Amsterdam - The major organizations active in the Dutch residential real estate market want the government to take extra measures to boost home sales, Dutch media reported on Thursday.

The organizations sent a letter to Minister of Residential and Urban Affairs Eberhard van der Laan (Labour) requesting special measures to boost the home market.

On Wednesday the Central Bureau of Statistics said the number of home sales in November dropped by more than 50 per cent compared with the same month last year.

Amsterdam - Dutch Muslim organizations remained unimpressed by the 15-minute film An interview with Mohammed produced by Iranian- born Ehsan Jami and released on Tuesday.

Six organizations for Moroccan Muslims called the film "meaningless" and refrained from further comments.

The six organizations said Jami's film did not contribute to the debate about contemporary Islam.

"We wish Ehsan Jami much success in his further career as filmmaker," the organizations said in a joint statement.

Amsterdam - Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on Tuesday called upon Muslim countries on to make sure the film An Interview with Mohammed, by Iranian-born Ehsan Jami, will not result in violence against Dutch nationals or Dutch companies.

Verhagen said he discussed the matter on Tuesday with ambassadors of Muslim countries in The Hague.

The foreign minister says he fears Muslim extremist groups might use the film as an excuse to commit violence against Dutch targets.

Amsterdam  - A young Dutch politician and founder of a group of former Muslims is due to present a 15-minute film criticizing Islam at a secret location on Tuesday.

Ehsan Jami, city council member for his one-man-party in Leidschendam-Voorburg near The Hague, is depicted in the English- language film as interviewing the prophet Mohammed who is played by an actor who remains unrecognizable.

Iranian-born Jami, 23, who announced that heresy and women's rights are central themes in the interview, says the production is not an anti-Islam film.

The film showing was set for a secret location for journalists only.

Jami has been living under heavy security protection since August 4, 2007.

Amsterdam - Zimbabwe should not profit from illegal diamond trade and the European Union should investigate options to stop it, Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen said Monday.

Verhagen said he would raise the issue at Monday's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The ministers are expected to issue a ban on all EU-visas for associates of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe's government is allegedly making enormous profits from illegal diamond trade. Verhagen said it was necessary for the EU to send a "clear message" to the Zimbabwean president.

Amsterdam - Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders confirmed on Monday he would tour Britain, France and Israel in the coming months to present his controversial Islam-critical film Fitna.

On March 27, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party PVV released a 16-minute political film on the Internet warning of the spread of radical Islam and the alleged "Islamization" of the Netherlands.

Quoted in Dutch daily newspaper Spits on Monday, Wilders said he was travelling abroad to create international "alliances for peace and against Islamization."