Something’s Rotten in Rotterdam

This Dutch port city is a nervous place on the verge of breakdown.

June 14, 2009 - by Paul Lucre
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Getting jumped by six Moroccans after I left a gay bar in Rotterdam a few weeks ago brought home — with brutal clarity — my feeling that this Dutch port city is a nervous place on the verge of breakdown.

Having studied in two European countries, lived and worked in three, and visited about two dozen over a 20-year period, I usually feel extremely safe meandering around the “old countries” of our Western civilization. But there’s something rotten in Rot-town.

The city has been hard hit by the economic crisis. Unemployment is already twice the national average and over the next year could match the 20 percent rate of the 90s downturn.

But economics only partially explains why Rotterdam may see blood in the streets this summer.

Rotterdam’s demographics make it the unofficial capital of Eurabia. Its population is half non-Western or of non-Western descent. Muslims make up close to 25 percent of its population. Unskilled, undereducated, and increasingly unemployed workers abound. And segregation — ubiquitous in all large European cities — is extremely acute here. Rotterdam’s ghettos would make Hitler smile.

In the last few weeks, I’ve witnessed two violent incidents in downtown Rotterdam between whites and non-whites. Each started over absolutely nothing, but flared up like lighter fluid on hot coals. All sorts of racial and religious tensions — which were only intensified by the 2002 murder of city leader Pim Fortuyn and the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh — fog the streets of this working-class shipping town.

Everyone here walks around with a hair trigger. On a recent Sunday, a Moroccan man and his girlfriend walked past a group — including myself — that was smoking outside a gay bar. One Dutch gay man was briefly in the way of the girlfriend. The Moroccan spat on him. A brawl ensued. I kept my distance. Some of us, and the Moroccan, ran around the corner. I heard awful screams.

An hour later, one of the gay men returned with a torn shirt and a stab wound. The Moroccan had run into a kebab shop yelling, and about a dozen Moroccans came out and attacked the gays with knives. The stab victim also had a long knife cut along his neck — slightly more pressure would have severed a major artery. The barman was nervous, fearing the Moroccans would return looking for trouble.

This was, in fact, the bar where I was attacked a week later by about six Moroccan youths:

“Are you British?”

“No, American.”

“We hate America!”

“So?” One of the Moroccans pushed me. “Look man, I’m a Puerto Rican from New York.”

“You are American. We hate America, Bush. Are you gay?”

“None of your f***ing business.” I was then kicked and pushed to the floor. Kicked again. I grabbed the attacker’s foot and managed to pull him to the ground before another blow.

Then someone from the second floor of the building yelled and threw something at them. They scattered.

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Pablo Lucre is founder and executive producer of Expat Radio on Radio Alfa 102.4 FM in Krakow, Poland, a weekly two-hour English-language program.

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59 Comments

1. Snake eater:

Maybe you could get a handgun for self defense oh wait they don’t have a 2nd Amendment do they?

Sorry I couldn’t resist. But as someone who also grew up in innercity NYC and who has lived in the Malasana area of Madrid, where the hatred of Muslims is a palpable and visceral thing, I am shocked that more eruptions have not taken place throughout Europe. The Continent is a tinder box thanks to these leftist politicians and their need to import and coddle these grievance mongering Muslims.

Now the leftists in the US want to Balkanize our great nation so we end up like Europe. Notwithstanding the damage Obama is doing the efforts of the leftists will fail here thanks to the 2nd Amendment and other traditions but have no doubt that identity politics will not end well here either.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:18 am 2. Class Clown:

Don’t be so surprised that people don’t act grateful for welfare. Being on welfare equals dependency. Dependency breeds self-contempt. Self-contempt is deflected back onto whoever one is dependent on. Resentment of the government is fueled because on some level, the recipient sees of the government as being pathetic for giving out cash so easily.

Think of it this way. A schoolyard bully can, and does, extort lunch money from weaker kids. He can’t, and doesn’t, extort money from strong kids. If you give him money, then you are by definition one of the weak kids. He will expect more tomorrow, but it won’t buy his friendship. He views you as pathetic. His evidence? The very fact that you are giving him money in the first place!

The expression “biting the hand that feeds you” wouldn’t even exist if the phenomena weren’t so natural.

In another context, it also explains the existence of indugent parents having resentful teenagers.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:51 am 3. Snorri Godhi:

Being on welfare, living on handouts, and leading “a borrowed life,” as my mom put it, was seen as humiliating and demeaning. A sign of failure.

By contrast, because of the generosity and humanity of the Dutch welfare system — and the “sensitivity” of police and Dutch officials to Islam — I’m at an utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt.

At an utter loss? I can hardly believe that, when the author proves to be open-minded about Geert Wilders and other issues. Is it really unthinkable that a well-run welfare system leads to a sense of entitlement? I strongly recommend reading Tocqueville’s Memoir on Pauperism.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:59 am 4. SAF:

When Bush the first liberated Kuwait and completely humiliated the Iraqi military there was general quiet among the Islamic populations of the world. From Israel to Rotterdam there was less terrorism and bad behavior. After hearing for a decade how Saddam could whip the west and seeing what actually happened there was fear of the US.

This fear has been completely dissipated with Clinton, Bush the second and Obama. Once Iran gets the bomb watch for a tidal wave of riots and terrorism around the world as the Moslems will feel empowered.

Kissing the ass of your enemy is not the road to respect but that’s the road we are on.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:04 am 5. canuck:

The only “free ride” should be a one way back to Morocco. Cut off the welfare and offer the exit. The problem with this approach is that we are looking at “inbred” senses of entitlement and arrogance.

This is New Orleans without the chocolate…just the “coffee”.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:12 am 6. Antivenin:

“That Muslim immigrants here don’t aspire to become Dutch — and live according to Dutch rules and values — shocks me.”

Really? In that case I suggest you read up on Islam and its command of perpetual Jihad against teh unbelievers. Muslim immigrants are not in Europe to assimilate, they are here to conquer. You know, that “fighting against the infidel until all religion in the world belongs to Allah”-stuff.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:18 am 7. Libertyship46:

It is only a matter of time before this bitterness between Muslims and non-Muslims boils over into open armed confrontation. Don’t believe me? You only have to look at either Bosnia or Kosovo to see what is in store for the rest of Europe. Whenever threatened by an ethnic group, the Europeans do what they always do, which is try to wipe them out. Whether it was the Turks trying to wipe out the Armenians, or the Greeks trying to wipe out the Turks, or the Germans trying to wipe out the Jews, or the Serbians trying to wipe out the Muslims, if you push the Europeans (either Eastern or Western Europeans) too far, a classic pogrom is probably not that far away.

