The Islamic supremacists along with their socialist leftist companions are out with their clubs. This time it’s in the Netherlands, and the hunted victim is US Ambassador Peter Hoekstra.
A mocking article in the Independent — “Donald Trump’s new ambassador to Netherlands struggles to defend claim Muslims ‘burned’ Dutch politicians” — zeroes in on a 2015 statement by Hoekstra, and he and Trump are now being bashed with it.
Hoekstra stated back then “about the chaos the ‘Islamic movement’ had brought to the Netherlands”:
There are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned….. and yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.
Despite the hoopla about this old Hoekstra reference, the much larger issue is his accuracy in warning about “the Islamic movement” and “no-go zones.” In a Bloomberg report –-“Why the Dutch Turned Against Immigrants” — the demise of a once peaceful, respectable, picturesque neighborhood is described. It turned into a squalid place where “people started experiencing bad things — cars scratched, elevators urinated in.” A mosque with questionable ties to jihad terror was also built there.
Some more concerns for the Netherlands:
- In a parliamentary speech in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders stated: “In our country today, Christians are being told: ‘We want to murder you all.’ Jews receive death threats. Swastika flags at demonstrations, stones go through windows, Molotov cocktails, Hitler salutes are being made, macabre black ISIS flags wave in the wind, we hear cries, such as ‘F-ck the Talmud,’ on the central square in Amsterdam.”
- While no politician was literally burned in the Netherlands, there are certainly those who were “burned” in the figurative sense. Among them was Wilders, who has been dragged into court several times on spurious “hate speech” charges, and must travel with a team of bodyguards everywhere for the crime of offending Islam. Pim Fortuyn, “an energetic populist leader who had become one of the first Dutch politicians to actively criticize Islam, was shot dead in 2002.” Also, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was once a Dutch politician, who collaborated on the movie Submission, which was critical of Islam’s treatment of women, with film director Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam street by a Muslim who said he did it because van Gogh offended Islam. He left a note including a hit list of future victims, including Hirsi Ali, who now also lives under guard.
- No-go zones are a real threat all across Europe, and the Netherlands is no exception. In neighboring Belgium, only 118 miles away, police have lost control of the dangerous no-go zone of Molenbeek ; a car fire epidemic was also recently reported to be raging in the also nearby no-go zone in Stockholm. Sweden is less than 800 miles from the Netherlands.
- Sweden is on the verge of civil war. Policing is so difficult that 80 percent of police want to quit their jobs. Sweden’s National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, pleaded for assistance on TV, stating that “Swedish police forces no longer can uphold the law and therefore must ask all good powers in the country to support them.” Swedish Chief Prosecutor Lise Tamm has described the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby is like “a war zone”; Muslim migrants turned Sweden’s largest shopping center into a no-go zone, intimidating police, harassing girls and openly dealing drugs.
Pete Hoekstra is being disparaged wrongly for his important warnings, in a global climate that features a glaring double standard regarding public statements from those on the left and those on the right. Take some examples close to home:
- Leftist so-called feminist leader Linda Sarsour tweeted out about activists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel: “I wish I could take their vaginas away,” while she and her supporters ignore the practices of child marriage, polygamy, honor violence, FGM and the overall inferior status of women under the sharia.
- Islamic hate preachers who call for the death of Jews and Zionists and the destruction of Israel, even in the U.S. and Canada, also escape accountability.
- University of California professor Hatem Bazian co-founder of the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine, called for an intifada in America. He suffered no professional consequences.
- Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to jihadist Omar Khadr and paid him 10.5 million dollars for allegedly being treated too harshly in Gitmo. The Prime Minister also welcomes returning Islamic State jihadists back home, and meets privately with Joshua Boyle, a suspected jihadist with 15 criminal charges.
- Canadian Liberal MP Chris Bittle has labeled anti-Islamic State protesters “white supremacists.”
