Posted on 01/22/2005 10:32:19 AM PST by knighthawk
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A large majority of Dutch people are afraid of Muslims, according to a poll taken after the murder of a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam.
The poll, conducted by TNS NIPO in The Netherlands, as well as in Spain and Italy, since the November murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a suspected radical Islamist, showed only 19 percent of Dutch people do not see the presence of Muslims in the country as a threat.
Home to almost 1 million Muslims or 6 percent of the population, The Netherlands' reputation for tolerance and social harmony has been shattered by the murder and a wave of attacks on mosques and churches and death threats against politicians.
Racial tensions surfaced again this week after a Dutch woman killed a youth with Moroccan roots after he stole her bag.
Highlights of the poll, to be launched formally on Monday, were published by De Volkskrant daily on Saturday.
The newspaper said the results were surprising given that Spain and Italy were much more frequently confronted with illegal immigration of Muslims from North Africa than the Dutch.
The survey showed 67 percent of Dutch people had no contact with Muslims and 65 percent hardly know anything about Islam in spite of broad coverage in the media.
Those who see Muslims as a threat say they are afraid they will eventually have to live under Islamic religious rules. Those living outside big cities, women and the well educated were more likely to have negative views, the newspaper said.
Half the Dutch polled said they would move house if their neighbourhood became more dominated by immigrants and the same proportion said they were afraid women would no longer be able to move about freely in public because of Muslims.
I visit friends in Amsterdam every year for the last 8 years or so . I've seen it change little by little. The past few years has seen the real first purse snatchings there , young Moslem gangs. Even my very liberal friends there the past few years have been expressing concern and worry . Another friend who lives in Southern Holland teaches school .The normal well behaved Dutch classroom has been disrubted by arrogant Moslem brats in recent years . I think they are waking up , although slowly.
There is a thread on FR about this. IIRC, the woman backed her car into him crushing him on a tree.
Well, yeah the article intimated as much but besides "waking up" what do the Dutch plan to do about it?
The same question should be asked of the US.
very interesting tidbit.
Here in Norway it is always harped on an on about how it only the dumb uneducated louts who are islamosceptics.
Well looks like someone in "old Europe" is finally starting to get it.
They have been building a deportation center at the airport and Rotterdam as well . Not sure just how many people they have shipped out but i have a feeling that will increase now. My friends there tell me Moslems there hate the Dutch and everything about them . They simply USE them and their beautiful country .They have totally hijacked Belgium these days .Belguim is a MOSLEM country , I was amazed when I visited last year .
One down, about a billion to go
..."...Those who see Muslims as a threat say they are afraid they will eventually have to live under Islamic religious rules...."
That's a reasonable assumption since total world rule is the goal of Islam and of all Muslims.
Holland is screwed ............
There is absolutely no reason to declair an entire religion you enemy. You are SUPPOSED to be better than that.
Espically since it is only logical that a large majority of muslims either A) Alrady subscribe to a 'peaceful' view of Islam similar to other relgions or B) would rather 'reform' that way then go into global relgious jihad mode.
I know its difficult at times, and some may think its 'pandering' or whatever but what you think is irrelevant. If it creates the atmosphere that encourages more productive behavior, and all it does is "annoy" you a bit... why would you deny the President or the Country it, where is YOUR sacrifice?
Read the Qu'ran, and your questions will be answered.
It's not that each individual Muslim is evil. It's that Islam ITSELF is intrinsicly evil, and that someone cannot be a strict, orthodox Muslim without putting his life in alignment with evil.
There are people who think themselves Muslim who are good and kind people. There are lots of evil people who think themselves Christian, too. In both cases, they are what they are IN SPITE of their religion, not because of it.
"Most Dutch see Muslims as a threat"
Most Dutch are right.
Just one word of advice to the Dutch folk....LOCK AND LOAD!!
About 90% of the members of FreeRepublic view all Muslims as hopelessly violent, incorrigible fanatics and the 'evil spawn of Satan.' Others support GWB's straight foward and forgiving Christian view of Islam. Freepers who post opinions which are identical to President Bush's are risking pile-on-flame-attacks. I choose to take the higher ground and adopt the Christian view (i.e. see my tag line).'Nuff said.
There are people who say they are Christian who deny the Divinity of Jesus. Calling a cat a dog doesn't make it a dog.
Someone who rejects jihad, who rejects the idea of the expansion of Islam by force, rejects a central pillar of Islam. If they reject the parts of Islam that call for violence against "infidels", then let them say so publicly, and start calling themselves something that separates them from the Islamists. Because we ARE at war with the Islamists
Ragheads = Threat?
That's like saying most sane people see water as wet.
If anyone has a Dutch ping list, I'd like to be on it.
The native birthrate is in the negative, to put it mildy, they are screwed.
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