Holland may be the first to go this route, with France, England, and Germany not far behind. Britain is one major Muslim terrorist attack away from an open uprising between Muslim and non-Muslims. The average English citizen is getting very tired of “political correctness” that seems to be giving way more rights to Muslim malcontents rather than to non-Muslim British citizens. If a major Muslim terrorist attack takes place in England, I’m sure the days of Muslim tolerance will be over in Britain. As for Holland, this situation has been festering for years, especially since the death of Theo van Gogh. All it will take is either one major Muslim riot, or another high-profile murder, and the native-born Dutch will start rebelling against the Muslims. Further Muslim immigration to Holland will probably be prohibited and the Muslims already living in Holland will face severe retribution for their actions. This is actually quite dumb on the part of the Muslims because, if the Muslims simply tried to assimilate into Dutch culture and tradition, they would have much better results living in that country and the country would reward them with much social and economic benefits. But no, as usual, the Muslims have to behave like spoiled children and refuse every attempt to assimilate into the nations THEY decide to immigrate to. Even here in the United States, there are way too many Muslim neighborhoods in some states (like Michigan, Minnesota, and upstate New York) where the inhabitants don’t seem very interested in American traditions or values. Therefore, the United States should pay close attention to what is happening in Europe. It may be a sign of things to come soon right here in America.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:37 am 8. Tina Trent:

So the moment you are threatened, you decide to denounce the citizenship hard-won by your mother? You’re American, but special and different from other Americans, so you should not be beaten (though other types of Americans should be, perhaps)? Many types of people lived in, and escaped, American ghettos. Most ghetto pathology, today and for many decades now, is self-created — in America or the Netherlands. And anyone whose large family was, by your description, fed and sheltered — utterly subsidized — by the hard work of other Americans should feel some quite unambiguous gratitude for that generosity. You say you do, but then it’s back to differentiating yourself by identity and negatively contrasting our welfare system to the Dutch welfare system’s “generosity.” You can’t have it both ways — your family was treated generously by strangers forced to subsidize them, was it not, including the uniquely American part about inculcating an ethic of self-reliance and the desire to leave dependence behind?

Women can not trot so freely around Europe’s streets — or streets anywhere — but I’ve never heard of a woman in your situation resorting to denouncing their Western identity in the face of street thugs. Perhaps, because they cannot. Perhaps in the moment you were understandably seeking safety, but you don’t seem to view it this way in retrospect or comprehend the irony of the experience as a whole. Think harder about these things. If you were standing next to an American friend who was not Puerto Rican and not from New York, would you turn him over to the thugs to save yourself? That is, frankly, the logical path you have taken here.

When I read something like this, I worry that our educational system is so far gone that even someone clearly trying to think for himself is handicapped by politically correct identity-privileging and reflexive anti-Americanism.

Jun 14, 2009 - 4:49 am 9. Bob:

Ahhhh, another American leftist faces the reality of what progressiveness has wrought upon Europe. Yet he still does not quite get it and offers his understanding for being the victim of an unnecessary attack…. “To some degree, I sympathize. Moroccans have been marginalized here, grown up not feeling “Dutch” despite having been here for several generations.”, proving he still has a lot to learn, as do the rest of the “don’t judge us, we won’t judge you kumbiya(s) left.

Jun 14, 2009 - 5:16 am 10. Telly:

Interesting article and a good read, but pretty naive too. Some people just aren’t as trustworthy, decent, honorable, and well meaning as others insist we believe and accept.

Jun 14, 2009 - 5:39 am 11. Mary Jackson:

Tina, I’m not sure that Paul Lucre was renouncing American citizenship – he was just filling in detail. The first thing he said was “I’m American”. And later in the piece, he goes on to say that he was strongly motivated to get out of the ghetto of welfare dependancy, rather than stick in it as the Muslims of Rotterdam seem to want to.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:39 am 12. oceanguy:

Your statement about ghettos being a legacy of Jim Crow is only partially truthful, and the comparison you make is deceptive if not disingenuous. The evolution of American ghettos is much more complex than Jim Crow laws. The very government welfare programs meant to help in Europe have also contributed to deplorable conditions in America. As you point out, the existence of similar government social benefits for the poor has contributed most significantly to encouragement to emigrate and the self-segregation of new immigrants in Europe. Additionally the leftist multi-culturalist attitudes discourage integration… again not dissimilar to America.

I don’t find it as hard to understand why these new immigrants are contemptuous of a culture which invited another culture in, but refuses to exhibit even a hint of willingness to defend its ideals. Without some pressure to assimilate, there will be none. Rewarding immigrants for staying separate and disrespecting and deriding the host culture, encourages the conflict and violence you’ve witnessed.

Respect for another culture is one thing, but submission to it because of a refusal to defend or even show pride in your own, is suicide. Sadly we are watching Europe preparing to fall upon its own sword.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:42 am 13. A_SantaFean:

Welfare dependency breeds only resentment. How could it be otherwise? A person needs a vested interest in his own life, won through genuine personal achievement, before he has a reason to show gratitude. “Leaders” like Aboutaleb and Jesse Jackson understand how to use a dependent class to maintain power. It serves their personal ambition to keep the resentments simmering.

The Frankfurt School did a good job dissecting where Marx went wrong. They decided that the working class would never rise up against the capitalists. Indeed, through two world wars, members of the working class remained the most ardent nationalists. They knew pride of place through hard work, and they took enjoyment in the fruits of their labor. What’s more, they were willing to defend it.

Members of the Frankfurt School migrated to the United States with the rise of Hitler. If the working class would not support class warfare, who would? A new coalition was put together: pacifists, gays, blacks, women, and other disaffected groups. In short, the modern Democratic party. But the Marxists had erred a second time. They failed to anticipate the rise of Stalin, Mao, and Castro.

Politicians of the left, regardless of nation, have become adept at dividing the body politic as a means to control. In effect, permanent revolution allows the leaders to enjoy a privileged station while their followers squabble over crumbs. Muslims in the west represent another constituency to be exploited, albeit a growing and increasingly vocal faction.

I’ve forgotten who said it, but “politics is the art of domination.” America’s current president knows this well. Whatever he may profess, his only agenda is to accrue more personal power. The only thing standing in his way is (small “r”) republicanism. Creating a larger dependent class robs the citizen of a vested interest in nationhood. This, I believe, is the plan. Divide and conquer. Our media proclaimed “great uniter” is no such thing. A weakened and divided America will be easier to control. Witness Europe and see our future.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:47 am 14. SAF:

#8 Tina Trent:

Fantastic analysis.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:15 am 15. Sapwolf:

As much as I can’t stand Islam, and can’t understand why the Dutch government would put up with this stuff, I have to ask myself: What is the alternative? Gay rights, same-sex marriage, enforced secularism and stifling of any free speech that even touches on Christianity or Judaism? Maybe I’m mixing it up with the UK.

I always laugh at Europeans who I meet doing IT work who think America is racist. When I point out the facts how racist Europeans are they have nothing else to say.

Islam is winning in Europe because people are realizing there will be very little to save or want to save of an empty secular culture.

