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| Europe |
| You won't beat terror with tolerance |
| 2006-06-04 |
| A good, but lengthy, interview with Hirsi Ali from the (London) Times. This part at the end may be the most intriguing. The last paragraph should be particularly provocative to Rantburgers. But the Times headline writers should be given some credit.: She is a curious mix, Ali. Her hardline image has won her a job at a right-wing think tank. But her critique of Muslim immigrants is a liberal one: that they reject Dutch freedoms such as the sexual revolution. “We have had radical Muslims throwing paint bombs at nude paintings. They complain billboards advertising underwear are there to insult them. They aren’t, they are there to sell underwear.” She supports a video Holland shows would-be immigrants of gays kissing and women letting it all hang out — the point being, if it offends you, don’t come. “Something major happened in Holland in 1968, the year before I was born,” she says. “A view emerged that authority was bad — and not just the state’s. You should negotiate with children, not tell them what to do. There was a paradigm shift from authority to negotiation. It was extreme stuff: in Holland, students can negotiate their exam mark.” |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 As an Israeli I'd like to see some tolerance from EUrope (just kidding). |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-06-04 20:07 |
| #3 When she was forced to leave her flat, she reflected: “My neighbours confirm the critical view that very few Dutch were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis.” True, perhaps, but not a way to win friends. So being "nice" to "win friends" is a higher moral value than opposing tyranny? Still, if Europe is no longer big enough for Ali, we are all in trouble. No shit, Sherlock; you are in deep, DEEP trouble. You have reached the point where tolerance becomes a terminal condition: instead of opposing Islam's violent, xenophobic intolerance, you shout down those who call attention to it. Bye bye, Europe... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-06-04 10:26 |
| #2 underclass |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-04 10:13 |
| #1 But if her fervour is her strength, it is also her weakness, alienating the very liberals she should court. *snicker* Look how the reporter tries to latch onto her star, as if by slapping "I'm a liberal" on his lapel - he has actually done anything in his lifetime that has improved the liberty of others as Ali has done. He admits he's a coward, terrified of being called a racist to the point of allowing Muslim women to live in submission and then tries to make it all ok by pretending that if he and others like him actually had a backbone and used it, that those same "underclass" working people, that he so readily dismisses with a bigoted wave of his pen, would riot like animals. This is such a wormy article. The whole point of it is for the author to excuse his own pathetic being by telling us, "yes, I'm a gutless coward - but I'm better than the "underclass" who would terrorize the Muslims if I didn't protect them....because I've got "liberal" on my lapel. At least you gotta give the writer credit - he briefly looked in the mirror before he pointed the finger elsewhere and told us that at least he was better than that dirty ol' conservative "underlass". |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-04 10:11 |