Ayaan Hirsi Ali is named in it. From The Scotsman, with thanks to all the many who sent this in:
A letter left on the body of a Dutch film-maker murdered in Amsterdam contained death threats against a Dutch politician and was signed by an unknown group, the justice minister said tonight.Dutch authorities have arrested nine suspects, all believed to be radical Islamists, in connection with Tuesday’s shooting and stabbing of Theo van Gogh.
Authorities have said they are investigating possible links between the suspects and foreign terrorist groups, including those responsible for the Casablanca bombings in May last year.
Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said a letter pinned by the killer to Van Gogh’s body with a knife was “a direct warning” to Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ali wrote the script of a film Van Gogh made criticising the treatment of women under Islam, and Van Gogh received death threats after the film was released in August.
Donner said the way the five-page letter “was presented indicates that it is not from one person, but a movement”.
The letter, which was addressed to Ali and signed “Saifu Deen al Muwahhied,” said: “I know definitely that you, Hirsi Ali, will go down.”
Somali-born Ali has frequently outraged fellow Muslims by criticising Islamic customs and the failure of Muslim families to adopt Dutch ways. She remains under police protection.
The letter threatened to bring down “non-believers”, saying “I know definitely that America will crumble.”
It was typed in Dutch, with a smattering of Koranic verses written in Arabic and translated into Dutch.
I'm terrified for her. I hope that she is well protected.
Mohammed had his opponents slaughtered. A female poet who mocked him was killed in cold blood.
This is an Islamic tradition.
But there is nothing that frightens the adherents of this fascistic misogynistic cult of hatred more than an uppity apostate woman.
These big men are frightened of a girl.
You brave Muslims.
Kill Kill Kill
Death Death Death
Hate Hate Hate
The truth about you has outed.
I urge you to write to your Dutch embassy and DEMAND that Aymaan Hirsi Ali is given impregnable security and PROTECTION.
Is there an address to which we can write to Miss Ali to show our support? Perhaps at the Dutch Parliament? I am sure that at this time of need she would appreciate knowing that she is not alone, and that we are at her side, and support and pray for her in her battle against this modern incarnation of Nazism.
History repeating itself.The MOORS and TURKS are back.
What further proof do we need that Islam is false? It has no other argument than threats and blood.
"Wife Beating-An Arab How-To" from MEMRI on FrontPage:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15608
CEDAW: Women's undeniable right for protection
November 3, 2004
Amnesty International called on governments in the Middle East and North Africa to respect and ensure respect of women's rights by lifting their reservations to the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which aims to protect women from violence and discrimination.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/document.do?id=43F3B041B9F97D9280256F120052D0B2
This is a LONG article - be forewarned.
The following OIC member states have not ratified the CEDAW: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates. I don't have a list handy of member states expressing reservations, but I trust they are in the article.
@Kaffir Boy
Yes, there is an adress where you can email her!
a.HirsiAli@tweedekamer.nl
She certainly needs some support, since she feels guilty because she knew that the film (Submission) that she made with Theo van Gogh wouldn't be accepted by muslims, since it was about the humiliation of the muslim women.
There were some rumours that there was a death list with Hirsi Ali, another Dutch politician and the major and vice-major of Amsterdam and the minister of Integration.
Fortunately it appeared to be wrong.
What we've learned is that we underestimated the power of the islam in our tolerant culture in the last few years.
At this moment it there is a strong voice from the society to stop the radical fundamentalists. A group of 150 of them is already permanent watched bij de secret service and action will be taken against them.
Those radical fundamentalist are really a danger for our society since, they threatened to kill anybody who is against the islam...
This is going to be a thrilling time here in the Netherlands, our democracy is at stake!
That's all for now, from your Dutch reporter ;)
Dear Think
Many thanks for that address. I will be sending her a message of support and urging others to do the same. I request everyone on this site to e-mail Ms Ali and let her know she has our love and respect and support.
Keep posting with the news from Holland!
One must read the editorial apropos the situation in Holland in today's New York Times. It is a masterpiece of willful miscomprehension and sly mistatement.
First, the title:
Deadly Hatreds in the Netherlands
Note: Hatreds, in the plural. You see, all sorts of people apparently "hate" other people, and everyone is to blame, and no one is guilty, and...
Second, the text:
"Something sad and terrible is happening in the Netherlands, long one of Europe's most tolerant, decent and multicultural societies....brazen murder...10-minute film...horrific violence that Msulim women can be subject to by family members in the name of religion."
Stop right there: "in the name of religion" implies that the connection is factitious, not really there. They do things, bad things, not because their religion clearly prompts them to do them. No, they do them misusing that religion, falsely, wrongly, "in the name of that religion."
A little further on:
"It's just been a little more than two years since a Dutch extremist shot Pim Fortuyn, a rising populist politician who portrayed Muslim immigration as a grave threat to the nation's traditions of tolerance."
