"Sure, there are racists and creeps everywhere, but no one in Holland or in Europe in general seems to be willing or able to address the fact that the problem of Islamic immigration is not racial, but ideological," writes Robert Spencer of Dhimmi Watch re former Liberal VVD leader Hans Dijkstal's claim that Dutch political culture is sowing hate and criminalising migrants, reported by Expatica:
And I suppose the migrants themselves have no responsibility in all this? Forgive me if I doubt that the Holland of 2004 is really the kind of virulently racist and xenophobic society that Dijkstal seems to assume . . . This is the first time a large number of people have come holding a religion that contains a tradition that they must do violence in order to establish the political hegemony of that religion. How can non-Muslim Dutchmen be sure that Dutch Muslims will not try to institute Sharia there? An atmosphere in which such questions are of themselves considered discrimination and hatemongering is one that breeds the resentment that Dijkstal deplores.
This fellow Dijkstal deserves one of Andrew Sullivan's Susan Sontag Awards. Click here and scroll down to savor Andrew's own latest nominee, a Chicago researcher in Mideast studies who says that "when Palestinians refer to Jews as 'descended from apes and swine' or encourage support for those who 'kill Jews,' they do so with the reasonably justifiable self-image of victim and persecuted, not of victimizer and persecutor."
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