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Here's the Globe, doing its multicultural thing:
Nevertheless, there are all-too-familiar consequences of the anger that the murder of van Gogh has provoked. Surveys show a sharp rise in approval for right-wing politicians who preach the need to cut back on immigration from Morocco and Turkey, the countries from which most of the Muslims in Holland emigrated. One poll indicated that 47 percent of the Dutch feel less tolerant of the Muslims living among them since van Gogh was killed.This syndrome -- fear of a few violent extremists being transferred to the 1 million Muslims in Holland who are overwhelmingly peaceful -- has a sorrowful history. It marks the recurrence of a fascistic will to play upon the insecurities of a people reputed to be among the most liberal and tolerant in Europe.
As in the past, racists and nationalists are appealing to the most primitive reflex of their own group: fear of the mysterious other. This pattern of anti-immigrant rabble-rousers manipulating anxieties about North African or Turkish communities is being replicated in nearly all the countries of Western Europe. It threatens to reawaken the dormant beast of European authoritarianism.
And here's Hugh:
The Globe has outdone itself. Who wrote this idiotic thing? Martin Baron? Or was the "old Middle East hand," who knows nothing about Islam, but a lot about how awful the Israelis are, H. D. S. Greenway, called in to provide his "expert" judgment?If one had the sense that any of these people felt the slightest obligation to actually study what is in the khutbas (they can find plenty of them online at www.Memri.org), or tried to find out just what is in the Qur'an -- they can get it online at www.usc.edu, with at least four different translations that can be compared side-by-side, and they can find relevant and reliable commentators), if one thought that they had taken the trouble to look at a few hundred hadith or even to begin to understand why the hadith are so important, if they had, further, consulted the sira (and the most detailed and scrupulous biography of Muhammad in English, that of Sir William Muir, can now be obtained -- an abridged version, but still enormous -- from Amazon), if one thought, in other words, that before commenting on what Muslims think of Infidels, of how they regard the Bilad al-kufr, of how likely it is that they will accept Infidel ways, Infidel moeurs, that at least one had did a good deal of investigation, had studied, had learned about dhimmitude, had even read a book or two by Bat Ye'or, or one or two by Ibn Warraq, had consulted the websites that are not those of the apologists -- oh, if only one thought that this had happened, and that even so, one still spouted this nonsense, then at least the situation would not be so maddening.
It is the incredible arrogance of whoever wrote this editorial in The Globe -- an assumption that this person "knows" all about Islam -- oh, who helped him? Was it someone in the Middle Eastern Department at Harvard? A dinner-party conversation with Roy Mottahedeh? Diane Eck of the Pluralism Project? Seemingly tenured (but only his Department knows for sure) William Graham, Dean of the Divinity School and apologist a ses heures?
Bring back Uncle Dudley. Bring back people who know how to think, and how to express themselves.
The Globe, as they used to say about Pravda in the bad old Soviet days, goditsya na podtirku.("is fit for wiping"). One knows what those scatological Muscovites meant -- such examples of idiocy and ignorance help make the daily (and Sunday) Globe quite an absorbing -- no, I mean absorbent -- read.
Posted by Robert at November 9, 2004 12:17 PM
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LOL - I wouldn't let this wrag near my gluteus maximus.
What is utterly ignorant and self-defeating is the inability of the Globe's editor to differentiate between a necessary, critical analysis of the problems facing the future of secularism and multiculturalism in Europe with rabble-rousing and manipulating anxiety. The xenophobia and authoritarianism mentioned in this article is so utterly misplaced that it betrays the author's ignorance of the subject.
As an aside, I would like to state that artists are like canaries in a cold mine, when they start winding up dead or in political prisons, the health of the society is obviously at peril. Does anyone remember one of Hitler's first moves to crush dissent in the Third Reich was the demolition of the Bauhaus? Hugh's reference in a past thread to the similarity of this era to the Thirties and its Brownshirts is becoming alarmingly more apparent with each passing assassination and assault on the human rights of those who dare to speak out.
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at November 9, 2004 1:01 PM
Hugh is certainly aware of the fact that the Boston Globe is only reflecting the views of its parent company, the New York Times.
Example, the NYT has a summer internship program, which accepts an overwhelming majority of minority students every year. Intellectual quality and objectivity of these lucky individuals is secondary to their primary qualifications, "Diversity", i.e., non-white and from a recent immigrant background whenever possible.
