Posted on 02/24/2008 9:47:22 AM PST by Signalman
WHEN tolerance becomes a term of abuse in a place such as The Netherlands, you know something has gone seriously wrong. The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth. In less feverish times no one could possibly have taken exception to Queen Beatrix's speech last Christmas when she pleaded for tolerance and respect for minorities.
But Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing, anti-Muslim Freedom Party, was so disgusted by the Dutch queen's "multicultural rubbish" that he wanted her to be stripped of her constitutional role in the government.
Wilders, a popular rabble-rouser whose party occupies nine seats in the Dutch parliament, compares the Koran with Hitler's Mein Kampf, wants to stop Muslims from moving to The Netherlands and thunders that those who are already in the country should tear up half the Koran if they wish to stay.
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I tend to agree with Mr. Wilders.
It’s ok to yell fire in the theater if there is one
It took this twit EIGHTEEN PARAGRAPHS to finally concede that the Muslim threat is real. Followed immediately, of course, by a mealy-mouthed retreat from the idea of doing anything whatsoever about it.
Function of the welfare state.
I HIGHLY recommend Mr. Buruma’s book (amazon link below).
And I warn folks it does contain some graphic language (all in reasonable
context). Describing the decay of a nice place like The Netherlands
isn’t a pretty thing.
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence
by Ian Buruma
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Amsterdam-Liberal-Europe-Tolerence/dp/0143112368/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203875724&sr=1-1
ping
Fear?? What he is talking about?! When I see mobs of islamists running amok, burning cars and shops, calling for extermination of “infidelsâ€, establishing of the sharia law and, sometimes, slashing a throat of some unlucky fella here and there, my first thought - we have nothing to fear. /sarc
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