The Dutch continue to sink into the status of dhimmi, or infidels living under Muslim occupation. From Jihadwatch, comes this post found on Little Green Footballs:
In the Netherlands the national flag is now banned on most schools. If a student wears the national flag of his own country he will be suspended or expelled from school. The reason for this is that this provokes the immigrants (the Muslims) and therefore it is considered discrimination if you wear your country's flag in your own country. Even people who have a bumpersticker with the flag on their car are harassed and called a fascist by the Muslims. Most schools also ban certain clothing like the Lonsdale brand and combat boots with white or red laces. This is also considered a sign of racism. There are of course no restrictions for the immigrants on clothing.
Here is the original Dutch article.
On February 1, the Washington Post's Keith R. Richburg described how Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker and outspoken critic of Islam, is under constant threat by Muslim extremists.
Wilders now travels everywhere with six bodyguards. He cannot sleep in his own home, but is moved around between various undisclosed safe houses. He sees his wife twice a week, at a safe house.
Wilders is not the only Dutch politician targeted by radical Muslims. Others include Job Cohen, the mayor of Amsterdam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian-born member of parliament who collaborated with Theo van Gogh on the film that cost him his life; and Ahmend Aboutaleb, a Moroccan-born alderman who has committed the outrage of talking about "tolerance and the need for Muslims to adopt to the Dutch way of life." Richburg quotes Wilders,
We are in an undeclared war. These people are motivated by one thing: to kill everything that we stand for.
Read the whole article here.
And then turn your attention to Nidra Poller's recent article in the New York Sun, "The Brave New World of Eurabia." It deals with Egyptian historian Bat Ye'or's recently published Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, in addition to a report drafted under the auspices of the European Commission entitled "Dialogue Between People and Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Area."
If Europeans are indeed involved in an "undeclared war" against Islamic extremism, they are not winning. All the vigilance and security measures in the world cannot protect them if the citizenry itself no longer accepts, obeys and defends the values inherited from their forefathers. Meanwhile, the bien pensants and Olympian progressives of the continent scoff--and profess to fear--boorish, pugnacious, irrational American patriotism and sense of destiny. But it is precisely our irrational will to believe in and accept--beyond all argument and "nuanced" deliberation--the greatness and universality of our values that will inoculate us from dhimmitude and creeping jihad, and prevent the Muslim Redoubt from erecting its barricades upon our shores.
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