Look at the New York Time’s View on Diversity:
“The Times, which must not only speak the language of the Washington foreign policy community but hear and understand the voices of the Dominican community in the Bronx, a diverse staff is vital.”:
http://www.nytco.com/intern.html#reston
Look at this photo promoting “Diversity” in their Summer Internship Program, I guess a non-diverse run of the mill white person need not apply:
http://www.nytco.com/college.html
Diversity means selecting the very best. So the appointment of an individual named Hussain Ali Khan to a high position in the company simply represents the best and brightest the times could find:
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 25, 2004—The New York Times Company announced today that Hussain Ali-Khan has been named vice president of real estate development. :
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=NYT&script=411&layout=-6&item_id=635269
To get a real good picture of their insane liberalism and obsession with multiculturalism, read their mission and statement:
http://www.nytco.com/mission.html
So it is no surprise the most influential newspaper in the world is becoming the premier tower of Babel with no soul whatsoever, attempting to shamelessly promote its vision of their company on a national scale.
That includes using the Boston Globe and other Times companies to promote "Multiculturism", the trojan horse of Islamism and the dismantler of American cultural identity.
at November 9, 2004 1:11 PM
Clearly, the moron who wrote this piece has already forgotten how very few violent extremists it takes to wipe out the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at November 9, 2004 1:18 PM
"Multiculturism", the trojan horse of Islamism
Splendidly articulated, Andrew!
Posted by: Mike at November 9, 2004 3:11 PM
Andrew above posted a link to the New York Times. I started to read it, and to take apart its language -- "committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense" and "how we fulfill our comitment" and how "our workforce shares a common commitment that unites our people and businesses together" and "sets us apart from our competitors." And of course, "We call our beliefs our Core Pupose and Core Values."
Yeccch. It was so disgusting, so stupid, that I thought it would be better simply to post the whole thing. = You thought stupidity was just for stupid people, didn't you? No -- it's all over the place, at The New York Times, at major universities, on television, everywhere you look.
Bon appetit!
Mission and Values
The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense. Read about our Diversity and how we fulfill our commitment. Our diversity notwithstanding, our workforce shares a common commitment that unites our people and businesses together and sets us apart from our competitors. We call our beliefs our Core Purpose and Core Values.
Our Core Purpose
Enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment.
Our Core Values
Content of the highest quality and integrity--This is the basis for our reputation and the means by which we fulfill the public trust and our customers' expectations.
Fair treatment of employees based on respect, accountability and standards of excellence.
Creating long-term shareholder value through investment and constancy of purpose.
Good corporate citizenship.
Rules of the Road
Success at The New York Times Company means more than achieving our financial and journalistic goals. Our Company believes that all employees should conduct themselves in a manner consistent with our tenets of behavior, our Rules of the Road:
Treat each other with honesty, respect and civility.
Strive for excellence--don't settle for less.
Embrace diversity.
Contribute your individual excellence to team efforts.
Take risks and innovate, recognizing that failure occasionally occurs.
Information is power; share it.
Accept responsibility; delegate authority.
Give and accept constructive feedback.
Maintain perspective and a sense of humor.
I like that last one: "maintain perspective and a sense of humor." "Sense of humor"? At The New York Times?
at November 9, 2004 3:20 PM
Embrace Jayson Blair
Posted by: Mike at November 9, 2004 3:41 PM
"fear of a few violent extremists being transferred to the 1 million Muslims in Holland who are overwhelmingly peaceful"
If there were 1 million van Goghs in Holland there would be 1 million violent extremists. There is no need to be extreme is your host country caters to your needs.
The deadliest viruses are smart enough not to kill their host quickly.
Posted by: ferrethouse at November 9, 2004 3:43 PM
Pity the editorial writers, columnists, and many (though there are always exceptions) reporters at The New York Times and The Boston Globe,
Wandering lonely and afraid
In a world they never made.
And they wonder, as they wander, trying to make sense of that big bad world, and relying on mere reporting, rather than study, analysis, the application of thought. And then they take those mere reports, so lacking in context and historical sense, and after appropriate mastication among the consenting adults on the news and editorial staffs, offer up this predigested news, giving their hapless readers what they deem fit to print, or perhaps sometimes to hint, and keeping their benighted captive audience from from learning anything that might confuse or blur the party line.
And though at times that world may seem so scary and so complicated, to reporters and editors alike, at The Times Corporation they have built their Church of Compassion and Commitment on this Rock:
People Are the Same the Whole World Over.
