Excuse Me If I Resent You For Wanting Me Dead
Silly Ian Buruma op-ed whine in the LA Times. Buruma does his best to make the danger that is Islam sound like a mere pissing contest between the European right and left:
When "tolerance" becomes a word of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong. The Dutch have always taken pride in being the most tolerant people on Earth. And in less feverish times, no one could possibly have taken exception to Queen Beatrix's speech last Christmas, when she pleaded for tolerance and "respect for minorities." But Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing, anti-Muslim Freedom Party, was so disgusted by the queen's "multicultural rubbish" that he wanted her to be stripped of her constitutional role in the government.Wilders, a popular rabble-rouser whose party occupies nine seats in the Dutch parliament, has compared the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf," wants to stop Muslims from moving to the Netherlands and thundered that those who are already there should tear up half the Koran if they wish to stay. In his eyes, tolerance toward Islam is cowardly appeasement. He thinks that Europe is in peril of being "Islamized." "There will soon be more mosques than churches," he says, unless true Europeans have the guts to stand up and save Western civilization.
Uh, yeah...isn't it obvious that's the case?
Ian, dear, tolerance=death, or doesn't the name Theo Van Gogh mean anything to you? I mean, I know you wrote a book with his name in the title (well, actually, it used to be in the title)...but have you actually connected with what was done to him? Hint: He's no longer with us, and it isn't because those tolerators of tolerators, those representatives of The Religion Of Peace, merely tickled him with their opinions.
Have you heard how Ayan Hirsi Ali must live like a caged animal, thanks to the barbarians who want her dead -- merely for speaking her mind about the primitive beliefs they cling to?
We need less "tolerance," not more.