Sunday, March 23, 2008

“Fitna”: The Left Paints Itself into a Corner

Here’s a report from our expatriate Dutch correspondent, H. Numan, on the current controversy in the Netherlands over Geert Wilders’ movie.

Notice that in the photo of the demo the slick expensively-produced protest sign carried by the demonstrator has the word “western” spelled wrong. Heh.


Update: A Dutch reader sent us an email this morning with two corrections.

I read H.Numan’s really excellent post “Fitna: The Left Paints Itself into a Corner”, but noticed two minor flaws. Not that important, but maybe handy to know.

Firstly, concerning the sign: The sign reads “Wilder’s Westen”, which in Dutch means: “The West according to Wilders”.

The mistake about the sign is mine. But it’s very confusing — I didn’t know that the Dutch language ever used an apostrophe like that, especially after a word ending in “s” — I thought that peculiarity was unique to English. Also, the lower part of the sign is in English, so it seemed unlikely that the top was in Dutch.

But I bow to an informed correction.

Secondly, concerning the kort geding, It is not the NMO, but the “Nederlandse Islamitische Federatie” (NIF) [Dutch Islamic Federation] that is filing the lawsuit.


Fitna
by H. Numan


It’s almost time for Wilders to show his movie, and the Left have sharpened their blunt clubs. We can’t see Fitna — yet — as several activists complained to Network Solutions, where Wilders possibly planned to host his movie. I say “possibly”, because I don’t think Wilders intends to use Network Solutions. First of all because they already caved in, and secondly, because I don’t think Network Solutions can handle so much expected traffic to a site they host.

Nederland bekend kleurYesterday, the IS (International Socialists) hosted a demonstration on the Dam in Amsterdam. Nederland bekend kleur (translated: “The Netherlands admits color”). This demo was supposed to show solidarity with ethnic minorities, but in actuality it was a ‘let’s bash Wilders in public’ demo.

It was a complete fizzle. At least 5,000 demonstrators were expected. Less than a thousand showed up. The national media weren’t even present.

IS went full blast: they invited everybody remotely important, and 50 VIP’s were silly enough to be present. Many of them are known left-wing politicians or wannabes: Ed van Thijn (PvdA), Mrs. Groenteman (left-wing wannabe), but also Hans Dijkstal, a man who should have known much better. Dijkstal is a VVD politician, not exactly somebody you’d expect to be present in Trotskyite demonstration. However, Dijkstal represents the ultra left wing of the VVD, so his presence together with former party leader Ed Nijpels is not that unusual. Also because both Dijkstal and Nijpels are now retired politicians. Anything to get into the limelight!

Rather unusual: no sitting parliamentarian attended this demonstration. Not even Groen Links or the Socialist Party. The reason: the parliament found unanimously that this demonstration was a direct personal and slanderous attack on the person of Mr. Wilders, a fellow parliamentarian. Which made Dijkstal and Nijpels look like the outcasts they actually are.
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Notable artists attended this demonstration fizzle, but some will not be happy that they did. The singer Frank Boeyen for example. Many of his fans didn’t appreciate it. It might be he gained a few during the demonstration, but he surely lost many more because of his presence. And even more because he, in the past, supported free speech… His audience clearly doesn’t appreciate turncoats.

As might be expected, the Fitna movie has been the talk of the day for many months. Other activists try to make it more difficult to find the movie, once it comes out, by spiffing the domain: they bought fitnathemovie.nl, org, doc, any domain name will do as long as it might divert traffic from this accursed movie.

Are Mohammedans really democratic? Well, in a democratic nation we do not practice censorship. Which means nobody can forbid Wilders to produce his movie. Only if and when he does he can be held responsible. A Muslim organization, the NMO (Dutch Muslim Broadcasting Organization) filed a kort geding, (a special fast track civil law suite) to force censorship before publication. Which, of course, is utterly impossible, given the current law in The Netherlands, and shows how desperate left-wing activists must be.

I’m not sure how many people, organizations and lawyers already filed lawsuits against Wilders. Gerard Spong, one of the best known (by criminals, that is) lawyers of The Netherlands did so too, with a team of law students, no less. So far, no luck. Not one lawsuit has been handled in court. All those intended lawsuits got much media attention. The fact that not one of them has been in court doesn’t. At least fifty lawsuits have been filed. None of them handled…

We saw several pillars of the politically correct establishment make complete fools of themselves: Doekle Terpstra and Harry de Winter. The last one is pretty well off, he can afford to dump €10,000 in a ditch. Both performed so well as national village idiots that for the foreseeable decades they won’t be offered anything else.

And let’s not forget our elected betters: the government and the civil administration. The prime minister cannot be held responsible for leaking as he didn’t do it. But the first rumors about the Fitna movie came from his ministry. From that moment on he showed he lacks something substantial: balls. He begged for forgiveness (for what? Nobody has even seen the movie!) and told the world not all Dutch are like that.