Belief wins in the end. Always does.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:21 am 16. SW:

Does being Puerto Rican from New York mean you are not really an American? mmm not sure I got that.

Found your experience sadly ‘typical’ in the new and improved islamized Europe. You are tasting the joys and flavors of diversity.

How truly sad the old world got to old and to multicomunist to fight for itself.

Maybe, American is still the only hope? I know many gasp and faint at the thought. We are once again the last best option.

It will take us a few more years to rid ourselves of the yoke of Obama. We will, and we will be back. Leading the way for real hope and real freedom for all the world.

We must role back islam. For the legacy of what our fathers left and more importantly for our children.

Especially for Puerto Ricans from New York…. Good luck and be safe out there. It will only get worse before it gets better.

Jun 14, 2009 - 7:53 am 17. don:

Multigenerational welfare families is shameful example of what social welfare states (and socialism) creates. Why aspire? why try? why escape? When the pittance you receive is all you deserve, (and you know it) why aspire to anything? Those who have more? They are class enemies, or your political superiors. So the selfish mindset consigns the individual down to what he “needs” within four walls, and the selfish politician’s power is built on destroying aspiration and ambition, maintaining this constituency in a permanent state of dependancy (it’s called building job security). The Mullahs do this, the racial “arsonists” do this (Sharpton, Jackson, Wright), and now it seems an entire party is wedded to the idea that dependent masses are their “natural” allies (so it’s time to make everyone dependent and at the mercy of the more ideologically pure).

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:11 am 18. Saltherring:

“American blacks have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of slavery, institutional discrimination, and gross police brutality.”

How many centuries must Americans pay the price for slavery? Forty five years of apologies, welfare payments, food stamps, subsidized housing, employment preferences, free school lunches, subsidized jobs programs, collegiate enrollment preferences and banks forced by government to issue mortgages to applicants with zero verifiable income. And what has been gained by hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer-sponsored, government-brokered ‘benevolence’? Nothing..Nada…Zero! Just forty five years of further dependence, excuses, inner-city violence and cries of victimhood. When will it end? When will white liberal elitists, riddled by false guilt, admit their efforts at social engineering have failed? When will taxpayers demand accountability, results and some measure of personal, individual responsibility? Open-ended welfare programs have proven to offer nothing but the prospect of further and continued dependence, condemning recipients to a permanent second-tier existence..

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:34 am 19. James:

Mr. Lucre: Having hailed from a tough inner-city area of New Jersey, I understand what racial tension is about. I also know how to react when faced with potential violence. Let me give you a few pointers. First, do not try to understand the motives of your perpetartor. Stating that “[T]o some degree, I sympathize”, misses the point. You do not understand. You think you do, but the reasons for someone’s violence toward you are often varied and not discernable. You’re not in the head of your perpetrator. Just know that the “perp” wants to harm you; that’s the only immediate issue. Second, do not engage a potentially violent adversary in talk. Questions like “are you American?” and “are you gay?” should never be answered. Just walk away. But if you cannot bring your self to walk, respond in a way that makes your adversary realize (or think) that you are not an easy “mark”. How would I respond to “are you gay?” I would stand erect, close toward him by half a step, look right in his eyes and say matter-of-factly, “none of your F@#king business friend, now walk on”. There’s a problem in the west. People are afraid to get hurt. Don’t be. Stand up for yourself. Don’t be stupid (run from a guy wielding a knife, for instance), but stand up. If everyone did, immigrant Morrocans would feel very uncomfortable about spitting on Dutchman. God Bless you friend.

Jun 14, 2009 - 9:09 am 20. Fuzzlenutter:

Like most of the posters here, this is the paragraph that also jumped out at me:

“By contrast, because of the generosity and humanity of the Dutch welfare system — and the “sensitivity” of police and Dutch officials to Islam — I’m at an utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt.”

And there’s nothing I can add to this post that hasn’t all ready been said…

Jun 14, 2009 - 10:07 am 21. Realist:

Wouldn’t it be so cathartic if when people bleat on and on about Slavery that instead of always blaming the white man they also accepted the FACT that white men did NOT take slavery to Africa they went to Africa and found slavery flourishing there much as it STILL does today black on black. Of course the main SLAVERS were the ARABS who had been raiding Africa for hundreds of years and who were they guys who went to the interior and brought the slaves to the ports for sale before one white man set foot on the continent and long before Islam raised its evil head and JUSTIFIED slavery. These same Muslim Arabs are STILL taking slaves in Africa today.

But hey only white men can be racists hey LOL

Jun 14, 2009 - 10:23 am 22. Fragmentarian:

The author apparently has not read Mark Steyn’s America Alone. I highly suggest it.

Jun 14, 2009 - 10:54 am 23. Morton Doodslag:

My jaw drops reading your confusion about Muslim contempt for Dutch largesse. Why is this so incomprehensible to you?

After all, you obviously benefitted from American largesse and tolerance, yet you exhibit typical the leftist race-obsessed contempt for the country that gave you everything. You describe America as a racist cesspool, full of “ghettoes”, “ghettoes” which are clearly the work of evil whites designed to keep you down — you contemptuously refer to the food we taxpayers GAVE you as “gevernment cheese” — you cravenly attempt to bond with the Muslim Nazis attacking you by dis-associating from America: “I’m a Puerto Rican from New York”… so you aren’t even loyal to your nation and will throw her under the bus to attempt to accumulate street cred with other low life scum… (btw, that ploy worked out nicely for you, didn’t it???)

In juxtaposition to the vile abusive American welfare system (which somehow got you to a place where you “studied in two European cities, lived and worked in three, and visited two dozen over a 20-year period”, the “generosity and humanity” of the Dutch welfare system which you laud so highly is the sole mechanism of their national destruction. The multicultural lie which nurtured serpents like you is the same multicultural lie which is killing them. Get a clue, you anti-American bigot.

To give credit its due, at least you’re not making too many excuses for the vile Islamic Jihad which is destroying Europe, unlike most of you fellow leftist government fed traitors.

Jun 14, 2009 - 11:49 am 24. adam:

Born and raised in Rotterdam, sorry this happened. Happy I moved to the US. In addition to Mark Steyn, may I suggest reading Bruce Bawer’s books.

Jun 14, 2009 - 12:15 pm 25. MiamaMan:

I hope Geert Wilders’ party and himself gets the power in the Netherlands. They will put the ungrateful Muslims in place, or better out of place and out of Holland too.

Jun 14, 2009 - 12:20 pm 26. Dave ll:

“— I’m at an utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt.”
“That Muslim immigrants here don’t aspire to become Dutch — and live according to Dutch rules and values — shocks me.”
——

What shocks me is this author’s naivete and complete cluelessness!

He reminds me of a frog who’s been sitting in a pot of warm water and is alarmed to see it suddenly boiling!

