Posted on 11/05/2004 3:40:17 PM PST by knighthawk
ROTTERDAM - Police in Rotterdam removed this Wednesday a commandment from the Bible, 'Thou shalt not kill', from a wall in Rotterdam-North. A 52 year old man who tried to stop the police and the cleaners, was arrested. He was given a fine.
A police-spokesman claimed Thursdag that the removal of the texts fits in the national instructions given to police-officers to be on alert on all possible signals of unrests or provocation. "On Wednesday evening we were told there was a text on a wall right next to a mosque in the Insulindestreet. There was already an attempt to cover the text with paint, that is why we ordered the text to be removed."
Artist C. Ripken painted the text over a wallpainting he made earlier of an angel that flies above the world. Below the 'Thou shalt not kill' he added the date of 02-11-2004, the date that Theo van Gogh was murdered. Out of frustration, Ripken declared Wednesday. "It is annoying I am surfing along this sewer, but when I was told by my son that The can Gogh was murdered, I had a feeling I had to do something. I painted the text. It is the first time for me that I use text."
The next day Ripken has no understanding for the way police acted. "I am scared. It grips you if a man gets arrested because he tries to stop them from taking your text away. 'Thou shalt not kill' is a neutral text to me. If it's insulting to anyone, it's beyond my comprehension."
Can the great and justly famous Netherlands tradition of tolerance of religion and opinion (one of the teachers of the American belief in Freedom of Speech and Religion) be destroyed by the Islamics? I hope that the People do not allow it since this would change the entire basis of Dutch national image and its character.
Thank God that the Americans have reaffirmed their opposition to such forces and re-elected President Bush, the Liberator.
In multi-culturalism the most poisonous snake survives.
Wouldn't want to offend the insolent murdering hordes now would we. That would just be unkind afterall. If we show them we are perfectly defensless and spinelss maybe they'll leave us alone and attack some other better defended target.....
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Thank goodness GW is back for 4 more so we don't have to see the above BS as US policy.
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