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A new poll shows the Dutch citizenry gets it. 63% say Islam is incompatible with modern Europe. Check out this report from polling firm, Angus-Reid Consultants:
Many adults in the Netherlands hold strong views on the way Muslims adapt to the European continent, according to a poll by Motivaction released by GPD. 63 per cent of respondents believe think Islam is incompatible with modern European life.
In September 2004, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders quit the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Wilders criticized Muslims in the Netherlands for failing to properly integrate to society, and openly opposed Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU).
In November 2004, controversial filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered. Van Gogh directed a short motion picture that depicts a husband’s abuse on a Muslim woman. Death threats to Wilders and other former VVD members were left at the crime scene.
On May 15, Dutch officials revealed that Somali-born VVD lawmaker Hirsi Ali provided false information when she applied for refugee status, and then when she sought citizenship. The next day, the lawmaker announced that she would leave the Second Chamber immediately. Hirsi Ali confirmed that she intends to move to the United States and work at the American Enterprise Institute.
You catch that? Hirsi Ali's "lying" to gain Dutch citizenship is being equated with Holland's real problems with Islam, including the brutal murder of Theo Van Gogh.
Angus-Reid appears to not like the results they got from there poll, wouldn't you say?
It appears they are trying to spin the results so that the perception is that ignorance is the reason for the opinion of the Dutch citizenry.
- Her Royal Whyness
Got several emails from HRW with short but good items on Wilders impact on Muslims. NISNEWS One in Five Muslims Supports Wilders THE HAGUE, 30/06/09 - Most Muslims in the Netherlands see Geert Wilders as a threat, but nearly one in five share his criticisms...
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Dutch Say Islam Is Incompatible With Modern Europe
A new poll shows the Dutch citizenry gets it. 63% say Islam is incompatible with modern Europe. Check out this report from polling firm, Angus-Reid Consultants:
Many adults in the Netherlands hold strong views on the way Muslims adapt to the European continent, according to a poll by Motivaction released by GPD. 63 per cent of respondents believe think Islam is incompatible with modern European life.
In September 2004, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders quit the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Wilders criticized Muslims in the Netherlands for failing to properly integrate to society, and openly opposed Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU).
In November 2004, controversial filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered. Van Gogh directed a short motion picture that depicts a husband’s abuse on a Muslim woman. Death threats to Wilders and other former VVD members were left at the crime scene.
On May 15, Dutch officials revealed that Somali-born VVD lawmaker Hirsi Ali provided false information when she applied for refugee status, and then when she sought citizenship. The next day, the lawmaker announced that she would leave the Second Chamber immediately. Hirsi Ali confirmed that she intends to move to the United States and work at the American Enterprise Institute.
You catch that? Hirsi Ali's "lying" to gain Dutch citizenship is being equated with Holland's real problems with Islam, including the brutal murder of Theo Van Gogh.
Angus-Reid appears to not like the results they got from there poll, wouldn't you say?
It appears they are trying to spin the results so that the perception is that ignorance is the reason for the opinion of the Dutch citizenry.
- Her Royal Whyness
Got several emails from HRW with short but good items on Wilders impact on Muslims. NISNEWS One in Five Muslims Supports Wilders THE HAGUE, 30/06/09 - Most Muslims in the Netherlands see Geert Wilders as a threat, but nearly one in five share his criticisms...
- Submission In The Netherlands
From Bruce Bawer at the City Journal: “The Freedom Party (PVV),” read yesterday’s press release, “is shocked by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal’s decision to prosecute Geert Wilders for his statements and opinions. Geert Wilders considers this...
- The Netherlands Destroys It's Best
From Richard at Belmont Club: A gay man, a film maker, a Muslim woman and a politician from a minor political party. Why should these unlikely individuals — who are really from the margins of society — have come to the center of European history in...
- Dutch Lawmaker Planning Film Criticizing The Quran
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A Dutch conservative lawmaker said Wednesday he is making a film to highlight what he describes as "fascist" passages in the Quran, his latest high profile criticism of Islam. The interior and justice ministers said they were concerned,...
- A Convincing Issue For The Democrats To Show They Are Serious People
Ayann Hirsi Ali is now living in hiding again, this time because America is failing Hat Tip Douglas Murray: The Dutch Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in a safe-house at an undisclosed location in Holland tonight after...