Anti-Muslim backlash grows in Netherlands

Mail and Guardian on-line ^ | 13 November 2004 | SA

[kcar]

This is maybe a 0.5 on a ten-scale of recent racist attacks on schools, with Beslan at the top.

[Rightfootforward]

"We never used to have problems here. Now everything is destroyed,"

Excuse me but isn't this coming from the people who embrace euthanasia for children, the infirm, and the elderly? Perhaps they ought to start looking in their own closets for a change.

[tessalu]

The Dutch have sown to the wind, and now they must reap the whirlwind. The Dutch have left God, and they made a mistake when they thought that they could dwell in peace with the Muslim savages. It just is not going to happen.

[dougherty]

That's why I don't understant why they are letting so many Turkish immigrants into their country. It's as if they have become so liberal they want to prove it by allowing in a bunch of foreigners that will never fit in. Hopefully, those with a bit of sanity will demand an end to this invasion.

[MEG33]

I agree..

[GSlob]

Well, every thing (good, bad, or indifferent - the only known exceptions are meanness and stupidity) has its boundaries. Toleration, too, has (or must have) its limits. The easiest limit would be that toleration is to be extended only to those subscribing (without reservations) to toleration credo.
Along this line of reasoning Islam, since it does not support, and is antithetical to the First Amendment - does not deserve, and should not be given its protection.

[RedMonqey]

"Their 'tolerance' will be the death of Europe. Idiots."

And government fianced abortion.


More Mohammeds that Jans.

What's the term for "National Suicide"?

[twas]

How long will it be before the EU and world leaders begin condemning the Dutch for fighting for their right to exist as a "distinct society"?

The anti-racists must be working overtime to formulate a carefully crafted response that will say, 'the Dutch have the right to have Dutch culture' but that 'immigrants must be allowed to infiltrate, dismantle, and re-build their "host" nations in their own image because anything which prevents this nation-changing process is racist.'

I believe the "anti-racists" have a growing reality problem.

However, our problem is that they are working within the heart of these governments and their goal is not the recognition of "distinct cultures" but the eventual merging and melting of all cultures, religions, and races thereby ending any pretext for aggression and war (that being the working theory and goal of the one-world, multi-culturalists).

[stevem]

I know zip about Theo Van Gogh, other than is recent passage into the fertilizer business. What's a Muslim baiter?

[RightWhale]

"We're not going to accept this. Things will get worse," said Suleiman Sinan

Bad response. Better to cut it off now.

[ken5050]

"..It's better to have 10 possibly innocent people temporarily in jail than one with a bomb out in the street..."

OK folks..imagine if John Ashcroft had said this..

[Cutterjohnmhb]

A tolerant peoples, even the Dutch can take only so much, the racism has been prevalent in Holland for years..with Muslims harassing old people from their neighborhoods, spitting at church goers, yelling at women who don't dress or act like the slaves they call women, segregating themselves from the Dutch, it's no wonder that reprisals are happening now after the citizens of that country were doing all they can to welcome the Muslims and are repaid with hate and disrespect. It's sad to see , but the time has come.....

[sgtbono2002]

The Netherlands is just the first of many European states that are becoming awakened to the Islamic threat.

Islamics do not come to your country to join in your culture, they come to change your culture to theirs and the ones who are now living amongst you so quietly will arise when their numbers are great enough. There is but one answer , confine them to their own countries, keep them out of yours.

Does this sound politically Incorrect? Yes: but its your best chance for survival.

[MonaMars]

"Kneeling in the sodden, charred remains of the primary school, Hari Boukameans took a Stanley knife to a melted computer. He twisted and he gouged -- trying to recover the hard drive"

Such a shame. Guess he'll have to cancel that 'name the ten essential beheading implements every good muslim should own' pop quiz he had planned for Monday.

[MEG33]

I can't imagine..Resignation and multiple hearings called for..ACLU up in arms..World condemnation..UN resolutions;Multiple editorials condemning..Psychological profile of the man gone beserk on 60 minutes.

[Restorer]

This is what happens when there is such political correctness that people don't have the right to express themselves. The boiling that happens below the surface suddenly explodes into violence.

Very profound.

Not that the violence is justified, but those (like the Guardian) who have crushed free expression carry a great deal of the responsibility when it finally breaks out.

Not that any of the PC-people will accept any such responsibility.

[hinckley buzzard]

"It's better to have 10 possibly innocent people temporarily in jail than one with a bomb in the street," said Maxime Verhagen of the governing Christian Democrats.

Some time ago I advanced the proposition that, given a problem, Euro's will opt for security at the expense of liberty. Historically, America has done the opposite, which accounts for some of the implicit differences and conflicts between us.

This statement illustrates the idea perfectly. Compare this with the American focus on civil liberty and the argument about the Patriot Act, for example.

In the US we usually endorse the idea that "it is better for ten guilty men to go free rather than one innocent man to be unjustly deprived of his rights." Even post 9/11 we lean this way. It is what makes America great, and possibly unique.

[snarks_when_bored]

What's a Muslim baiter?

A non-muslim.

[tuffydoodle]

The opposite of master baiter.

[Grateful One]

The straw maybe be finally breaking the camel's back. Let's hope so.