is seeking contact withRiyadh. The stickers were first printed in December.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The Cabinet strongly distanced itself from the insults Wilders first made to the Saudi flag and the religion in December,&#8221; Wijnen said. &#8220;It still does now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ROYAL DIRECTIVE<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saudi government officials could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters. The Saudi Chamber of Commerce was also not available.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, Saudi newspaper al-Eqtisadiah reported on Friday that a directive would be circulated to all relevant authorities to exclude Dutch businesses from future projects and halt visits because of the anti-Islam statements, citing unnamed sources.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wilders&#8217; stickers, which are in green and white like the Saudi flag, carry derogatory comments about Islam, the Prophet Mohammad and the Quran.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bilateral trade between the countries was nearly $5 billion in 2010 and the Netherlands is one of the largest investors in Saudi Arabia, making up nearly 4 percent of foreign direct investment that year, theDutch government said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition to trade in oil and gas, the Netherlands exports a wide range of products and technology in the agriculture, machinery, chemical and petrochemical sectors in Saudi Arabia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wilders, in reaction to possible trade measures by Saudi Arabia, said in a statement that the Netherlands &#8220;should have boycotted that country a long time ago.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>World Bulletin<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is considering trade sanctions against the Netherlands because of stickers printed by far-right politician Geert Wilders which display anti-Islam slogans in the colours of the Saudi flag, a Dutch foreign ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi-Holland ties in crisis over Wilders&#039; 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