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Originally Posted by erikvv
It's been all over the Dutch news. Geert Wilders, whose anti-islamic 'freedom party' has 9 of 150 seats in the parliament, is going to publish his short movie on the Koran next week - if he can find a channel that is willing to broadcast it.
On the homefront it's probably going to be ok. Wilders is safe and won't be following in the footsteps of Theo van Gogh, who got shot for making a movie with MP Ayaan Hirschi Ali, who - in an amazing display of Dutch tolerance - was forced to leave the parliament and she left for the USA. The local authorities are well prepared too, and mainstream muslim leaders are calling for dialogue.
The question is, what is going to happen in the Middle East? Another Danish Cartoon crisis? We hear it's mainly going to depend on the situation on the ground there. Is the youth bored enough to go into the streets?
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As far as the Netherlands (all of Europe really) are concerned, y'all deserve your Muslim crisis.
You got tollerance confused with inclusiveness and stuck decades worth of immigrants into virtual ghettos, allowing them into your country because of the benefit they would provide to your economy but turning up your nose where true equality is concerned.
Typical post-colonial arrogance.
You also failed, for decades, to impose Dutch (European really) standards of civil rights and the universal rule of law. No nation can long endure a subculture that scoffs the very standards which hold a nation together.
Gedoogcultuur collided with fundamentalist Islam. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost - in Europe just like in America (although for different reasons and in different ways).
As far as Theo Van Gogh is concerned, the man was a degenerate scumbag. He took advantage of a society where caustic insults and base irreverence simply for irreverence sake are prized as hallmarks of enlightenment and freedom. Van Gogh took advantage of this environment of permissiveness to an extreme and built a career on his ability to be more crass, more insulting, more polemic, and more contemptuous of common human decency and consideration than the next guy. And he did it quite successfully until he ran head-long into the subculture that y'all allowed which wasn't as forgiving of insult and derision as his own.
Ayaan Hirschi Magan (Ali) was asked to leave the Netherlands because she was only there in the first place because of false and illegal claims to political assylum. She should have been charged with a crime and sent back to Somolia. America doesn't need her any more than the Netherlands. On top of all that she wasn't any good at what she was trying to do anyway. She was just as fundamentalist and just as intollerant as the most militant Imam. She just wore her intollerance shoe on the other foot. She probably alienated more young Muslim girls than she got through to.