Hoekstra, meanwhile, is mocked in public. Political reporter Roel Geeraedts states that “he believed that Hoekstra’s behaviour confirmed some suspicions the Dutch have about the Trump administration.” Geeraedts wasted no opportunity to bash Trump as he made himself out to be spokesperson of “the Dutch” in a broad sweep. Dutch reporters focused on the one inaccuracy in Hoekstra’s statement:
Mr. Ambassador, can you mention any example of a Dutch politician who was burned in recent years?
Public space for discussion, intellectual investigation, inquiry and even necessary scrutiny in the West is narrowing. Woe be unto anyone who warns about the hijrah, the jihad threat and the Muslim Brotherhood’s ambitions. He or she will be accused of racism, Islamophobia, white supremacism, xenophobia, intolerance, etc. Even Ayaan Hirsi Ali was called “a white supremacist” by a group of Muslim women ahead of her planned visit to Australia.
Hoekstra stated before Christmas: “I made certain remarks in 2015 and regret the exchange during the Nieuwsuur interview. Please accept my apology.” That wasn’t enough. The gang-up against Hoekstra at his “first conference with the Dutch media” is reminiscent of the days of witch-hunts and mob lynchings. Did he make a mistake? In the details, yes, but were his warnings to the Netherlands false or unwarranted? No.
Mass rapes of infidel women across Europe are real, the Islamic vision of the conquest of the House of War is real. The accuracy of Hoekstra’s warnings should far overshadow his mistakes.
“Donald Trump’s new ambassador to Netherlands struggles to defend claim Muslims ‘burned’ Dutch politicians”, by Eli Rosenberg and Amar Nadhir, Independent, January 11, 2018:
Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted US ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first conference with the Dutch media at his new residence in the Hague on Wednesday.
It did not go well.
Dutch journalists peppered Hoekstra, who became Donald Trump’s ambassador after serving 18 years as a Republican congressman from Michigan, with questions on unsubstantiated claims he made in 2015 about the chaos the “Islamic movement” had brought to the Netherlands.
“There are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned,” he had said at a conference hosted by a conservative group. “And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.”
The comments have widely been described as inaccurate, and reflect certain conspiracies about sharia law that crop up in some circles of the far-right in the West. When pressed by the Dutch reporters, Hoekstra declined to retract the comments or give specific examples to back them up.
In fact, after saying that he would be “revisiting the issue,” he simply refused to answer the question at all.
But the reporters were not done with the line of questioning yet. Instead of moving on, another reporter would simply ask a variation on the question again.
“Everybody there had one question: that crazy statement you made, are you going to withdraw it?” said Roel Geeraedts, a political reporter at the Dutch television station RTL Nieuws in a phone interview about the event. “We were not getting answers, so we all kept asking it.”
Geeraedts published a segment with video of the remarkable exchange on social media.
After at least one person had asked the question, Geeraedts followed up to ask Hoekstra about a John Adams quote – Adams was the United States’ first ambassador to Holland – that was mounted right behind the ambassador. Hoekstra said he had read the quote, which expresses Adams’ hope that only “honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.”
“If you’re truly an honest and wise man, could you please take back the remark about burned politicians or name the politician that was burned in the Netherlands?” Geeraedts asked.
An uncomfortable silence followed the question.
“Thank you,” Hoekstra said, before trying to call on someone else over the clamour of the reporters in the room.
“Excuse me, I asked you a question,” Geeraedts said.
Another journalist jumped in.
“Mr. Ambassador, can you mention any example of a Dutch politician who was burned in recent years?”
Again, silence, as Hoekstra stared around the room.
“This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions,” another reporter said.
Sherry Keneson-Hall, an embassy counselor who was helping run the news conference, pushed back, asserting that Hoekstra was answering the questions.
At least one more journalist fired the question off. Reporters had asked the question at least five times.
“We were all astonished that he didn’t want to take back the comment. It was simply untrue, so why not take it back?” said Geeraedts. “It was awkward, to be honest.”
Hoekstra has been in hot water in the Netherlands for the remarks since he was first confronted by a Dutch journalist, Wouter Zwart, in December. Hoekstra falsely claimed to Zwart that he had never made the remarks and called them “fake news.” Moments later, he denied that he had called them fake news.
