[Grem] !! The Netherlands - from Paradise toThought Police

[Emoke Greschik]

>From Paradise to Bolshevik Thought Police


* by Giulio Meotti
<https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Giulio+Meotti> December 11, 2016
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A country whose most outspoken filmmaker
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/world/europe/dutch-filmmaker-an-islam-critic-is-killed.html?_r=0>
was slaughtered by an Islamist; whose bravest refugee
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4986418.stm>, hunted by a *fatwa*, fled
to the U.S.; whose cartoonists
<http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailesman/2011/12/27/radical-islam-claims-another-gregorius-nekschot-rip/&refURL=https://www.google.it/&referrer=https://www.google.it/>
must live under protection, had better should think twice before condemning
a Member of Parliament, whose comments about Islam have forced him to live
under 24-hour protection for more than a decade, for "hate speech." Poor
Erasmus! The Netherlands is no longer a safe haven for free thinkers. It is
the Nightmare for Free Speech.

The most prominent politician in the Netherlands, MP Geert Wilders
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/09/anti-islam-dutch-mp-geert-wilders-found-guilty-discrimination/>,
has just been convicted of "hate speech," for asking at a really if there
should be fewer Moroccans
<https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4271/moroccans-netherlands> in the
Netherlands. Many newly-arrived Moroccans in the Netherlands seem to have
been responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime there.

Paul Cliteur <http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/98817-2/>,
Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, who was called as an
expert witness, summed up the message coming from the court: "It would have
been better if the Dutch state had sent a clear signal [to terrorists] via
a Dutch court that we foster a broad notion of the freedom of expression in
the Netherlands."

Here are just a few details to help understand what Wilders experiences
every day because of his ideas: No visitors are allowed into his office
except after a long wait to be checked. The Dutch airline KLM refused to
board him on a flight to Moscow for reasons of "security." His entourage is
largely anonymous. When a warning level rises, he does not know where he
will spend the night. For months, he was able to see his wife only twice a
week, in a secure apartment, and then only when the police allowed it. The
Parliament had to place him in the less visible part of the building, in
order better to protect him. He often wears a bulletproof vest to speak in
public. When he goes to a restaurant, his security detail must first check
the place out.

Wilders's life is a nightmare. "I am in jail," he has said; "they are
walking around free."

The historic dimension of Wilders's conviction is related not only to the
terrible injustice done to this MP, but that it was the Netherlands that,
for the first time in Europe, criminalized dissenting opinions about Islam.

The Netherlands is a very small country; whatever happens to this enclave
is seen in the rest of Europe. The Netherlands refused to surrender to the
Spanish invasion. It was from Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city,
that the Founding Fathers left to create the United States of America. It
was to the Netherlands that some of the most brave, original European
philosophers and writers -- Descartes, Rousseau, Locke, Sade, Molière,
Hugo, Swift and Spinoza -- had to flee to publish their books. It is also
the only corner of Europe where there were no pogroms against Jews, and
where Rembrandt painted Jesus with the physical traits of Jews.

Take Leiden: "Praesidium Libertatis" ("Bastion of Freedom") is the motto of
the Netherlands' most ancient university. Leiden was the university of
Johan Huizinga, the great historian who opposed the Nazis and died in a
concentration camp. Leiden was also the university of Anton Pannekoek, the
mentor of Martinus Van der Lubbe, the Dutch hero who torched the Nazi
Parliament in 1933.

In Leiden today, you meet brave intellectuals such as Afshin Ellian
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111002046.html>,
an Iranian jurist who fled Khomeini's Revolution in Iran and who also now
lives under police protection for his observations on Islam. Ellian's
office is close to the former office of Rudolph Cleveringa. When the Nazis
invaded the Netherlands and called on Dutch public officials to fill out a
form in which they had to declare whether they were "Aryans" or "Jews",
everyone but Cleveringa capitulated. He understood the consequences of such
commands.

Twelve years ago, the Netherlands was again plunged into fear for the first
time since World War II. In Linnaeusstraat, a district of Amsterdam,
Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist, ambushed the filmmaker Theo van Gogh
and slaughtered him, then pinned on his chest a letter threatening the
lives of Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Before that murder, Pim
Fortuyn, a professor who had formed his own party to save the country from
Islamization, was shot to death
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1425944/Fortuyn-killed-to-protect-Muslims.html>
to "defend Dutch Muslims from persecution."

Twelve years ago, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh (left) was assassinated by
an Islamist who pinned on van Gogh's chest a letter threatening the life of
Geert Wilders (right). Today Wilders, the most prominent politician in the
Netherlands, lives in hiding under round-the-clock protection.

Fortuyn had said
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1393260/Simpson-on-Sunday-Hollands-anti-Islam-dandy-is-lost-for-words.html>,
"We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house."

Since then, many Dutch artists have capitulated to fear.

Sooreh Hera
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/03/iranian-artist-fights-to-have-muhammad-art-displayed-in-dutch-museums.html>,
from Iran, submitted her photos to the Gemeentemuseum Museum in The Hague.
One of these works depicted Mohammed and Ali. After many threats, the
museum proposed that it would acquire the photos without publishing them
and that one day, perhaps, when the situation was calmer, they might show
them then. Hera refused: it would have been self-censorship, a sad day for
the West. Rants Tjan, director of Museum Gouda, bravely offered to exhibit
her censored images, but that event was later cancelled, too. Hera was
forced to go into hiding.

Paul Cliteur, a critic of multiculturalism, announced
<http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/dec/05/1> that he would no
longer write for Dutch newspapers about Islam, for fear of reprisals: "With
the murder of van Gogh, everyone who writes takes a certain risk. That is a
scary development. What I am doing do is self-censorship, absolutely...."

Then a columnist, Hasna el Maroudi
<http://vorige.nrc.nl/krant/article1638782.ece/Spunk-columniste_Hasna_stopt_vanwege_bedreigingen>,
from the newspaper *NRC Handelsblad,* stopped writing, after receiving
threats.

The Dutch artist Rachid Ben Ali
<http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/05/liberal-democracy-islamic-extremism-opinions-book-excerpts-abigail-r-esman.html>,
irreverent about Islam, no longer satirizes Muslims.

Amsterdam, a city famous for its exuberant cultural life, had already lived
through threats to artists: the occupation by the Nazis during World War II.

Several artists still refuse to mention Theo Van Gogh, so as not to
"contribute to... divisions", according to the *New York Times*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/arts/provocateurs-death-haunts-the-dutch-.html>.
Translation: They are afraid. Who would not be?

In the Oosterpark, a steel sculpture by the artist Jeroen Henneman,
dedicated to Van Gogh, is entitled "De Schreeuw" ("The Scream"). But it is
a scream you hardly hear in the Dutch society.

What you do hear is the defiant protest after the conviction of a brave MP,
Geert Wilders: "I will never be silent. You will not be able to stop me...
And that is what we stand for. For freedom and for our beautiful
Netherlands."

Before being slaughtered, clinging to a basket, Theo van Gogh begged his
assassin: "Can we talk about this?
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ayaan-hirsi-ali-my-life-under-a-fatwa-760666.html>
"

But *can* we talk?

Ask Geert Wilders, just the latest brave victim of Europe's Bolshevik
thought police.

*Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for* Il Foglio,* is an Italian journalist
and author.*
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