"Laetitia Griffith, an MP for the VVD liberals, said the justice minister was exploiting Mr van Gogh's murder to impose his bible-belt values on the country. "
There's a bible-belt in Holland?
I asked the same question on a previous thread. Apparently it's just the large population centers like Amsterdam that are liberal, not the countryside. In otherwords it's a blue country with lots of smaller red counties to borrow our election terminology.
There are very small pockets of Catholic and Calvinist resistance in more rural areas like Limburg.
In fact, I once knew a banking trainee from Holland named Joop who would say grace at lunch every day.
Some areas of the countryside are religion. That big software company, Baan N.V. was very religious: you couldn't travel on Sunday if you worked for them (and if you did, you would absolutely not get reimbursed). Meetings began with a prayer, and management referred to each other by their pew number.
Baan NV also lost a ton of money, and was bought by a British company, which then sold it a few months ago to a private American company in Chicago called SSA Global Technologies, which has bought a bunch of software companies. But I digress.
It's for thoses shoes and hats that have buckles.
It's kinda small. :D