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'We have let things slip, and let extremists live under our noses'
The Telegraph ^ | nov 14 04 | Elizabeth Day

Posted on 11/14/2004 2:52:30 AM PST by Cutterjohnmhb

The streets of Rotterdam are silent apart from a whistling wind. Flickering neon signs advertising Halal butchers and falafel bars punctuate the grey facades of the tower blocks.

Splintered glass from a broken window that no one has bothered to repair is slowly trampled into the autumn leaves. In the distance, a mosque's minarets pierce the fog and drizzle.

Almost half the population of Rotterdam is of non-Dutch origin and the city is studded by grim ghettoes. Fifteen-year-old Rafih Bourdin has hunched his shoulders up against the cold. His head is wrapped in a red bandana and covered by a heavy, hooded top that almost entirely obscures his eyes.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dutch; holland; jihadinholland; netherlands; terrorism
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We have been too tolerant," says Joyce de Witt, 39, an office worker from Diemen, a town south of Amsterdam. "We need tougher immigration policies. For 20 or 30 years, we have let things slip and let extremists live under our noses.

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He says: "I get verbal abuse in the streets now from white Dutch ladies and that would never have happened before. Islam is a peaceful religion, but now we Moroccan Muslims have to work much harder for acceptance."

Of course it never happened before, they realize it isn't about multiculturalism,it's survival.

1 posted on 11/14/2004 2:52:31 AM PST by Cutterjohnmhb
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To: Cutterjohnmhb

Figures: it took the murder of a filmmaker to wake these people up.

I wonder what the libs would think if a fifth plane on 9/11 hit somewhere in Hollywood.


2 posted on 11/14/2004 2:59:10 AM PST by Terpfen (Anyone who worried about the election: crack a smile. We won.)
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To: Cutterjohnmhb; B4Ranch; Squantos; Travis McGee; stainlessbanner; Grampa Dave
Almost half the population of Rotterdam is of non-Dutch origin and the city is studded by grim ghettoes.

Oops. Right there you've got a problem.

3 posted on 11/14/2004 2:59:10 AM PST by risk
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To: risk
what problems?....isn't this the country of legal drugs, legal prostitution, and death upon request?

its a dang paradise, isn't it?

we've been lectured for years that if people can get drugs whenever they want and can go hire whores whenever they want legally, then everybody will be happy and peaceful and there will be no crime....

4 posted on 11/14/2004 3:04:48 AM PST by cherry
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To: risk

'Islam is a peaceful religion'. Now where have I heard THAT before. lol


5 posted on 11/14/2004 3:05:07 AM PST by Jazzman1
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To: cherry

Guess who works on the other side of the counter of those sleazy joints...


6 posted on 11/14/2004 3:09:09 AM PST by risk
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To: Cutterjohnmhb
'Islam is a peaceful religion'.

Yes, not that it matters that they cut heads of among other parts of the anatomy.
7 posted on 11/14/2004 3:18:25 AM PST by gakrak
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To: Cutterjohnmhb

I was in Rotterdam 20 years ago.It was a ghetti then and full of Arabs.


8 posted on 11/14/2004 3:18:56 AM PST by taca
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To: Cutterjohnmhb
'Islam is a peaceful religion'.

Yes, not that it matters that they cut heads off among other parts of the anatomy.
9 posted on 11/14/2004 3:19:18 AM PST by gakrak
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Europe better wake up to their population and political problems. Declining native birth rates made immigration attractive by increasing tax receipts to cover huge government entitilment costs.

The US has to deal with baby boomers, the EU may well deal with baby bombers.


10 posted on 11/14/2004 3:24:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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Sound familiar?

Politicitians and lawmakers encourage illegal immigration for decades..........sub-cultures are are formed within the country with separate languages etc. which disdain the majority culture.

The result?........People wake up one day and learn that half of LA speaks spanish and are illiterate.

And its too late to do anything.

11 posted on 11/14/2004 3:27:24 AM PST by Tripleplay
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This is the path to a final solution from within Islam itself. The persecution of innocent Muslim's in foreign countries is unfortunate but inevitable. It will lead them to becoming fed up with their persona non grata status and squashing terrorism within their own ranks. That is the only way that terrorism within Islam will finally be quelled.
12 posted on 11/14/2004 3:27:25 AM PST by standupfortruth
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To: gakrak

This story should be sent to every one of of legislators. Maybe they'll get the big picture.


13 posted on 11/14/2004 3:29:32 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: Cutterjohnmhb

Great article. First, it points out what happens to a country when liberalism prevails. Second, Muslims are accomplishing what they could not do one thousand years ago. They are conquering Europe. Third, it raises the question as to whether the abandoning of Christianity in favor of secularism, socialism, and liberalism will not lead to the ultimate demise of a culture. Keep an eye on old Europe. We will see what happens when the "Progressives" run a culture. It will be like watching the implosion of communism in the former USSR.


14 posted on 11/14/2004 3:31:09 AM PST by Scales (Earth First, we will mine the other planets later)
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To: Tripleplay

It's not too late -- yet.


15 posted on 11/14/2004 3:36:17 AM PST by risk
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To: Cutterjohnmhb
Crosslinked:

 
Islam versus Holland- Red Cresent Rising?

16 posted on 11/14/2004 3:36:40 AM PST by backhoe ( Islam has become the 21st century version of Nazism.)
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"Islam is a peaceful religion"

If by peaceful, they mean that they leave the christian, or jewish bodies in pieces, than yeah, islam is a pieceful religion.


17 posted on 11/14/2004 3:47:33 AM PST by NavVet (“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: Scales

they will turn each eu town they live in into a diry little arab town.


18 posted on 11/14/2004 4:01:29 AM PST by magua
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To: Cutterjohnmhb

Joyce DeWitt bump.
19 posted on 11/14/2004 4:08:32 AM PST by AndrewB
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Consider how the Europeans were so self righteous about our supposed bad treatment of Muslims after 911. Now look at their treatment of Muslims after one murder. That alone says a lot about our differences and just how hypocritical they really are.

And second, they talk about how Muslims shouldn't be judged by one event... The overwhelming majority of violence in the world today is generated my Muslims and it is hardly one event. It is daily and wide spread.

20 posted on 11/14/2004 4:12:40 AM PST by DB (©)
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