Video of the bizarre exchange, juxtaposed with his “no-go zone” remarks, went viral, and the episode drew a slew of critical headlines in the United States and the Netherlands.
Hoekstra’s silence when faced with reporters’ questions on Wednesday drew a similar response….
Hoekstra pointed to the public regrets he had made for the exchange with Zwart on Wednesday. But he did not clarify whether the apology was meant to include the no-go zone comments when asked on Wednesday. At one point, he seemed to indicate that he was most concerned about the interview, not the statements.
“It is not about my personal views anymore. This is about the views on the policies of the United States of America as directed by this administration,” he said. “One interview is not going to have an impact. The other thing I just want to reinforce, this relationship has been maintained by countless people over the last 400 years, this is not about me.”
A CNN report published this week documented multiple times Hoekstra had referred to “no-go zones,” in European cities during appearances on conservative media, including talk radio, and a print op-ed, and unearthed other instances where he had given fuel to conspiracy theories about Muslims.
He speculated that some 10-15 percent of the Muslim community in the world – 270 million people – were radical Islamist militants and appeared to imply that Huma Abedin had “egregious” ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim that The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler, and other publications, have determined as “bogus.” On another far-right show, Hoekstra said he had considered the possibly that President Barack Obama might be intentionally aiding the rise of Muslim extremists….
Geeraedts said he believed that Hoekstra’s behaviour confirmed some suspicions the Dutch have about the Trump administration.
MFritz says
The media may silence him this time. But a growing number of people know that he is right.
And once Wilders (or similar) are elected into power it won’t be THAT easy anymore to get rid of what they say.
Guy Forester says
Unfortunately, I doubt that there will be many truly honest and fair elections in Western Europe and the UK. Regardless of what the polls show, regardless of what the average citizens want and vote for, regardless of the parties running, the same clowns from the same two or three parties get elected. Maybe Jimmy Carter needs to go there and ensure a free and honest election. Yeah, right.
MFritz says
Most elections are already rigged as a matter of fact. There is no objective media anymore and the established parties do everything in their power to criminalise the “newcomers”.
Besides, most people simply don’t want to listen. Not because they are biased but becaused they are scared of the truth. Or don’t care.
jan sobieski says
I would have fired back. Wasn’t it a muslim who mowed down infidels in the streets of …. Wasn’t it a muslim who murdered Van Gogh? District x is well known as a muslim dominated area where infidels do not fee l safe, especially at night…..
Jayell says
“Geeraedts said he believed that Hoekstra’s behaviour confirmed some suspicions the Dutch have about the Trump administration”…..
Looks like Mijnheer Geeraedt’s behaviour has also confirmed some suspicions the Americans might have the current Dutch administration! I can’t recall my WW2 history very well, but if there was an American ambassador in the Netherlands in 1940, I wonder what the reaction might have been if he’d said something similar about the Nazis?
Completely off topic (apologies), but I we’re all hearing that Mr. Trump has decided not to come across to open the new US Embassy in London. Quite right, I wouldn’t bother with the UK at the moment either if I didn’t have to exist here. I just hope that the Great and Mighty Khan had nothing to do with the decision – if it did, that’s another nail in Khan’s coffin as far as a few million Londoners are concerned.
StellaSaidSo says
Good Grief. Burned for using a figure of speech.
LeftisruiningCanada says
If this is all they have to work with, then ‘the empire’s on the run’.
tom says
i live in the Netherlands, never heard of no go zone here. Belgium ,yes; Sweden, yes; France yes but not in the Netherlands. show me where those zones are.
StellaSaidSo says
A report released by the Dutch govt c2010 identified at least 40 NO GO zones in The Netherlands, mostly in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. The Kolenkit area of Amsterdam was considered at that time the most problematic of these. I doubt that any of them have shrunk in size in the years since the report was compiled.
Tom says
40 no go zone that just bullshit. A few shit head spuwing hate. Police total in controle. Big fush over nothing much
StellaSaidSo says
It’s a govt report. Look it up.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The French disagree:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5128/france-no-go-zones
islamkills says
Is your real name tom muhammad or what. Fact is fact. Maybe you don’t get around much.