Jun 14, 2009 - 12:35 pm 27. Sarah:

Interesting article. My 2 cents:
It just goes to show what happens when people are attracted to a country not for freedom, but for freebies.

What exactly would be the incentive to try to leave your culture behind if the only reason you’ve moved is for financial gain? For countries that strive to accommodate an immigrant’s ‘old country’ ways (such as language sensitivity) the natural course of assimilation of children becomes even less effective. We can see that in Mr. Lucre’s own self-image as a Puerto Rican, instead of as an American.

I agree with many of the posters here about acceptance of welfare being degrading. Add immigrants from Arab countries where honor (as they define it) is extremely important and you’ve got a recipe for violence.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:18 pm 28. Warren Bonesteel:

Don’t overlook the breakdown of the current social contracts, folks. Largely unreported in America, there have been thousands, even tens of thousands of riots and protests around the world every year for almost a decade, now.

Although they are involved in quite a few riots and are either instigators or participants in dozens of small wars and conflicts around the world, the Muslims aren’t involved in most of those riots and mass protests around the world. At the bottom line, most of those thousands, even tens of thousands of riots and protests are anti-government and are political in nature.

There’s something else going on here besides the old communist, vs socialist, vs democracy thing. …and it doesn’t always involve religion, either. Not nearly.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:41 pm 29. mk:

Pablo writes:

“By contrast, because of the generosity and humanity of the Dutch welfare system — and the “sensitivity” of police and Dutch officials to Islam — I’m at an utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt.”

Doesn’t the question answer itself? Muslims’ inability to assimilate has nothing to do with the government, the welfare system, or (ugh) “sensitivity.” Appeasement does not work with a ideology hostile to the basic principles of Western civilization.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:43 pm 30. Andrew:

“On a recent Sunday, a Moroccan man and his girlfriend walked past a group — including myself — that was smoking outside a gay bar.”

Ever thought of changing your patterns or hanging out with a different crowd?

“To some degree, I sympathize. Moroccans have been marginalized here, grown up not feeling “Dutch” despite having been here for several generations.”

Sounds like their fault. They had many years to integrate.

“Some people, especially liberals, like to speak of Aboutaleb as a potential European Obama. For me, Aboutaleb most resembles David Dinkins”

Kinda like Obambi does to me.

I would be willing to bet that 90% of gays voted for Obambi here in the US. And the first ones to be killed by Obambis supporters, Muslims, will be the gays.

How’s that working out for you?

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:52 pm 31. Hyphenated American:

Re-read this passage and try to understand the logic behind it, how the sentences are logically connected. If you cannot do it in your first attempt – try second or third time. I read it 5 times, and still at loss. Paul, I can only assume that you were high when you wrote this. Am I right?

>In America, ghettos are a legacy of Jim Crow and “relining” rules. I’m not aware of any Dutch or European equivalent. American blacks have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of slavery, institutional discrimination, and gross police brutality. I was one of six kids of a single mother and grew up on welfare, eating government cheese and living on food stamps. But the first desire of people in my New York neighborhood was simply to get out — as fast as they could.Being on welfare, living on handouts, and leading “a borrowed life,” as my mom put it, was seen as humiliating and demeaning. A sign of failure. By contrast, because of the generosity and humanity of the Dutch welfare system — and the “sensitivity” of police and Dutch officials to Islam —I’m at an utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt.

A few quick questions come to mind.
1. Why are government built and subsidized housing in any way constitute in any way the reason for the black grievance against the US government?
2. It was not the fault of evil white people that you grew up in a broken family. I suggest you actualy thank white people for feeding and housing your pathetic family.
3. Living off the labor of white people (or any people) is a sign of failure, it is objective, not subjective.
4. I don’t understand why you think that better handouts in Europe would make the life of parasites more fullfilled. Indeed, dependence on government handouts in Europe is an even larger sign of failure.

All in all, Paulie, your liberal disease is still not cured by the European “youths”. I suggest you need to move permamently to Rotterdam and start hanging out more with the local oppressed classes. Don’t forget to mention your homosexuality – it will dramatically increase the rate of your education.

Jun 14, 2009 - 1:54 pm 32. El hefe:

Paul:

Sorry for you but if you want to survive you’d better come home. Europe is darkening. No morals = no free society. No law enforcement = no free society. These are the self haters who have been invited into Europe to create a constituency for the socialists and now the invited will burn it down. All of this is a result of a false philosophy that says there is no right or wrong, that there is no truth or lies just do it if it feels good and there is no God. The socialists will take no responsibility for this but it will destroy them just the same. Anything goes and all things are good and acceptable also leaves the door open for the haters to burn loot and destroy. You can’t have it both ways. You have the rule of law and a moral society or you have chaos.
Now that philosophy is punching you in the face.
Reality is a bitch.
Good luck and stay out of places where you create an opportunity for the haters. Your freedoms are gone.

Jun 14, 2009 - 2:35 pm 33. Mary Jackson:

I think some posters are jumping to conclusions here.

Paul Lucre seems to be saying that Holland has been more than generous to Moroccan immigrants, and he struggles to see why they are not grateful. Yet he half-answers his own question by saying that he himself wanted to get out of the welfare ghetto because he saw it as humiliating.

The missing link is this: those Moroccan immigrants do not see welfare dependancy as humiliating; it is simply payment of “jizyah” (the poll tax from non-Muslims) which is their due.

I think Paul Lucre is trying to make sense of what happened and has some good points, but needs to study Islam. He could start by reading New English Review (click on my name) or my articles here at PJM.

Jun 14, 2009 - 2:53 pm 34. Ron Robinson:

Paulie: You seem to be very certain that your own mores, culture, values and attitudes are above reproach and you should not be challenged because of them.

Do you grant this right to anybody else besides folks with values like your own?

I though you guys were advocates of peace and getting along and having a dialog and stuff like that? Why don’t you live your values?

You don’t get a useful dialog when you condemn, fella.

You sound very, very racist to me.

Jun 14, 2009 - 2:56 pm 35. Class Clown:

El Hefe,

Right on. Two times in the last hundred years, Europe led us into the Abyss. Now they are headed for a third, and yet the American Left are still enamored of all things European, and would have us follow them.

Obviously the American Leftists are never going to learn, so all we can do is hold the line for as long as possible. We’ve got to hope that, when it comes to civilization collapse, Europe is far enough ahead of us in line that there is still time for us to turn back.

Jun 14, 2009 - 3:17 pm 36. Paul of Alexandria:

Mary Jackson (33):

….
I think Paul Lucre is trying to make sense of what happened and has some good points, but needs to study Islam. He could start by reading New English Review (click on my name) or my articles here at PJM.

A very good resource is Jihad Watch. Especially look at the “Qu’ran Blog” pages, which annotate the Qu’ran from the point of view of somebody that knows the culture and speaks Arabic. Scary stuff.

