Sunday, January 09, 2005

"when old lefties cry out for law and order..."

"...you know something has shifted in the political climate; it is now a common perception that the integration of Muslims in Holland has failed."
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"Geert Wilders...(has an) extraordinary hairdo, a kind of lacquered blond bouffant, draped around a pink baby face... A former deputy and speechwriter...he left the Liberal Party in September, 2004...(His) efforts to organize a new party are somewhat hampered by the fact that he needs twenty-four-hour protection and has to stay in safe houses.

I saw him in his well-guarded office at Parliament, in The Hague. Wilders is a man obsessed with one idea: Holland’s failure to confront the Islamist threat."

"Then (Scheerder) mentioned a news segment about Theo van Gogh on Moroccan TV, and an interview it had featured with a Moroccan immigrant in Amsterdam. I asked Scheerder what the man had said. He thought for a moment and spoke softly: “He said that his death was just, and that he was punished by God.”"


The New Yorker sent a writer to Holland to report on the aftermath of the Islamist murder of film maker Theo van Gogh. Click here: The New Yorker: Fact or http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050103fa_fact1

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