R Russell says
Tom,
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/dutch-anxiety-over-sharia-triangle-police-no-go-area-in-the-hague-1.1404541
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/657520/Europe-no-go-900-EU-areas-police-lost-control
http://freewestmedia.com/2017/04/14/as-no-go-zones-riot-the-next-dutch-government-could-be-more-leftist/
Will this information be enough for now?
MTMLA says
My niece was living in Holland for a few years. I don’t know the name of town she was living in. My sister in law and her mom went to visit. They were walking around, they walked into some area that was all muslim, like being in the ME. People were looking at them suspiciously. They were concerned for their safety. They think they were not attacked was because they were speaking another language other than Dutch. Eventually my niece moved to Milano because the town was becoming too dangerous, too islamized.
MTMLA says
Now Italy is taken over as well as the rest of Europe.It’s EURABIA now.
Sam says
Tom,
Good for you that you do not hear about no go zones. Keep enabling your muslim friends and submit soon to Islam and Sharia. Be happy that you are a tolerant person so and so forth.
Don’t waste your time here in JW if you are not getting the Jihad threat in your country and Europe and pretty much everywhere .in the world today.” Probably not in North Korea”
Tom says
Is not happening . All overtracted made up stuff bigger then it is.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Do you have anything to support that claim, other than wishful thinking?
StellaSaidSo says
‘Not happening’? Are you blind? It’s happening throughout Europe, as well as in UK, US, Canada, and Australia. Only an ignorant fool or a lefty apologist (same thing really) would deny it.
David E munson says
Pete Hoekstra is a fine man with old school ethics. Something sorely needed in the Netherlands. Logic and common sense has deserted his mitherland
Leo O Zakharoff says
It seems, everyone is taking about civil war, but it IS NOT CIVIL WAR, IT IS THE LAST CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Eight crusades have been fought between 1096 and 1291, all against Muslims and Christians.
The last crusade, in Europe, will not be fought with the symbol of Islam, the “Scimitar.” Europe will fall within a few generations, not by the sword of Islam, but by sheer over population.
MUSLIMS BREED LIKE RABBITS. Majority of Muslim men, are PEDOPHILES who will want to marry 9 year old girls. Pathetic. These pedophiles must be shot dead on sight!
In Sweden and the rest of Europe, each country will lose their identity, what made their countries great and unique, ALL because of over population and breeding like rabbits. The only option Europe will face, will be, to kneel to the new CALIPHATE or die by having your head cut off or burnt alive.
THE MUSLIMS HAVE NO SYMPATHY TOWARDS CHRISTIANS. They would rather cut your head off then spite on you.
My take? Sweden and the rest of Europe MUST take immediate action, to expel all Muslims ruthlessly or die…their choice. THIS IS WAR.
I know, my harsh attitude towards Muslims may not agree with most Christians. I fear what is coming. I am in my 70’s and I am glad, I will not witness the fall of Europe, in the next 30-40 years hence.
I apologize, if I offended anyone….leo
StellaSaidSo says
You are right, Leo, it is war; a war that was declared 1400 years ago. Those of us who have read the Koran and a bit of history know exactly what we face. Like you, I am glad I won’t be around to see the worst of it, but I grieve for the generations to come.
MTMLA says
Don’t apologize for telling the truth. It’s a stealth war going on but the European zombies can’t see it..ohers don’t dare to talk about it in public for fear of punishment by their own government or the jihadis.RIP Europe.
steve says
Ok, Euro-”Peons”..[sic].. We are all spineless cowards who live in total, abject fear of Islam and Islamists stabbings and bombings, Therefore I suggest, that for example, in England, immediately, we should appeal to the Muslim Council of Britain, trusting totally their unbounded ‘chivalry’ and BEG that august body to ALLOW us to build safe areas for non-Muslims in our major cities.
Max Publius says
The treacherous, truth-denying left is bent on ensuring the Netherlands will soon be a full-blown sh**hole.
mortimer says
Hoekstra words would be 100% literally accurate and indisputable without the single word ‘burned’.
