Posted on 02/27/2005 8:20:01 PM PST by Sthitch
AMSTERDAM - Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to emigrate and his client list had surged.
But he was still taken aback in November when a Dutch filmmaker was shot and his throat was slit, execution style, on an Amsterdam street.
In the weeks that followed, Mr. Hiltemann was inundated by e-mail messages and telephone calls. "There was a big panic," he said, "a flood of people saying they wanted to leave the country."
Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous social benefits and ample salaries, a place of fine schools, museums, sports grounds and bicycle paths, all set in a lively democracy?
The answer, increasingly, is yes. This small nation is a magnet for immigrants, but statistics suggest there is a quickening flight of the white middle class. Dutch people pulling up roots said they felt a general pessimism about their small and crowded country and about the social tensions that had grown along with the waves of newcomers, most of them Muslims."The Dutch are living in a kind of pressure cooker atmosphere," Mr. Hiltemann said.
There is more than the concern about the rising complications of absorbing newcomers, now one-tenth of the population, many of them from largely Muslim countries. ...
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I searched the site to make sure that this article was not posted, and I was shocked what the word "Dutch" returns. One example is that they are removing their flag from class rooms because it offends Muslims. What is next, changing the name of their country to appease the immigrants? To think these are the same people that fought so gallantly against the Nazi’s. Pathetic!
Great article written by Matthias Döpfner, Chief Executive of German publisher Axel Springer AG. Link
Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo and we Europeans debated and debated until the Americans came in and did our work for us. Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians. Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore 300,000 victims of Saddam’s torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, to issue bad grades to George Bush. A particularly grotesque form of appeasement is reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere by suggesting that we should really have a Muslim holiday in Germany.
My experience is that the Dutch aren't p*ssies.
They'll get the situation uder control if any of the Euro-sheep can.
Where do you think? Here!
Do we really want to let the "enlightened" Dutch into this country so they can swell the ranks of the liberal Democratic Party, and preach how great multiculturalism is?
If the Dutch can screw up their own country do we want them here to screw up our country?
We won't get the kool-aid drinkers.
There are lots of Dutch I know that don't give a rat's a$$ about Euro-PC. Those'll be the ones who emigrate.
Let them run to France. Socialist is as socialist does. They are going to reap the penalty for the pc policies of a socialist government that sacrifices its own people for the sake of diversity.
Fundamentalist/radical Muslims are like Communists of a generation ago. They abuse the freedoms afforded by an open, democratic society to perpetuate evil. The Netherlands, which is a particularly open society, is learning this lesson early, but we need to realize that our society is also vulnerable to these same problems, albeit perhaps in 15 or 20 years.
To the same place everybody runs to, the good ole US of A.
If you consider Kosovo a show of US diplomatic triumph, you are really stupid. What genocide? The US should have kept their noses out of that mess and let the Serbs finish them off.
The USA and Australia......
Appeasement to Islamic demands in one's own country represents a slow progression towards dhimmitude (sp?), i.e., second-class citizenship for non-Muslims. It is already happening; PC speech codes preclude people from telling the truth about Islam, and when the truth can't be told, freedom shrivels up and goes away. Liberals are so arrogant, so anti-Christian, and so careless about freedom, they can't see what is happening.
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