Help me!

I'm participating in a Dutch business plan contest in which the most original business idea can get 25,000 euros in seed funding. If I win, I won't see a dime of the money itself, instead the organizing company will pay my bills until the 25 grand has been spent.

Here's the catch. In the end, a jury is going to make a choice between the different ideas. But the preselection is done by website visitors.

So if you'd all be so kind to click here and vote for me, I would be much obliged. You can vote once a day and all votes add to the end total, so please keep it up!

I need to be with the first twenty to be able to be nominated, and currently, I'm somewhere in the eighties (after only half a day) so it should be doable.

HERE'S HOW TO VOTE: (yes, it works for foreigners too)
1. Go to this address.
2. Click 'Stem' in the little grey box (down the page, in the right-hand side of the screen).
3. Click the box next to 'Ik wil me inschrijven voor de dagelijkse zibb.nl nieuwsbrief'.
4. Enter [yourfirstname]@isopeda.nl as an email address. (Try [yourfirstandlastname]@isopeda.nl if this doesn't work. This can happen when someone with a similar first name has already voted before you that day.)
5. Click 'nu stemmen!'.
6. If you get a quiz, choose either one of the three options and click 'nu stemmen' again.

You have just voted for me and signed me up for the newsletter they force down your throat. I will deal with that, I am just grateful for y'all taking the trouble.

Don't forget that you can vote once a day, with the same email address that you used at 4). So please, pretty please, with lots of sugar or Nutrasweet on top (depending on your New Year diet plans), bookmark the site and return every day for the next few weeks.

Oh, and the business plan itself? That's for a website called www.paarsekrokodil.nl (Purple Crocodile) which will enable Dutch customers to spout their anger about bureaucracy and bad service they've encountered in their contacts with Dutch companies. The website is named after a rather (in)famous commercial which satirizes the customer disservice endemic amongst many Dutch companies. I've got ideas how to make such a website profitable and customer-friendly too, of course, but you'll forgive me for not posting those here.

(Yes, I've already claimed the domain name.)

Thanks for voting!

17:43

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Homecoming from Kalutara

(Image courtesy of Digital Globe.)

Yesterday, my family, my sister's boyfriend and yours truly, were lucky enough to be able to go to Schiphol Airport to meet our sister. As the true scale of the disaster has become apparent in the past few days, I need not dwell on the signifance of the word 'lucky'. Otherwise, take a look at the satellite picture of the beach my sister was residing at. The brownish stuff beneath the waves is the beach her hotel was positioned next to.

If you haven't done so, please donate. For Dutch readers, this can be done very easily through this website, everyone else can use a plethora of different websites, although Amazon.Com is probably a good bet.

These photographs of my sister's homecoming probably say enough.

My sister, in the white top, walks into the arrivals hall. No thanks to the assholes at Martinair, my brother Richard and I were not allowed to meet her at the gate (my parents and her boyfriend were) so she got emotional all over again when she saw us. Happy food for the media, which had been kept away from said gate for this exact reason. Nice going, Martinair. I wonder why you still mainly do charters and have never become a proper airline. (Well, I guess my father could have given them a harder time as well, and my brother and I could have whined some if that hadn't helped, but anyway.) Her boyfriend, who is confusingly also called Richard, can be seen right behind my sister. Yeah, he's the bald guy. Must be the inside that counts.

Like I said, happy food for the media.

Like I said, happy f... Oh, sod it.

My sister and her boyfriend again. (The bald one is not my sister.)

NOOT VOOR FAMILIELEDEN: hier is een bestand te downloaden met hoge-resolutieversies van de foto's. Dit bestand is beschermd met een wachtwoord. Mail me daarvoor.

NOTE TO EVERYBODY ELSE, ESPECIALLY DUTCH MEDIA: These photographs were made by me and their copyright resides with me. Under Dutch copyright law, all the people pictured are proprietors of their respective portrait rights. If you wish to use these images, send me an email and I will consider it. Be aware that I feel my sister should (and will) have the final word in all these matters. If I see any of the photographs from this site reproduced anywhere else without my permission, I will send my cat to visit you in the night, as well as some hungry lawyers. And no, I'm not bluffing. Scroll downwards to see the vicious critter. (A photograph of hungry lawyers can be made available upon request.)

