Prince William of Orange was inspired by the tolerance of the Ottoman Sultans.
In 2012, the Netherlands and Turkey are celebrating 400 years of diplomatic relations. Anti–Islam party leader Geert Wilders spoke out against celebrating relations with the Muslim nation, which he portrayed as cruel and suppressive. He is not aware that his noise about Dutch-‐Turkish relations would draw attention to the fact that the very foundations of the Netherlands and its free religious policy are historically connected to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, as was recently revealed by the Ahmadiyya eGazette.
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