Translated from the site De Orkaan in Zaanstad, the Netherlands:

January 10, 2018

Threatening letter with swastika and ‘blood’ splashes

When Aysel and her husband arrived home late in De Weer neighbourhood in Zaandam, there was still nothing to see. They both had worked an evening shift and her husband goes to bed, Aysel stays up for a while.

When Aysel also wanted to sleep, she walked to the front door to lock it. Through the window she sees red splashes. She thinks that her husband may have spilled something and opens the door.

She is shocked: it is everywhere. On the door, on the rain pipe and on the kitchen window. She thinks it’s blood. There is a note on the door. It has a swastika with the text:

“Fucking Muslims, die.”

Aysel takes the note from the door, wakes up her husband and calls…

Prayer portal

Do not always fear and seek to destroy that which you perceive as opposing you,
for it is the tension of opposites that maintains creation.

**Himalayan blue poppy photo via Pinterest; text added by Natalie