E/CN.4/2002/24 page 15 A bus driver in Amsterdam refuses a passenger with a head scarf; Telephone threats to organizations representing Palestinian interests (12/9/01); Attacks on mosques in the Hague (written hate speech on the walls) and Vlissingen (broken windows); Muslim women with headscarves receive racial insults and threats and are spat at; Racial insults directed at a player in a (non-professional) soccer team (17/9/01); Telephone threats to a mosque in Roosendaal (17/9/01); Hate speech on a condolence register on an Internet site, as a result of which the web site is closed (17/9/01); An Islamic school in Nijmegen is set on fire (17/9/01); An attempt is made to set fire to a mosque in Zwolle (17/9/01); An Islamic centre in Barneveld is plastered with the words “death to the Muslims” (17/9/01); Stones are thrown through the windows of the SHIP - the Islamic Platform in The Hague (18/9/01); A Syrian orthodox church in Rijssen is plastered with hate speech (18/9/01); Threats to a Turkish family/stones thrown through the windows of their house (18/9/01); Increase of hate speech against Muslims on the Internet, especially in newsgroups. (f) Portugal 32. On 15 September several newspapers published stories about a bomb threat to the Lisbon mosque. The Lisbon Islamic Community stated that this incident led to the interruption of prayer while the police bomb squad searched the premises. A representative of the Lisbon Islamic Community also reported that the Lisbon mosque was vandalized on 18 September 2001; some windows were smashed by stones during the night. Another leader of that community, commenting on the same event on national television said that such occurrences were commonplace. In spite of this, the Procurador General da República has so far received no complaint. Nevertheless, all the great religions were represented at a gathering to pay hommage to the victims of the terrorist attack. At this event the Muslim community’s representative Sheik Munir - prayed for the dead.