Just another small episode in the long, sad tale of the decline and death of free societies in Europe. The burqa and niqab have been used many times by criminals to conceal their identities as they commit crimes, and they are symbols of an authoritarian, supremacist belief system that mandates the conquest and subjugation of those who hold other beliefs. Also, untold numbers of women around the world have been brutalized or even killed for refusing to wear garments like these. The Netherlands was, not too very long, such a beautiful little country.
“Dutch ‘burqa ban’ rendered largely unworkable on first day,” by Daniel Boffey, Guardian, August 1, 2019 (thanks to Paul):
The Netherlands’ so-called burqa ban has been rendered largely unworkable on its first day in law after both the police and Dutch transport companies signalled an unwillingness to enforce it.
Under the terms of the Partial Ban on Face-Covering Clothing Act, the wearing of ski masks, full-face helmets, balaclavas, niqabs and burqas is prohibited in public buildings including schools and hospitals and on public transport.
Wearers of the banned clothing are to be given the option to remove the offending item or face a police fine of between €150 and €415. There is no prohibition on wearing such garments in the street.
But the law appears to have been fatally undermined after police said its enforcement was not a priority and signalled their discomfort with the idea that veiled women could be put off from entering a police station to make unrelated complaints.
Transport companies said in a response to the police position that they would not ask their staff on trains, metros, trams or buses to take on an enforcement role in the absence of officers.
Pedro Peters, a spokesman for the RET transport network, said the law was unworkable. “The police have told us the ban is not a priority and that therefore they will not be able to respond inside the usual 30 minutes, if at all,” he said.
“This means that if a person wearing a burqa or a niqab is challenged trying to use a service, our staff will have no police backup to adjudicate on what they should do. It is not up to transport workers to impose the law and hand out fines.”
Staff have been instructed to advise women wearing face-covering clothing of the law but to allow entry.
With confusion reigning, an editorial in the conservative Algemeen Dagblad newspaper caused an uproar by suggesting that those “bothered” by the wearing of the prohibited clothing could make a citizen’s arrest, a position confirmed by the national police on Twitter….
Wellington says
Right now, the West is the weak horse, as evidenced here in this article about The Netherlands.
Well, the weak horse has lost its balls, even though it has far better ideas respecting how human society should be governed than does the barbarian strong horse, i.e., the Islamic world.
And better ideas without strength will always give way to worse ideas with strength. Think the Weimar Republic here as an example. Yeah, keep the year 1933 in mind.
J D S says
Well said Wellington…..It’s almost unbelievable that European countries would rather bend yo the wil of Islam…The PROBLEM..Those people, of responsible age, in Europe, that lived through the Nazi regime of Hitler are mostly gone by now or any way it seems so, and apparently what’s left just don’t care if they will be so oppressed under Muslim life, that life won’t be worth living and their countries will slide into the gloomy desolate oblivion that we see in Muslim countries today.
Why have THE PEOPLE IF EUROPE allowed their elite leaders to drag them into such a mess ??? Surely not STUPIDITY.
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington … an appropriate comparison to the insouciant malaise in the Weimar Republic. Academics and refined society had no idea how to go forward, so firebrands stepped into the vacuum.
People refuse to inform themselves but eagerly swallow the most absurd propaganda without examination.
The Islamic veil is a way to disenfranchise women by keeping them isolated and controlled by a male legal guardian who thinks and makes decisions for them. So, do the Leftards actually ABANDON the human rights and civil liberties of Muslim women?
The Leftards DO in fact abandon the beaten and downtrodden Muslim women.
Carol the 1st says
De-policing is the word for it in North America. Troublesome matters involving native citizens are dealt with but those involving favoured groups are willfully ignored with claims of “lack of resources” – the term used by Police is FIDO (Forget about It, Drive On). Canadian Tom Quiggan discusses this practice (27:00 to end). Take it to the Max!:
Immigration, Islamism & Integration – Maxime Bernier and Tarek Fatah talk to Tom Quiggin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IykyFOsSZg&t=11s
Carol the 1st says
At 26:40 Tarek Fatah says:
“We came here [to Canada from India] to get the right not to be harassed by cops and now we see that in the Police Forces, sir, the Consultancy Advisory Committees have Muslim Brotherhood advisors sitting on it.”
CogitoErgoSum says
No shirt, no shoes, no service. No face, no service either.
CRUSADER says
No choice left but to become stricter in order to affirm liberties.
