Resistance to jihad is an arrestable offense in Rotterdam now? What would have happened if the t-shirt had read "Jihad in a Rotterdam street"? In that case, he probably would have been elected head of the town council. "Man Jailed for Delivering T-Shirt at Town Hall," from NIS News, September 1 (thanks to Fjordman):
THE HAGUE, 01/09/10 - A resident of the Rotterdam district of Hillesluis was arrested recently after he sent a t-shirt to the town hall with the text 'No Jihad in a Rotterdam street' printed on it.The t-shirt was a delivery for Hamit Karakus, the Rotterdam Alderman for Integration. The man wanted to draw attention to threats and intimidation that he says he has been experiencing for three years from his Pakistani neighbours. He wants to remain anonymous due to these threats, according to local broadcaster RTV Rijnmond.
Two hours after the man had delivered a plastic bag with the t-shirt in it, a police mini-bus drove up to his home. He was handcuffed and taken to the police station. There he had to spend the night in custody. The next day he was released with the information that he would not be prosecuted. "I did not get any apology," he stated.
The police say they took action at the request of the town hall's security officers. "The man was known at the town hall because he had already sought contact on more than one occasion with the alderman. That is why they found his action suspicious."
From the Ottawa Citizen “The Struggle against Jihad”
As you read this column, young Islamists in campuses across Canada are distributing free booklets titled Towards Understanding Islam, written by Maudoodi. In the booklet, Maudoodi exhorts ordinary Muslims to launch jihad, as in armed struggle, against non-Muslims.
"Jihad is part of this overall defence of Islam," he writes. In case the reader is left with any doubt about the meaning of the word "jihad," Maudoodi clarifies: "In the language of the Divine Law, this word (jihad) is used specifically for the war that is waged solely in the name of God against those who perpetrate oppression as enemies of Islam. This supreme sacrifice is the responsibility of all Muslims."
Maudoodi goes on to label Muslims who refuse the call to armed jihad as apostates:
"Jihad is as much a primary duty as are daily prayers or fasting. One who avoids it is a sinner. His every claim to being a Muslim is doubtful. He is plainly a hypocrite who fails in the test of sincerity and all his acts of worship are a sham, a worthless, hollow show of deception." If Muslim countries do not go to war against the enemies of Islam, Maudoodi says a worldwide uprising by ordinary Muslims is the answer. He writes: "Muslims of the whole world must fight the common enemy."
If Maudoodi's exhortations to jihad are not enough, we have the words of the late Hassan al-Banna being distributed in our schools and universities. Al-Banna makes it quite clear that the word "jihad" means armed conflict. He mocks those who claim jihad is merely an internal struggle; al-Banna says this redefinition of the term "jihad" is a conspiracy so that "Muslims should become negligent."
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/struggle+against+jihad/3462217/story.html#ixzz0yIaqYo2k
"The man wanted to draw attention to threats and intimidation that he says he has been experiencing for three years from his Pakistani neighbours. He wants to remain anonymous due to these threats..."
Sounds more like the alderman used the t-shirt as an excuse to expose the man's identity.
Intolerance of evil is the new 'hate crime.'
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/us-muslim-group-releases-video-vowing-not-to-take-over-this-country/
Can you spot the verse that supports this video's message?
More from the Ottawa Citizen “The Struggle against Jihad”
Here is what Qutb, another Egyptian stalwart of the Islamist movement and the Muslim Brotherhood, writes in his seminal work on Islam and its relationship with the West, Milestones:
"Any place where Islamic Shariah is not enforced and where Islam is not dominant becomes the Home of Hostility (Dar-ul-Harb or the West). ... A Muslim will remain prepared to fight against it, whether it be his birthplace or a place where his relatives reside or where his property or any other material interests are located."
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/struggle+against+jihad/3462217/story.html#ixzz0yIcCOR4u
Now if he had been trying to deliver a copy of the Qur'an............
I live in Rotterdam, but I can't make heads or tails of this incident, I'll look out for it to surface.
Meanwhile something else significantly happened in Holland. The Christian Democratic Party (CDA) was negotiating with the Freedom Party to form a government of CDA and the Liberals (VVD) with support from the Freedom Party. In Dutch history rather unique, but note that Geert Wilders wants to make it work.
