The knife's message
By Mona Charen
As Americans were reaffirming the war on terror by re-electing George W. Bush,
Europe was slapped hard across the face by the murder of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch
filmmaker and outspoken critic of Islam. Van Gogh, a descendant of the painter,
was shot while riding his bicycle to work in Amsterdam.
The bullets did not kill van Gogh. He survived long enough to stagger toward
his office and plead with his attacker not to kill him -- just as Nick Berg,
Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley and countless others pleaded with their
murderers. But the killer, a Moroccan/Dutch jihadist who reportedly converted
to radical Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, pulled out a long knife and methodically
slit the throat of the 47-year-old van Gogh. He then withdrew a lengthy
manifesto from his pocket used the bloody knife to impale it on the chest of
the filmmaker.
The letter is a screed of terrific savagery, written partly in quite
conversational Dutch and part in Arabic. Much of the vitriol is aimed at Hirsi
Ali -- a Dutch member of parliament of Somali birth who has renounced Islam and
had helped van Gogh to make a film, " Submission," that unveiled the abuse many
Muslim women silently endure.
"There will come a day," declares the threat letter, "when one soul will not
be able to help another soul. A day of horrible tortures and painful
tribulations which will go together with the terrible cries being pressed out
of the lungs of the unjust. Cries, Mrs. Hirsi Ali, which will cause chills to
run up someone's spine, and cause the hair on their head to stand straight up.
.... Hair-raising screams will be squeezed from the lungs of the non-believers."
Later the letter warns: "I surely know that you, O America, will be destroyed.
I surely know that you, O Europe, will be destroyed. I surely know that you, O
Holland, will be destroyed."
The response of the editorial board of The New York Times reveals why Western
civilization is imperiled. "Urgent efforts are needed to better manage the
cultural tensions perilously close to the surface of Dutch public life,"
intoned the Times. "The problem is not Muslim immigration, but a failure to
plan for a smoother transition to a more diverse society. One very real danger
is that the public trauma over the van Gogh murder may lead to a clamor for
anti-Muslim policies that could victimize thousands of innocent refugees and
immigrants."
Right. The problem is not a murderous, totalitarian religious ideology bent on
domination of any society with which it comes into contact (just ask the
Sudanese Christians, the Israeli Jews or the Hindu Indians), rather it is the
Western world's lack of "diversity." Good Lord, where are these people's
brains?
It is perfectly obvious to all but the most obtuse observer, which of course
includes the editorial board of The New York Times, that an excess of tolerance
is what got Holland and the rest of Europe into this mess in the first place.
Holland has leaned over backward to welcome immigrants from the former Dutch
colony of Indonesia -- to the point where a majority of children under the age
of 14 in Holland's four largest cities are Muslims. Muslims now comprise 6
percent of the population, but their numbers are growing rapidly through large
families and continuing Muslim immigration (about 30,000 per year).
Some 300,000 of the 1 million Muslims in Holland fervently support the radical
imams and mosques that preach jihad against the Jews, the West and all
infidels. The Dutch have prided themselves on tolerating everything from legal
prostitution, to euthanasia, to freely available marijuana and other drugs. But
in tolerating the intolerant Muslims, they have swallowed a serpent.
In the wake of van Gogh's murder, many Netherlanders have come to recognize
this. Seventy-five percent told pollsters they support "radical" measures for
dealing with terrorists, and Deputy Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm announced that
the Dutch cabinet had "declared war on Islamic extremism." Those who don't
support Holland's tradition of free speech have been publicly invited to leave
the country, even if they are citizens, and the government is preparing to
close radical mosques altogether.
The New York Times would not approve. But sane observers will recognize the
Dutch as the first Europeans to display a healthy survival instinct. It is not
too late for the rest of Europe -- yet.
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02 Dec 2004 08:39:25 AM |
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This message contains utter nonsense!
<snip>
The bullets did not kill van Gogh. He survived long enough to stagger toward
his office and plead with his attacker not to kill him -- just as Nick Berg,
Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley and countless others pleaded with their
murderers. But the killer, a Moroccan/Dutch jihadist who reportedly converted
to radical Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, pulled out a long knife and methodically
slit the throat of the 47-year-old van Gogh. He then withdrew a lengthy
manifesto from his pocket used the bloody knife to impale it on the chest of
the filmmaker.
Van Gogh was on his way to his office and was shot while riding his
bike. He managed to walk to the other side of the street, his attacker
following him. Their he was shot again and he collapsed. Then his
murderer put two knifes in Van Gogh's body. It all happenend in a
minute. The attacker then waited a short while to see whether Van Gogh
was really dead. Then he walked away and was later arrested after
shooting some twenty bullets into policecars and one policeman(who's
life was saved by his bulletproof vest!).
Van Gogh NEVER made it to his office and there was no pleading for his
life, no throatcutting. Nonsense!
