TagsTagsToday's insanity break is a video clip of some truly exceptional fixed-gear bicycle gymnastics, from somewhere in der Nederlands, via wrenchwench. [Video]
Holland, Netherlands, Germany, Cycling, Bicycling, Video, Gymnastics
Dutch prosecutors have asked the high court to acquit anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and incitement. The judge has apparently not ruled on the request yet, but this is the right decision. I've always said Wilders should not be prosecuted for the hateful rubbish he spews. But make ...
Netherlands, Holland, Geert Wilders, Hate Speech, Anti-Muslim
Extremist anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make the religion of Islam illegal) won big in yesterday’s elections in the Netherlands: Election triumph puts anti-Islam Wilders in line for Dutch Cabinet role. The Freedom Party of the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders emerged as the ...
Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Holland, Far Right, Anti-Muslim, Bigotry, Intolerance, Freedom of Religion
This helmet-cam video shows Dutch marines storming a ship hijacked by pirates, in a real-life version of a first-person shooter game. [Video]
Piracy, Holland, Marines, Military, Video Games, Real Life, Video, Helmetcam
If you were wondering what Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s been up to lately, the Dutch flower bulb sector just named a tulip after her: Tulip named after activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. NEW YORK, November 6, 2009: In a ceremony on November 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Dutch flower bulb ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Flowers, Tulips, Horticulture, Holland, Flower Bulb Sector
Joining Canada, Israel, Italy, the United States, Australia, and Sweden: Netherlands refuses to attend UN racism conference. THE HAGUE - The Netherlands joined the United States and Australia Sunday in refusing to attend a UN conference on racism, saying it feared the event would be abused and place religion ahead ...
United Nations, Israel, durban, Antisemitism, Netherlands, Holland
Seven people (reportedly of Moroccan-Dutch heritage) were arrested today in connection with a bomb scare in Amsterdam: Amsterdam Mayor Cohen says the threat was aimed at stores. What stores exactly remains unclear. The offices, however, have not been closed. Reporters asked Cohen about this - why not also evacuate offices? ...
Netherlands, Holland, Amsterdam, Militant Islam, Bomb Plot, Terrorism
A school in Amsterdam will no longer be teaching students about farm living, after Muslim pupils began trashing the classroom when the subject of pigs came up: School Scraps Nature Course As Pigs Enrage Muslim Pupils. AMSTERDAM, 27/04/07 - A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the ...
To Ayaan Hirsi Ali, this must smell a lot like vindication: Dispute over Muslim MP leads for fall of coalition. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) But someone should let the London Times know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali no longer considers herself a “Muslim.” THE centre-right Dutch Government unexpectedly collapsed last night after growing ...
The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist, Haroon Siddiqui, attacks Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why the jig is up for Hirsi Ali in Holland. The Scientific Council for Government Policy had simply stated the obvious: Islam, like any religion, has many strands, conservative to liberal, with varying attitudes toward gender parity, and that Muslim ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Holland, Toronto Star, Haroon Siddiqui
There’s some good news for Ayaan Hirsi Ali today: Ayaan Will Be Dutch, No Matter What. NOS Journaal reports that both the international pressure and national pressure in support of Ayaan has worked. Minister of Integration Rita Verdonk announced tonight that Ayaan Hirsi Ali will receive a Dutch nationality, no matter ...
In a marathon debate that lasted until early in the morning, Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has been forced to back down from her position that Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s citizenship should be revoked. Here’s a report at Liberty and Justice: Verdonk Caves In While Holland Is Divided About Ayaan. New poll: ...
Lots of new info about Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Liberty and Justice, including the news that if Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk succeeds in revoking Hirsi Ali’s Dutch citizenship, she may have serious difficulties in getting a visa for the United States. Peaktalk had an insightful post on Monday: Hirsi Ali’s ...
In English, at Trouw, hetNieuws.
Zacht Ei reports from the Hague, where there is a mutiny going on in Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s political party (the VVD) over Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk’s move to revoke Hirsi Ali’s citizenship: All-out war in The Hague. (Hat tip: grayp.) Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s fellow members of the VVD free-market party ...
Leon de Winter reports that Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is going to begin the legal procedure to have Ayaan Hirsi Ali stripped of her citizenship.
Dutch liberal politicians and Islamic front groups are smiling at the news of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s departure. Apparently Hirsi Ali was the only thing standing in the way of a utopian harmonious society: Hirsi Ali - reactions. She’s no loss to Netherlands - Wiegel The coming departure of Ayaan Hirsi Ali from ...
More than 20 people emailed this morning about the report that Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is resigning from Parliament and moving to the United States, to work at the American Enterprise Institute. Liberty and Justice has translations of the Dutch report: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Heading To The US. The dhimmis ...
Netherlands media and the clueless dhimmified Dutch political class are really going after Ayaan Hirsi Ali tonight: Critics Want Dutch Lawmaker Deported. This is just appalling. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch legislator who has championed the rights of Muslim women, is returning from a book tour to a ...
Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is “looking into” the citizenship status of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As Bruce Bawer wrote in an email, first they drove her out of her house, now they’re trying to drive her out of the country. On Friday Verdonk said Hirsi Ali had nothing to worry about: Liberals ...
Here’s another interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Danish TV, November 16, 2005. This one is powerful stuff, as Ms Ali refuses to back down from some of her more “controversial” statements. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) [Video] UPDATE at 5/10/06 11:08:11 am: If the video won’t play for you by clicking above, try this ...
LGF reader ‘looking closely’ forwards this photo of the panel discussion with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, at Harvard’s Tsai Auditorium: Any LGF lizardoids who were at the discussion are invited to post accounts here; I’ve posted the report from ‘looking closely’ as the first comment. UPDATE at 5/10/06 9:23:40 am: Allahpundit has audio (not ...
LGF reader Bridget saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the JFK School of Government at Harvard today, and forwarded this interesting account, along with a photo I shall treasure and the comment, “She sends her regards and thanks for your support over at LGF.” Here are some of my impressions: The audience was ...
Miss Kelly turns in an excellent report on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s appearance at Harvard’s JFK School of Government: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘I Really Wonder What You Are Doing Here at Harvard’. The Q&A afterwards demonstrated the forces that Ayaan is working against. Most questions were to her were fairly ...
Michelle Malkin has a first report from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s presentation at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she was confronted by several seething Muslim students. Near the end, somewhat exasperated, it seems, by the wave of denial that Harvard’s Muslim community had brought to the forum, she commented ...