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

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

If 75% of Dutchmen want the Sharia they should have it. If 75% of Dutchmen do not want to allow Muslims into the country they should have that, also. Why not?

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Certainly. Everyone deserves the hell they deserve. I'm upset that there is even such an 'if'.

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

Why? 75% of Dutchmen wanting to live under Shariat are no different than 75% of Ethiopians wanting the same thing. Do the Ethiopians upset you?

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Nope. :) Probably because I don't know a thing about its history and/or culture.

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Well, I do know a few things:
1. No nuts in cooking!!!!!!!!! Love Ethiopian restaurants!!!!!!!!!
2. Cool sour flat bread. See above about restaurants.
3. Starvation. Not cool. Might explain all the Ethiopian restaurants in California. If it's good enough for the Irish...
4. Jews. Weird ones. Make cool sour bread. Moved to Israel. Now Israel has cool sour bread.
5. Moslems. All over. 50% of the population.
6. AIDS. Ditto.
7. E-mail scams. Ditto.
8. Female circumcision.
8. Oddly enough refugees FROM other countries. Go figure.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

I like this summarization. Well, it probably explains why I'm not all that concerned about it (although I have to try this sour bread!). :)

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

If you get the chance try their version of the steak tartare. They serve it at body temperature and add a lot of aromatic herbs, so you get the feeling of eating a live, fragnant, infinitely tender, loving, and accepting cow.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

(makes a face) Never liked it at the first place...

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

Me neither, until I tried this version. Normally I like my raw beef in one piece.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Normally I don't like it raw at all. Some bad experience + medical education... :)

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

The FDA is here to protect me ;)