My email address can be found in the left-hand column of this website.

18:25

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Limited updates for a while

I've been grounded by a severe stomach flu and a 40 degrees Celsius fever (that's 104 in Fahrenheit). Hope to be back soon.

8:47

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She's alright

Thankfully, my sister is alright after the devastating earthquake that has claimed so many lives in Asia.

13:04

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Readers in Sri Lanka, please contact me - my sister is missing

My sister, Judith Dasselaar, is currently staying in the Mermaid Hotel in Kalutara. I have tried to contact her there, but for obvious reasons the phone system is either damaged or overloaded. The Dutch embassy isn't reachable either.

Please contact me if you have any of the following information;
• Contact details of the Mermaid Hotel. I have a phone number, 00-94-34-222-2613, but it may not be correct.
• Contact details of government officials in the area. The police should be reachable at 00-94-34-222-2222, but I can't get through to them either.
• General information about the state of affairs in the area. It seems that mainly the eastern part of Sri Lanka got hit, but I also heard something about tidal waves hitting Colombo.

Also, I would really appreciate it if other bloggers link to this item so as to increase the chances of this long shot having some effect.

Thank you.

11:57

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Merry Christmas!

On behalf of my cat, who will be dining on salmon today for reasons he's completely oblivious to, and myself, I wish all of you a very merry Christmas (as well as a cat who wants to sit #@%! still when you're trying to photograph him in front of a couple of candles and a few badly cleaned windows).

(Oh, for those of you with a strong stomach and a sense of humor: here's a Dutchman's X-mas wish from the Canary Islands. No bikini-clad women on sunny beaches though. Sorry.)

9:41

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Zacht Ei's Christmas message

Dear readers,

I really respect you coming here, your continued support and all that.
But please, could you put a bit more continuance into the 'continued' part?
I mean, in the run-up to the holidays, the number of unique visitors has dropped from 1,400 on Monday till 1,000 on Thursday.
That's pretty much unprecedented, except perhaps for the time I showed pictures of my oven mits collection.
How important can family be that you can't spare five minutes for a Dutch blogger?
C'mon!

Yours sincerely,

Arjan Dasselaar

21:21

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Online shopping: Albert versus Amazon.Com

I've been fond of Amazon.Com ever since it went online. In fact, Amazon.Com was the main reason for me to apply for a credit card, which weren't as common in the Netherlands in the 90's as they were in the USA (come to think of it, they still aren't, although we're catching up).

Once, I ordered a shipment of books which turned out to have been damaged in the shipping process. One email to Amazon.Com was enough to have a completely new set of books shipped off to me. The Amazon.Com customer rep didn't even demand that I send the damaged books back for proof. The undamaged copies arrived within two weeks, which is fast for an intercontinental shipment.

Compare that to Albert, the Dutch online supermarket which is owned by Ahold. Apparently, bookkeeping isn't the only thing they suck at. On Sunday, I placed an order of nearly 200 euros for Christmas supplies. Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find the bill a tad lower than that. I soon found out why. Twelve items hadn't been shipped, including such essentials as toilet paper. The website of Albert is supposed to inform you of logistical problems when an order is placed.

So you can imagine how glad I was when an Albert customer rep gave me a call just now. Because I am such a valued customer, he was delighted to offer me a 50 percent discount on delivery costs on my next order. According to Albert, a 3,40 euro discount makes up for having to go into the supermarket on the busiest day of the year, because of the incompetence of a company whose services you used to avoid said shopping hell in the first place.

Needless to say, Albert will henceforth have one fewer 'valued customer'.

I just hope I've got enough of their marketing materials to wipe my bum with till Monday.

