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Fortuyn voted greatest Dutchman
BBC News Online ^
| November 16 2004
Posted on 11/16/2004 11:30:30 AM PST by knighthawk
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The top 10:
1 - Pim Fortuyn - politician 2 - William of Orange - royalty 3 - William Drees - politician 4 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek - scientist 5 - Erasmus - humanist 6 - Johan Cruyff - footballer 7 - Michael de Ruyter - admiral 8 - Anne Frank - diarist 9 - Rembrandt van Rijn - artist 10 - Vincent van Gogh - artist
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:31:13 AM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: knighthawk
The flamboyant and openly gay Mr Fortuyn also criticised Muslim attitudes to women and homosexuals.
There will be a war in the Netherlands. And the Dutch will lose. Sad.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:32:19 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(Santorum in '08)
To: knighthawk
So will there be a headline asking how so many Dutch can be so stupid?
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:33:01 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
To: knighthawk
Fortuyn outranks William of Orange?!
This proves that they are *very* mad over there, I think.
We just had Dutch visitors who were touring America for four weeks return home to Venlo just two days ago. They were riveted to the news about the murder and burnings of mosques, and were wondering what they were going home to.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:35:07 AM PST
by
The KG9 Kid
(Semper Fi!)
To: knighthawk
---as bad as those who rank Kennedy as a "great" president---
To: knighthawk
Kammerlingh Onnes
Spinoza
Adrian Willaert
Christiaan Huygens
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:36:37 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: knighthawk
No votes for Corrie Ten Boom?!? Sad.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:37:46 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: The KG9 Kid
What was their opinion as to what they were seeing on tv?
To: knighthawk
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:40:42 AM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:42:19 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: knighthawk
Fortyn died before his time, and he was the first Dutch politician to say what most Dutch were really thinking about all the Muslim immigrants. The issue resonated deeply with Dutch voters then, and now it's now it's even stronger.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:42:21 AM PST
by
xJones
To: knighthawk
Did Mr. Fortuyn's murderer have any Muslim ties that you know of?
Also,are ties between animal rights groups and Islamists noticeable in your Country?
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:43:58 AM PST
by
Free Trapper
(Terrorism is the Black Heart of Islam,not the fringe!)
To: knighthawk
Yea Dutch!
Good choice.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:46:55 AM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
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To: knighthawk
The Dutch are almost as bad at their own history as we are at ours! Pim Fortuyn shouldn't even make the top 50! And Johan Cruyff?
Where is William the Silent and his son, Maurice of Nassau? Where is Martin Tromp?
At least they remembered de Ruyter and William of Orange!
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:56:07 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: Antoninus
There will be a war in the Netherlands. And the Dutch will lose. Sad. If Fortuyn was the best they have to offer, it's understandable.
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posted on
11/16/2004 11:57:10 AM PST
by
nosofar
To: nosofar
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posted on
11/16/2004 12:08:40 PM PST
by
batmast
To: Free Trapper
No, but his anti-islamic views were regarded as racist by the left. They linked him to Hitler, Mussolini and so on and that of course made it easier to pull the trigger for his killer.
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posted on
11/16/2004 12:09:21 PM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: Free Trapper
On the 2nd question I cannot really give ans answer because both groups operate mainly on theirselves.
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posted on
11/16/2004 12:10:08 PM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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