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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the ‘Strange Death’ of Europe
Douglas Murray
November 10, 2024

…I remember the atmosphere back then [2004], and the way Dutch politicians and other elites seemed to blame the likes of Fortuyn [murdered], van Gogh [murdered], and Hirsi Ali [threatened with murder to the point she had to flee country] for the issues they were trying to bring attention to. There was this implication that, if they had just kept their heads down and not been so provocative—if they hadn’t been so intolerant as to suggest that Islam and liberalism might be incompatible—things would have been different. For them and for the country. The murders, and the reactions to them, were an early sign of Europeans’ mounting cognitive dissonance—their refusal to acknowledge troubling facts about their Muslim neighbors that undermined their core beliefs about inclusivity and multiculturalism. READ MORE

FREE PRESS Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam Israeli soccer fans were ambushed, beaten, and pleaded with their assailants: “not Jewish, not Jewish.” I grew up in the Netherlands. I wasn’t surprised.

JNS ‘Sorry, sir, we are unable to help you right now For three long hours, Jews were getting beaten up in the streets of Amsterdam, and the police did nothing.