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(Amsterdam, Holland) Pressure is mounting from members of the Netherlands' Parliament to close a mosque in Amsterdam that promotes killing gays and the mutilation and beating of women.

The El Tawheed mosque is the most conservative in the city, preaching an extreme form of Islam.

The attacks on gays and women are contained in two books sold by the mosque. The mosque is under investigation by the public prosecutor. A majority of MPs form all parties say if the prosecutor finds the mosque guilty of promoting hate it should be closed.

The Amsterdam City Council is leading the push to close the facility.

The Dutch Parliament will hold an emergency debate about the El Tawheed mosque this week.

One MP, Geert Wilders, said if the prosecutor does get a conviction, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner should step in. If Donner refuses, Wilders will submit a motion demanding a government investigation.

The book, The Way of the Muslim, by Sheik Aboe Baker Djaber El Djezeiri asserts that gay people should be thrown from the roof and stoned. It also advocates the right of a husband to beat his wife if she is disobedient.

Earlier this month the mosque was at the centre of a storm over another book advocating violence.

That book, Fatwas of Muslim Women, says that women who lie deserve 100 blows and that the husband's duty of care for his wife is negated if she refuses him sex or leaves the home without his permission. One of its most controversial aspects is the call for Muslim girls to be circumcised.