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Srdja Trifkovic on the murder of Theo van Gogh at Chronicles (thanks to Jim):
The threats on van Gogh's life started ten weeks ago, after the premiere of his film. It was scripted by a Somali-born woman, Hirsi Ali (34), who grew up as a Muslim but has denounced the cult. She is now a Dutch national assembly deputy, and vociferous in her criticism of Islamic obscurantism and violence. She says the goal of the film was to draw attention to rampant but concealed violence against Muslim women, including those living in Europe, who are routinely subjected to rape, incest, forced marriages, and the suicides. "Muslims deny it," she says, "and many Dutch are afraid of taking it on, of causing religious tension, of being called racists."Van Gogh insisted that he could not see why so many Muslims expressed outrage with his movie. It opens with a Muslim prayer; the narrator then tells stories of four women who ask for Allah's help to lighten their suffering. One was forced to marry a man she hates, one was raped and made pregnant by her uncle, one was whipped after she had sex with her boyfriend, and one is repeatedly beaten by her husband. The women feel abandoned by Allah despite their devotion to him. As a close-up shot of a battered and bruised face appears, the narrator says:
"Oh, Allah, most high. You say that men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because you have given one more strength than the other. Yet I feel at least once a week the strength of my husband's fist on my face."
In addition to his film, van Gogh also wrote columns about Islam that were published on his website and in the Dutch newspaper Metro.
All that appears to have sufficed for a fatwa, a death sentence, and an execution-style murder, in broad daylight, deep inside the Western world. There but for the grace of God go I. Lord have mercy.
In a display of suicidal idiocy be expected from a supine European Social Democrat, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende hastened to declare that "nothing is known about the motive" of the assassin, and called on the nation "not to jump to far-reaching conclusions." (Only hours later the police in The Hague arrested two-dozen Dutch youths, who seem to have jumped to their own conclusions, for "inciting hatred" and shouting "discriminatory and racist" chants.) The Prime Minister also referred to van Gogh's "outspoken opinions"—with at least a hint of the possibility that he had it coming—and boldly declared that it would be "unacceptable if a difference of opinion led to this brutal murder."
Mijnheer Balkenende seems to be implying that "this brutal murder" will be deemed less "unacceptable" if it turns out to have been caused not by "a difference of opinion" but by some more profound reason—by the sense of pain and grievance in the Muslim community, perhaps, caused by the late filmmaker's insensitive and inappropriate words and actions. His reference to Van Gogh's "outspoken opinions" is already echoed in a hundred obituaries describing the victim as "controversial." This brings to mind a Dutch journalist's New York Times obituary of Pim Fortuyn, which called his views "a curious mixture of right, center and left." In today's Holland, no less than in America, it is obvious that notions described as "outspoken," "controversial," and "curious" denote thoughts, as opposed to programmed responses.
As for the Muslims? they are merely doing their thing, in the footsteps of their prophet. There were no turbulent filmmakers in Muhammad's time, but there were poets, and some of them gave him as much grief as van Gogh apparently did to the young Moroccan. After the battle of Badr, as Muhammad scrutinized his prisoners, his eye fell fiercely on one al-Nadr whom he had never forgiven for captivating the audiences in Mecca with more entertaining tales. He was beheaded on the spot. In Medina Muhammad ordered the murder of Asma bint Marwan, a poetess who made fun of him in verse. Anticipating Henry II's outburst, Muhammad exclaimed, "Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?" One of his followers duly did, that same night, stabbing her as she nursed her youngest child. One Abu Afak, supposedly over a hundred years old, criticized Muhammad in verse. The latter simply commented, "Who will deal with this rascal for me?" Abu Afak did not see the morning. The hatred of artistically inspired detractors was obsessive with Muhammad, and reflected in the Kuranic verdict that poets are inspired by Satan and have gone astray, possessed and no better than soothsayers.
That was the man who is explicitly upheld by all Muslims everywhere—from Mecca to Milan, from Amsterdam to Agadir—as the paragon of godly, morally impeccable behavior, to be admired and emulated until the end of time. His followers in the Western world are ready and willing to kill the native-born infidels who dare say things that are not to their liking. They feel justified by the divine sanction offered by their prophet. And kill they most assuredly will.
Short of a belated, massive, and unexpected recovery of its spiritual and moral strength—impossible under Prime Minister Balkenende and his ilk—Europe faces submission to Muhammad and eventual acceptance of sacred Arab places as its own. It can be saved, maybe, if it rises against its rulers, against the Balkenendes, Blairs, and a thousand clones who facilitate the advance of Islam by destroying every trace of the sense of community of European nations based on kinship, faith, and culture. If it does, if the youths arrested in The Hague provide an example and a lead for a million others, Theo van Gogh will not have died in vain.
Posted by Robert at November 7, 2004 5:47 AM
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People wonder why George Bush was elected. Here is the answer:
"It can be saved, maybe, if it rises against its rulers, against the Balkenendes, Blairs, and a thousand clones who facilitate the advance of Islam by destroying every trace of the sense of community of European nations based on kinship, faith, and culture. If it does, if the youths arrested in The Hague provide an example and a lead for a million others, Theo van Gogh will not have died in vain."
Replace "It" with the United States and you have the answer to why George Bush was re-elected.