Jun 14, 2009 - 3:35 pm 37. jerryofva:

I want to sympathize with Mr. Lucre, and on an individual level I do. However, I would like to point out that the same post-modern forces that have undermined western civil values in the survive of the gay rights crowd have come back to haunt us. Since 2001 the Muslim narrative of oppression has moved to the top of hierarchy of victims. If the post modern elites have a choice to make between gay-hating Muslims and gays then gays become expendable. Paul, welcome to the brave new world of the New Neo Nazis. The old Nazis hated sent Jews and gays (well only non party members anyway) to the gas chambers in the name of Aryan supremacy. The New Neo Nazis have no problem with doing it in the name of Muslim supremacy. I wonder if Paul Lucre was a champion of Western liberty before he found out that he is now a member of an expendable group.

We conservatives, especially those who lean toward libertarianism, were fine with tolerating homosexual practice when it was between to consenting adults, but were against validating homosexual lifestyles as equal to sexual normality. The gay community wanted more. They wanted to subvert and overthrow “hetro-normnativity.” That they nearly accomplished this goal is undisputed. The irony is that just when the gay movement is about to achieve its goal they are faced with a very real threat to their lives from aggressive Muslim radicals who seek control over the West.

Jun 14, 2009 - 3:52 pm 38. kenny komodo:

Well if you would take some time and read the writing of experts such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Barry Rubin and many others you would begin to understand the Muslim mind. In Europe particularly, with the Europeans increasingly reluctant to engage anyone in any manner the Muslims have figured out that they can, in effect, take over those countries simply by moving there and out producing the Europeans in the number of children. The Euro-Muslims are not at all interested in “assimilating” into the European culture, they want to displace the European culture with their own Muslim society. And it appears they are succeeding. Now we have a Muslim President who seems intent on bringing the same sort of thing to America. Time to wake up Americans!!!

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:04 pm 39. robotech master:

I have been wondering how to response to this hate filled racist rant for awhile now…

As a jack-booted, shaved-head racist(aka white male) and not just any jack-booted, shaved-head racist but one of the most jack-booted, shaved-head racist(aka a white male who was a soldier)…. I find great irony is your open racism, hate, bigoted whine that you have post here.

You flee the US because your racism and bigoted against ppl from the US/white ppl… because of some imagined crime… you support racism from that imagined crime…

“They live in horrible ghettos. But what’s peculiar — for someone who grew up in a New York ghetto — is that the ghettos in Rotterdam and other European cities are of Muslims’ own making. Most prefer not to leave, and those who might wish to are pressured to stay by community leaders who see these enclaves as Muslim territory. In America, ghettos are a legacy of Jim Crow and “relining” rules. I’m not aware of any Dutch or European equivalent.

American blacks have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of slavery, institutional discrimination, and gross police brutality.”

They see their “grievances” as legit as blacks and others here in the US… you in fact support those same grievances…just only here in the US…

Its nice how you say the whites around you aren’t “jack-booted, shaved-head racists” of course being an “openly gay Hispanic” you have the RIGHT to remove those whites who’s views you deem “approved” off the standard “your a white male thus your a jack-booted, shaved-head racist” list. Have you told them they were removed from the list? Did you throw them a party to cerebrate how their not jack-booted, shaved-head racists anymore…?

Their is just so much irony is this whine its amazing… things like this

“And last year, local leaders found time to cozy up to terrorists abroad. Left-wing parties on the Rotterdam city council expressed their solidarity with Hamas, proposing a partnership with Gaza to make it a “sister city.””

Yeah sounds a lot like LA and San Fran doesn’t it…. both well known for their leftist “tolerance”.

“Rotterdam needs a Dutch politician who stresses law and order and quality of life”

Wow so does LA, San Fran, CA…. you know maybe do something about those borders, drugs and a host of other issues… instead of worry about flushing the constitution down the crapper and redefining laws to suit special interest groups like say gays… or hispanics… or even gay hispanics…

“That Muslim immigrants here don’t aspire to become Dutch — and live according to Dutch rules and values — shocks me.”

Clearly you are shocked easily…also you haven’t ever seem to have heard of this group of nationals called mexicans.

“Surely life here is far better than in the places they came from. Yet few seem even remotely grateful. And being grateful means — among other things — following the rules, getting a job, learning the language, and accepting the values.”

You’d think that… I mean look at say mexicans who account for nearly 40% of the legal immigrants who come to the US… for I don’t know the last 70 years+… most(most of all recently in the last 30 years) refuse to do any of those things. Not just that THEY decide when and how they will “immigrate” to the US.

Or lets take another group gays perhaps… they whine and cry how “oppressed” they are because they can’t marry… they tell anyone and everyone how “special” they are and how its not fair. They attack anyone who opposes their view points as “homophobes” or “racists” even going as far as calling them “jack-booted, shaved-head racists”. Their whole goal is to oppress anyone who doesn’t conform to their will by lynching them via lawyers.

They whole-heartily support hamas, palestinian, stalin and any other leftist cause that their leaders feed the brainwashed masses… these same ppl refuse to support freedom for the iraqi or afgan ppls nor do they care about saving those in africa in places such as darfur… they could careless that gays are being stoned to death… its NOT IMPORTANT… you know whats important though? Getting a tax credit from the central government… NOW THAT JUST FREAKING IMPORTANT RIGHT THERE. Surely their can be nothing more important to gays as a whole as that much valued tax credit…. also being able to sue/oppress any church or group that refuses to “join” 2 gays together(unless of course that group is muslims)… another important milestone in the fight for gay rights…

They are not grateful in the least that being gay isn’t a crime in which they could be put to death… via stoning… they aren’t grateful that they are treated well and attacked no more then any other group…They couldn’t careless to maybe helping gays out across the world. O silly me what am I thinking…. their are no gays in countries in the middle east like iran… their president even said so…

Did you support the wars in iraq, afgan…. would you support war with NK or iran or any of a host of other countries… I rarely bet on much but its a good bet that your anti-war and oppose the iraq war because your “leaders” of the “gay movement” have dictated to you that you should oppose them. What about the genocide in africa…surely you demanded war… o wait, no you ran to the UN and they told you everything will be ok and you believed them….didn’t you?

Ppl just like you cause WW2… you will cause WW3… you are your own worse enemy and you will reap what you sow. You vainly post of your “understanding” of the “muslim problem” yet you directly contradict yourself by saying the same problem in the US happening with blacks, hispanics, gays, illegal aliens is perfectly OK. You are scared because your drug induced delusion of leftism is starting to fade out… and the real world is suddenly stomping you in your face as you lay on the ground… poor little old you. I will shed the same tear that the UN shed for dafur, iraq, afgan and countless other ppl and places…. I shed that UN issued tear just for you…. as I’m sure they(the UN) shed it for you as well.

