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The revelations (or perhaps they are still accusations) that members of the Belgian police force engaged in a sex orgy during the lockdown of Brussels a few weeks ago (prompted by credible reports of an ISIS terror-plot) initially made me laugh. I laughed raucously, along with everyone else, muttering between giggles things like ‘ah Belgians’, ‘ah Europeans’, or even (with conscious inaccuracy) “ah French people’. This is the kind of behaviour English people expect from Continentals. We lazily imagine the citizens of France, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands (in particular) to be laid-back, cheese-eating nudists; sex-crazed, free-loving atheists; adulterous young poets or elderly lotharios etc.. Such pleasant stereotyping is as old and as traditional as the ingredients of a Cornish pasty.
But after laughing, I was soon overcome with sadness. I couldn’t help but contrast the lovably liberal antics alleged with the reason for their supposed practitioners coming together in the first place. If the charges are true (and I have no way of knowing either way), then the contrast is at once horrifying and revealing. European people of the 21st century engaging in the ultimate acts of liberated modernity, all while their society is menaced by those who would execute a woman for showing too much elbow. When these two ways of living are placed so dramatically and starkly side by side, I can’t help but feel an intense protective anger for my civilisation as a whole.
We are as far away from the Muslims as can possibly be imagined. They are right to call us infidels; for by the standards of their doctrine, we are actively flouting every rotten thing they stand for. We cannot possibly reconcile the Belgian way of life – with all its transgression and experiment – with the Flintstone prohibitions and prudishness of the Salafist (my spellcheck is being Islamophobic here – suggesting I mean ‘salami’) hordes. And I don’t think this incompatibility has ever been expressed so clearly, so beautifully as it was in the situation described.
I love and value the European mindset; the relaxed, pot-smoking, Sartre-reading, café-haunting intellectualism that is so superior to the stuffy Victorianism of our own. I would miss it terribly were it to vanish, or be vulgarised into a spiked fascism of necessity (as may happen in the future).
In tune with this, Bill Maher, US comedian and master of contradiction, caught my attention last year when he reported his fear that European tolerance was under threat from Islam, and not just its political stability or security. This is surely the main issue for us going into this new year. Indeed, this is the great challenge for our generation. To fight effectively against the virus afflicting our society, while preserving the very cause of our infection; namely, our tolerance, our brightside thinking and openness to new ideas.
How I miss Pim Fortuyn more with every year that passes! He saw this all so clearly. But he’s gone now, gone for good, and we have no leader with the clarity of mind to lead us into battle.
Happy New Year.
D, LDN
Defend the Modern World 
A marvellous and inspiring post. And yes, there is something both extraordinary and exhilarating about European culture, a culture that values freedom like none other that I can think of. Whether or not this free and easy culture can survive the Islamic onslaught remains to be seen. It may be the case that the only way for Europe to save itself from being marched back into the Dark Ages by the Islamists is to adopt a much sterner visage. Liberalism does not seem to be doing a very good job of preserving us from encroaching Islam.
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And that’s the great challenge; to be stern while preserving the wonderful, friendly liberal norms we enjoy. It’s incredibly difficult. Pim Fortuyn did plot a course for us, but sadly he never got the chance to lead us.
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I don’t know much about the radical left fanatic who murdered Pim Fortuyn. As it’s Holland he probably won’t serve that long in jail.
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I would prefer that he never sees the light of day again, but you’re right to be cynical. European justice is a joke. We need to learn from the Americans.
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To make you laugh again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLQzyFlvYE (I am Belgian)
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That was a very apt and inspiring post. I had read about this ´incident´ but I did not really thought all that much about it. You saw something… deeper (pun intended) and this, together with your surprisingly liberal (many leftists would so agree with this sentence) last point proves both your engagement and your intelligence.
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Thank you.
I’m certainly liberal where it matters. Liberalism (in the good sense of the word) is what separates us from the Muslims. Even though they won’t admit it, liberty is what Muslims like about living in the West.
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That sex and fun flourish in times of strife is refreshing.
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It certainly is.
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Pim Fortuyn. Yes. Thank you for bringing him up in your article, DTMW. Someone like him is seldom appreciated by Islamists, Communists, Collectivists and Nihilists, which is the total point.
The equal-but-special people don’t really want Pim Fortuyns. Mainstreaming, heaven-forbid, ends all the fun and games of exclusivity, particularly harming their politically and financially-driven groups.
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Fortuyn was inconvenient for all the established political attitudes. A lot of people like to think Gay men will always be socialist or Leftist – out of gratitude for the liberal policies of the past. Fortuyn saw that Islam is a thousand times more dangerous for Gay people than Western conservatives could ever be. By seeing this, he upset the cultural mainstream. Pro-Islam leftists were hopelessly confused. Who should they side with – the gay man or the Muslims? We need to trigger more confrontations like that.
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Hardly no one in the American LGBT “community” (whatever the hell that means) even knows who Fortuyn was. How sad is that?
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History will be kind to him. In 50 years or so, after wave upon wave of Muslim homophobia, they will look back on him as a hero.
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And he was a hero. The greatest anti-Islam politician of our time. Geert Wilders can be inspiring, but I sometimes wonder about his intentions. Fortuyn was an intellectual.
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i never knew who he was until i read it here on your blog, actually… i believe it was here on your site. i reposted it on my social media, and… crickets.
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He is well known and remembered in the Netherlands itself. The rest of the world ignored or condemned him.
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Seems this lot are pretty horny as well:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/04/revealed-1000-migrants-brawl-rape-sexually-assault-steal-one-german-train-station-new-years-eve/
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Horny and without any scruples at all.
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One would wonder why the women folk aren’t asking the men of Germany to protect them…??? Where is the public outcry? Imagine if the rapists had been a group of Lutherans… holy cow!!
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It was shocking. They were firing fireworks into the crowds, it was as if they were herding their victims. Right in the very centre of Cologne, and the police couldn’t respond quickly enough. All of Germany will need to be armed by the time Merkel has finished.
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How awful.
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That’s gratitude for you.
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The men of Germany would be branded Nazis for trying.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
We must be prepared to defend tolerance and liberal values.
If in the process, we have to put on the costume of a monster, SO BE IT.
The Nazis were not defeated by tolerance, but in the battlefield. Nazism was then defeated in post-war Germany, by treating the Germans kindly, but the ideology of Nazism with intolerant harshness.
The best and the least costly way to deal with Islam or any other intolerant ideology is to be as intolerant to it as it is intolerant to others and keep repeating this fact pointedly, until this fact penetrates into the thick skulls of Muslims: “The intolerance they we are getting from the Non-Muslims is exactly in return for the intolerance that we ourselves are dishing out to Non-Muslims. It is not an action, but a reaction.”
For example, If the Saudis want to built a mosque in England, (There are hundreds of Saudi-funded mosques in England alone) then the English should say, yes, provided you allow us to build an Anglican Church in Saudi Arabia. If not, why not? Then we will not permit you to build Mosques in England.
If you don’t like it, then please leave England.
Whichever non-Muslim leader is willing to do this boldly, will save a LOT of bloodshed. For the intolerance are not defeated by appeasement or tolerance or soft words but only by an equal and opposite intolerance!
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“Nazism was then defeated in post-war Germany, by treating the Germans kindly, but the ideology of Nazism with intolerant harshness” – very true. That’s the exactly the right idea.
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I know I’m late to this party, but I haven’t been much of a blogger in 2015. Sorry it took me so long to check out your site – this stuff is a lot in line with my own. I was Originist, by the way. Parisian women are breath-takers. I like how typically French this blonde looks. Looking forward to more!
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And PS: you still have Geert Wilders
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