That is the principle. This is the unchallengable Article of Faith.
If there is unpleasantness anywhere, for example some body lying on an Amsterdam street, this must simply reflect some deep misunderstanding, some unhappiness being worked out in some inexplicable way. We are all to blame, all of us, and equally, for the world's woes -- but of course some of us are more equal than others when it comes to apportioning that blame, and who better to blame, for who is closer to hand, than ourselves. Yes, we in the United States are most blameworthy -- and if you don't agree, just take a poll among the countries of the Arab League or the O.I.C. or the Muslims in Europe (Let Zogby do the polling). Surely they have a point, those aggrieved souls, because so many
people cannot be so filled with such resentment, such hate, without having a good reason for it --can they?
Yes, indeed, the Times and the Globe, the Globe and the Times --
Wandering lonely and afraid/In a world they never made.
Posted by: Hugh at November 9, 2004 3:55 PM
Under the NYT's Rules of the Road, I found the "embrace diversity" rule (isn't it an order) very disturbing.
I briefly had a vision of Jim Jones in Guyana wearing a white suit and dark glasses calmly shouting through a megaphone, "Embrace diversity, you must embrace the diversity...".
Those who risist are dragged away to their fate.
Posted by: Andrew at November 9, 2004 4:49 PM
What I find surprising, nay astonishing, is that the media from TV to MSM are not up in arms at the momentous assault by the forces of barbarism on the very spirit of Freedom. How is it the BBC, CBS, the NYT, and all other bastions of the free Western press are not shouting at this murderous assault on Freedom that is taking place right at the heart of the Western world. Writers and now film makers, are murdered and slaughtered and the MSM is silent. How has this come about? Have they made a compact with the forces of barbarism, or are they already cowed. Or they just do not care. The most generous one can be is that they do not think of what a momentous pass we are at with the murder of Van Gogh.
Surely this cannot go on. If we allow this to continue, then regardless of how many battles we win in the Middle East, we will lose the war i.e., the war or Jihad that has been declared some 1400 years ago and is now nascent in our backyard.
at November 9, 2004 6:38 PM
The problem with the perception about the 1 million peaceful Muslims is that they are exactly that,peaceful and passive.
I look at the history of them staying mute on terrorism and Islamists towards non-Muslims and my fear is the handfull of extremists will take the silence as a form of conscent to kill for Allah to establish an Islamic State in Holland.
It's easy for me to say I condemn violence against females,but what to I do when I see it happening to a female when I'm out in public,not trying to stop it is just as bad for the victim
as the goon that approves it as a deserved response like the Van Gogh murder.
Funny how the Muslims are now the victims and seem more worried about the backlash from the killing than the un-Islamic public murdering of a Dutch civilian.Just watch the Government force a classroom workshop on Islamophobia to placte the Muslims so they don't riot or murder more people for accusing Islam of being violent.
Posted by: ala-sux at November 9, 2004 10:27 PM
"People Are the Same the Whole World Over.
That is the principle. This is the unchallengable Article of Faith."
This is the base fallacy of leftism.
people are mostly the products of their education,environment etc with small genetic differences.
Pacific Islanders who preyed on shipwrecked sailors and kept them in cages until ready for eating,( i am told that the chinese were the most flavoursome) felt no guilt or horror at their canabalistic practises.
If i choose to help a helpless old lady with her shopping and not to steal it, (knowing for certain that i would not be apprehended) it is not because of an inbuilt moral code which i was born with. it is the result of my upbringing and moral education!
If my moral code tell me to kill outsiders who do not follow my faith or insult it, i will like the canabilistic Islanders do this with no guilt or regret.
at November 10, 2004 4:01 AM
Article quote:
"This syndrome -- fear of a few violent extremists being transferred to the 1 million Muslims in Holland who are overwhelmingly peaceful -- "
User comment:
Overwhelmingly peaceful? More like overwhelmingly sympathetic to Militant Islam unless they *pro-actively* speak out against it and *pro-actively* work to stop it. And, it's not a "syndrome" it's a fact of Militant Islam. It's not a "few" violent extremists: "Adherents of militant Islam account for some 15-20 percent of the Muslim world, according to Daniel Pipes, an expert on the subject. This means that more than 150 million people are part of the problem. To make matters worse, they hide among the moderates. They don't wear uniforms and rarely identify themselves."
http://www.meforum.org/article/168
Posted by: Report at November 10, 2004 10:36 AM
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