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Dutch Cowards

By Brian C. Ledbetter · Monday, January 7. 2008 14:58
The Dutch have a long history of being some of the most ruthless sailors in all of recorded naval history. Keep that history in mind as you read the following passage:

This is how they used to "debate" in the Netherlands.
THE Dutch were debating the limits of freedom of expression last week after an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad was forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit.

Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in the Netherlands last week, the artist, an Iranian exile who goes by the pseudonym of Sooreh Hera, said she had been threatened with “execution”. She accused the director of the municipal museum in The Hague of cowardice for caving in to Muslim extremists.

Her story is a reminder of the tensions that have put the Netherlands and other European countries on the front line, sending dozens of people threatened by extremists into hiding since 2004, when a Dutch film-maker was murdered on the street and his collaborator driven into exile.

This leaves Hera, 34, in no doubt that she is in real danger. “They said to me, ‘We’re going to burn you naked or put a bullet in your mouth’,” she said, referring to menacing e-mails.

“They say, ‘Now you are locked in your home and you cannot go out any more’.”


The fact that they're thinking about this in terms of a "debate" on "free speech," rather than the totalitarian barbarism that this is, tells me all I need to know about how far the mighty Dutch have fallen. Folding like a cheap napkin at the slightest provocation, rather than standing up and defending those who are threatened. Not exactly the most manly behaviour, is it?

Then again, I suppose that I should've seen this coming a long time ago.
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captainfish on 2008-01-07 23:49 #1
*"The fact that they're thinking about this in terms of a "debate" on "free speech," rather than the totalitarian barbarism that this is, tells me all I need to know about how far the mighty Dutch have fallen. "

Not just the Dutch, Brian. The whole world seems to be cowering under their threats. Which of course only emboldens them even more. It is time to stop cowering and start being aggressive.

Think of this. How many times are there incidents of Jesus, or Jesus' mother, found on items from toast, cheese, windows, or rocks and people go oohh and aahhh over it. They run to it like it has power and show it reverence.

Contrast that to how Muslims act when their "god" is mentioned or imaged. They go suicidal and turn murderous.

Which religion to you is one that promotes love, peace and harmony? If people start standing up to these extremists, then they will have no power.
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