Sharia4Holland was an Islamist movement, openly seeking to institute Sharia law in the Netherlands.
[1] At the height of the Occupy movement in 2011, members of Sharia4Holland were first observed handing out radical Islamic flyers at protests in Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht,[2] resulting in their monitoring by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD).
[3] During a debate in De Balie in Amsterdam with Tofik Dibi of GroenLinks on 7 December 2011, a group of twenty Muslim radicals stormed the premises, throwing eggs and clamoring for the execution of Canadian writer Irshad Manji, who was present talking about her book Allah, Liberty and Love.
Ahmed Marcouch of the Labour Party (PvdA) called the ideas of organization violent, Coşkun Çörüz with the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) wanted measures to be taken and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) referred to their intimidating behavior as 'impossible'.
Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) wanted an outright ban on the movement.