The Netherlands is joined by the Global War on Terrorism
Monday, November 22, 2004 at 4:50PM ■"A Brutal Killing Opens Dutch Eyes To Threat of Terror: Crackdown on Radical Islam Follows Filmmaker's Death; Immigrants Get Scrutiny," by Andrew Higgins, Wall Street Journal, 22 November 2004, p. A1.
The assassination of the Dutch filmmaker who spoke out strongly against the treatment of women in traditional Islamic societies has really brought the GWOT to Amsterdam. Here is what one 39-year-old socialist alderman said: "We have to fight terrorism. The war on this small group of terrorists has to be very severe."
The filmmaker, Theo van Gogh, was shot, stabbed and had his throat slashed by a "suspected Islamic radical":
The killing set off a wave of attacks on mosques. It also triggered a surprising shift in a country where, like elsewhere across much of Western Europe, America's "war on terror" has often been derided as too crude and too brutal.
As one politician put it: "People here thought that terrorism was for other countries, not for the Netherlands. This is a rude awakening."
Sounds like a System Perturbation to me.
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