The Dutch embassy in Beirut shares his medical problem. They stopped hoisting the Dutch flag over the embassy compound ‘so as not to infuriate sensitive feelings’. That one didn’t ride well in parliament. The whole house was furious, and instructed the minister of foreign affairs, if necessary, to go personally to Beirut to hoist the flag! And that the complete staff of the embassy should be replaced immediately. The argument from the ambassador was waived aside, and rightly so. Not hoisting the flag doesn’t mean the embassy is invisible. We won’t hear much more about it, but rest assured that some careers will be terminated over this.

And the Dutch population in general? It seems most people support Wilders. If not actively, certainly passively. Demonstrations against Wilders fizzle out. This ‘Holland admits color’ isn’t the first one. In the past, the Left never found it difficult to drum up thousands of supporters for whatever reason. In fact, several left-wing activists boasted about it. But that is, fortunately, in the past.

Today the world is different, and we can be thankful for the Internet. Now you can see you aren’t the only one thinking something. You immediately see it in the replies on news articles of the mainstream media. In fact, when newspapers like De Telegraaf do not allow readers to post their opinion, it is suspicious.

In the past, it was very difficult to find like-minded souls: the left wing controlled the media completely. Then came the Internet and with it something that nobody thought possible: instead of the conservatives painting themselves constantly in a corner, it’s the turn of the Left.

Which they are doing pretty well.

12 comments:

Nemesis said...

Well I'm certainly glad that I took the time to read this post. There's hope for the Dutch yet! Terry

Mac said...

Thanks, Baron, for a great article, and the update. I still have to say I have a serious problem with Network Solutions, whether Wilders planned to use them or not (I agree with your logic by the way, the traffic would be a nightmare. . . but YouTube isn't prepared to handle it with all the phone Fitna videos there. . . it is going to have to appear somewhere else). NS deemed it ethically acceptable to take down the site before there was anything on it but some graphics and the film's title. Good grief.

And poor Geert Wilders thought a North American server would have some balls. NS is a disgrace.

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Mac said...

And another thing (haha. . .sorry!) Does it boggle anyone else's mind that the Dutch are either liberal yahoo demonstrators, or SILENT? I mean Denmark is right next door. Don't they read the news? Are they on some different planet than the rest of us, who have been pissed off on behalf of Denmark for over a year?

I realize Wilders is extreme, but surely they get that there is a bigger point here? Like one that has to do with censorship? Or maybe something will have to happen to bonk them over the head and wake them up?

Unknown said...

Wilders is not extreme - he is called extreme; the usual method of making someone an outcast.
But outcast is becoming a brand of honour, slowly but surely

Emerson Twain said...

It would seem that even without a movie, Wilders' has proven his point to the extreme, to the extent that there is now some rumbling around that there is really no movie at all, and never was. (And what a clever fellow, indeed, to have pulled this off with no expensive filming, etc. etc.!) Well, as they say, that remains to be seen, but certainly we do see the fitna even sans "Fitna".

Henrik R Clausen said...

This movie sure is becoming a strange obsession. Even without being out, it exposes cowards left and right.

Oops: That should be "left and left", of course.

A good friend of mine a couple years ago said that we need to discard the old politicians and have new ones take their place. I thought he exaggerated by ½ a mile, but he was right.

From a technical point of view, BitTorrent is the way to go for a distribution like this. It scales like crazy and is near-impossible to shut down. Then, of course, we need every self-respecting blog on the planet to host it. But BitTorrent can be the protocol that carries the brunt of the load.

Henrik R Clausen said...

Another technical note: Some Internet providers (like Tele2 in Denmark) has been forced to block access to PirateBay by kicking it out of the DNS table. I consider this to be unconstitutional in Denmark and am pulling strings to have it stopped. I think this is the best way.

Alternatively, use OpenDNS. It's a non-censored DNS server, and instructions are here:

https://www.opendns.com/start

It's easy. But it is a *lot* more useful to defend our freedom of communication by having such countermeasures considered unconstitutional.

Bela said...

A couple mont ago Gates o V had a heated argument with LittleGF and the later was accused of not helping the Anti-Jihadist.
I stated here that American institutions (except for individuals may be) will never support Anti-Islamists and I explained why.
Here is the proof: the American IP povider bolted before anything happened.
This big talk about Eurabia, Sharia, "kiss good by to EU" is bullshit: Americans many times betrayed their best friends; - in Vietnam, the Kurds, the Hmong, Hungarians (1956)Serbs, next will be Israel and Taiwan.
American business interests -real or imaginary override any moral or ideological considerations. At the end may be Europe will be the saviour rather than Al-Obama Hussein.

VinceP1974 said...

bela: I once had hope that our nation would not surrender to islam.

But ever since they started putting in footbaths, and I see the absolutely lunacy going on in the universities I have no hope for that.

Second Class American said...

Henrik -

I think you're on to something. Bittorrent would be a great way to get "Fitna" out.

Jordi said...

In response to the update -- in Dutch the 's is officially only used when a word ends in a long vowel sound, and adding an s to it would change the pronunciation. E.g. the word opa (grandfather) takes opa's as its plural, not *opas (which would have a short a sound).

However people with low education, as can be expected to vote "left", often are ignorant of this rule and use the apostrophe for all possessives, as it is used in English. This is certainly not correct Dutch usage.

bernie said...

Just FY, I linked to your article from Fitna - Youtube Bends Over - Takes it up the Kazoo