March 02, 2005
PC in the Netherlands E.U.
It seems that I may have been at least partially incorrect when I asserted that the Dutch government may just be waking up to the threat of excessive Muslim immigration.
One section of the government is trying to clean out the radicals, and another is trying to "normalize" the Muslim culture; mixed messages are counter-productive and in the end just plays right into the hands of those that would make Dutch society adapt to Islam, rather than Islam adapting to the society where it finds itself.
There needs to be a movement by the people to try to force the government to take more assertive action, unfortunately, the people seem to have fallen sway to the general sense of malaise in the EU. I pray that they shake it off before it's too late.
update: As bad as the situation it's even worse in Sweden...now there courts are starting to apply Sha'ria law to it's Muslim citizens, and course, it makes the conditions for the women worse than for the men.
WHY didn't the court just follow Swedish law? I guess the concept of "equal protection under the law" is a concept that the EU is starting to lose, all in the name of PC multiculturalism.
This is scary stuff. It is absolutely, frighteningly amazing that Sweden is de facto changing its laws to accommodate a portion of its population.
I'm afraid that there are those in the US that would have us do the same.
Posted by: Jack Army at March 2, 2005 03:55 PMActually, with the Supreme Court decision on teenage executions that came down today, it's occurring HERE right now....part of the reasoning of the majority was "there's a world concensus that executing offenders under the age of 21 is morally wrong"....
Wish we could get SC judges that would rule strictly by the Constitution rather than taking in "penumbras" and "world opinions"!
Posted by: delftsman3 at March 3, 2005 05:53 AMI wonder what would happen if the intolerance you seem to support was put fully in effect in this country...your immigrant ass would have been deported a long time ago based on the missconception that Netherlanders are agnostic, liberal stoners. The rest of your right wing friends will be waiting in the depths of hell for you.
Posted by: voice of reason or am I?! at March 3, 2005 05:45 PMThere's a difference between tolerance and ceding your sovereignty, "reason". Tell me just how a country is served by subjegating their law to a foreign system? Maybe you think that we should start allowing Muslims to stone women that have been raped here too?
"The rest of your right wing friends will be waiting in the depths of hell for you."
That an example of Liberal tolerance?
I ran into many examples of bias against emigre's in my youth. Interestingly,mostly by the liberal side of the aisle... The only thing conservatives were concerned about was if you could pull your own weight.
Posted by: delftsman3 at March 3, 2005 08:39 PM