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Dutch not coping with Islam
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University professors in the Netherlands are not allowed to voice "unscientific" opinions that are too critical of Islam. One such opinion is the statement of Pieter W. van der Horst that the Nazis' irrational hatred of the Jews has been adopted in the contemporary Islamic world. At a meeting today in Amsterdam a large majority of the chancellors of the Dutch universities agreed that academic freedom at universities should be limited. Only two of them, Frans Zwarts of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Taede Sminia of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, said that a retiring professor should be allowed to express a personal opinion in his valedictory lecture.

Last month Pieter W. van der Horst, the retiring professor of Early Christian History and Judaism at Utrecht University, (the alma mater of James Boswell, Lord Hailes, the Earl of Sunderland, Wilhelm Rntgen, Hugh Williamson, and others) wanted to argue in his valedictory lecture that the islamisation of European antisemitism is one of the most frightening developments of the past decades.

“... the lecture was unscientific and incited different population groups against each other...”
However, his university's chancellor, the rector magnificus, Prof. Willem H. Gispen, prevented him from doing so by censoring the lecture in advance. According to Gispen the lecture was unscientific and incited different population groups against each other. Van der Horst says Gispen had also told him that Islamic students might disrupt the lecture, in which case the university would not be able to guarantee van der Horst's safety.
I guess van Gogh's been dead long enough that they've forgotten, at least until the next Dutchman's slaughtered like a sheep in broad daylight. Then they'll be good for another six months or so.

Posted by: ryuge 2006-07-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=161407