"Portrayed" -- get that? He attempted to paint it, to depict it, as something it of course was not. There were many other verbs that might have used: Pim Fortuyn
"said that Muslim immigration was a grave threat" OR
"charged that Muslim immigration was a grave threat" OR
"warned that Muslim immigration was a grave threat" OR
my favorite,
"argued that Muslim immigration was a grave threat."
But the Times won't have it: Pim Fortuyn was a rabble-rouser (some "populist" he was, this cultivated and humorful man), and he "portrayed" something nice (Islam) in an unflattering light.
The Times then tells us that "urgent efforts are needed to better manage the cultural tensions perilously close to the surface of Dutch public life."
Stop right there. "Cultural" tensions? What "cultural" tensions would those be, pray tell? Are the native Dutch inflicting terrible damage on the Muslim immigrants who have taken over whole swaths of cities, and are attempting to undo Dutch society, Dutch political, economic, social, and intellectual arrangements? This is not a "clash of cultures" -- it is the workings out, in real life, of a belief-system whose elements can, if only the Times wanted to spare a reporter or two (what in god's name does it take to get them to take Islam seriously, and to stop repeating their mistakes with Duranty on the Soviet Union, and their sickening, and murderous, inattention from 1930 to 1945 to antisemitism and Hitler's war on the Jews? No shame, none, in the upper reaches of The New York Times. Secure in their own unassailable and unshakeable ignorance.)
There is only the "tension" that is created by an aggressively hostile belief-system -- hostile to all those who dare to say a word about that belief-system that does not consist of apologetics.
Finally, the Times assures its readers:
"The problem is not Muslim immigration [millions of intelligent Dutch people beg to differ] but a failure to plan for a smoother transition to a more diverse society."
Look, and look again, and think, and think again, about that last phrase:
"a failure to plan for a smoother transition to a more diverse society."
What does this mean? Does it mean that the Dutch should reconcile themselves to surrendering, in the first place, the right of free speech, including the right to make a movie called "Submission"? Is that part of the "smoother transition" to a more "diverse" society that of course we all want so much to achieve?
If that "diverse society" means accommodating murder on the streets of Amsterdam, oh New York Times editorialist, sorry -- no can do.
If it means refusing to study either the tenets of Islam, or the history of Muslim subjugation of non-Muslims, about which there are many studies, from what happened to the Hindus in India to the Zoroastrians in Persia, to the Greco-Buddhist civilization of Central Asia, to the Christians and Jews of Mesopotamia, Syria, Judea, North Africa, and Spain (the real Spain, not the Spain of Washington Irving or Maria Rosa Menocal's dreamy fantasies), that to is something some Dutch people, and many Americans, are simply unwilling to do.
The Times vision of a "more diverse society" ignores the fact that Muslims do not believe in, or want, or have anything but contempt and hatred for, a "diverse society." They want a society that is Muslim, from top to bottom. If they do not call for the immediate imposition of the Shari'a (and by the way, some do), if they do not all echo certain Muslim leaders, such as Jahjah in Belgium, for a total parallel society, governed by Muslim (i.e. shari'a) law within the lands of the Infidels, the Bilad al-kufr, that is only because -- for the moment -- they are not sufficiently numerous to impose their will. But if nothing is done, they will be.
Is it too much to ask the Editorial Board of the New York Times to study -- I will be happy to supply a reading list -- the history of Islam, and to familiarize itself thoroughly with what is contained in Qur'an, hadith, sira, and the major commentators? Is that really too much for them to bother with?
Oh, and if they can't bear to come to this website, would the editors of The Times be willing to talk with Ibn Warraq or Ali Sina or any number of highly intelligent ex-Muslims, who have written a good deal on what Islam teaches its Believers to believe, and why, as Ibn Warraq has shown, this Total Explanation of the Universe-cum-Total Regulation of Believers' Lives=cum-Blaming of Infidels for All Worldly Woes Whatsoever should be taken seriously, and the consequences of its unhindered spread, through migration, legal and illegal, and Da'wa (the Call to Islam), aided and abetted by hirelings of the Arabs and Muslims (a long list could be given here), including soi-disant "scholars" of Islam, but also including the truly ignorant, the truly lazy, the truly stupid -- of whom, alas, The New York Times, one is afraid, is supplying its share.
HUGH
How true - think we ought to contact New York Times! Hirsi Ali has all the courage of a modern day Jeanne d'Arc but we don't want her to suffer the same fate. Let us E Mail her our support, admiration and love and keep up a barrage of articles to the media about her so Dutch authorities realise her safety is paramount.
If this entails removing thousands of rabid, murderous Muslims from Holland [and elsewhere] then this should be done - and soon!!
The upside is that this ugly incident exposes islam for what it is. There have been islamic "scholars" on talk radio shows around the world bickering about how islamic/non islamic this murder was. All you need do now is direct the skeptics to the muslim message boards to see for themselves.