Man who stabbed two tourists in Amsterdam said he was angered by Dutch politician who planned Mohammed drawing contest

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• A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last week said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands. 
• He also named anti-Islam Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who canceled plans to hold a competition last week of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. 
• The man, identified by Dutch media as Jawed S., is a 19-year-old Afghan with residency in Germany who traveled to Amsterdam to carry out the attack.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands, prosecutors said on Monday.

The man, identified by Dutch media as Jawed S., is a 19-year-old Afghan with residency in Germany, who traveled to Amsterdam to carry out an attack because of what he said were repeated insults to God, the Koran and Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, prosecutors said in a statement.

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