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| Dutch not coping with Islam | ||
| 2006-07-31 | ||
| EFL 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.
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #13 A long, full and noble life. May he rest in peace. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-07-31 21:54 |
| #12 We have to, Redneck Jim. Otherwise Europe becomes a reservoir to poison the rest of the world. We may have to choose to rebuild themselves next time though, if only to keep them busy and out of trouble, after the way it turned out last time. I do apologise, all. I'm not thinking very logically about this right now. My mother just called to let me know that the genteman who'd hidden her during the war just chose to be euthanized, and was buried on Friday. He was 91, in continual pain after a series of debilitating strokes, and decided it was time. He died in the love of his family, including some of his (nine?) children and grandchildren. When I heard, my first thought was that at least he will avoid what is about to come to his little country. His memory is for a blessing, and in Israel he and his wife are listed amongst the Righteous Gentiles. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-31 21:09 |
| #11 I have to wonder, the next time Europe needs a savior, someone to liberate them from murdurous scum. Will we give a damn? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-07-31 19:58 |
| #10 #9 anon - the 1st and 2nd Amendments don't hurt either. Every day I wake up I'm grateful my ancestors got on those boats. And I'm really glad Jefferson's ancestors did, too. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-31 19:40 |
| #9 Again, sorry to rant, but it's a feature, not a bug. Maybe I'm paranoid, but between the internal rot set by the various shades of post/neo/paleo/marxists, the deliberate and planned (since the 1920's) killing of national identities by the EU, and Eurabia, what's happening is not the results of blind historical forces. Sure, they set the stage, starting with WWI which was the death of Europe, really, though the spiral started with the french revolution, but ideas are carried by people. And there is an actual political will to change european societies into what the European Enlightened Elites wish them to be. It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you. And remember, you've got the same people at home, with basically the same agenda. Only thing that's helping you is a deeper sense of identity (religious and national), and a more healthy political "genetic memory" (but the new left came back from your shores). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-31 16:55 |
| #8 Coward ! Cowards all. The EU is becoming spineless. First the government, next the universities. Will the police be next to cower ? Will their courts submit to sharia ? Remember, this is the same Europe which has numerous muzzies camped out in Catholic churchs. They have gone to hell. There's nothing left to loose except their pathetic EU liberal lives. Europe's honor died in the 1940s. Survivors include appeasment, dhimmitude, and pointless leftist bloviation. Cowards all. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-07-31 14:24 |
| #7 "However, his university's chancellor, the rector magnificus, Prof. Willem H. Gispen" More like rectus magnificus |
| Posted by: Warthog 2006-07-31 13:22 |
| #6 Btw, rewriting History to be muslim-friendly and muslim-oriented, plus setting specific rules for treating islam, is part and parcel of the Eurabia strategy. It's not a bug, it's a feature. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-31 13:05 |
| #5 The book that explains it all. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-31 13:01 |
| #4 In the name of allan...I proudly crown you: Cliphate of Netherlistan!! All hail the Caliphate!!! |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-07-31 12:58 |
| #3 a large majority of the chancellors of the Dutch universities agreed that academic freedom at universities should be limited. Bit by bit it all goes away. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-07-31 11:38 |
| #2 More of this. What in hell is wrong with a person like Gispen ? He is simply a traitor to his country and enables its eventual fall. Prof. van der Horst was completely correct and trying to approach this from an historical perspective which is usually very accurate. All their society needs to be alerted to action against the invaders. Perhaps the problem is that there is no real society anymore. Society being a group that has common interests, promotes common ideals, and projects norms of behavior. Maybe this crucial fabric has fallen away. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-07-31 11:32 |
| #1 I have visited Amsterdam, and found the people to be a very polite, pleasant group of collaborators. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-07-31 10:54 |