Filthy traitor
Never forget, Islam means ‘peace’ – oh and also ‘there is no compulsion in religion.’ Got that?
Ehsan Jami, a local council member for the Dutch Labour Party and a former Muslim, has been afforded extra protection since Monday this week…The local politician, who also heads a committee established to fight for the interests of former Muslims, was the target of a violent, physical attack outside a supermarket near his home in Voorburg last Saturday…Jami was knocked to the ground and kicked by a group of three men: two young Moroccans and one Somali. During the incidents, his attackers called him a ‘filthy homo’ and ‘filthy traitor’. Mr Jami’s advisor, Afshin Ellian, later pointed out that it was not the first time he had been physically attacked: “He’s also been threatened before, attacked or beaten up, and he reported this to the police too. This is the third time.” Afshin Ellian, an academic and columnist, is also being protected by the authorities.
Heading a committee to fight for the interests of former Muslims – well naturally he’s been attacked three times. Former Muslims aren’t even supposed to exist, so if gangs knock them down and kick them and call them filthy, well they’re getting off easy, that’s what.
It is such a misfortune that Ayaan Hirsi Ali had to abscond from Holland/Netherlands. She was a very prominent figurehead for the foundation of rectitude within Islamism. I recall some while ago on B&W reading about the vicious whippings she received at the hands of a handful of [I think] Somalian Islamic fundie thugs. Doubtless, to say, Ehsan Jami, a local council member for the Dutch Labour Party and a former Muslim is now experiencing the same appalling providence. I hope for his sake naught too far-reaching occurs. Nevertheless, given the climate that now prevails since 9/11 – one can never be too convinced. It is fear-provoking. He seems like a single-handed figure crying out in the Dutch backwoods.
If you wonder why the Netherlands is having so much trouble, you might go back through the archives of Radio Netherlands and listen to a host named Jonathan Groubert for some insights.
I heard him last year via an American outlet
http://tinyurl.com/ypkphe
and then also on Radio Netherlands
http://tinyurl.com/sx343
and it angered/saddened me for its unsympathetic and even hostile view of Hirsi Ali.
(Update. The show from Radio Natherlands seems to have been removed but look at the comments on Groubert’s blog.)
But it gives some insight into a “more liberal than commonsense” attitude in some Europeans.
Re: Jonathan Groubert
“I heard him last year via an American outlet and it angered/saddened me for its unsympathetic and even hostile view of Hirsi Ali.”
Yes, Johnathan, you might discuss on your radio show subjects as diverse as boot camps for young offenders in Holland, remote-controlled oil platforms in Norway, human trafficking in Romania, supermarkets for the over-fifties in Austria, paganism in Denmark and seaweed bathing in Ireland.
However, when it comes to discussing /writing about one Unadulterated Afflicted, Audacious and Plucky human being such as Hirsi Ali you should keep your smarmy pugnacious confrontational bellicose smarmy cutting remarks for the radio/blog backroom/dustbins respectively. You doubtless by the sound of it could do with an inward seaweed bath.
You have in all probability Never in your entire life ever experienced the real meaning of ‘Want’. Radio Netherlands is from my standpoint the poorer for knowing you.
And it is in dire straits for the want of knowing/having/listening to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
“In his latest book, the Dutch intellectual Ian Buruma raised certain objections regarding Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali refugee and writer of the controversial Theo Van Gogh film Submission”
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Ian Buruma, Euroislam and the Enlightenment fundamentlists
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“New Left” icon, Timothy Garton Ash, even referred to her, condescendingly, as a ‘simplistic’ enlightenment fundamentalist.
It goes with the territory.