Yes, really. And while a Dutch court is deliberating over this, the joke on the Netherlands is that Islamic Jew-hatred will continue. Even if the Netherlands bans discussion of it, it will continue. But banning such discussion would certainly be another step toward civilizational suicide.
“Dutch court to rule on legality of discussing Muslim Jew-hate,” by Canaan Lidor, JNS, December 16, 2024:
A Dutch court will need to determine if it’s illegal to discuss antisemitism in the context of Muslim culture, following an appeal by a deputy prime minister regarding hate crime allegations leveled against her.
Mona Keijzer, who is also the minister of housing and spatial planning, on Sunday announced her plans to appeal after prosecutors in July charged her with “incitement to intolerance” for remarks she made on a television talk show.
Speaking in defense of her policy of making Holocaust studies mandatory as part of new citizens’ naturalization process, she said, “What you see is that many asylum seekers come from countries with Muslim faith. We know that Jew-hatred there is a part, almost, of the culture.” She noted that not all Muslims are antisemitic.
Prosecutors said her statement “contradicts the foundations of democracy,” however, despite their assertion that she had broken the law, decided not to indict Keijzer, a leader of the right-wing Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB).
While Keijzer said she disagreed with the pronouncement, she decided not to appeal it because “I have a very busy job as it is,” she told the De Telegraaf daily on Sunday. However, when her ideological rivals appealed the decision not to prosecute her, she decided to appeal the pronouncement of guilt, she added.
The pronouncement “affects my own integrity, but also stifles the social debate,” she told De Telegraaf. “I based myself on facts and figures. Facts can never be a criminal offense.”
The issue of Muslim antisemitism has been reported on prominently in the Netherlands since Nov. 7, when gangs of Arabs and Muslims hunted for Israelis on the streets of Amsterdam. The Israelis were returning from a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local Ajax club. The trials of seven alleged perpetrators revealed antisemitic agitation by hundreds of culprits who cheered what some of them called “Jew-hunt” on instant messaging platforms.
In a column in the left-wing newspaper NRC Handelsblad, columnist Martijn Katan, a professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in May asserted that Keijzer’s remarks were justified by research done among Muslims in Western countries.
“Dozens of polls among 38,000 Muslims found that antisemitic stereotypes were two to three times more common in the group than among non-Muslims. Typical percentages are 50% antisemitism among Muslims, versus 20% among the rest,” he wrote….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So they are discussing its legality, as opposed to just summarily banning it? I guess that’s progress
DEIL says
Here you can watch ONE brave man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soo43qOrhR0
Thank you brave man.
dumbledoresarmy says
She could call Ayaan HIrsi Ali to testify in her defence. Ayaan speaks fluent Dutch. And Ayaan, in her memoirs, recalling her childhood, part of which was spent in the heartland of Islam, Saudi Arabia, describes the ubiquity of Jew-hatred in that quintessentially Arab Islamic society.. If anything, anything at all, went wrong, even a blocked tap (!) it was blamed on the Jews!
There are other apostates from Islam – such as Wafa Sultan – who would surely be able to testify as well, to the Jew-hatred with which Mohammedan society is steeped, and which emanates from the core texts of Islam. It’s not derived from or copied from other varieties of Jew-hatred; it is its own thing; and it can’t be blamed on ‘israel’, because at the time when the texts of Islam were concocted, Jews lived as oppressed minorities, whether in their own homeland (then ruled by imperial occupiers) or in diaspora right across the middle east and beyond.