Now, in the last week, some old leaders of CDA intervened, balking at cooperating with the Freedom Party for the tired same old wrong reasons; among them racism, delegating Muslims to second-rank citizens. And now there is a crisis in this party, resulting in a virtual halt to the negotiations.
My own sister (CDA-voter always, whereas I am Freedom Party) was moved by these moaners and told me that "because of our Christian values" we cannot cooperate with the Freedom Party. I am Darwinist, as you may know, but I told her that many American Christians would gladly support the Freedom Party of Holland.
Now, I consider my sister an intelligent, well-informed person, but I am irked a lot by these CDA-people who oppose the Freedom Party, saying that it acts against Christian principles!
I have tried to reason with my sister on this, she listened intently, and I keep at it, but on the whole, it looks like approx. half of the CDA-members have these qualms about cooperating with the Freedom Party.
I think a government with it involved is now highly unlikely , but that's OK, because there is a good chance the Freedom Party will grow more as an opposition party. In the polls already it's now the biggest party in Holland, a little bit ahead of the Liberals.
I remember the phrase "offend Muslim sensibilities" from somewhere. That's what this guy did--nothing more, and he was arrested for it. Much like the non-crime the Acts 17 Christians were arrested for in Dearbornistan.
Apparent the Rotterdam police and politicians are run by the Muslims....
"He wants to remain anonymous due to these threats"
I'm guessing he's not so anonymous now....
It appears that the Netherlands does not have a Habeas Corpus writ in their legal system. Another item for Geert's checklist?
From another angle, here is what the European Convention on Human Rights says:
"Everyone who is arrested shall be informed promptly, in a language which he understands, of the reasons for his arrest and of any charge against him"
and
"Everyone who has been the victim of arrest or detention in contravention of the provisions of this article shall have an enforceable right to compensation."
This is just another example of lawlessness, another example of the PCMC soft totalitarianism to which we are creeping.
demsci, thanks for your comments.
I recently had a chat with a friend from the Netherlands, and the subject of Wilders and the Freedom Party and its possible role in a government coalition came up. My friend -- a god PC leftist -- spouted the usual left-wing propaganda about Wilders, comparing him to Hitler, among other things. But he also made some other points: (1) that the Freedom Party is strictly a one-man [i.e. Wilders] show; (2) that Wilders writes all the parts of the party platform himself with no input from other party members; (3) that other elected officials of the party must follow Wilders' lead 100% or they're out.
Are these remarks a fair description of Wilders and his role in the Freedom Party?
The police say they took action at the request of the town hall's security officers. "The man was known at the town hall because he had already sought contact on more than one occasion with the alderman. That is why they found his action suspicious."
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It sounds as though this Dutch citizen "sought contact on more than one occasion with the alderman" because he "has been experiencing for three years from his Pakistani neighbours."
For "Pakistani", read "Muslim".
I rather imagine what he has been experiencing has indeed been a Jihad—harassment, threats of violence—this is very common, once a district reaches a large enough percentage of Muslims.
Here's an article from the Militant Islam Monitor:
"Crime and Terrorism: The Role of Moroccan Immigrants In Holland, Belgium and Spain"
See especially the segment on:
"Native Dutch citizens forced to leave their homes by angry Moroccans youths"
After months of being the victim of escalating crimes, threats and violence, one native Dutchman received the following message from the authorities:
"The police now told him they could no longer guarantee his security. In March 2008, Ger and his girlfriend moved to a safer area in the city. They deliberately informed nobody about their new address. Terrified "refugees" in their own country, terrorized by Moroccan hoodlums."
Of course, for "Moroccan", read "Muslim". There are more stories in this article about how police are either slow to act, or fail to act at all. They certainly "acted" quickly enough when this native Dutchman stood up against Jihad.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3640
Here's a story from Rotterdam from last year:
"Radical Muslim preacher welcome in Rotterdam"
http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090123-khalid-yasin-redirected
Khalid Yasin was invited to lecture at the private Islamic University of Rotterdam. Yasin's ideas include advocating the death penalty for homosexuality, claiming the HIV virus was deliberately engineered by Western governments, questioning the existence of al-Qaeda and its involvement in the 9/11 attacks, and asserting that the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings were justified in the light of a history of Western oppression of Islam.
