Bruce Bawer: Submission in the Netherlands?
Ref: City Journal, Winter 2009, vol 19, no 1. Jan 22nd, 2009
“a court in the Netherlands—a nation once famous for being an oasis of free speech—has now decided to prosecute a member of the national legislature for speaking his mind. By doing so, it proves exactly what Wilders has argued all along: that fear and “sensitivity” to a religion of submission are destroying Dutch freedom.”
David J. Rusin: Portrait of the Artist as a Dhimmified Man
Ref: pajamasmedia.com, January 10, 2008
“Self-censorship thus boils down to self-preservation. “The reason I haven’t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat.””
Ref: slate.com, June 25, 2007
“Rage Boy keenly looks forward to anger, while we worriedly anticipate trouble, and fret about etiquette, and prepare the next retreat. If taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean living at the pleasure of Rage Boy, and that I am not prepared to do.”
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