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Boris Diettrich

The racist Left

European Union

Oh, oh, the Hague..

GroenLinks,de ChristenUnie,de SP,de PvdA en D66 zijn niet te spreken over de opmerking van vice-premier Zalm dat het kabinet "de oorlog aangaat om moslimextremisme en radicalisme te bestrijden".

Volgens GroenLinks-voorzitter Halsema suggereert de "oorlogszuchtige taal dat alles is geoorloofd". Dittrich van D66: "Je moet niet door grove taal alle moslims over één kam scheren."

Ook voormalig VVD-leider Bolkestein en oud-premier Van Agt zijn niet blij. "Ik betreur het zeer dat de regering de terminologie van Bush heeft overgenomen over de war on terror", aldus Van Agt.

The article is from Teletekst (no permanent link exists). The news service expires pages so no link is possible. A quick summary: Dutch VP Zalm (VVD) declared war on terrorism and islamofascism and the left is outraged at this alleged generalisation of muslims.

There's one problem however: Zalm did not generalise. He clearly wants to fight only the radical followers, the ones who translate religion into murder. By suggesting he wants a fight on the Islam or muslims in general, it is actually the left that is applying racist generalisations.

In the Netherlands, two words have been heard a lot lately: us and them. Most people use us for the Dutch people of various religions, Islam included, who live in harmony. Them refers to terrorists. But the left is convinced that them refers to all muslims and tries to copy the misinformational position of terrorism itself, hammering the right on an all-out attack on the Islam which is simply not there.

Van Agt even managed to criticise politicians for having a similar opinion as the Bush administration. Personally I don't see why it's such a problem to fight terrorism instead of legislating it and I suppose I have no option but to trade my libertarian vote for D66, for a national security vote for VVD.

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