Melseke on Dutch Politics: DIGNITY

Dutch Politics

Dignity

Ajax is the new Dutch football champion. A few weeks ago there was a party on the Museum-square in Amsterdam, 160 injuries, over 300.000 euros damage to museums. Last Wednesday i went to visit the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and on the way back about a 100 train travellers lost an hour thanks to a Feijenoord supporter who beat up the train-conductor.

These hooligans are all offspring of Henkie and Ingrid, as Geert Wilders calls them in his party program and not of Ali and Fatima who are probably far too busy being useless, as Wilders suggests is their main occupation.

If you don’t know what the PVV (Party for freedom) is about, here are a few statements by Wilders:

•  Flooding The Netherlands for 30 years with Islamic voting cattle

•  Tax on headscarves: ‘Headragstax’

•  Disproportionate number of idle Muslim immigrants

•  Mohammed had a brain tumor

The list is much longer. Moszkowitz (Wilders’ lawyer) claims that Wilders does not want to hurt Muslims in their human dignity, but looking at his statements he could have fooled me and he certainly fooled many a Muslim. Wilders is a disgrace to Holland, to its tradition of hospitality and tolerance. Immigration and a minimum level of cultural assimilation are serious issues that need to be addressed firmly, but not in the scummy, brawling PVV-way that serves no other purpose than Wilders’ megalomania.

(The current Dutch Government is a collaboration between PVV, CDA and VVD)

Melseke

May 31, 2011

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