Dutch Muslim Site Spoofs Hirsi Ali's Death

Www.elqalem.nl is a website by and for young Dutch muslims. It bills itself as a "completely neutral information platform." The editors say the site should be considered a "part of the neutral, informative news media."

There is no shortage of articles on El-Qalem that put that assertion to the test, however. On the home page, visitors find an account of Immigration Secretary Rita Verdonk's meeting with a number of Dutch imams in late November. The get-together was remarkable for the fact that one of the imams refused to shake Verdonk's hand (see below); and also because most of them couldn't speak Dutch despite having lived in the Netherlands for many years. Thankfully, Verdonk had brought an interpreter. Here's how El-Qalem's editorial staff says the meeting went (I translated this from the Dutch):

>> With hand outstretched, she approached one of our imams, who correctly said she should keep her fat sausage fingers to herself. ... But Verdonk had no reason to cry, because behind her, a reasonable allochtonous person was ready to offer her an embrace. This persona non grata should have heeded the Prophet Mohammed's words: "It is better to stab an iron pin through the head than to touch a woman who is neither your wife nor a close relative." If there's one woman who we're sure is no relative of ours, it's Rita Verdonk. If there's one woman we most certainly never want as part of our family, it's Rita Verdonk. Little Rita is a 'woman' who lacks tact, considering her coarse and boorish manner during the meeting. We remember the denigrating, wagging finger she waved at our respected imams. "Next time I see you, we'll all speak Dutch," admonished our secretary-cum-headmistress. Only an atheist is capable of such arrogance. <<

How's that for "neutral"?

Elsewhere on the El-Qalem site, things get even more grim. There is a sarcastic screed called "The Ayaan Manifesto," announcing the death of Ayaan Hirsi Ali (see the post directly beneath this one). It was written by Moroccan-born editor Mohammed Jabri. Jabri says Hirsi Ali was blown to bits in a car bomb attack, and he asks her, in an article that goes from macabre obituary to open letter, "Don't you think it's weird that you kicked the bucket exactly one month after Theo van Gogh's murder?" He mentions the film "Submission" that Hirsi Ali made with van Gogh (it condemns traditional Islam's treatment of women as property); in a humorously-intended aside, Jabri says that he has begun beating his sisters "because otherwise the movie would have missed its mark."

The part about Hirsi Ali's violent death, at least, is a spoof: the politician has so far managed to stay alive despite multiple death threats (though she has apparently had to flee the country, and has not been seen in public for almost two months). Lest anyone thinks that the "Ayaan Manifesto" is itself a death threat — albeit one that's worded cunningly enough to escape legal culpability — the editorial team of El-Qalem claims otherwise.

>> We do not wish her dead. We do wish she'll become a good muslim and will start to cover her head with a hijab. We also wish that Geert Wilders [right-wing politician and Islam critic] will become a good muslim, and will grow a beard. And we wish that Rita Verdonk would begin wearing a burqa, so we'll no longer have to see her ugly mug. <<

Jabri (who is also on the record as saying that gay people may be thrown off the roofs of high buildings) is thinking about starting an Islamic political party. By all accounts, he's already a busy man, what with his day job at the Dutch Department of Social Affairs, a government body.

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Could the fact that these are the new Nazis be any more evident?
The Star of David symbol/trash can graphic would have made Hitler proud.