I joined the army in 98… I’ve never considered the euro mainland any kind of realistic ally for the US… their cowardly self adsorbed idiots who are more interested in whining about how bad they have it and how evil, racist and bigoted the US is…they however would never lift more then a pen to help anyone… because they couldn’t careless… they only care like you when it starts to effect them… its all the evil US’s fault until suddenly they need us…. just like its all the “jack-booted, shaved-head racists” fault until suddenly your going to need us. I’m tired of it. I’m tired of the cowardly euro-trash. Over the last 4 years or so I have shifted my opinion of how to handle a possible WW3/ euro’s invaded. It has gone from “yeah their cowardly filth but we still need to defend them because its the right thing to do”, much the same with my views for african genocide…. my euro view has steadily shifted from the “we should defend them” to “we should let it burn and after its burned then move in and pick up, and maybe just maybe this time they will learn the lesson they should have learned from WW2″.

I’m tired of being called a racist… a bigot… a hater and any other of a host of other wonderful names… by ppl like you who are racist, bigots and haters…. and worse of all HONORLESS COWARDS. When this game gets in full swing ppl like you will be demanding ppl like me(aka jack-booted, shaved-head racists aka white males) to come and fix YOUR MESS that YOU CAUSED…. and for what so in 10 years you can go back to calling me a racist bigot again…. no thanks. Run to your vaunted UN and whine and cry about your problems to them… surely a stronger worded statement should fix the problem right up.

Jun 14, 2009 - 8:56 pm 40. naman:

Multi-culturalism: Not what you thought it was, eh Mr. Lucre?
Robotech master: Brevity; a most effective communication tool.

Jun 14, 2009 - 10:52 pm 41. Marc Malone:

I knew everything I needed to know about the writer when he first claimed he was an American, and then ran away from it, when it was sudddenly not okay with the thugs. Suddenly, he was a Puerto Rican from NY. I laughed aloud when they failed to appreciate such a wonderful distinction. I thought, “Here comes an ass-whuppin’!” Sure enough…. :D

I derived great satisfaction from the reading of it. I was minded of the quote, “A Conservative is a Liberal who was mugged yesterday.” Sadly, it hasn’t happened yet… because of his gay indoctrination, perhaps.

It does seem to be percolating, as he’s trying to understand why they would do such a thing. Then, he calls for a strong, law-and-order guy, like Giuliani… you know, an Evil Republican (even if he is a moderate). Another beating or two, and he’ll be voting Republican! The beatings will continue until… THINKING improves! Hilarious! :D

Jun 15, 2009 - 3:13 am 42. mac:

There are few things more insulting than having your generosity abused. It is like someone spiting in your face. I understand why working class people respond to Wilders. When a people only take and then demand more because some demagogue has convinced them they are oppressed, resentment is created. When a generous people are disparaged and openly antagonized in the media and the public square, tension builds.

The injustice and hate created in self-segregated societies comes from an entitlement mentality that can only be controlled through authoritarian means. Classic Liberalism, on the other hand, requires an intelligent reflection on one’s responsibilities to society, something that will never happen as long as the ax-grinding grievance politics of the left continue.

Jun 15, 2009 - 6:55 am 43. Curious:

“In America, ghettos are a legacy of Jim Crow and ‘relining’ rules.”

Well, this “Puerto Rican” from New York who claims not to be an American doesn’t know much about American history. The Jim Crow laws were found in the former Confederate states. Prior to the liberals running large southern cities the south had no real ghettos.

The North, on the other hand, has horrific ghettos. Ever been to Baltimore? Washington D.C.? Newark? Philadelphia? The list goes on and on. The one factor that all these ghettos have in common is that the cities they are found in are run by liberals, and have been for many years. Atlanta didn’t have a ghetto until liberal Democrats took over running the city. Look at Atlanta now.

For all their protestations that they “care”, liberal Democrats have proven to be the worst bigots that America every produced judging by the results of their policies.

Welfare robs people of their dignity and self respect. The liberal Democrats in the big cities first destroyed the manufacturing base in the inner cities through their social engineering programs and then substituted welfare for jobs. And the result in every large American city was to create a ghetto that has people trapped in hopelessness.

The thing that upsets me the most about these liberals is that the terrible results of their policies are plain to see, yet they keep pushing these terrible policies.

It doesn’t surprise me that this “Puerto Rican from NYC who is not an American” doesn’t understand Muslims, why they don’t try to become part of their host country. He obviously knows very little about the history even of his own country, a country that he claims not to belong to. Muslims have no intention of being “assimilated” by their host countries. They are taught hatred and Jihad from a very young age. Their goal is to assimilate their host country, not to be assimilated by it.

Jun 15, 2009 - 6:57 am 44. Mic:

To all those who provided the insight to the posted article—Thank you. I am finally able to fit together the liberal jigsaw puzzle! I thought I was just losing my mind w/ the current administration but now I understand why they can’t owe up and admit what they are doing is so wrong and totally UN-Constitutional!

Jun 15, 2009 - 7:28 am 45. Kelly:

Several posters made reference to the fact that living in a welfare state was humiliating, etc. and implied this in itself were sort of the reasoning behind such violent attacks.

And this brings up the thought to me that “tolerance” is not a solution under most any circumstance where one group is either continually using violence against other innocent citizens or where one group is suffering greatly at the hands of another. In fact, it’s really the reason we seem to participate in war. Human rights issues.

I grew up in the shadow of the projects in a large U.S. city. The projects were high rise buildings that housed mainly African Americans who relied on welfare. This was back in the late 60’s and early 70’s. There was a great deal of violence related to this area. Especially on Fridays when everyone got their welfare checks and soome took to partying – and then to violence. Even the children who I sometimes played with, had built up prejudice and hate towards me. Tolerance was not the solution. In fact, it actually took force in more ways than once to remedy the violent situations.

Those projects have since been demolished and now it’s a popular urban area. Many people in the projects did move themselves up and off welfare – but it was only after years of reductions in welfare programs, a great deal of peer pressure and finally the notice of demolition that forced them to make a permanent change. The “free ride” had ended.

I remember I was shocked to visit after 20 years – I could barely believe they had ever existed. It was like it had been a bad dream. The horrific sounds, smells and visuals I had been accustomed to seeing as a child had all but vanished. Sure, there are still rundown areas and government subsidized housing around the general area but the improvement was nothing short of incredible.

We worry about immigrants from Mexico, etc. but the population in many Middle Eastern countries and Africa is astounding – and a great deal are suffering. We cannot house and feed the world’s needy population – and we shouldn’t attempt to do so.

Basic parenting skills teach that bribery is not an effective method. So why do we continue to try and “bribe” people with welfare? There are many good programs teaching people to build their own community – their own sustainable lifestyles, farms, etc. – and THIS is what we should be building on, NOT the bribery of welfare. I’ve lived long enough to see that even in times of tremendous despair, we can learn to pull ourselves up, not because we are given money, but because we gain education and come to terms with our dignity and pride.

