Posted on 03/09/2006 8:01:07 PM PST by Pikamax
Muslim Vote Tips the Balance in Netherlands From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-03-08 15:59
Yesterday’s municipal elections in the Netherlands were won by the Left. The Labour Party (PvdA) gained more than 500 town hall seats, an increase of 50 per cent compared with 2002, while the far-left Socialist Party (SP) doubled its number of seats. The Christian-Democrat CDA of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his government coalition partner, the free-market Liberal VVD, suffered heavy losses.
Yesterday’s result does not bode well for the Right in next year’s general elections. If the result in 2007 is the same as yesterday’s the PvdA will gain 49 of the 150 parliamentary seats, while the CDA – currently the largest party – will lose 13 of its 44 seats. A government of Labour, the SP and the extreme-left Groen Links (Green Left) Party could replace the current center-right government, leaving the Netherlands with a radical-left coalition similar to that of Norway today.
Today the center-left newspaper De Volkskrant writes that the immigrant vote has tipped the balance in favour of the Left. This should not come as a surprise. All across Europe, immigrants tend to vote for the Left. The Left is perceived to be the welfare state’s Santa Claus. Most of the immigrants who came to Europe during the past decades were attracted by the generous welfare benefits which Western Europe lavishly bestows on the “underprivileged.” Today, owing to their demographic growth, the immigrant vote is increasing as more and more young immigrants reach voting age. In many countries the Left has begun to cater for the immigrants, aware that the immigrants guarantee their power.
According to the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam 80% of the non-indigenous electorate voted for Labour. This explains why cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Breda and Arnhem succumbed to the Left. 84% of the Turks voted for the PvdA; 81% of the Antillians/Surinamese did likewise. Of the Moroccans 78% voted Labour and 12% voted Green Left.
The center-right VVD, the party of famous Dutch policians such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Frits Bolkestein, received only 1% of the immigrant vote. The CDA got 3%, the SP 5% and Green Left 7%.
According to De Telegraaf, the largest paper in the country, immigrant voters have become a power block.
The effects of the immigrant vote will soon be visible. The Amsterdam borough of De Baarsjes has already decided to remove a white cross which serves as a memorial to the Second World War. The cross is situated not far from the place where a mosque is being built. According to the authorities “Muslims and Jews” take offense at the cross as a war memorial. “We told them that it is a Dutch tradition to refer to the dead with a cross. However, the cross is seen as a reference to Christianity. I can understand this,” the local (Christian-Democrat) councillor, Jan Voetberg, said.
*sigh*
In many countries the Left has begun to cater for the immigrants, aware that the immigrants guarantee their power.
Europe is choking on its own vomit.
Hey Specter, McCain, Kennedy, Bush and the rest of the fools on this side of the pond: This is what amnesty does and will do here as well.
bttt
and a Mosque is not a symbol of the Muslim religion?
as for the immigrants flocking to the Netherlands for the generous welfare - take Denmark, for ex: the income tax is 50%! Yes, they get "free" dental and medical etc - (If you call it free for someone to take half of your income to give you back 10%) But it is the working Danes who will (are) be supporting the immigrants, who will have lots of leisure time to plan and execute ...maybe literally.
Europe is lopsided now with the influx of the past 30 years of Muslims - slow and methodical.
We plod along with blinders on at our peril. They have stated their goal loud and clear: reinstate the Califhate. Rule over the infidels - the infidels (that's us, folks,) will obey and live by Sharia Law - or die.
It's not the eleventh hour, folks. It 11:30
you will see the same pattern in the US - I suspect the Dems will get 90% of the US muslim votes - especially in heavy concentration areas around detroit, northern virginia, north new jersey, etc.
I have read that alot of people from the Netherlands - are relocating to Australia.
so thats how it ends
Yup and dido the illegal immigrate vote, that will be 90% Rat.
not with a bang, but a whimper.
but some parts of europe will not go quietly I predict.
Europe is choking on its own vomit.
Europe America is choking on its own vomit. The open boarders bunch in this country is bipartisan.
Just when you think that they are pulling their heads out, there they go again.
Sad but true.
Like a good little dhimmi.
That is it.
I, personally do not believe that the West ,and that includes the United States,has the moral will to do what it takes to defeat the followers of mohammad.
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