How ironic.
winoceros says
No free medical or use of ebt cards with veils. Solved. Identity fraud/HIPAA concerns.
winoceros says
Also, the law, like an anti- smoking law, shouldn’t punish the smoker. It fines the property that allows it. Fine cabs and clinics and grocery stores instead. Problem solved. No good lawyers in Holland?
gravenimage says
Netherlands: Police and transport companies refuse to enforce ban on burqa and niqab
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The *police* have refused to enforce this? Deeply disturbing. Muslims will just laugh at this “ban”.
Christianblood says
In Germany, a muslim refugee swords his German roommate to death in the street.
Very graphic clips below:
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201908011076429774-german-man-killed-sword-syrian-roommate-graphic-video/
James says
I saw a report on this on German TV tonight and they did not identify the people involved and showed a smart phone picture that did not allow identification. Perhaps the information was made available in another media report. I assumed at once it must be a Muslim, because they try to downplay or cover up Muslim crimes in the news to help them continue to bring more and more Muslims into Europe.
gravenimage says
Is christianblood sneering at this friends the Jihadists murdering Western Infidels?
Bazz12 says
Sack them. they either enforce the law or get another job.
Angemon says
On one hand, I can understand how this could be unenforceable – not enough people in the force and pressing concerns with more serious crimes. On the other hand, if law enforcement is understaffed, making sure they have enough means and resources to uphold the law should be a priority of the ruling class.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Angemon, this is not about resources.
Angemon says
Then more shame on them.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Is there no resistance possible from the counter-Jihad side? It looks like not. There is no sanctimony in calling out a negative, however real and present. The behavior of the Dutch police and transport companies feels like the knife that was plunged into the heart of Theo Van Gogh, Vincent’s grandson. For him it was deserved because he dared question the Moslems’ treatment of women. For the Dutch cops and transport companies, it’s because… uh, don’t know exactly why, but it has something to do with feeling good about oneself.
Anjuli Pandavar says
APF, “Is there no resistance possible from the counter-Jihad side?”
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Is it illegal to stop a crime in progress?
Anjuli Pandavar says
“police said its enforcement was not a priority and signalled their discomfort with the idea that veiled women could be put off from entering a police station to make unrelated complaints.”
You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to immediately wonder: 1. how would they know the veiled person walking into the police station is a woman?; 2. how would they know what the veiled person was there for?
If it starts off already this badly, how long before the Dutch police “signal their discomfort” with Muslim women *not* wearing a niqab or a burka? How long before they “signal their discomfort” with *any* woman not shrouding herself in pre-mediaeval rape-deterrence? How long before they “signal their discomfort” with investigating Muslim domestic violence? How long before they “signal their discomfort” with investigating “honour” killings? How long before they “signal their discomfort” with arresting Muslim paedophile rapists? How long before they “signal their discomfort” with “not doing enough” to “help Muslims integrate” and fall over themselves to facilitate the subjugation of their own society, or worse to, Ardern-fashion, enforce their own enslavement. Will those causes of “discomfort” also be “not a priority”? Elementary, my dear Jansen.
Ren says
Not enforcing laws = Liberalism
Halal Bacon says
no, no, no, no! selectively enforcing laws is liberalism
Ren says
Liberals make their own laws.
Westman says
This is where socialists and Islam converge – ignoring laws they don’t like.
Now, laws they do like allow them to persecute Geert Wilders or others for speaking unwanted truth. Like Sweden, they won’t wake up to the loss of their ethnic heritage until it also is under persecution. Someday there will be no Dutch.
Carol the 1st says
In line with your post Antifa is just the latest incarnation of Communist muscle squads (per expert Jack Posobiec) and its tactics have been justified and employed for years (right down to the face masks).
A good Youtube video is:
Antifa Origins & Tactics Exposed, After Andy Ngo’s Assault At Portland Protest—Jack Posobiec
James says
I read about a rich Muslim in France, I think, who simply promised to pay any fines for wearing Muslim female coverings. It is obvious that the police and transport officials would be burdened down by trying to enforce the bans. And it has to be recalled that the women face violence from male relatives for not wearing such clothing in public. This is a good reason to not allow further mass migration, but I doubt if that is in the cards. The leftists will do everything to keep the mass migration flowing to the West.
Anjuli Pandavar says
James, “I read about a rich Muslim in France, I think, who simply promised to pay any fines for wearing Muslim female coverings.”
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Incitement to commit crime. Plain and simple. Not that anything will necessarily be done about it.
Kerry Wade says
It all demonstrates the utter stupidity of allowing them into Europe in the first place.
Barb says
The Dutch Police and the Dutch transport companies, should be held to account! They are deliberately putting all Dutch citizens at risk! Let’s hope ALL victims of Jihadi attacks sue the Police and Transport company for neglect!
It is gross negligence simply because they don’t want to offend!
In other countries there’s a ban on bike helmets and head coverings that conceal faces and there should be for clothing under which a gun, machete or bomb may be concealed!
