In The Netherlands, The Islam Experience Center Brainwashes Infidels

In the Netherlands, there is an elaborate new way of immersing visiting Infidels in what is billed as the “life of ordinary Muslims.” It’s not Islam, red in tooth and claw, the real Islam of jihad, and the jizyah, and oppressed dhimmis, that is presented, but a sanitized version, with all the bad parts left out. Nothing about Muhammad having sexual intercourse with little Aisha when she was nine years old and he fifty-four, nothing about the slaughter of 600-900 bound members of the Banu Qurayza in which Muhammad took part, nothing about the killing of Jews at Khaybar, and Muhammad taking the Jewess Safiyya as his concubine the evening of the day the Muslims murdered her father and husband. Nothing about Muslims being taught, in the Qur’an, to despise all non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings.” Nothing about the duty to engage in jihad so that, eventually, as Muhammad insisted, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” Nothing about the need for a husband to “beat his wife” if she is even suspected of being disobedient to him. Nothing about the Qur’anic instruction to Muslims “when you meet the enemy, strike at his neck.” Nothing about Muhammad’s boast that “I have been made victorious through terror.”

No, just the non-offensive parts of Islam will be presented.

More on this “immersive learning experience” meant to persuading the Dutch of the sheer wonderfulness of Islam, can be found here: “Can virtual reality change how people see Islam?,” by Mozhda Poyan, Hyphen, June 24, 2026:

Two women in hijabs and a younger Muslim man wait near the entrance of Rotterdam’s Islam Experience Centre (IXC). Inside, three non-Muslim friends watch an animated history of Islam playing on a large screen overhead. Their guide, 21-year-old Tarik, identified by his first name only at the request of the centre, soon gathers them together before leading them through a series of immersive installations.

Rather than relying on lectures, exhibitions or printed materials, IXC uses virtual reality (VR) and interactive storytelling to introduce visitors to Islamic history, practice and lived experience.

The model has drawn interest from Muslim and non-Muslim visitors, as well as school groups and teacher-training institutions, at a time when questions about Islam, integration and religious diversity remain prominent in Dutch public debate. The IXC hosts school groups, university students and community organisations every week. According to the centre, it has welcomed nearly 50,000 visitors over the past two and a half years.

50,000 people, many of them naïve and innocent infidel lambs who willingly submit to the propaganda, have so far attended the IXC. They come hoping to “learn about Islam,” and instead they are fed the most anodyne and misleading version of the faith, and come away mightily impressed after their “immersive reality” experience.

“We wanted people to experience Islam rather than simply explain it,” Tarik tells Hyphen.

“For us, there was clearly a need for a place like this. We’re seeing a growing demand for knowledge about Islam in the Netherlands, but also a need for more accurate information.”

The centre was opened in June 2023 by former far-right Dutch politician Joram van Klaveren, once known for his anti-Islam views as a member of Geert Wilders’ PVV party, before converting to Islam in 2018 while researching a book critical of the religion.

Van Klaveren has become a star in the Dutch Muslim firmament: a man who began as an enemy of Islam, a member of Geert Wilder’s PVV party that supports an end to Muslim immigration, while researching a book that was intended to be a criticism of Islam, Van Klaveren was so impressed by what he learned that he ended up by converting to the faith. Muslims treated his conversion as a triumph of the Undeniable Truth of Islam.

Inside IXC, however, Van Klaveren’s story operates more as context than centrepiece. The focus is on experience: learning through immersion rather than instruction.

The first VR experience unfolds from a first-person perspective. Children playing football tell you that you cannot join their game. Moments later, an elderly white woman looks directly at you and mutters something about “your kind”. In a classroom, a teacher introduces you to your new classmates and asks who would like to sit beside you. The room falls silent.

The opening scene in this treacherous tableau: The Muslim As Victim. The very first experience for visitors is all about feeling the suffering — you hear it in your earphones, you see it on your screens — that Muslims endure at the hands of Islamophobes, who have spread their hate even to their children. It is they who cause their children to tell a Muslim child — that is the part you are now playing — that he can’t join their game. It is that “elderly white woman” who says something about “your kind” to you, displaying out-of-the-blue nastiness to inoffensive Muslims.

And then you feel the pain of Muslim children who, you are supposed to believe, when they go to a new classroom, discover that no one wants to sit beside them. Are you now overwhelmed with sympathy for all that Muslims must endure? Of course you are. You have now been primed to feel the pain of innocent Muslims, finding themselves — so we are encouraged to believe — shunned everywhere. Of course, there is no truth to any of this. It is the reverse: it is Muslims who do not take “Jews and Christians as friends, for they are friends only with each other,” it is Muslims who know that non-Muslims are the “most vile of created beings.”