[clee1]

Oh yeah. The equine fecal excretia is about to violently collide with a rotory oscillator.

[risk]

Van Gogh's murder should wake up the whole world. It was just as much of a threat to freedom of expression as the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I put it on a level with our 9/11 because they singled out one artist. How can the world sit idly by with fascists running around killing people who merely comment on the dangers of religious intolerance?

[Cutterjohnmhb]

A problem is children and youth being taught Hate, by perverted mullahs in a supposed holy place, and then the Muslim society either to weak or passive or believers in the hate to police their own.So now Holland and the rest of the civilized world must for it's own survival.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A nation that capitulates to petty street criminals isn't going to have much success against organized terrorism. Not to worry, however. If the quality of life deterioriates too badly they can all be euthanized.

[BigCinBigD]

One way to root out the problem would be going door to door with a can of Spam a fork and a pistol.

[Earthdweller]

Suddenly we seem to have communicated with Mars. The media "gets it" now that one of their kind was unjustly taken. "WOW", they replied. "There is really something going on here!" ..........HELLLLOOOO!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

[tkathy]

"(6 percent, compared with 7 percent in France). Britain, Denmark and Sweden all have just over 3 percent. "

I have hear percentages much higher.

[backhoe]

 

Islam versus Holland- Red Cresent Rising?

[Route101]

Yes...Western Europe led by France now faces the mother of all problems...to many Muslims. The fuse has been lit. The Euroweenies are going Oh!Oh!..now what???

[raybbr]

"We must ask ourselves if we have not been naive over the past few years—ask ourselves if we have not for so long agreed to take in anybody [as immigrants]," said Dutch Justice Minister Rita Verdonk last week. "We Dutch are easy prey," says Jon Wolter Wabeke, a senior judge in Amsterdam. "We're vulnerable because we're a soft, tolerant society."

Sounds frighteningly familiar to me.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

 

                             The future of Europe?

[Peach]

Already the Dutch Parliament has voted to shut down Muslim radio stations and Web sites.

If we had done that in the US after 9/11, the UN and the rest of the world would have called us intolerant. In Holland, it's barely worth a mention by Newsweek. The hypocrisy is astoundingly obvious.

[cschroe]

antiterror forces in balaclavas

I don't know about you, but everytime I see this word my mind automatically reads its as baklavas, and I see people with pastry on their head.

[JesseHousman]

How incongruous and ironic that The Hague is where Slobodan Milosevic is on trial for waging war on muslims who encroached on Christian Yugoslav territory. Now the Dutch are coming to full realization that they are having serious problems with muslims encroaching on their turf.

How long will it take European nations to understand that the only way out of this mess is to begin deporting muslims? Further, how long will it take U.S. citinzenry and their PC government to realize that option is the best for America?

[hershey]

The Netherlands didn't force immigrant Muslims to learn Dutch, thus ensuring that they'd live in ghettos and be unable to better themselves -- a recipe for disaster. The US has at a conservative estimate, 13 million illegal Hispanics. They need to learn English if we're not planning to send them all packing. English should be made the US official language no matter what.

[hershey]

It's reported that those who can are getting out of Holland before it's too late. A French columnist was talking about this vis a vis France just a few months ago. Same problem, same results. Scared people with money leaving. He thought it would take another couple of years to happen, but it looks like he was wrong.

[Kozak]

between religious fundamentalism and secularism

Oh yeah. We all know about those Baptist Homicide bombers and the Catholic Beheaders. /sarcasm

sorry it's only ONE pseudo religion thats the problem, and CAN'T live in peace with any of it's neighbors. The Mohammedans.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

The sentence below exposes the TRUE hypocrisy of the diversity-loving, open-minded liberals of Europe. They will let you live there but they really don't want you to become a part of their society. Thom Friedman of the NYT talked about this a great deal pointing to how being in Europe turned previously moderate Muslims like 911 mastermind Atta into fundamentalist nuts due to the unwelcoming environment. Nothing excuses the Muslims but let's not forget Europeans are not what they claim to be.

By funding religious schools that isolated many migrant children from mainstream Dutch life and by not doing enough to encourage immigrants to learn Dutch, even as job prospects were diminishing, the government created ghettoes of discontent, especially among those who came from outside Europe.

[Savage Beast]

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."
~Ayn Rand~

"We cannot let ourselves be blinded by people who seek to drag us into a spiral of violence."

No. You cannot let yourselves be blinded by your own denial, i.e. your own refusal to face reality.

"We Dutch are easy prey."

Note the inferences of "victimhood" and self-congratulation.

"We're vulnerable because we're a soft, tolerant society."

No, you're vulnerable because you refuse to face reality.

Any good thing taken sufficiently to its extreme becomes a bad thing. This is the ancient Greek concept of nemesis. Tolerance is no exception.

Furthermore, being realistic about the limits of tolerance does not mean that you must abandon tolerance.

[joyhalcyon]

View Theo Van Gogh's movie here: Submission