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “The Netherlands’ so-called burqa ban has been rendered largely unworkable on its first day in law after both the police and Dutch transport companies signalled an unwillingness to enforce it.” OH, REALLY? Then, in the immortal words of god-emperor Trump: “YOU’RE all FIRED!”
Vincent Schoers says
Why is no one talking about the demonic pact, the UN resolution 1743 directed evil against the western population. A pact signed by as many nations as there are members of the UN. Representatives of Nations who have betrayed their own people by credo and offered to be destroyed by an ideology of pedophile madmen who call themselves followers of the one true god. I tell you that’s a misconception.
the gospels are written in 80 AD. the Quran in 622 AD. poorly translated and completely filled with their own madness and misconceptions
Marigold says
According to one report I heard there are so few women wearing the full face and body covering in the Netherlands it is not worth the bother banning it.Yet the Quoran has plenty to say about the inferiority of women so no matter how few there are wearing this hideous and unneccesary garment no one should be forced to wear it to please somebody else as this is against that person’s human rights. Therefore it could be argued that the refusal by the police to enforce the ban actually condones Islamic belief about the inferiority of women and does not care about the human rights of Muslim women .As for the even fewer women who say they WANT to wear it these silly women must actually believe what the Quoran says about women being inferior to men.
Bob Jones says
I guess now that any person can wear a KKK mask!
CogitoErgoSum says
You can be sure the law would be fully enforced in that case.
John says
Somebody once posted that Muslim women wear burqas for the same reason the KKK wears white hoods. Think about it folks. A lot of truth here? Intimidation reasons?
Marc says
This is what happens when you let people in without setting rules. The rule should be simple: “This is not an Islamic county. You are not allowed to have your face covered in public. That’s the rule. Come in and live by our rules, or don’t come in. Your choice.”
Simple.
James Lincoln says
It’s better to not pass a law – than to pass one that will not be enforced…
Crusades Were Right says
“…police said its enforcement was not a priority and signalled their discomfort with the idea that veiled women could be put off from entering a police station to make unrelated complaints”
Have the Dutch police considered that the women in question could simply REMOVE their veils before entering the police station… LIKE THE LAW THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE ENFORCING SAYS THEY SHOULD?
Just a suggestion. lol
winoceros says
They don’t want to uneil so might not report other crimes, to the detriment of all. That is the concern.
Crusades Were Right says
I wonder what will happen when someone objects to a veiled woman getting on a bus, say? Nah, who am I kidding – we ALL know what will happen! lol
Tay says
Yet transport staff have no problem enforcing the law by issuing a fine, or removing a passenger travelling without a valid ticket.
As do the police, not having a problem making it a priority to turn up should a person refuse to give their details for a fine to be issued, or to remove a passenger from the train or bus.
This SHOULD be made a priority, especially nowadays with all the criminal activities carried out by these people on transport.
If non – Muslims made a point of wearing some sort of face covering in the places where they are supposed to be banned, you’d soon see the police and transport staff making it a priority to have the face coverings removed… and I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate to issue on the spot fines either!
This simply proves even more, how Muslims are allowed to go against the law of the land, without worry if being arrested like non – Muslims would be.
It’s there now more than ever, for the world to see, that Muslims make the decisions of law, and not the law itself.
If anyone is assaulted by a Muslim woman wearing a burka or niqab, they should sue the police, because the woman who assaulted them will never be captured and taken to court for justice to be served, because there will be no way of recognising her.
And should anyone be killed by a burka or niqab wearing woman, then the family should sue for the same reason.
Britpop says
As a citizen of the Netherlands I can confirm this topic and the refusal of authorities to enforce this law. However, the Netherlands have a problem enforcing their own laws as it is, this is just yet another example. The only thing you can rely on the police for, is traffic enforcement, speedtraps, the endless control, subjugation, spying and intimidating of the Dutch citizenry in favour of criminals of all creeds and colour.
The Dutch government is a Brussels puppet scam. Not even the news of his law enforcement officers and other institutions ignoring the law could entice the Dutch Prime Minister to break off his holidays.
The law is just symbolism, they never intended to enforce it in the first place. Unless you are a government opponent wearing a balaclava. They don’t enforce drug laws, they don’t have border checks, migrants run riot in public life, public transport, the authorities respond by creating an extra busline for the migrants. Criminals have gunfights with automatic weapons in Amsterdam but a citizen is not allowed personal protection.
The route to be taken, is chaos. This is what they want, this is what they pursue. With a political class of intellectual no-nos obsessed with loyalty to Brussels and what personal wealth it will bring them, it doesn’t matter to them if the whole of Holland turns sharia.