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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JAMJOOM" data-source="post: 14653779" data-attributes="member: 398897">Member of anti-islamic Geert Wilder’s dutch party accepts IslamGreat blow to anti Islamic campaigner GREET WILDER <img src="http://www.omroepwest.nl/sites/default/files/imagecache/cp_main/erasmus/00/2109226.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A former member of Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration Freedom Party has converted to Islam. Arnoud van Doorn, who until D ecember 2011 was vice-chairman of the PVV  group on The Hague’s city council, announced his “new start” on Twitter. He also posted a tweet in Arabic declaring that “there is no god but  Allah and Mohammed is his prophet,” in accordance with one of the five  pillars of Islam. The 46-year-old (pictured, above, with Dutch Iranian politician Ehsan  Jami in 2010) has continued on the council as an independent candidate  since splitting from Wilders’s party. Initially Van Doorn was reluctant to discuss his reasons for converting.  But in a later interview with Al-Jazeera, he explained that his  interest in the religion had gradually deepened after he began visiting a  mosque in his home city out of curiosity. He said: “I have heard many negative stories about the Islam, but I am  not a person who follows opinions of others without doing my own  research and forming my own opinion. Therefore, I have actually started to deepen my knowledge of the Islam out of curiosity. “My colleague Aboe Khoulani from the city council in The Hague has  brought me further into contact with the as-Soennah mosque, which has  guided me even further. There, I have been received very warmly and very  positively.” Asked if he now regretted joining the Freedom Party, he replied: “I have  learned that every experience in life has a purpose. However, with the  knowledge I have today, I would have undoubtedly made a different  choice.” In January Van Doorn was questioned by prosecutors about an article in  the Hague edition of the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper based on  confidential papers that he leaked to a journalist. The leak was discovered during a wiretapped phone call while Van Doorn  was being investigated over allegations that he sold soft drugs to  children aged 14 and 15. Van Doorn said the allegations were the result of a misunderstanding and  that he had been involved in an undercover operation to unmask drug  dealers in central The Hague. He admitted he had not properly considered  the risks involved. The articles concerned plans to sell the World Forum, an international  conference centre in The Hague, which was discussed during a closed  session of the council. (Check Van Doorn's interview with Al Jazeera) </blockquote>

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