9:54

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True story about a law firm

Everyone loves lawyer jokes, except of course for lawyers, who don't possess a sense of humor, or at least not one of which I am cognizant.
Anyway, in Amsterdam there's a zoo called Artis. Companies can adopt an animal or a group of animals to show the world they're not just egotistical capitalists, but have a heart too.
Guess which animals were adopted by a law firm?
That's right, the vultures.

22:12

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Weekly Standard uses French words!

(Well, I'd never.) In an otherwise insightful article about the Netherlands, written by a guy who's actually read a book or two about the Low Countries before spouting his opinion.

(Hat tip to Cees.)

10:17

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Free plagiarism tracer

Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia professor of Journalism, mentions Copyscape in his newsletter. Nice, especially since it's free, unlike Turnitin.

9:51

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Meanwhile, religious fascism wins in the UK

Ten performances of a play have been cancelled in the UK because the local Sikh community tends to be a bit overly sensitive.
I was offended when I was a Christian kid and was confronted with books such as 'The Incredible Evil of the Supreme Being', which (as you may have gathered from the title) depicts the Christian God in none too favorable a light.
Can't remember throwing stones at the writer, though.
If you're offended, write your own books, plays or films, or simply speak out.
The universal line that must be drawn, and which cannot be debated, is that between speech and violence. When violence is used, very soon it will amount to mob rule and ultimately fascism, as soon as a strong leader rises to herd the mob.
Too bad the UK doesn't get that anymore.

9:40

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FrontPage explains

Hey, it's not exactly my kind of magazine, but kudos to FrontPage for the way they explain themselves after that nasty bit of plagiarism by one of their contributors. I'd like to see the MSM do that. It also turns out that the woman who ctrl-c'd/v'd my blog was using a pen name. Val MacQueen, not Alexis Amory, is her real name.

9:33

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Gollum is not doing Atkins

Nope, still no cure for cancer, HIV or bad driving skills. But physicians are making headway in explaining Gollum's odd behavior:

'Insofar as Smeagol/Gollum has been living alone for hundreds of years, I think we can rule out the possibility that his avoidance of lembas bread is caused by the recent "low-carb" craze.'

Read more here and here.

(Hat tip: BoingBoing.)

16:33

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Why I hate Christmas

• It always takes lots of duct tape to restrain the cat long enough for me to safely fit him with his Christmas sweater
• Escort services charge through the nose on the 25th of December, and the girls tend to be really cranky
• You have to be friendly to people

OK, none of the above is true. However, I did just finish writing 54 Christmas cards. I also updated my address book, which, like every year, turned out to be woefully incomplete. And finally, I dumped all the cards in the mailbox. This may not sound like a lot of effort, but it is. To prevent damage from fireworks, Dutch mail has narrowed the openings in all mail boxes to extremely small slits. This means the cards have to be thrown in one by one.

So if you receive a card, cherish it. I must be very fond of you.

18:45

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Ad hominem

As Arendo Joustra, editor of Elsevier News Weekly and one of my mentors, once told his young apprentice (me): never try to make yourself look big by making someone else look small.
In the past week, however, I've read with astonishment three articles by three people I (used to) admire degrading three other people on a personal level. One of the three attacked persons is dead now, which makes it all the more distasteful.
(And no, I won't be mentioning any names, as that might make me guilty of doing exactly the same, although I'm sure it would be more fun to read.)

Must be the spirit of Christmas, ensuring there'll be plenty to make up for next weekend.

10:25

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Translations of Van Gogh articles

Pieter Dorsman is making the effort and has translated a few sections of some articles by Theo van Gogh. Money quote:

'America is hated because it embodies the hope of people that yearn for a better life, to have meat everyday, but also to believe in the God they choose, or not.'

Amen.

(Which in no way is meant to imply I'm religious, because I'm not.)

21:21

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Why secretary Brinkhorst should resign

Secretary Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst has apparently said that MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali should not have made the film Submission (which by the way can be downloaded here through Torrent). According to Brinkhorst, who is responsible for economic affairs, filming Submission was akin to 'lighting a cigarette in a munitions dump'.

