Living with Islam: The new Dutch model? Beseiged Netherlands Turns Hard Right

The Economist ^ | Mar 31, 2005 | Staff

[lancer]

We ought to thank Muslims for showing it up so badly.

Save your thanks for when they take over here...

[neutrino]

Umm? I merely agreed with you. (Evil grin).

As for denying anyone's humanity (please note the small h, as contrasted with your choice of a capital letter), I deny and repudiate my own first.

I'd rather be a particle any day.

[Mongeaux]

A particle eh? I thought you had a "quarky" way of expressing yourself...

:)

[sheik yerbouty]

They should be no free ride. it should be "No soup for you!"

[lainde]

bttt

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

That statement has an unfortunately "Leni Riefenstahl-ish" quality to it, so I can't agree. Muslims are people, not animals to be exterminated.

Leni Riefenstahl didn't produce the anti-jewish propaganda. She made the larger-than-life type movies Olympia about the 1936 Olympics and Triumph of the Will about the 1934 Nazi Party rally.

The one you are thinking of with the rats going down the drain is The Eternal Jew (Der Ewige-Jude) by Fritz Hippler and Eberhart Taubert under the personal direction of propaganda minister Josef Goebbles.



"In the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, they spread from Eastern Europe like an irresistable tide, flooding the towns and nations of Europe - in fact, the entire world. Wherever rats appear they bring ruin, by destroying mankind's goods and foodstuffs. In this way, they (the rats) spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. They are cunning, cowardly, and cruel, and are found mostly in large packs. Among the animals, they represent the rudiment of an insidious and underground destruction - just like the Jews among human beings."

[IndyMac]

" The United States has a number of unassimilated religious minorities - the Amish, the Mennonites, the Quakers "

How are these communities "unassimilated" in any significant sense that is similar to fundamentalist Muslims?

[Mongeaux]

That statement has an unfortunately "Leni Riefenstahl-ish" quality to it, so I can't agree. Muslims are people, not animals to be exterminated.
Leni Riefenstahl didn't produce the anti-jewish propaganda. She made the larger-than-life type movies Olympia about the 1936 Olympics and Triumph of the Will about the 1934 Nazi Party rally.

Thank you for pointing that out. I'm sure you're correct - the Nazi "rat" film was what I was alluding to. I will remember it in the future.

[free_european]

Holland has its immigration problems which are especially severe in a pocket of urban centers. But all this talk of a muslim majority in the EU is a bit hard to believe. For instance. Currently 9% of the Dutch population is non-European (with a large share of that being immigrants from Suriname) while in Germany 2.4% of the population is of non-European origin (mostly Turks). Finally in the UK, just 2.8 % are non-European (with most of these being West Indians, hindus and sikhs). A note of realism is required people, please!

[Capt. Tom]

Not working? But I thought they only came to do the jobs the Dutch didn't want to do?

No they came to do the work Allah wants done. And the dumb, naive politically correct infidel is going to fund it, via welfare. - Tom