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02 Dec 2004 06:07:10 PM |
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"WimJ" <wimj@fantasyland.com> wrote in message
news:BuWdnTozPcWHtDLcRVnyhg@zeelandnet.nl...
This message contains utter nonsense!
<snip>
The bullets did not kill van Gogh. He survived long enough to stagger
toward
his office and plead with his attacker not to kill him -- just as Nick
Berg,
Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley and countless others pleaded with their
murderers. But the killer, a Moroccan/Dutch jihadist who reportedly
converted
to radical Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, pulled out a long knife and
methodically
slit the throat of the 47-year-old van Gogh. He then withdrew a lengthy
manifesto from his pocket used the bloody knife to impale it on the
chest of
the filmmaker.
Van Gogh was on his way to his office and was shot while riding his
bike. He managed to walk to the other side of the street, his attacker
following him. Their he was shot again and he collapsed. Then his
murderer put two knifes in Van Gogh's body. It all happenend in a
minute. The attacker then waited a short while to see whether Van Gogh
was really dead. Then he walked away and was later arrested after
shooting some twenty bullets into policecars and one policeman(who's
life was saved by his bulletproof vest!).
Van Gogh NEVER made it to his office and there was no pleading for his
life, no throatcutting. Nonsense!
The other version was in the papers. For sure he was impaled with a knife
attached to a msg.
Jane
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04 Dec 2004 04:05:19 AM |
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Jane wrote:
"WimJ" <wimj@fantasyland.com> wrote in message
news:BuWdnTozPcWHtDLcRVnyhg@zeelandnet.nl...
This message contains utter nonsense!
<snip>
The bullets did not kill van Gogh. He survived long enough to stagger
toward
his office and plead with his attacker not to kill him -- just as Nick
Berg,
Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley and countless others pleaded with their
murderers. But the killer, a Moroccan/Dutch jihadist who reportedly
converted
to radical Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, pulled out a long knife and
methodically
slit the throat of the 47-year-old van Gogh. He then withdrew a lengthy
manifesto from his pocket used the bloody knife to impale it on the
chest of
the filmmaker.
Van Gogh was on his way to his office and was shot while riding his
bike. He managed to walk to the other side of the street, his attacker
following him. Their he was shot again and he collapsed. Then his
murderer put two knifes in Van Gogh's body. It all happenend in a
minute. The attacker then waited a short while to see whether Van Gogh
was really dead. Then he walked away and was later arrested after
shooting some twenty bullets into policecars and one policeman(who's
life was saved by his bulletproof vest!).
Van Gogh NEVER made it to his office and there was no pleading for his
life, no throatcutting. Nonsense!
The other version was in the papers. For sure he was impaled with a knife
attached to a msg.
Jane
Then those papers were wrong. Van Gogh was shot at one side of the
street and only made it to the other side. There was NO throat cutting,
though it was first reported on tv here in Holland.
This just shows you how sensationalized the press is these days!
Disgusting.
There were two knifes in his body. One big one in his chest and a
smaller one, with the letter, in his stomach.
Lesson to be learned: don't trust the press!
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| User: "Jane" |
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04 Dec 2004 04:04:43 PM |
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"WimJ" <wimj@fantasyland.com> wrote in message
news:GYWdnTOR76xHFizcRVnyhw@zeelandnet.nl...
Jane wrote:
"WimJ" <wimj@fantasyland.com> wrote in message
news:BuWdnTozPcWHtDLcRVnyhg@zeelandnet.nl...
This message contains utter nonsense!
<snip>
The bullets did not kill van Gogh. He survived long enough to stagger
toward
his office and plead with his attacker not to kill him -- just as Nick
Berg,
Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley and countless others pleaded with their
murderers. But the killer, a Moroccan/Dutch jihadist who reportedly
converted
to radical Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, pulled out a long knife and
methodically
slit the throat of the 47-year-old van Gogh. He then withdrew a lengthy
manifesto from his pocket used the bloody knife to impale it on the
chest of
the filmmaker.
Van Gogh was on his way to his office and was shot while riding his
bike. He managed to walk to the other side of the street, his attacker
following him. Their he was shot again and he collapsed. Then his
murderer put two knifes in Van Gogh's body. It all happenend in a
minute. The attacker then waited a short while to see whether Van Gogh
was really dead. Then he walked away and was later arrested after
shooting some twenty bullets into policecars and one policeman(who's
life was saved by his bulletproof vest!).
Van Gogh NEVER made it to his office and there was no pleading for his
life, no throatcutting. Nonsense!
The other version was in the papers. For sure he was impaled with a
knife
attached to a msg.
Jane
Then those papers were wrong. Van Gogh was shot at one side of the
street and only made it to the other side. There was NO throat cutting,
though it was first reported on tv here in Holland.
This just shows you how sensationalized the press is these days!
Disgusting.
There were two knifes in his body. One big one in his chest and a
smaller one, with the letter, in his stomach.
Lesson to be learned: don't trust the press!
True. In any case, he is just as dead, though.
Jane
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