A Muslim mayor of Rotterdam a few years ago invited the jihadists to pack up and leave Holland.
Scott in PA says
Hoekstra shows exactly how NOT to handle the Left. Notice how they all focus on the “politicians burned” comment and ignore the cars burned and the no-go zones.
Don’t give them any bizarre statements unless you can back them up. The truth is bad enough. If you say something wrong, quickly apologize and move on.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Good point.
A quick admission of having ‘mistated’ something loses you nothing, especially when you then have chance to back up the other parts of your statement with hard facts. The end result would be pretty much a smack down for the leftist shill who was trying to discredit you.
Im pretty sure Trump uses this tactic to get his enemies focused where he wants them.
Laurence Jarvik says
My thought after reading this is that Ambassador Hoekstra needs better staff support from his Public Affairs Section…he needs to bring in some non-career people…the Dutch actually appreciate honesty and fighters, which is why Geert Wilders gets so many votes…I say this a someone whose mother was born in The Hague…he could start by referring to Ian Buruma’s book “Murder in Amsterdam” in press conferences, rather than going silent. Unless I’m completely wrong, the tougher the better when it comes to communication with the Dutch…he just needs new staff at the Embassy (I’d be happy to go work for him there, myself). They may be trying to sabotage him, no excuse for bad p.r. except bad staff work.
StellaSaidSo says
I agree. The Ambassador clearly lacks efficient, loyal and well-informed support staff. Proper briefing on the issues, and better preparation for dealing with the hostile Leftist media, could have prevented embarrassment in this instance.
Buruma’s book on the murder of Theo van Gogh should definitely be on Hoekstra’s reading list, along with Bruce Bawer’s ‘While Europe Slept, Douglas Murray’s ‘The Strange Death of Europe’, and Geert Wilders’ ‘Marked For Death’. He needs to get up to speed very quickly if he is to avoid a repetition of this unfortunate episode.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yep, all decent reads for sure.
Tommy Robinson “Enemy of the State” and Danny Lockwood “Islamic republic of Dewsbury” are also eye openers on Britain in particular from a ground level perspective.
Tjhawk says
When my boys were in their early teens, when they were floundering in family disagreements, would often latch on to some very minor, very literal thing, that I had misstated, and then act like they won the whole argument.
It’s a disruptive, juvenile tactic that I would hope most adults would have grown out of.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It is like that isn’t it.
CRUSADER says
Pharrell song -> Happy Dutch Muslims! #HAPPYDAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iotR7apCYxo
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s a picture of the multicultural idea is they wish it could be.
I wish it could be like that too.
But there’s a lot of this too:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NetherlandsSharia.jpg
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFA6op8C8vU
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hubeN-BAPfc
tgusa says
The era of, just pretend it doesn’t exist, is over.
Douglas McRill says
If anything he understated what is going on in Europe. Watch The documentary Killing Europe. It is sickening what those fools have done to their nations. They are doomed. They can’t even protect their children. If you arm your daughter with pepper spray they can take your children from you. They are living under communism and don’t even know it.
DiploNerd says
http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/kfile-pete-hoekstra-no-go-zones/index.html
Looks like at least one remaining Trump appointee does not see Islamic doctrine as all cupcakes and gumdrops. Alhamdulillah!
Steve says
Figuratively speaking some politicians who openly state the truth about the evils of Islam are being ‘burned’. Hoekstra being one of them. He should have stood up to the rabid leftist media on this issue stating the ‘witch hunt’ against him as a prime example.
The fact is, people like Hoekstra and Trump are standing up for the interests and welfare of the indigenous majority by telling it as it is. You really can’t ‘sugar coat’ the atrocities that many Muslims are doing around the world, although the left love too by simply and totally ignoring these serious issues.
The liberal left really are a serious problem where democracy is concerned, and their venomous cause has infiltrated much of the news media, because they know that if they have a platform to throw enough mud at those they disagree with (and that is literally everyone who dares to oppose them), then some of it will inevitably stick. Especially with those of low intellect as well as many females (yes, the left play to their ‘compassionate’ side too!), who seem unable to see through their lies and destructive intentions.