On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:30:43 -0500, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Notice that there is no credence given to the enemy being real.
There's a strange article in Reuters today, showing there is at least some Dutch resistance to loss of national identity. It's way over the top.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-02-24T214937Z_01_L2429371_RTRUKOC_0_US-DUTCH-ISLAM.xml&src=rss&rpc=22Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born Nebahat Albayrak as junior ministers was wrong because both could have loyalties toward countries other than the Netherlands.
In Saturday's interview, Wilders said: "I do not want to live in a country where some day six or seven members of cabinet could be Muslim," adding that Islamic laws were "barbaric", referring to four people who were beheaded in Saudi-Arabia this week.
"I want to encourage Muslims to leave the Netherlands voluntarily. The demographic development should become such, that the chance is small that we again have two Muslims in the cabinet." About 1 million Muslims live in the Netherlands out of a population of 16 million.
Last week Wilders called on Muslims to ditch half the teachings in the Koran and said he would chase Islam's Prophet Mohammad out of the country if he were alive today. The Iranian embassy called those remarks "spiteful", while the Saudi Arabian embassy held talks over the comments with Dutch foreign ministry officials.
____The strangest part of the article was the brief reference to Pim Fortuyn. It could be an E-mail signature:
Maverick politician Fortuyn broke taboos with his criticism of Muslim immigrants before he was murdered by an animal rights activist.
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