Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard. Translation by Fousesquawk.
The below article by Dutch professor Paul Cliteur in the Dutch site Dagelijkse Standaard is disturbing reading. Cliteur, who testified in defense of Geert Wilders when he was on trial for "inciting hate" against Muslims, tells us that there are some voices in his country who want to lift security for Wilders, who has been under tight police protection for some 15 years due to his criticism of Islam and Muslim immigration into the Netherlands.
What an honorable position! Have they forgotten that Ayaan Hirsi Ali had to leave the Netherlands after the State decided they could no longer provide security for her after the murder of film producer Theo van Gogh in 2004? The two had produced a film about Islam's treatment of women (Submission Part One).
The people named in this article (one of whom is deceased) should be ashamed.
Paul Cliteur Column: The Removal of Security for Geert Wilders
One of the recurring themes around Salman Rushdie or-in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, is their public security. Rushdie and Wilders must be protected against jihadist murderers due to the things they have said about Islam. Jihadists conclude from criticism or satire of Islam that these critics must be killed. After all, whoever insults God deserves the death penalty. If the death penalty is not imposed by the State, then the believers should "take on their responsibility."
Khomeini urged this against Rushdie in 1989, and with some regularity, people also in the Netherlands have been arrested with the mission of silencing Geert Wilders via a murder assignment.
Some people find the above sober presentation of the facts intolerable. They don't want to focus on the murder contract, rather on what is said by the intended victim. Was that really necessary? Such a satirical fiction writing about the early history of Islam? You surely know that jihadists don't like it, right? Are you not bring difficulties upon yourself? You don't go and stand on a tiger's tail, do you?
As to Rushdie, the noise has perhaps now been muted, but as to Wilders, you still hear it. Wout Willemsen writes in Dagelijkse Standaard on D66 (party member) Hans J.C. van Leen, who announced on Twitter after a statement by Wilders: "Let us unleash an action that the security of this un-Dutch man be immediately lifted."
Immediate lifting of security. With the result that Wilders can, indeed, be murdered by the next Junaid I. Van Veen also has impressive predecessors. H.J. A. Hofland (1927-2016) on a program of Pauw & Witteman in 2008, suggested the most obvious way in which to silence Wilders would be to stop his security. After all, Wilders puts "lives in danger". He supposedly does things that are in conflict with "Dutch interests". "Start lifting his personal security," Hofland advised.
But for some, not even that was enough. Former police chief Joop Van Riessen (born 1943), speculated in 2007 over letting him "rot". He would not "fit" into a new society that we are building together.
Probably, Hofland does not look back with approval from journalist Heaven on his own advice from 2008. Perhaps, Joop van Riessen is deradicalized. Let us hope that Van Veen has also come to his senses.
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- Prof. Dr. Paul Cliteur is a professor in Leiden (University) and author of, among others, "The State vs Geert Wilders".
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