Betrayal of the 'Brown Memsahib'(Shame on the Dutch For Betraying a Heroine)

The Times (UK) ^ | May 17, 2006 | Magnus Linklater

[EBH]

This is a sad day in the history of liberal democracy, a stain on the reputation of a once-tolerant country and a setback for the reputation of Islam itself, cementing the impression that is simply not open to criticism.

This statement tells me they have already fallen. The wording about democracy is in the past tense and the wording regarding islam is in the present tense. The setback is not too islam, but to democracy, at least if democracy still existed there. The author whether intentionaly or not is telling us the country is the Islamic Republic of the Neatherlands.

[DB]

BTW, I expect large numbers of Europeans running from their own Utopian creation too. It will be interesting to see what we do about it. I'll be surprised if the world as we've know it for so long is even recognizable in the next 10 to 20 years.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Because every year, liberal indoctrination of children in California continues.

For every liberal that moves to Seattle, there is an army of new ones arriving in California and being raised there.

California is like a agressive cancer. It infects everything around it as well.

[angkor]

I heard something about her working at AEI, so it sounds like a done deal.

Yes, that's true. But I hope she gets a *refugee* visa, and not some other immigration status, as a slap in the face of the Dutch government.

Not only can they not protect her, they are actively trying to silence and harrass her.

Do you see what Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh meant? "Dutch tolerance" = "silence".

[angkor]

Ambassador Boudewijn van Eenennaam
Minister Wim Geerts
Coordinator Management & General Affairs USA Wim Henskens Political Counselor Caspar Veldkamp Minister René van Hell Counselor Simon van der Burg Counselor Jeanne Wikler

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Honorable Ambassador, Counselors, and Minister of the Netherlands:

It is with great distress and disappointment that I've read of the domestic problems lately endured by your Parlimentarian Ms. Hirsi Ali.

There is no need to recount Ms. Ali's history, her political positions, or her current difficulties. You, and we - the free world - know what those are.

What is most disappointing is that Ms. Ali cannot find refuge and safety in what many consider to be the world's most tolerant culture: that of the Netherlands. Her current detractors in your Parliament and in (for example) your Immigration Ministry are making clear what the cost of Dutch "tolerance" actually is: silence.

It is probably best that Ms. Ali be silenced in a land where her voice is unprotected by the Dutch government and is bound to see her killed by religious fanatics. We are happy to have Ms. Ali join us in America, where she will be able to speak and write freely and without fear for her safety. The Netherlands will be free to return to the illusion of "tolerance" and "multiculturalism."

I think it appropriate that the U.S. government grant Ms. Ali refugee status from a Dutch government which cannot or will not protect her freedoms from the cult of murderers and maniacs which now inhabit your country.

My wife and I have airline tickets purchased some time ago, to visit Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum this summer, as well as several other European countries.

But your government's treatment of Ms. Hirsi Ali is repellent to our views of freedom and liberty, and indeed a shocking refutation of Dutch tolerance. For that reason, we will be cancelling our tickets to the Netherlands, and we do not expect to include your country in any travel plans for the forseeable future.

Respectfully,

[pierrem15]

They will be the first european country to fall to Islamic law.

I don't think so: a St. Bartholomew's Day massacre is more likely.

[Tannerone]

Sounds as if those Dutch reporters were hatched from the same egg as US reporters.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I like it.

The euro elitists are always trying to lecture the US on human rights and racism claiming they are soo superior and progressive compared to us to further their anti-american agenda.

I've been to europe and lived there on business.
America doesn't even come close to the level of racism in these european countries.
Europe always talks a good game, but when push comes to shove, they are full of crap.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

You think the Catholics of the Netherlands are going to stop the muslim takeover?

I don't have much faith in that scenerio considering how secular western europe has become. How many church going Catholics and christians do you think live in these countries anymore?

The leaders of western europe, including now Italy, are filled with communists, socialists, and don't go to church. THey are self-loathing liberals who actually crave the muslim takeover and are helping it along.

[ccmay]

THey are self-loathing liberals who actually crave the muslim takeover and are helping it along.

Leftists are by and large jackboot-lickers and worshipers of government power over the individual. The dictatorship of the proleatariat and all that.

I can't wait till they declare the Revolution has begun. There are a lot of scores that will be settled.

-ccm