Another Islamic school is burning this evening:
Islamic School Set Ablaze in Netherlands
By Associated Press
November 9, 2004, 5:12 PM EST
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Suspected arsonists set an Islamic elementary school on fire Tuesday amid a string of attacks following the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by an alleged Islamic extremist.
Firefighters were struggling Tuesday night to extinguish the flames at the burning Bedir school in the southern town of Uden, where someone had scrawled "Theo rest in peace" in the building in homage to slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
Uden Mayor Joke Kersten told Dutch television she didn't know the exact cause of the fire but suspected arson. She said the school had not been the target of prior attacks.
Arsonists also attempted to burn down two Protestant churches overnight in Utrecht and Amersfoort, in apparent retaliation for the bombing of a Muslim elementary school in Eindhoven on Monday, police said.
Muslim sites have been the target of a half-dozen attacks in the past week.
No injuries have been reported and no arrests have been made.
Tensions have been high in the Netherlands in the week since the murder of Van Gogh, who was shot and stabbed in Amsterdam by an alleged Islamic radical after he released a movie critical of Islam.
In Utrecht, police arrived Tuesday to find that a church window had been smashed and a container of flammable liquid thrown inside. In Amersfoot, several Molotov cocktails were thrown at the outside wall of a church.
Muck a bunch of Fuslims
A moderate Muslim is a Muslim who is not trying to kill you, today.
Better now than later... the thing about thugs and thuggish people in general, is that they always shoot their load too early... they feel strong enough to take on real power way, way, way before they have amassed the means to destroy. Now, fortunately they showed their hand long before their ability.
saying there are no moderate muslims is a cover. there ARE moderate muslims, the problem is that its pretty much impossible for westerners to figure out who they are in such a foreign and cloistered culture. also, they obviously fear speaking out because they will be treated just like van gogh, and without the public outcry.
now if you want to support this dutch action based on this fact, then go right ahead. but dont fool yourself that just because we cant tell good from bad that they are ALL bad. if you want to, say, support expulsion of all muslism from somewhere then have the guts to do it without this rather disengenious conclusion that they are ALL bad which makes what we do 100% good. see my point? im not saying you shouldnt have the opinions, but dont fool yourself about the nature of the enemy in order to remove the 'gray area' morally in such decisions.
our enemy hides in a populace. this muslim populace is kept in check by strict religious laws, propaganda, and the threat or actual use of violence. the populace is both their shield and the farm for for more jihadi meat. this is the quandry we are in, because the bad is among the rest of them and we cant tell. this is why its a hard decision.
Americans got the picture right away. Europeans are slow.
bttt
MODERATE ISLAM IS RADICAL ISLAMS TROJAN HORSR
The paragraph above is a great description of the most notable symptoms of the problem.