Posted on 09/12/2006 2:30:49 PM PDT by knighthawk
THE HAGUE, 13/09/06 - Muslim leader Hikmat Mahawat Khan lashed out fiercely yesterday at the government. Instead of defending Dutch values, it fosters Islamic behaviour that does not belong in the Netherlands. "It is simply unacceptable," he stated in newspaper Trouw.
Khan is "fed up with pointless chit chat, tea sessions, rank-and-file-politics and all kinds of meetings. Hereby I am also referring to events by some immigrant organisation or other, where the local alderman for Integration holds a little speech and draws applause, before hurrying on to another, equally pointless meeting. The Netherlands is on fire and we still think we can continue in the same vein as twenty years ago".
Until recently, Khan was chairman of the Contact Group Islam (CGI). This umbrella organisation of moderate Muslims came into being beside the Contact Body of Muslims and the Government (CMO), a larger umbrella that however represents only Sunnite Muslims. CMO and CGI were intended to merge into a single government dialogue partner. When this failed, the government gave priority to the orthodox CMO, according to Khan.
In the view of Khan, who has since resigned as CGI chairman, the government attempts to boost integration through meetings with Imams and thus strengthens the position of these Muslim leaders, added Khan. "The Imams and the government both want to avoid rocking the boat so they make socially desirable statements instead. They know precisely what the government does and does not wish to hear. They avoid broaching thorny issues. The government does not wish to bring them up either, because that would mean having to solve these problems".
Khan feels the government should demonstrate more clearly that certain matters are unacceptable in the Netherlands. "We should take a look at America. (...) They are harsher and clearer over there. You may rage inside the mosque but not outside. You are free to isolate yourself if you wish, but you will have to reap what you sow."
"If you isolate yourself in the Netherlands, the community is saddled with the financial consequences. You demand the right to apply for a job wearing a burqa and when you fail to get a job you feel you're entitled to an allowance. (...) An Amsterdammer must have the guarantee that Amsterdam will always be Amsterdam, a city (...) where Dutch principles prevail."
"When the Queen did not shake hands with men in the Moubarek Mosque in The Hague, Prime Minister Balkenende said that was fine. Nonsense of course, people shake hands in the Netherlands; that is the custom here. Balkenende is causing a great deal of damage by saying this. The same applies to the cuddling talk of Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen. It is counterproductive."
Khan also criticises the double nationality held by most immigrants in the Netherlands. "Double nationality has a disastrous effect. Especially when MPs and other politicians also have them. It is simply unacceptable".
Khan's conclusion is unambiguous: "Do away with palliative measures. Positive discrimination does more harm than good. It may yield a single immigrant a job but it creates huge annoyance among the indigenous Dutch population".
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Holy crap! Am I reading this right?
A muslim who 'gets it' better than anyone in the Dutch (or American) government does?
I must have read it wrong..
Can we get the rest of the Muslims a drink of what he is drinking?
This guy better watch his back, though.
strangely enough there is a Dutch minister, a member of their government, that wants Sharia to be the law of the land If he can find enough lemmings to put it in place.
This man is marked for death for sure....
This sounds like the French model of active government interference with religion. I wonder if such interference thus actually promotes Islamic extremism rather than the reverse, which might allow more moderate strands of the Islamic religion to come to the fore.
I don't recall doing any drugs today.
Incredible!!! How bad things have gotten!
A muslim does a better job of defending Dutch values than the Dutch themselves!
Please tell me we're not going to follow in their footsteps.
I found the original article. It's in this hilarious German dialect they call Dutch. And guess what...the guy's an engineer. No wonder he's a decent person :D
http://www.trouw.nl/deverdieping/religie_filosofie/article478443.ece/Integratie_Dit_land_staat_in_brand_en_we_doen_of_er__niks_loos_is
We're not going to follow in their footsteps.
Because we actually have values, the Dutch don't defend their values because they have none. That's the price of "moral relativism", if all moral systems are equal then why bother defending one set of values over another?
There seems to be a lot of this lately.
It's a good thing. The longer we attempt to positively engage Muslims and promote democracy in the Middle East the braver these guys will get.
"The longer we attempt to positively engage Muslims and promote democracy in the Middle East the braver these guys will get."
One can only hope.
Maybe you are. Look for what he says in arabic. It might be a different thing.
Holy crap! Am I reading this right?
Must be the way the stars are aligned today: two posts like this PLUS the Pope speaks plainly about Islam in Germany a day or so ago. Amazing. How did any of this EVER see the light of day with the MSM in charge?
"Look for what he says in arabic. It might be a different thing."
Possibly.
But from the statements I read in the article, I don't think he's 'kidding' around.
But, you never know.
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