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Monday, November 15, 2004

'How enlightenment dies'

Read this article at NRO. Money quote:

A few days ago, a local artist reacted to the news of Van Gogh's killing by painting a mural that included the words "Gij zult niet doden" ("Thou Shalt Not Kill"). Fair comment, you might think. Apparently not. The head of a nearby mosque complained. The police showed up and city workers sandblasted the inconvenient text into oblivion. Rotterdam's mayor has since apologized, but the damage had already been done.

"Thou Shalt Not Kill." Erased, obliterated, unacceptable. Much like Theo van Gogh.

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more from the national review, it's also a bit old (11/10), but interesting enough:

http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200411101620.asp

Kstreet (ip:140.147.54.49) 15 November 2004 - 1:06 uur

if you're looking for a golden quote in this one[i.e. NRO II], what about:

The killing of Theo van Gogh is a textbook case of what happens when a tolerant but confused society takes political correctness to its illogical extreme. For Mohammed B. did not choose terrorism all by himself. He was indoctrinated and recruited in a mosque where he was pumped full of the Wahabbi doctrine "predominant in Saudi Arabia." The murder of van Gogh was an instant replay of the many murders carried out by Zarqawi and his followers in Iraq, extolled by fanatical Muslim Imams. As Allam reminds us, not all mosques are fundamentalist, extremist, or terrorist, but all the fundamentalists, extremists, and terrorists got that way in mosques.

Kstreet (ip:140.147.54.49) 15 November 2004 - 1:08 uur

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