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Posted on 11/18/2004 11:14:20 AM PST by quidnunc
Even by the grisly standards of ritual killing, it was shocking. On 2 November in Amsterdam the Dutch iconoclast and film-maker Theo van Gogh was dragged from his bicycle in broad daylight and murdered. His killer, a bearded Dutch-born Islamic radical of Moroccan descent, shot him six times and, as he pleaded for his life, slit his throat through the spinal column with a butcher’s knife, almost decapitating him. The assassin then impaled a five-page declaration of ‘holy war’ into van Gogh’s chest.
The slaughter of the film-maker — who was also a TV chat-show host, a Big Brother contestant, a newspaper columnist, and the great-great-grand-nephew of Vincent — plunged Europe’s most liberal, tolerant and multicultural society into (in the words of its Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende) ‘a maelstrom of violence’.
The government declared ‘war on extremism’, and quickly uncovered a network of Dutch Islamic radicals who were plotting to kill other leading ‘enemies of Islam’ and were linked to the terrorist attacks in Casablanca and Madrid. Two politicians were taken into police protection, one of whom was the subject of a video on the Internet offering paradise for anyone who decapitated him. Three policemen were injured when they came under grenade and gunfire attack by Islamic radicals in a 15-hour siege in The Hague. Religious violence spread. More than 20 mosques, churches, Islamic and Christian schools and Muslim community centres were attacked by arsonists and vandals. Muslims and non-Muslims now live in a country afraid of itself, and what it has become.
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It seems that non-Muslims just don't know Islam until they've tasted the pointy end of the sword. Well, the blue states anyway. Little by little I think anyone who cares to get educated is seeing what is really going on in the world - something I believe the Bush administration is aware of as well. If anyone can find "A Christian's Response to Islam" by William M. Miller it is an astonishing read - especially being that this was published in 1976!
"The terrible murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam is further proof that radical Islam is not compatible with liberal democracy"
These guys are just figuring this out?!?! Talk about having your heads in the sand. And they think we are the dim-witted, banjo-playing ones. Sheesh! I guess these people have been so politically corrected that they cannot recognize threats to their own civilization. When the uprising takes place, please do not look to my children to help defend you - No blood for Europe!
But New York is a blue state -- I'm not sure liberals will ever learn.
Good "point". I'm still scratching my head over that one...
Yep, we've covered the subject for years:
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Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). Theologian, statesman, journalist and prime minister of The Netherlands (1901-05).
one does not declare war and then uncover a network. i think the dutch had uncovered a network, but were afraid to declare war until such time that an actual attack had ocurred. the dutch are much like the clintons in this respect...
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