Europe is soooo enlightened, sooooo much better than our opressive country!

[ars_longa]

Holland’s Justice Minister welcomes his new Islamic overlords: Minister Welcomes Sharia In Netherlands If Majority Wants It.

THE HAGUE, 13/09/06 - Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner considers the Netherlands should give Muslims more freedoms to behave according to their traditions. Muslims refusing to shake hands is fine with him. And Sharia law could be introduced in the Netherlands democratically, in the minister’s view.

Muslims have the right to experience their religion in ways that diverge from Dutch social codes, accordign to the Christian democrat (CDA) minister. He thinks Queen Beatrix was very wise not to insist on a Muslim leader shaking hands with her when she visited his mosque in The Hague earlier this year.

Integration Minister Verdonk did previously scold an imam who would not shake her hand. Without directly referring to this incident, Donner considers “a tone that I do not like has crept into the political debate. A tone of: ‘Thou shalt assimilate. Thou shalt adopt our values in public. Be reasonable, do it our way’. That is not my approach”.

Donner strongly disagrees with a recent plea by CDA parliamentary leader Maxime Verhagen for a ban on parties seeking to launch Sharia (Islamic law) in the Netherlands. “For me it is clear: if two-thirds of the Dutch population should want to introduce the Sharia tomorrow, then the possibility should exist,” according to Donner. “It would be a disgrace to say: ‘That is not allowed!’”

Am spitting mad. Will those people ever wake up?

Comments

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to see such countries as France or Netherlands ruined, that's all.

[dvv.livejournal.com]

I've been to both of them quite recently, and I haven't found them any more ruined than this country.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Some people waxed rhapsodics about Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Germany, too.

[dvv.livejournal.com]

And some didn't. What's your point? Or are you just following the good old Usenet tradition of throwing Hitler's name into the discussion every now and then?

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize we were having a discussion here. I have nothing to discuss in this matter.

[dvv.livejournal.com]

I kinda hoped to find out why a justice minister's note about a democratic process was more upsetting to you than an article in the Constitution that states pretty much the same thing. Oh well…

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Oh, that. I'm not upset about the process. I'm upset that such a possibility is even considered. You can call it another example to a whole 'voluntary slavery - yes or no' question.

[dvv.livejournal.com]

What possibility? That constitutionally mandated majority might not have the same views as you do?