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at November 7, 2004 7:18 AM
Trifkovic is right. According to the the behaviour of the Prohpet Mohammad, as stated in historical records, would he approve of Theo's murder. It is very very likely Mohammad would have approved and/or ordered it himself.
I don't say this out of hatred for anyone. I am only using a logical train of thought. I am just observing the simple fact that Mohammad according to historical documents murdered people for less than what Theo did.
Posted by: obl r us at November 7, 2004 9:03 AM
In Denmark, it seems that the public discussion is getting more serious. Anti-dhimmitude from Jyllandsposten/HRS: http://www.rights.no/webtekst/artikler/int_musl_JP051104.htm
A translated summary with excerpts:
Taking the Danes' collective security into account
by Ole Hasselbalch, professor, jur. dr., Humlebæk:
"Further means of integration will have no effect, unless they are complemented with repatriation of those muslims who do not accept the western values. Still, these things can't be appealed to as premises for a "serious" discussion. One can only speak about the necessity of "integration". An immigration debate on these premises is meaningless," the author writes.
Speaking about threats and violence commited in the name of Allah, he says that although there are Muslims who accept Danish norms, we must admit that as a whole, Muslims are increasingly causing problems. "They enjoy the fruits of the well-ordered society, but they obviously lack the will to understand what it takes to keep up the good thing. The phenomenon is so striking we must take a stand on it."
...
"A succesful model of integrating Muslims in other societies has been found nowhere in the world. Therefore, further integration won't work. ... To get applicants of citizenship to sign the Constitution is not enough, because according to the Muslim concept of taqija, it is allowed to lie to the infidels if it benefits their faith". ...
"Throughout world history, catastrophes have been caused by political leaders, who are talented and resourceful, but who did not take time even to find out what's going on, let alone think things through, or who did, indifferently, what was most comfortable for themselves.
When someone does not react to the reality that is, or should be, obvious to him, he is normally considered mentally abnormal or at least deeply irresponsible. When the key politicians of Denmark do not react to the reality, it is legitimate to consider their politics insane."
The author goes on to indicate that although the international conventions are generally considered to protect the flow of immigrants, those conventions do not regard as discrimination different treatment based on nationality. He reminds us that the primary obligation of the Danish government and Parliament is to protect their own nation, and claims there is nothing in the international conventions that prevents them from expelling foreigners who are holy warriors or criminals or for whom it is a religious obligation not to adapt to the Danish way of life.
"There is, in other words, nothing that prevents Folketinget from recreating decent conditions in Denmark".
Jyllands-posten also ran a piece by Nahid Riazi, "Take terror seriously", in which she connects the terror in Europe to the long history of political Islam, and says Islamism must be met the same way as Fascism. In Danish at http://www.rights.no/webtekst/artikler/terror_alvorlig_JP051104.htm
Posted by: Scandie at November 7, 2004 11:23 AM
I am surprised it has taken so long for EU elected officials to wake up to the Islamofascist threat. I think the reason is that so much intellectual energy has, over the years, been invested into the mistaken multicultural idea that somehow all cultures deserve an equal hearing or respect. It also shows a consistent ingnoring of the history of the spead of Islam--as Robert Spencer details in his writings.
As for deporting Radical Islamists from whereever they happen to reside (I live in the USA), the way I see it is they want to kill or convert the rest of us. We just want to deport them. I hope the Netherlands publicly adopts the deportation policy.
at November 7, 2004 11:50 AM
Anyone who chooses to answer this moron, hateshutup, remember:
He is trying to classify what kind of Hate you suffer from. Which is an Outright LIE about YOU.
He is totally bogus. Why do you keep bothering with him? So he can make a report to post on islamic hate sites around the world?
Don't let this bastard get away with an attempt to discredit. Do not let him do what the Left will be pleased to have him do! Think!
Scum like him are the ones who worked to dehumanize people in Nazi Germany, so they could be more easily slaughtered.
Posted by: Gary at November 7, 2004 1:34 PM
I am surprised it has taken so long for EU elected officials to wake up to the Islamofascist threat
They will never "wake up" to it.For avariety of politio-economic reasons.
But the people of europe may well wake up and throw them out of office.That is the hope.
Otherwise europe's streets will one day be covered in blood.
at November 7, 2004 8:34 PM
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a non-traditional grad student at a Midwestern University, and just a couple of months from getting my Ph.D. The day the Twin Towers went down, a lot of the traditional students--young men and women to me, no longer "kids"--went looking for the military recruiters, although there was no violence against the local Muslims (thanks to an internationally known university, the town had several times more Muslims than Jews). I came to truly understand how my parents, uncles, aunts, and grandmother must've felt about Pearl Harbor (although the al-Qaeda goons, who deliberately targeted civilians, were far more reprehensible than the Japanese). That week, I felt exceptionally honored to teach those young people.
I still do not believe it necessary to stoop to the terrorists' level. Yet it is a very positive thing when many seem to be rethinking the knee-jerk relativism of the morally and intellectually bankrupt Left, whose ideology can send a man who would literally not step on an ant or eat beef to murder another man.
at November 8, 2004 2:42 AM
It's easy to become famous like Hirsi Ali. Just make rude comment to the enemy of the world ( Islam ) then you can get seat in parlement, make troubel to the country and send another bad judgement to moslem people.
If she really graduate from university I tought she can use her brain to get civilized idea to become popular.
at November 12, 2004 3:45 AM
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