And even more than free, he is victorious. My latest in FrontPage:
“I shot Fortuyn for Dutch Muslims.”
This was the startling claim of Volkert van der Graaf, a thirty-four-year-old non-Muslim Dutchman, as he confessed to the May 2002 murder of “far right” politician Pim Fortuyn. Eighteen years later, Volkert van der Graaf is free to receive the gratitude of the Islamic community for which he did, in his mind, such a signal service. His freedom is yet another indication, as if we needed another, of Europe’s wholesale cultural collapse, and the inability or unwillingness of European authorities to face up to the consequences of what they have done by inundating their nations with Muslim migrants with a vastly different sociocultural perspective from that of the natives.
The Dutch-language Post Online reported Thursday that “van der Graaf (50) was convicted on appeal in 2003 by the Amsterdam court of appeal. The court had also imposed an eighteen-year sentence upon him, after a demand from the Public Prosecution Service for a life sentence. The Justice Service saw the murder not only as an attack on the politician, but also on democracy. The court did not follow that line of reasoning. The prosecution also demanded a life sentence on appeal, but the sentence remained unchanged.”
Even worse, “in recent years, Van der Graaf no longer had to be in prison because – since May 2014 – he was on parole. He had to comply with various conditions, such as a duty to report and a ban on talking to the media. Van der Graaf then successfully challenged a number of conditions in legal proceedings.”
Consequently, on Thursday, the murderer was officially free completely from all obligations to the state. A Dutch official explained that “the person concerned has fully undergone the imposed sentence and is no longer under the supervision of the Public Prosecution Service or the probation service; there are no more conditions for him.”
No one seems to mind, because after all, Fortuyn was “far-right.” Probably only in the post-modern, post-Christian Netherlands of hashish cafes and taxpaying licensed prostitutes could an openly homosexual politician such as Fortuyn (whose kitchen featured portraits of Marx and Lenin) be described as “far right,” but such is the way of the world today. Fortuyn held only one position that earned him that label: the incompatibility of traditional Islamic values with the liberal, secular societies of the West.
Fortuyn’s homosexuality led him to this view. “I have gay friends,” he explained, “who have been beaten up by young Moroccans in Rotterdam.” He noted that Muslims had belittled and insulted him, saying that, as a gay man, he was “lower than a pig.”
As a result of these incidents and others, Fortuyn concluded that Islam was “backward” and asserted that “Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that isn’t the case with Islam.” He pointed out that “in Holland homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality. In what Islamic country does that happen?”
Fortuyn proposed curbs on Muslim immigration to the Netherlands and called for the assimilation of the Muslims already in the Netherlands into the secular, multiethnic, multicultural, tolerant framework of modern Dutch society. “We need to integrate these people; they need to accept that, in Holland, gender equality and tolerance of different lifestyle is very, very important to us.”
Van der Graaf, on the other hand, charged that Fortuyn was making Dutch Muslims into “scapegoats,” and that he was exploiting “the weak parts of society to score points.” Van der Graaf compared Fortuyn’s rise to that of Adolf Hitler, and portrayed his murder as a noble attempt to save the Netherlands from the “far right.”
Eighteen years later, the Muslim population of the Netherlands has grown significantly, despite that fact that it includes many who believe that Islam is absolutely incompatible with secular society and that Sharia, with its institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims as well as homosexuals, must ultimately be imposed. Van der Graaf has not only been freed; he has won. The Netherlands of today is at least in part the Netherlands he has made. And now he has to live in it.
Templer says
This scum bag should be shout for treason against his countrey people and religon trater
Captnhook says
The Dutch have no spine. They have invited the enemy in to destroy their country. They are a lost cause.
VarAway says
The Dutch nèverrr had a spine!
Not even during WW2.
They ratted on their fellow Dutch Jews.
Knowing they were sent to the Concentration Camps in cattle wagons.
Re. Killer Volkert van de Graaf:
Pim Fortuyn is dead.
Geert Wilders needs 24/7 security guards 365 days p/y.
But vd Graaf is a free man!
You can’t make it up.
THIS is The Netherlands, home of the ” free “.
Judi says
You really can’t lump all people together. There were plenty of Dutch heroes that helped the Jews and others. Corey ten Boom comes to mind. Read “The Hiding Place”.
gravenimage says
Agree, Judi.
Glyn david says
Probably many sitting around doing the Hashish in their cafes & too stoned to care…I wonder where all the hash comes from…oh and heroin
Dwight Hasbrouck says
Shot but better would be hung
mortimer says
Volkert van der Graaf was a POLLYANNA with a gun.
Leftards like Volkert van der Graaf see themselves as pure. If the Leftards only realized that Islam has a doctrine of hatred directed against the kafir, they would be forced to change their mistaken view of Islam as benign.
Leftists feel their cause is so righteous that they are justified to censor, harm and even murder fellow Americans with a different point of view.
Leftards and Muslims share this same opportunistic approach to their ideological opponents. They see themselves as fighting a war on the side of good. It’s melodramatic. Leftards and Muslims have almost nothing in common.
Volkert van der Graaf resembles a lot of young American Leftists today. Their drug is melodrama, rather than critical thought.
I would like to know what the jihadists secretly say about Leftards like van der Graaf. Apparently, one former jihadi claimed that when they watch the news, the jihadis cheer and laugh when naïve Westerners take the side of the jihadists.
Rufolino says
Europe is dying by its own hand. Or, by the hands of its leaders.
In one hundred years the history of Europe as a civilisation will be over, and another kind of era will have begun.
Nothing like it will have been seen since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Most of the values constructed by millennia of history, which today are taken for granted, will have perished.
Laura says
European history will be erased, the libraries will be burned to the ground, science will be destroyed, our great monuments demolished, music, art and literature destroyed; it will be as though we never existed.
gravenimage says
Please don’t preach surrender here.
JITENDRA PRASAD says
Freedom of expression is reserved for jihadi mentality people, even in india
jewdog says
It seems that protecting the Dutch is less important.
Rooster says
So sad that anyone gets away with murder but that is the way of the world today due to failed religions. LOL, now the ideology that exemplifies murder, Islam, is the very head of this world’s murderous snake. Well, I know how this ends and the snake will die a second death along with all who have succumb to it venomous ideology.
David Darman says
Left vs right, gay vs straight, god fearing vs godless…all irrelevant sideshows. It’a 100% about freedom of conscience, thought, and speech and Islam’s denial of all.