Is Amsterdam Burning?
I have not been paying attention to this until I noticed a hit on the hit counter from Klein Verzet, a Dutch blog that I have exchanged links with several times. Almost at the same time I saw that come up in the logs, I noticed two things pop on Memeorandum. Amsterdam has a big problem. Let me go to the Sydney Morning Herald first here.
Disturbances broke out for a sixth successive night in an immigrant quarter of Amsterdam when four cars were set on fire, police said.
The unrest started after police shot dead a man of Moroccan origin last weekend who had stabbed and injured two officers.
The fires brought the total number of burnt cars to 11, a police spokesman said.
The 22-year-old Moroccan had been undergoing treatment for psychiatric problems and had in the past been questioned over contacts with Islamic militants linked to the murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
Next, Gateway Pundit has video. But Klein Verzet has a continuously updated post that give the entire timeline from the initial attacks right up to the latest violence:
Last Sunday a 22 year old Islamic terrorist named Bilal Bajaka walked into a police station in Amsterdam and directly started knifing the first police officers he saw. As all Dutch police officers are armed, this was clearly a suicide mission. During his mission he was shot dead by one of the attacked officers. Who her self and a colleague narrowly escaped dead her self after being stabbed in breast, face, neck and back. Their lives could only be saved after a night long surgery in the hospital.
Bilal the Dutch-Moroccan terrorist was well know with the police. He was a known felon who was known to have contact with other, now convicted, Dutch Islamic terrorists. But he was never charged due to lack of evidence. He was however a violent convicted felon who already at age 13 was convicted for attacking someone with a screwdriver and wounding that persons head (for which he was convicted and did community service). Later he was convicted for multiple other crimes, but in the Netherlands that does not add up to very long prison sentences.
From April of this year, he was locked up, by court order, in a psychiatric clinic for his “suicidal” tendencies (Which of course has nothing to do with his study of the Koran). But in August he was suddenly miraculously cured and was released. But this Ramadan seems to be just to much for him.
It is a long, detailed report with a ton of links (a lot of them in Dutch, of course). But it is more complete than any major media report and a lot more thorough.
UPDATE: Others: Michael Van Der Galien has an article up at Pajamas Media about this. Still more at: Right Wing News (Dr. Melissa Clouthier writing) , Neptunus Lex, The Van Der Galiën Gazette (pointing to his PJM post), Noblesse Oblige,
World news | Gaius Sunday, 21 October , 2007
By Lars Walker, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 8:36 pm
Brussels Journal is an excellent blog for following the ongoing farce/tragedy that is contemporary Europe: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/
By Mwalimu Daudi, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 9:23 pm
There is no plausible way to blame the Iraq War for this. Plus, the MSM has long held the notion that Europe is morally and intellectually superior to backwards, barbaric America (with its churches, traditional families, individual freedoms, and other aspects they consider so primitive and reactionary). The fact that things might be worse in Europe that in America (and going downhill) has literally never penetrated the thick skulls of our media overlords.
By thanos, Sunday, 21 October , 2007 @ 9:46 pm
The news in Amsterdam is keeping it very low key even. There’s not much in the papers, and it’s all “youth gang’, with no association to the Hofstad Gang, and Bilal Bajaka is portrayed as mentally disturbed rather than a leader of the Dutch intifada.
By sam, Monday, 22 October , 2007 @ 2:01 pm
My impression is that the Dutch government is sort of the doormat of Europe. No matter how much someone acts up there, the response is sort of “no big deal - we aren’t going to do anything to stop this or otherwise respond”. It will be interesting to see if this changes. Switzerland’s recent election results might serve as an example.