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Topic: whats going on in the Netherlands?? Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 14:22 |
can someone give me info abotu the current events in my neighboursing country? and what's the deal with that van Gogh dude?
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 14:28 |
he got stabbed and killed by an extremist of sorts, and things escalated after that, attacks on mosques and churches, and on schools and such, the dutch Anti-Terror squad also got 3 terrorists today. its going for the worse generally, but i hope everything can be fixed soon.
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 14:31 |
Theo van Gogh was a film/maker writer with a rather hars opinion about
muslims he oftencalled them 'geitenneukers' (goat f**kers). A few
months ago he made a short movie 'Submission' together with MP Ayaan
Hirsi Ali (she was born in Somalia). the movie was about the abuse of
muslim women by their husbands. It contained koran texts written on
woman body parts. This was probably the reason he was killed. He was
killed by a muslim. The muslim was injured by the asassination and now
lies in hospital. He left a letter on Van Goghs body in which he also
threatened Hirsi Ali (and IIRC also Geert Wilders, a parlimentarian
known for his anti-islamism and his haircut). The letter also made
clear he expected he wouldn't survive his attempt and become a martyr.
Since then several islamic schools, mosques and churches have been set
on fire or were vandalized in other ways. Also today 2 terrorists were
besieged in a house in The Hague, but AFAIK that has nothing to do with
the asassination on Van Gogh.
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 16:34 |
why did the churches get burned?
revenge for revenge attacks ?
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 16:37 |
Originally posted by John Doe
why did the churches get burned?
revenge for revenge attacks ?
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Yup.
And then there will be revenge for the revenge against the revenge attacks.......
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 21:43 |
Woa.. you guys have to stop it before it gets out of hand! We
don't need this kind of thing in the heart of western civilization!
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Posted: 10-Nov-2004 at 23:16 |
oh yes we do, we need a great cleansing of religions, all of them...but not yet, I am not yet ready to assume the mantle of my destiny.....
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Posted: 11-Nov-2004 at 00:51 |
It's disheartening to see how quickly civilized society can decay into the devolution of the "eye for an eye" mentality. Equally as demoralising that many otherwise good people can be so quickly led down the revenge path out of anger and frustration. Once that cycle starts, communication ends and is so very hard to re-establish.
Tobodei - I agree that the murder was a barbarous and unconscionable act - but can we condemn all religious people for the senseless violence of the few? I condemn equally those who have committed acts of violence in retaliation against an entire community, thus creating more fear and distrust.
MT - please keep us posted on the events there - mainline US news sources carry very little international news. Are there active anti-muslim groups there? Do they have much popular support? How strong is the anti-uslim and/or anti-immigrant sentiment?
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Posted: 11-Nov-2004 at 06:59 |
Are there active anti-muslim groups there? |
Numerous small factions have split off from the LPF and Leefbaar
Rotterdam (Pim Fortuyn's parties). Some of them are rightwing
extremist, most notable of them is Nieuw Rechts (New Right). I think
those parties are the main anti-muslim groups.
Do they have much popular
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Not officially. Some of these parties participated in the parliamentary
elections (in 2003) but none of them received a seat in parliament.
How strong is the anti-uslim and/or anti-immigrant sentiment? |
The "There's nothing wrong with foreigners as long as their stay in
their own countries" sentiment is quite strong I think, but most people
don't dare to say it.
Geert Wilders, an MP who split off from the Conservative Liberal VVD
and started an own faction recently polled 18 (out of 150) seats. He is
clearly anti-muslim, though not in a racist way.
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Posted: 11-Nov-2004 at 13:36 |
bah, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear something like that from France, but not the netherlands. how big is the percentage of Muslims in the Dutch population? and what is the natinality of the majority of them? Turks?
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Posted: 11-Nov-2004 at 13:42 |
Around 5-6% IIRC.
Or roughly 900,000.
Of which about 350,000 are Turkish, 300,000 are Moroccan, and the
remainder everyone else (pretty much everyone fron Bosniaks, to the odd
Bahrainian, and a few Dutch converts).
Hmm see
here
for more detail, thats only by country of origin though.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 16:15 |
Van gogh was killed by a Moroccan.
But Holland really disoppointed me.The Dutch people were the most civilised,honest people in Europe for me before these events...,
But now i realised that they can be more fanatic under such circumstances without keeping it cool then even real fanatics...
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 16:18 |
Obviously, the actions of a handfull of Dutch people are represntative
of all Dutch people, just like Osama is representative of all Muslims.
You know, its preciesly this mindset that causes this crap to happen.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 16:28 |
i understand you,pal...
but i didnt expect such to happen in Holland..Also i heard that there is an anti-immigration trend in Holland...therefore my opinion of Holland has changed
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 17:42 |
Nobody - and especially no country - is perfect. We can't blame all Dutch for the actions of a few vandals and radicals - just as we can't blame all Muslims for the murder that precipitated the violence. We can only hope that cooler heads will prevail.
As we often say here in the States, "Ah! the joys of living in a multi-cultural society... "
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 19:52 |
Whoa, this is becoming more dangerous than I actually expected it to be. Poor Netherlands, such a great country renowned for tolerance, hard to believe it's going down like this. To all Dutchmen and all people living in the Netherlands - my condolences and I hope your country returns to peace.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2004 at 22:52 |
As we often say here in the States, "Ah! the joys of living in a multi-cultural society... " |
All first-world nations are such societies... The fact that
the Dutch are the ones to whom this is happening is purely bad luck,
they drew the short straw .
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 01:12 |
living and learneing from multipple cultures is always mor benefical in the long run despite the hardships, the knowledge exchanged is what makes great nations. You must react to the blows and wind up stonger for it.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 05:59 |
It's quite understandable though. People will get pissed when they allow foreigners in and these completely ignores the set of laws and rules that is present in the country. It doesn't matter that the vast majority of the immigrants are law-abiding people who only want to live in peace with their neighbours, it's sufficient that just a fraction don't. An alien vocal minority which do stuff like this will always be met with much lesser tolerance than a native one; that's the way people work, sadly.
This hasn't changed my views on the Dutch as one of the most tolerant peoples. First off it's only a small minority who has torched mosques etc, and secondly, imagine if a similar thing would have occured in a country like Saudi Arabia or similar. Keep things in perspective.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2004 at 11:20 |
Whoa, this is becoming more dangerous than I actually
expected it to be. Poor Netherlands, such a great country renowned for
tolerance, hard to believe it's going down like this. To all Dutchmen
and all people living in the Netherlands - my condolences and I hope
your country returns to peace. |
It has already returned to peace. The last days no more incidents related to the murder on Van Gogh have occured.
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