By his own admission, Brinkhorst should resign immediately. And this is why:

What we have here is a member of government who:
a) Admits this country is on the brink of exploding, something the government should take responsibility for, because that's why we put them in charge to lead the country.
b) Tries to solve the problem not by making the situation less explosive, but by denying people a basic right. Be it freedom of expression or lighting a cigarette, the metaphor remains valid.

Such a person should not be allowed to hold a government position in any democratic country as he's obviously not up to the job. If Mr. Brinkhorst doesn't draw his own conclusions, I sincerely hope voters will draw theirs by removing his D66 party from the Second Chamber (our Lower House) in the next elections.

Enough for now. I am going to try to wash the taste of contempt out of my mouth.

(Turns out all I've got left is soda, but you can FedEx your whiskey bottles to...)

22:29

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I long for old-fashioned rigidity

If even atheists start embracing a supreme being, surely nothing can be presumed certain anymore.

Come to think of it, am I really writing this?

20:19

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Last film of Theo van Gogh premieres

And thanks to the fine people at Kempen PR, I wasn't there to report on it. Anyway, the BBC has an article about the movie here. The film itself can be downloaded here, although you need to be fairly fluent in Dutch. There are no English subtitles, I'm afraid. Plus, you'll need to buy a license to be able to view it, which will only be possible from Wednesday onwards.

13:18

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Jihadists want to target Red-Light District

A very unwise move, tactically speaking. First, we kinda like the red-light district, locally known as De Wallen. Not because it makes it easier to find a prostitute (I never got more offers for - er - 'horizontal refreshments' than the first time I visited Vegas), but mostly because it brings in a lot of tourists. Second, De Wallen are entangled with the underworld, as Pieter points out. Those guys won't bother with due process. They will protect what they see as 'theirs'. The Netherlands have seen quite a lot of assassinations amongst criminals. If a Jihadi decides De Wallen are fair game, guess what will happen?

9:53

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Hell hath no fury

For a blogger scorned. Check out these (non-PC) Photoshopped pictures of Van Gogh murderer Mohammed Bouyeri. It's an oldie, but it's still fun. Well, some of them are, others are rather childish. Personally, I like the Moby parody.

9:42

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No house for me

I got the results this afternoon of the lottery for the house I wanted to buy in the center of Amsterdam. As expected, there's far more demand than there's space for houses. I got number 52, which means that if 51 people decide they don't want the house they applied for, I'll get it. In other words: ain't gonna happen.

17:49

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Doubting the Amazon recommendation system

Either that, or I really do need to get a life:

10:16

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The moralism of Battlestar Galactica

Science fiction, or at least proper science fiction, has always opened a window on the present through the future. A literary giant like Robert Anson Heinlein wrote extensive treatises on liberty, the place of the military in our society, and even humor and polyamory, all under the guise of visions on the future. Yet in more recent times, science fiction often seems to have fallen prey to the same nihilism that pervades much of Western culture. Films like 'The Day after Tomorrow' and 'I, Robot' are neo-Frankensteinian flicks which are postmodernist in the sense that they brim with nihilism, denial and self-hate. Battlestar Galactica, currently airing on Sky Channel, changes all that.

(Click 'Lees verder' to read the rest.)

More...

17:08

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Ugliest Christmas tree in the world on Dam Square

I walked by it yesterday and took a picture of what is definitely the worst Christmas tree I've seen in my life. However, my SonyEricsson P900 probably repressed it, like you tend to do with disasters, because the picture was gone when I wanted to copy it to my computer yesterday night. Fortunately, newspaper De Telegraaf has one online here.

12:27

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Road disaster in the Netherlands

All this carnage, in the same week Prince Bernhard will be buried.

9:54

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The future of journalism?

EPIC.

