Dutch Emigration Fueled by Fear of Islam

From a recent NY Times article about Dutch emigration to the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and its causes:

AMSTERDAM - Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to emigrate and his client list had surged.
But he was still taken aback in November when a Dutch filmmaker was shot and his throat was slit, execution style, on an Amsterdam street.

In the weeks that followed, Mr. Hiltemann was inundated by e-mail messages and telephone calls. “There was a big panic,” he said, “a flood of people saying they wanted to leave the country.”

Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous social benefits and ample salaries, a place of fine schools, museums, sports grounds and bicycle paths, all set in a lively democracy?

The answer, increasingly, is yes. This small nation is a magnet for immigrants, but statistics suggest there is a quickening flight of the white middle class. Dutch people pulling up roots said they felt a general pessimism about their small and crowded country and about the social tensions that had grown along with the waves of newcomers, most of them Muslims.”The Dutch are living in a kind of pressure cooker atmosphere,” Mr. Hiltemann said.

There is more than the concern about the rising complications of absorbing newcomers, now one-tenth of the population, many of them from largely Muslim countries. Many Dutch also seem bewildered that their country, run for decades on a cozy, political consensus, now seems so tense and prickly and bent on confrontation. Those leaving have been mostly lured by large English-speaking nations like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, where they say they hope to feel less constricted.

In interviews, emigrants rarely cited a fear of militant Islam as their main reason for packing their bags. But the killing of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, a fierce critic of fundamentalist Muslims, seems to have been a catalyst.

“Our Web site got 13,000 hits in the weeks after the van Gogh killing,” said Frans Buysse, who runs an agency that handles paperwork for departing Dutch. “That’s four times the normal rate.”

Mr. van Gogh’s killing is the only one the police have attributed to an Islamic militant, but since then they have reported finding death lists by local Islamic militants with the names of six prominent politicians. The effects still reverberate. In a recent opinion poll, 35 percent of the native Dutch questioned had negative views about Islam.

The Islamic threat is at its most dangerous when it usurps cultures from within by way of lobbying, politicking and use of “race card” protectionism.

This threat exists in full force right here in the United States of America and Islam is taking full advantage of inroads in prisons, schools, book stores, charities and by means of our own Constitution.

What is happening to the Dutch is just a symptom of the bigger picture. Islam is not Christianity by any stretch — it has not undergone any changes via a Martin Luther to smooth out any of its rough edges or to educate the people about metaphor vs reality — it is as virulent today as it was 1400 years ago and only getting more militant by the day.

Every person outside the circle of Islam should be justly concerned about the future of this planet if Islam is allowed to spread its well-constructed lie of a cult across every nation and state. With more momentum fed by a new age of satellite dishes and fueled by minds like those at Al Jazeera, this threat almost reads like a Stephen King novel, but I promise you, the threat is real and dire.

Fight for your homelands.