THE HAGUE, 29/10/09 - Kinderen voor Kinderen (Children for Children), the children's choir of public broadcaster VARA, has composed a song in which Islam is praised. The Party for Freedom (PVV) is demanding clarification from Education Minister Ronald Plasterk.

In the song, 'Allah Akbar' is chorused 27 times. "The Dutch are in this way humiliated," declares PVV MP Martin Bosma. "The multi-culturalists have no shame any more. The multicultural faith is at death's door in society, but on subsidised public television, it is still alive and kicking."

Kinderen voor Kinderen is a well-known choir that makes a CD every year that is sung on TV on VARA. A number of the choir's songs became national hits in the 1980s and 1990s. In recent years the choir has become less popular.

On Tuesday evening, the choir sung its 2009 CD on TV, among which was the Islam song. According to Bosma, the slogan 'Allah Akbar,' which forms the refrain, is "a standard part of the Islamic prayer that has been used for 14 centuries as a war-cry by the ruthless Islamic armies of conquest."