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| Muslim Vote Tips the Balance in Netherlands |
| 2006-03-08 |
| Yesterday’s municipal elections in the Netherlands were won by the Left. The Labour Party (PvdA) gained more than 500 town hall seats, an increase of 50 per cent compared with 2002, while the far-left Socialist Party (SP) doubled its number of seats. The Christian-Democrat CDA of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his government coalition partner, the free-market Liberal VVD, suffered heavy losses. Yesterday’s result does not bode well for the Right in next year’s general elections. If the result in 2007 is the same as yesterday’s the PvdA will gain 49 of the 150 parliamentary seats, while the CDA – currently the largest party – will lose 13 of its 44 seats. A government of Labour, the SP and the extreme-left Groen Links (Green Left) Party could replace the current center-right government, leaving the Netherlands with a radical-left coalition similar to that of Norway today. Today the center-left newspaper De Volkskrant writes that the immigrant vote has tipped the balance in favour of the Left. This should not come as a surprise. All across Europe, immigrants tend to vote for the Left. The Left is perceived to be the welfare state’s Santa Claus. Most of the immigrants who came to Europe during the past decades were attracted by the generous welfare benefits which Western Europe lavishly bestows on the “underprivileged.” Today, owing to their demographic growth, the immigrant vote is increasing as more and more young immigrants reach voting age. In many countries the Left has begun to cater for the immigrants, aware that the immigrants guarantee their power. According to the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam 80% of the non-indigenous electorate voted for Labour. This explains why cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Breda and Arnhem succumbed to the Left. 84% of the Turks voted for the PvdA; 81% of the Antillians/Surinamese did likewise. Of the Moroccans 78% voted Labour and 12% voted Green Left. The center-right VVD, the party of famous Dutch policians such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Frits Bolkestein, received only 1% of the immigrant vote. The CDA got 3%, the SP 5% and Green Left 7%. According to De Telegraaf, the largest paper in the country, immigrant voters have become a power block. The effects of the immigrant vote will soon be visible. The Amsterdam borough of De Baarsjes has already decided to remove a white cross which serves as a memorial to the Second World War. The cross is situated not far from the place where a mosque is being built. According to the authorities “Muslims and Jews” take offense at the cross as a war memorial. “We told them that it is a Dutch tradition to refer to the dead with a cross. However, the cross is seen as a reference to Christianity. I can understand this,” the local (Christian-Democrat) councillor, Jan Voetberg, said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 You assume that muslim immigrants will stay more or less fundie muslim. Do you know any muslim immigrants, Liberalhawk? |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-03-08 18:18 |
| #8 Was it Holland that lost 30K in population last year or Denmark? Time to reform immigration. Let them in. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-03-08 18:08 |
| #7 Agree with RB. " . . . the immigrant vote has tipped the balance in favour of the Left" This is to be taken seriously, since jihad strategy favors overpowering the West through infiltration, and assumption of powers once controlled by the "infidels." It is slso outrageous that the Dutch are removing a WWII symbol because it is "offensive" to Jews (?--WTF?) and Moslems (no surprise there), but that they would actually cave to that, now that's shocking. (and I thought the ban on pig collections in England was bad . . . ) To allow another religion (Islam) to force itself on those who do not hold to that religion (Islam) is proof that the Dutch are willing to become the slaves of Islam, and to obey its tenets. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-03-08 16:40 |
| #6 You assume that muslim immigrants will stay more or less fundie muslim. Safe assumption. They either are that way or will become that way. There is no evidence of liberalization on Muslim communities in the West. The opposite, in fact. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-03-08 16:28 |
| #5 Any fool who doesn't realize that the muzzies will stab everyone else in the back as soon as the lights go out isn't dealing with a full deck. In today's world, everywhere they go, they force themselves upon the natives and begin the decline of all other groups so they can take control. It's not a secret any more. Today Mindinao and Nigeria, tomorrow, Spain, Lebanon, France ? I say push back with gusto. Fight this cancer. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-03-08 15:22 |
| #4 anon You assume that muslim immigrants will stay more or less fundie muslim. To the extent that they secularize, but fail to assimilate, they become simply a ghetto vote, and would probably stay left (and would be less inclined to make problems for the extreme social liberals on the euro left) Of course that would go against what some here assume about european muslims. Note also - when a vote is close, EVERYONE is the swing vote. Gays, nuke haters, nuke lovers, muslims - everyone. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-03-08 15:08 |
| #3 Can you spell surrender ? The leftists have so little love and respect for their own families and ancestors that they willingly, joyfully sell out their country. And foolishly sell out their country to the religion of hate and death. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-03-08 15:00 |
| #2 In France, after the ramadan riots, the leftists has pushed the "youths" to register for the coming 2007 (2006, given Shiraq's decrepit state?) elections. Also, according to some newsletters, it seems like both the Ps (socialists) and the Ump (supposedly "conservatives") will put muslim candidates at the forefront, especially in higly islamized areas, so muslims will enjoy representation. At local level, many pols already have made deals with the muslim community to get their votes, such as men/wimmen segregated swimming pools, no more pork on school menus, mosques sprouting everywhere on a *daily* basis, often with illegal public funding (trick is to fund only the "cultural" part of the mosque),... This is a losing deal : muslims are now a tipping point voting block, voting mostly for the left, true (IIRC, in last german elections, 86% of the turks who could vote did so for the spd), but as they will assert their own power, they will present and vote for *muslim* candidates, or for dhimmi non-muslim candidates. The social-democrats sweet dream of perpetual stay in power by manufacturing a captive electorate (this is what was done in Belgium, for example) made up of client migrant populations depending on them for social benefit, and the leftist utopia of outsourcing the Revolution(tm) to theses same populations (Herbert Marcuse, Tony Negri) are bound to backfire! Muslims are not a mindless politico-social engineering tool, they WILL take action. The conquest of Europe will be made mostly by democratic and legal way, as population shifts occur. This is only the beginning. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-03-08 14:16 |
| #1 The Dutch won't go dhimmi quietly. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-03-08 12:11 |