What happens in Holland to day will happen in the rest of Europe and America tomorrow: The days of multiculturalism, toleration and appeasement of the Muslims are ending -- the crew is at general quarters, the deck is cleared for action, the guns are run out, and the bloody red ensign flies from the main mast and it says, "Victory or Death!"Will Europe Stop Tolerating Intolerance? TIA, March 1, 2006
European nations have never really developed a non-ethnic national identity. Historically, being German, or French, or Danish has been about an inherited racial and religious legacy, often expressed in a belligerent nationalism. More recently, after the horrors of Nazism, ethnic identities were replaced with the rejection of any national identity at all--the giant cultural self-nullification of Multiculturalism.
What the Europeans have never really grasped is the idea of a nation based on a universal idea, of which America is the greatest (and perhaps only) example: a nation based on the ideas of individual rights, self-reliance, and individualism.
In the face of a Muslim jihad being waged by unassimilated immigrants within their own borders, Europeans have begun to realize that tolerating Muslim intolerance is a quick path to suicide. They need to discover that the real alternative to Multiculturalism's fake "tolerance" is a defense of individual rights--and rigid intolerance of anyone who threatens man's rights.
"The End of Tolerance," Stefan Theil, Newsweek, dated March 6
"The world has long looked upon the Dutch as the very model of a modern, multicultural society. Open and liberal, the tiny seagoing nation that invented the globalized economy in the 1600s prided itself on a history of taking in all comers, be they Indonesian or Turkish, African or Chinese. How different things look today. Dutch borders have been virtually shut. New immigration is down to a trickle. The great cosmopolitan port city of Rotterdam just published a code of conduct requiring Dutch be spoken in public. Parliament recently legislated a countrywide ban on wearing the burqa in public…. What's going on here? Weren't the Dutch supposed to be the nicest people on earth, the most tolerant nation in Europe, a melting pot for minorities and immigrants since the Renaissance? No longer, and in this the Dutch are once again at the forefront of changes in Europe. This time, the Dutch model for Europe is one of multiculturalism besieged, if not plain defunct….
"Welcome to the end of tolerance, or at least to the nonnegotiable limits to what Europeans will tolerate…. After decades of relatively unfettered immigration and cultural laissez faire when it came to accepting people of differing values and social mores, there are signs that a potentially ugly backlash is setting in…. Denmark's Minister of Cultural Affairs Brian Mikkelsen said, 'We have gone to war against the multicultural ideology that says that everything is equally valid.'… In particular, Europeans are concerned about Islamists hostile to Western values and the very idea of integration itself…. 'Being German can no longer be defined on ethnic lines,' says Bernd Knopf at the Integration Commissioner's office. It's an open question whether Germans, Dutch, or Danes will ever truly accept a multiethnic, multireligious 'Germanness,' 'Dutchness,' or 'Danishness.' But given the immigrant and demographic trajectories of Europe's future, there is little choice but to try."
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