Jun 15, 2009 - 7:55 am 46. Patrick:

To some degree, I sympathize.
My sympathy for the young Dutch Muslims then only goes so far.

Harry Truman didn’t sympathize with the Japanese. He used nuclear weapons to teach the Japanese respect. You haven’t taught your opponents respect. The beatings will continue.

“relining” rules.

That’s redlining. Us honkey cracker racist fascist Nazi conservative Republican supposedly drew a line with a red crayon around ghettos on the real estate map and charged higher rates, not because someone was a poor risk for repaying the loan, but because we are clingy gun hugging Christ worshipers.

American blacks have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of slavery

American whites have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of sacrificing 600,000 white males in an effort to end slavery.

Can a whole week go by during my stay here before I witness — or again become the victim of — more race- and Islamic-fueled brutality

Can a whole week go by before you stop being a witness and start kicking butt any time you see Islamic-fueled brutality.

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:11 am 47. Falconsword:

Everywhere muslims go, they are not immigrants. They are COLONISTS! When they reach critical mass, which they will because by and large they do not integrate or seek to do so, they will take over. Part of me hopes to see Europe on fire soon, it might just save our great nation of USA.

sic semper tyrannis

Jun 15, 2009 - 10:32 am 48. Tabris:

The Moslims in Europe can’t help their behavior, they are just following the Koran. See the following examples from the text followed by verses from the Quran.

–Getting jumped by six Moroccans after I left a gay bar in Rotterdam–
verse 7:81. “Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins).”
verse 26:165/166. “Go you in unto the males of the ‘Alamîn (mankind) And leave those whom Allâh has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!”

verse 8:15. O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve, never turn your backs to them.

–The Moroccan spat on him.–
verse 3:110 You the real followers of prophet muhammad are the best people ever raised up for mankind.
verse 8:55. Verily, The worst of moving (living) creatures before Allâh are those who disbelieve

–Rotterdam may see blood in the streets this summer.–
Verse 9:5 Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islâmic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikûn (see V.2:105) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and give Zakât, then leave their way free. Verily, Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.[]
Verse 2:216. Jihâd[] (holy fighting in Allâh’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allâh knows but you do not know.

–Rotterdam’s demographics make it the unofficial capital of Eurabia–
verse 17:16 And when We decide to destroy a town (population), We (first) send a definite order (to obey Allâh and be righteous) to those among them [or We (first) increase in number those of its population] who are given the good things of this life. Then, they transgress therein, and thus the word (of torment) is justified against it (them). Then We destroy it with complete destruction.
verse 7:4. And a great number of towns (their population) We destroyed. Our torment came upon them (suddenly) by night or while they were sleeping for their afternoon rest.

–Rotterdam’s ghettos would make Hitler smile–
Islam and Naziism is one family. Hitler worked together with the moefti of Jeruzalem to destroy the Jews

–“We hate America!”–
verse 2:191. And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah[] is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-al-Harâm (the sanctuary at Makkah),[] unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
verse 4:91. You will find others that wish to have security from you and security from their people. Every time they are sent back to temptation, they yield thereto. If they withdraw not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them. In their case, We have provided you with a clear warrant against them.

–grown up not feeling “Dutch” despite having been here for several generations–
Verse 4:89. They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Auliyâ’ (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of Allâh (to Muhammad SAW). But if they turn back (from Islâm), take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliyâ’ (protectors or friends) nor helpers from them.
verse 61:10 You who believe, shall I show you a bargain that will save you from painful punishment? 11 Have faith in God and His Messenger and struggle [j—h—d] for His cause with your possessions and your persons—that is better for you, if only you knew—12 and He will forgive your sins, admit you into Gardens graced with flowing streams, into pleasant dwellings in the Gardens of Eternity. That is the supreme triumph.

–the ghettos in Rotterdam and other European cities are of Muslims’ own making–
verse 5:33. The recompense of those who wage war against Allâh and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.

–community leaders who see these enclaves as Muslim territory.–
Verse 33:27 And he bequeathed to you their lands, their homes and their possessions, together with land you have never trodden. Allah has power over everything.

–American blacks have legitimate grievances owing to the legacy of slavery–
verse 33:4 When you meet the disbelievers in battle, strike them in the neck, and once they are defeated, bind any captives firmly—later you can release them by grace or by ransom—until the toils of war have ended.
verse 8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land.

–Being on welfare, living on handouts, and leading “a borrowed life–
verse 9:34. O you who believe! Verily, there are many of the (Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks who devour the wealth of mankind in falsehood, and hinder (them) from the Way of Allâh (i.e. Allâh’s Religion of Islâmic Monotheism). And those who hoard up gold and silver [Al-Kanz: the money, the Zakât of which has not been paid], and spend it not in the Way of Allâh, -announce unto them a painful torment.
Verse 9:29 Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah[] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

–utter loss to understand why Muslim immigrants hold Dutch society in such brazen contempt–
verse 3:151. We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they joined others in worship with Allâh, for which He had sent no authority; their abode will be the Fire and how evil is the abode of the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong­doers).
verse 8:65. O Prophet Urge the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast persons amongst you, they will overcome two hundred, and if there be a hundred steadfast persons they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are people who do not understand.
–not following the rules, getting a job, learning the language, and accepting the values.–

–Surely life here is far better than in the places they came from. Yet few seem even remotely grateful.–
Verse 4:74. Let those (believers) who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allâh, and whoso fights in the Cause of Allâh, and is killed or gets victory, We shall bestow on him a great reward.

–Left-wing parties on the Rotterdam city council expressed their solidarity with Hamas,–
59:2 . . . God came upon them [Jews of the Nadir tribe] from where they least expected and put panic into their hearts: they brought ruin to their own homes by their own hands, as well as the hands of the believers
Communism is also family of Islam. Communist countries always take the side of the islamic countries.

–Muslim immigrants here don’t aspire to become Dutch–
Verse 3:118 O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitânah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand.

–violence between whites and non-whites ruined the Liberation Day Festival–
verse 59:5 Whatever you [believers] may have done to [their] palm trees—cutting them down or leaving them standing on their roots—was done by God’s leave [permission], so that He might disgrace those who defied Him.

–more race- and Islamic-fueled brutality?–
Verse 9:73 O Prophet (Muhammad SAW)! Strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be harsh against them, their abode is Hell, – and worst indeed is that destination

Jun 15, 2009 - 11:13 am 49. Tina Trent:

Hi Mary Jackson! The thing I find most tragic about this story is that the young man actually does seem to be grasping past the contradictions of his position. Yet he fails, badly and predictably. If he is of a certain age, and he seems young, then I suspect he is a case like many of my students. An entire generation has never been taught anything other than self-loathing for the part of themselves that they see as American.

