Netherlands: A far-right politician's conversion to Islam is not as surprising as it sounds.

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Joram van Klaveren had not so long ago been the right-hand man of Geert Wilders, the godfather of Dutch far-right extremism. For those unfamiliar with him, Wilders is the Dutch Donald Trump.

Joram van Klaveren (back seat) seen here with Gert Wilders (in foreground)

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
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By Khaled Diab | February 11, 2019

Irony is a cruel prankster. It turned a far-right politician from the Netherlands, Joram van Klaveren, from a virulent Islamophobe, who had made it his political mission to rid his country of Islam, into an unlikely convert to the religion. Van Klaveren’s epiphany occurred while he was working on a book that started off as an anti-Islam polemic but morphed into a defense of the faith.

Worse or better still (depending on your perspective), van Klaveren had not so long ago been the right-hand man of Geert Wilders, the godfather of Dutch far-right extremism. For those unfamiliar with him, Wilders is the Dutch Donald Trump.

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. . . [A]lthough van Klaveren’s conversion strikes his former allies as inexplicable, it is not as bizarre or surreal as it appears. He hasn’t rejected religion, after all; he’s merely changing one strain of it for another. Rather than being like a vegetarian who suddenly becomes a carnivore, van Klaveren’s change of heart is more akin to a committed soda drinker switching from Coca Cola to Pepsi.

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