A couple of weeks ago, me and my wife managed to fly over to the old continent, specifically The Netherlands (some of you Northern Americans still say Holland, but it’s really Netherlands). The last thing I expected was that the country, the most tolerant and liberal country on the Northern Hemisphere (and so clean, according to my wife), actually made the headlines for intolerance.
First was the killing of a prominent but controversial director, Theo van Gogh, (who was seen as a prominent proponent of free speech) by a radical moslim. And then it’s all violence, where it now looks like a ‘We [fill out your religion] burn [fill out your religion] churches’ – contest. And that all in a country that has accepted refugees and immigrants since its founding.
Now, let me give some advice. Don’t believe one-sided losers like Instapundit who come out with one-liners like ‘Indeed’ or ‘Told you so, Islamo-fascists’. I’m sure he prefers to live in a one-sided world where one forgets that extremist people who kill others because of opposing views and people who burn churches, mosques and schools, should be all put on the ‘return-to-sender-please’-pile.