“Violent incidents between whites and non-whites,” he says. He was mugged. Was he “between” something or more accurately the victim of someone who intended him harm? He cannot seem to bring himself to state facts, out of excruciating sensitivity — A Rebours looks like Rambo compared to this stuff. Perhaps he will learn something from the anger he has generated — among other things, learn that seeing the world through “multicultural” spectacles is a sure way to avoid seeing things directly.

There I go with the darn double-hyphen again. Can’t seem to shake it.

Jun 15, 2009 - 12:12 pm 50. Banned by Huffpo:

Paul, just be happy you aren’t in Iran or Suadi Arabi. You’d be stoned to death by now.

Jun 15, 2009 - 12:29 pm 51. Well Educated Cad:

Curious how the Left, upset over losing on Proposition 8, never attack Muslims or mosques over their refusal to love homosexuality but confined their anger to Christians and especially Mormons. Afraid?

Jun 15, 2009 - 3:33 pm 52. Eric R.:

Yet the left-wing media, both in America and Europe, both claiming to champion gays, say nothing of all this.

Their fear of Islam is obviously greater than any belief of theirs in anything.

It could have been worse, Mr. Lucre – you could have been a Jew.

Jun 15, 2009 - 4:37 pm 53. Battlecat:

Paul, the Netherlands no longer exists. Much of Europe as we know it is long gone.

I’m sorry to say that you just missed the Puerto Rican Day Parade, but if you come back to New York now, you’ll be here for the Pride Parade.

Jun 15, 2009 - 10:27 pm 54. dave:

I’m from the netherlands and what is written above is exactly how things are standig nowadays..
These young muslim guys spit on other people if they are not muslim…you can’t believe how much fights there are between people from suriname and muslims…so they make a fight with al layers of the netherlands population…

I hope Geert Wilders wil do his thing…because this is going to be a big clash…but polliticaly correctness is sickening…especially Aboutableb, who says surinam boys are badder…he makes a shifting between his inhabitant…

Jun 16, 2009 - 2:00 am 55. Tareshen:

First of all, Aboutaleb can’t give up his Moroccan passport and neither can HRH Princess Maxima. That comment alone basically nullified the rest of your post.

I’m not saying these problems don’t exist but they didn’t pop up overnight and they won’t go away overnight. Sadly, you sound like a Republican bitching because Obama hasn’t fixed all the problems in the US within his first 100 days.

Maybe you need to go back to the US. From where I’m sitting, you’re just as racist as those you complain about.

Jun 16, 2009 - 4:29 am 56. Fred2:

Well Educated Cad wrote:

“Curious how the Left, upset over losing on Proposition 8, never attack Muslims or mosques over their refusal to love homosexuality but confined their anger to Christians and especially Mormons. Afraid?”

I should point out that White homosexual activists did not protest in front of BLACK churches:

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2008/11/19/are-white-homosexuals-protesting-in-black-neighborhoods/

Otherwise, you’re correct that fear is why the “No to 8″ protesters weren’t seen vandalizing mosques. Heck, you’d be hard pressed to find a Perez Hilton who’d ask “Why are there NO pro-gay mosques in West?”

Jun 19, 2009 - 12:09 pm 57. Fred2:

Falconsword wrote

Everywhere muslims go, they are not immigrants. They are COLONISTS! When they reach critical mass, which they will because by and large they do not integrate or seek to do so, they will take over. Part of me hopes to see Europe on fire soon, it might just save our great nation of USA.”

You’re are right.

Check out this commentary by One News Now. One subtitle says it all:

The Muslim way – immigrate, procreate, populate, infiltrate, overtake

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=564868

And this popular video REALLY underscore how much trouble the West is in if we continue our PC blindness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECnl7AKO3E8

Jun 19, 2009 - 12:17 pm 58. Fred2:

@Tabris

Since Geert Wilders has been mentioned, check out his film, Fitna, which focuses on the oppressive Islamic theocrary growing within the Netherlands:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31240495

Scary.

Jun 19, 2009 - 12:22 pm 59. Tabris:

@ Fred2

I have seen Geert’s movie in which he shows verses from the quran and connects them to the moslem behavior. One can do the same with mohammed’s so called “perfect” example. It is always good to point out that moslem behavior has a high correlation factor with what is written in the quran. This exposes the real root cause of the problems with the moslims, and that is the quran itself. Without this book gone, these problems will exist for eternity because these verses are not time period specific but valid for ever and ever.

Islam strives for world domination but has any moslem ever thought a bit deeper and figured out what that would mean for the human race and the world?

– all Jews on this world will be exterminated, not only the ones in Israel.
– the same fate will be for all dogs, pigs and any other unclean animals.
– freedom of speech is gone.
– critics of islam are put to death
– Christians are forced to convert.
– apostates from islam are killed.
– lives of Christians that do not convert will be made miserable.
– moslems can have slaves again… Christians.
– all other religions and atheist must convert or loose their head.
– homosexuals will be hung or thrown from a tall building.
– the history of the world will be re-written in islamic friendly terms.
– women will be taken out of the work force.
– child rape is permissable
– thieves will lose their hand.
– adultres women will be stoned.
– women will be forced to give birth to as many children as they can.
– women can be beaten again.
– all women need to wear their penguin suit.
– women and girls are not allowed to go to school.
– all western literature will be destroyed.
– libraries will be destroyed.
– technical, medical and science subjects on schools will be banned because these contradict with the quran.
– society will get a shortage of doctors, engineers and technicians.
– hospitals run out of doctors and nurses.
– no more medicines, camel urine is in high demand.
– no more inoculation against diseases.
– diseases that were eradicated are back.
– the average life span drops from 80 years to End of 19th Century levels, about 37 years.
– factories run out of people that can run the processes.
– factories, refineries and utility plants run un-safe and need to be closed.
– the western industrial system collapses.
– you don’t want to know what the unemployment rate is.
– no more electricity.
– no more gasoline or any other fuels.
– no more telephone, TV, radio and Internet.
– cars, trains, ships, planes and agricultural equipment can not be built anymore.
– Fertilizers and pesticides are not produced anymore.
– farm land needs to be cultivated by hand.
– there are not enough Christan slaves to do the manual work in the fields.
– the quran does not give instructions to moslems on how to grow food or work the land.
– the farmers can not even produce one tenth of what is produced currently.
– enormous famine will occur.
– People will fight and kill each other for food.
– all domestic and wild animals will be slaughtered for food.
– Christians will be in the minority and will be murdered first in quarrels for food.
– human population will shrink to levels before the industrial revolution, about 500 million.
– for ages to come, the whole world will resemble current Somalia and Sudan.
– although moslims are misguided in thinking that they will go to heaven, they shucky darn won’t.
– only islam is known to the world therefore nobody will go to heaven anymore.
– the world has been made in a living hell.
– separation between good and evil has occurred.

I wonder, why didn’t allah foresee this? Or maybe he did…

Jun 22, 2009 - 4:11 pm

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