Rotterdam's recently appointed mayor said Yasin was welcome in Rotterdam. The mayor? That would be Moroccan Muslim Ahmed Aboutaleb, who is the son of an Imam.
Ebonystone, yes, the gist of points 1 to 3 is right.
It's used as an argument against Geert Wilders. But all in all for me not a valid argument. Because people are still free to come and go into and out of the Freedom Party. In that way there is no dictatorship-force. The Freedom Party still stands up for all essential Democratic laws and values.
There are reasons for what Wilders does. In the past Pim Fortuyn also started a anti-Muslim-movement. But after his death this movement, how shall I put it, disgraced itself thoroughly, was picking quarrels among themselves, disintegrated into chaos. In short, there were very big problems with that previous anti-Islamic movement and Geert Wilders wants to present a much better functioning anti-Islam-party now.
For: It sounds as though this Dutch citizen "sought contact on more than one occasion with the alderman" because he "has been experiencing for three years from his Pakistani neighbours."
Please read: It sounds as though this Dutch citizen "sought contact on more than one occasion with the alderman" because of what he "has been experiencing for three years from his Pakistani neighbours."
Demsci
since the subject of Geert Wilders has come up.
Over at New English Review you can watch a program about him that was done on Australian TV (SBS - Lateline).
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/29400
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/600717/n/Mr-Controversial
Also available on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZBVmD9Z_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuvEdv7P6A
It's a hatchet job: neither the presenter nor the guy who actually interviewed him, even attempt to hide their hostility (and they wilfully misrepresent, and refuse to understand, what he's about).
Nevertheless: if you go to the comments section for that particular program (500 comments and counting), what you find is that a great many Australians express approval of him and understand what he is about.
Oops.
That's 'Dateline', not 'Lateline'.
You need to make a list for your sister. The first column is activities and the list includes: stoning to death, beheading, raping virgins before they are executed, gasing girls schools, forced clitorectomies, suicide bombings, jihad, & honor killings.
Now all you need to do is add Christian or Muslim value to each activity and you are done. Good luck.
Thanks JCL154,
I'll do what you say gladly. In fact I have done so and she indeed is well informed AND even ill-disposed towards Islam.
The peculiar but widespread problem is complex; some Dutch people, call them PCMC, are only looking at Holland and it's inhabitants, trying to give a good example, the Christians wanting to give a good Christian example.
In this process PCMCs seem to consider the Dutch Muslims unreserved loyal Dutch citizens, or at least neutral, or perfectly free to be loyal to whatever damned organisation they want. PCMC Dutch won't even ask Dutch Muslims about their most important loyalties.
They keep tabs on what happens all over the world, some more, some less. But they measure attitudes and actions with different standards, one for the Dutch politicians and activists and one for the foreign Muslim ones.
They justify that with having no influence outside, other than diplomatic means, and, Holland being a democratic state, Dutch must be measured by a higher standard to give a blameless example. Sort of: first improve your own country, then improve the world.
I now think that attitude is not only a mistake, but also leads to blatant double standards. Resulting in heavy opposition to Geert Wilders, himself in heavy opposition to an arguably much much worse system than he promotes (which is still totally democratic). While that much worse system gets in practice a big pass, gets being excused on much worse attitude and behavior than that of Wilders. and the PCMC's do know that the attitude and behavior of Muslims worldwide IS much worse than that of Wilders. They just apply double standards!
If it means to be Dutch I have to apply such blatant double standards as the PCMC-people do, than I wish no longer to be a Dutchman, but only a citizen of the World!
demsci, thanks for your reply.
Thank you, DDA, I am often delighted or shocked at your information, you have such a broad information-base.
You know something? I don't agree with all Geert says and I don't defend him at all costs in debates. Instead I hold that Geert and his party can retire when ordinary long-standing parties finally come to a responsible Islam-policy.
But I do think he is a Godsend and very brave, I voted for him and told all people around me who asked about it that I did and why.