15:22

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Thanks for nothing, Demon Internet

I spent nearly a day without internet thanks to the fine people at Demon Internet. In light of my appreciation for the quality of service they provide (this wasn't the first time I got some unexpected spare time), I've prepared some slogans for their next ad campaign:

• Start your time in purgatory here on Earth! Use Demon Internet!
• Good sys admins go to heaven, bad sys admins get a job offer at Demon Internet.
• Subscribe to Demon Internet now, and get a free apocalyptic horse to bring you to the nearest internet cafe anytime you please. You'll need it!

OK, the last one wasn't really catchy but then again, neither is Demon Internet. It sure smells like brimstone here.

9:28

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Request to my (formerly) Muslim readers

The open letter below offers an interesting perspective on the current cultural debate, especially since we secular Dutch don't hear too much of what's going on inside Islam. In the same way, nobody ever heard what was going on in the orthodox corners of Dutch protestantism until people like Maarten 't Hart wrote it down. That alone makes this letter valuable, even if you don't agree with it.

Therefore, I'd like to invite other liberal Muslims and former Muslims to mail me their stories and experiences. If I feel they add to the current debate, I will be glad to put them up here or to link to them.

Since the author of the open letter explicitly referred to both female and male submission, this invite extends to both genders.

9:14

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Open letter to Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There are more liberated Muslim women in the world, and not all of them agree with the approach Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is taking. Here's an open letter from a Moroccan woman who grew up in Amsterdam, where she nearly died on the hands of her brother. Essential quotes:

'Ironically my brother, the one who beat me senseless at mother's orders, fell madly in love with a non-Muslim girl later on. My mother again felt compelled to intervene and forced him to marry a distant cousin, who she recognized as the perfect submissive mate. Never mind the fact that my brother already fathered a child in secret with his beautiful intelligent non-Muslim girlfriend. Amazingly enough his marriage turned out to be a success, which I personally attribute solely to a union between two submissive individuals. No doubt, my darling brother who constantly followed mother's orders, regardless what his heart told him, is indeed relentlessly submissive.

So you see in just two examples I mentioned, I was rescued by valiant Muslim MEN not women.'

Read more here.

9:03

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Checking out a lifelong dream

Having been a rather impoverished journalist for quite some time, certain things were always out of my grasp.
However, I've managed to save a bit of money in the past two years, meaning that I've finally got enough money to get my pilot's licence. That is, if the kind doctors at Schiphol Airport make a favorable decision about my eyesight. I had surgery three times when I was a kid to correct a lazy eye, and I'm scared out of my mind that a doctor will end my dream with one red cross on a medical exam form.
Any guys or girls out there who've been there and want to share?

12:06

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Why did IFILM remove Submission?

As reader Iwan pointed out, Submission can no longer be viewed at IFILM. There is no explanation offered.
However, there is still a Torrent file here. You'll need a Torrent client as well, which can be downloaded from this site.
FTP download locations are more than welcome, please email me privately and I will put it up here, and credit you (if you so desire, of course).

Update Sunday, December 5, 13.38: Filtrat mailed me this URL to a download location of Submission. Apparently, Submission was removed at IFILM at the request of Van Gogh's production company.

16:04

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The political genius of Theo van Gogh

Allowing himself to be killed to further his diabolical scheme of demonizing Islam!

'Van Gogh’s film, Submission, showing abused female bodies superimposed with misogynist texts from the Koran, was broadcast on Dutch television in September. Few pointed out that he could have made a similar film with misogynist texts from the Bible. Rather, it spoke to the growing belief that Islam is incompatible with Dutch society. Van Gogh’s killing fed this belief.'

Never mind that Van Gogh has criticized Christianity quite unsubtly as well. If you want an example, click here, for a piece Van Gogh wrote after he had been sued by a Christian group for blasphemy. (He won.)

For your enjoyment, here are a few (translated) quotes from the article Van Gogh wrote:

'It must be a relief to p.c. thinkers that there are also totalitarian Christian mongrels.'

'It's a true honor to be sued by followers of that rotten fish from Nazareth.'

