[Proud_USA_Republican]

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

[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.

[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.