{"id":207,"date":"2007-08-29T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2007-08-29T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T15:25:08","slug":"netherlands-sets-plan-on-extremism-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/08\/29\/netherlands-sets-plan-on-extremism-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands Sets Plan on Extremism (NY Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interesting article from the NY Times.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> reminded me of the day after Theo van Gogh was killed.\u00c2\u00a0 I was in Amsterdam working at the time, and I remember the night he died, there was loud noise coming from Dam Square – pots banging and people shouting and protesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned the next day that it was a demonstration against van Gogh’s death.<\/p>\n

I rode in a taxi with a Pakistani driver – he told me that extremists should go home, as they’ll never integrate with Dutch society.\u00c2\u00a0 I got lots of different views from my Dutch friends – some wanted to expell them all, others thought it was an isolated incident and should be treated like any crime.<\/p>\n

For me, I’m sorry it happened for his family, for Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who wrote the movie that inflamed passions – she had to leave the Netherlands and come to the US), and for the Dutch – the thing I think I treasure most about Amsterdam is the tolerance and pragmatic attitude of the people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Interesting article from the NY Times. This article reminded me of the day after Theo van Gogh was killed.\u00c2\u00a0 I was in Amsterdam working at the time, and I remember the night he died, there was loud noise coming from Dam Square – pots banging and people shouting and protesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned the next day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19,99,127],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-netherlands","tag-ayaan-hirsi-ali","tag-new-york-times","tag-theo-van-gogh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-3l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}