Anyway, I guess you can just conveniently ignore any facts you don't like if they don't suit your political - I mean: journalistic - goals.

Here's the rest of a not entirely trustworthy Financial Times article.

Oh, and if you want to see the film Submission - labelled soft porn by The Nation (whatever floats your boat) - just click here. As I said before, I'd like to get that counter up to 16,297,692 - the current population of the Netherlands.

10:08

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Reaction from FrontPage Magazine

Alexis Amory apologizes for what she says was an accidental case of plagiarizing my blog. Thanks to Rogier for the role he played in bringing this to their attention.

Update Saturday 4/12/04, 9.27: I'm waking up to an email from Rogier. Whereas I was satisfied with the apology I got from Amory, Rogier didn't believe her explanation and decided to prod FrontPage Magazine editor David Horowitz again. The result: Amory will not be writing for FPM anymore. Yet I experience the same lack of triumphant feelings Rogier describes. I've never found pleasure in the misfortune of others. Plus, I feel being banned from FPM may be disproportionate punishment for what she did.

22:34

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Dutch 101

My new column at Netkwesties, a Dutch magazine on internet civil rights, can be found online here. It's entirely in Dutch, but since the article is an extended version of this English piece, it might prove interesting stuff for, say, the two non-Dutch out there who want to learn our wonderful language.

16:35

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The Dallas Morning News gets it:

'Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Salman Rushdie of our time,' this newspaper writes. Money quote:

'All of us must do everything we can to protect her. Whether one agrees with her views on Islam is entirely beside the point. In the West, no one may threaten or carry out violence to silence speech. This fundamental right is under threat today from Islamic extremists. It must be defended without hesitation and without apology.'

Indeed. Read the whole thing here.

(For those of you struggling with the registration requirements, try Bugmenot. Not all passwords that are given there will work, though.)

16:22

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Denial and that river in Egypt (2)

The Nation goes 'la la la, we can't hear you, nothing to see here, blame the victim':

'Van Gogh used free speech as a vehicle for racism and the Dutch tradition of "killing taboos" to boost his own career.'

I can't even begin to explain how grossly uninformed this is. Any person who doesn't know (or chooses to ignore) the difference between provocation and genuine hatred of others, is guilty of the same dogmatic stereotyping that is so common in genuine racists. Van Gogh wasn't one of the latter. He did really like to provoke people, in which he succeeds even posthumously.

Anyway, it's besides the point. Whether or not you consider someone to be a racist, you don't kill him for it.

So of course The Nation uses the famous 'but' phrase (although they don't need the word 'but' itself). For that, they can get one of my fingers.

(And by the way, the various Nazi references to anyone who disagrees with the author's point of view ('collaborator' for MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 'Jewish question' as a reference to future European policy towards radical Islam, and the list goes on), make me want to invoke Godwin's Law. Good thing the author doesn't flat out accuse all Dutch of being fascists. Then we could challenge her assumptions. Oh well, I guess there is still freedom of cowardice.)

(Hat tip: Matthijs.)

15:13

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali sued

A group of Muslims want the court to prohibit the making of Submission 2, the sequel to the film that offended Van Gogh murderer Mohammed Bouyeri. They also want the judge to issue a gag order, so she won't ever be able to say something nasty about Islam again.
I guess it's a good thing they're going to court rather than resort to violence, like Bouyeri did.
Funny thing is, these Muslims are going to use the law articles prohibiting religous insults that the Dutch PvdA Labour Party only recently wanted to preserve for the moment, because 'this wasn't the right time to debate it'.
Anybody want to help me buy that clock for PvdA leader Wouter Bos?

14:54

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Imitation, flattery, etc

On the 6th of November, I wrote this item about a survey by a Dutch newspaper.
Today, a kind reader pointed out the existence of this article to me. Just scroll down a bit.

I guess I should be happy, since I'm writing this blog in English to improve my fluency in written English, so one day I would be able to get my stuff published in American and British outlets. Well, mission accomplished. Thing is, I always imagined my name would be there, too.

10:10

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