Dutch Mosques Attacked

International News Article | Reuters.com.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Several Dutch mosques were attacked by arsonists this weekend as tension in the Netherlands grew after the murder of an outspoken filmmaker by a suspected Islamist extremist, the ANP news agency reported on Sunday.

Will the MSM point out that while the US suffered much more terribly on Sept. 11, in terms of death and destruction, there were few if any incidents like this here? How does that jibe with our "cowboyish, shoot from the hip," warmongering portrayal?

Don't hold your breath.

When a nation feels secure because it can and will rightfully defend itself - it needn't boil over in such illegal hostility.

Comments

You said it. Our cowboy said we'd get even collectively, government and the people. In the Netherlands, the government has gone politically correct and nearly blamed van Gogh for his own death, or at least blamed no one else. The citizens have nowhere to go for accountability.

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

What you say about confidence is true, but look at why Dutch citizens do not feel the way US citizens do. There's a difference between the NL and the US that makes the angry reaction against local mosques appropriate. The 9/11 bombers were foreign agents, not our neighbors. On 9/11, Americans turned out to protect their Muslim neighbors against misguided retribution that never materialized.

In contrast, the murderer and others in his NGO Jihad cell are Dutch citizens, educated in Holland, yet deliberately alienated from Dutch mores; the murder and associated death threats are explicitely an attack on the Dutch way of life.

When you are attacked by a mad dog, you shoot the dog. When you are attacked by cancer, you cut out the cancer. The US is shooting the dog. Some Dutch people understand that their problem is cancer, even if the officials do not.