We nemen het niet goed op


Na de afgelopen week is de Noorse weblogger Bjørn Stærk zwaar teleurgesteld in de Nederlandse samenleving. Hij vergelijkt de aanslag op van Gogh met 11 september, en meldt daarbij dat er na de aanslagen op het Pentagon en het World Trade Centre relatief minder aanslagen waren op Amerikaanse moslims dan er nu in Nederland zijn naar aanleiding van de moord van Van Gogh:

"When the US was attacked on 9/11, it struck many of us how few reprisals there were against American Muslims. There were some attacks, but for a country of 300 million, who had just experienced the largest terrorist attack in history, the display of restraint was encouraging.

I'm correspondingly discouraged by how the people of Holland have dealt with Theo van Gogh's murder - one death in a country of 16 million. There's been vandalism and arson, pig heads nailed to doors and the bombing of an Islamic school."

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