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November 19, 2004
Right wing liberal bleeding hearts . . .
Here's a news item which didn't seem to make it to prime time: two of the suspects arrested in Holland's recent anti-terrorist sweep were Dutch Americans: THE NETHERLANDS: REPORT SAYS 2 TERROR SUSPECTS ARE DUTCH-AMERICANS Two brothers arrested in antiterrorism raids on Wednesday are Dutch-American converts to Islam, NOS television reported. Five other people were arrested in the raids in a continuing investigation into a network that appears to be linked to Islamic extremists in Morocco and Spain. It is not yet clear whether they are connected to six suspects in custody for the murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh on Nov. 2. Craig S. SmithI found more (fortunately written in English) at this excellent Dutch blog (entire post follows, with links): Terrorism is all about family valuesWhy apparent involvement by Americans in international terrorism isn't worth press coverage over here, I'm not sure. The only reason I stumbled across this was because I was fascinated by the dyed blonde "liberal right winger" in today's Internet news, and I googled the guy. It's hard to ascertain his politics (is he a Dutch Zell Miller?), but what if he's more along the lines of a pissed off libertarian than the Nazi he's being made out to be? Will we ever be told? Go figure. Anyway, here's the Drudge-linked story on Geert Wilders: Wilders split with the free-market coalition partner Liberal Party two months ago because it backed the candidacy of predominantly Muslim Turkey for the European Union.Is Wilders a right wing racist bigot? He says he's not against Islam, just Islamic jihad in the Netherlands: .....Wilders said closing the borders isn't enough. Newcomers should be forced to integrate.Wilders, by the way, is one of the politicians threatened by the Van Gogh assassin, and the target of an Internet video calling for his beheading -- for which the beheaders are promised the usual 72 virgins. Why does it always have to be about sex? Anyway, the religious views upsetting Wilders include throwing homosexuals off buildings, mutilating the genitals of young girls, and a rule that women who lie deserve 100 blows. Lovely. (Hardly what Dr. Laura would call tough love....) As I said before, freedom of religion is one thing. But cutting out bleeding hearts is another. So cut it out! Unless you think opposing such butchery is right wing. MORE: Once again, here's Bat Ye'or, author of Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide: The war against a global jihadist terrorism can be won only if the civilized world is united against barbarity. Until now European democracies supported Arafat, the initiator of jihadist terrorism, hostage-taking and Islamikazes. The war will be won if we name it, if we face it, if we recognize that it obeys specific rules of Islamic war that are not ours; and if democracies and Muslim modernists stop justifying these acts against other countries. The policy of collusion and support for terrorists in order to gain self-protection is a delusion.Interesting to see the Netherlands, perhaps the most advanced of all countries in terms of libertarian-style tolerance, having to learn this painful lesson firsthand. Must we reinvent the wheel? MORE: Here's an unsettling piece on Dutch anti-Semitism -- old and new. Just who's calling who fascist, anyway? posted by Eric on 11.19.04 at 08:00 PM
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I dont know that we can actually call these kids Americans. I had a girlfriend long ago who was also the daughter of an American soldier and ironically, a Dutch woman. They, however met and lived in South Africa where their children were born. My girlfriend later came to the US for college but never considered herself American. Nobody else did either as shed never set foot here before then. She thought of herself as South African. Mick · November 20, 2004 02:53 AM Steven, I consider you one of the prophets of Pim Fortuyn. Mick, you're right that these kids aren't "real" Americans.... But aren't they just as entitled to real U.S. passports? Eric Scheie · November 20, 2004 09:05 AM Dear Eric: Thank you! Steven Malcolm Anderson (Cato theElder) the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · November 20, 2004 03:23 PM |
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