The most famous poem by Hendrik Marsman starts like that: Thinking of Holland / I see wide rivers / slow go through infinite / lowland, / rows of unthinkable / thin poplars / as high plumes / on the end. As a TV reviewer, this poem is often in my head, but then as follows: Looking at Holland / I see many talk shows / often go through infinite / Klagland, / rows of unthinkable / vain populists / with large flums / beating.
Only complaining is not so bad, that is just about our national character. What is bad are the flums that are spit out on television all summer about our infinite Klagland. The day after Geert Wilders tweeted a disgusting AI picture in which he offered the choice between a cheerful, blonde Aryan Netherlands with the PVV or an angry, dark Islamic Netherlands with the PvdA, this vain populist reached exactly what he is out: it was about the fear of the alleged Islamization of the Netherlands.
Bee News of the day (SBS) Caroline van der Plas announced that Islamization will also be the spearhead of the BBB during the upcoming parliamentary elections. Fortunately, presenter Art Rooijakkers asked what Van der Plas meant by that, because “Islamization seems like a term where you say that the whole of the Netherlands is going to adhere to Islam.” Van der Plas: “Well, you just see influence. Look at the girls who are harassed, look at homosexual people, especially in the big cities, in Amsterdam, who simply no longer dare to walk hand in hand. That is not our tradition, that is not our Jewish-Christian culture.”
That Jewish-Christian society does not exist, I learned from Rabbi Lody van de Kamp in an interview with Fidelity From 2017, when he quit his membership of the CDA because of the HJ Schoo lecture of Sybrand Buma, who was talking about our “age-old Jewish-Christian values tradition”. Van de Kamp: “Until the end of the nineteenth century we were not allowed here as Jews at all. And forty years later, the Second World War begins, after which the history is known, only a small piece of the Jewish community returns. After the war, the cold daycare followed and money turned out to be stolen. And now we are suddenly talking about” our Jewish-Christian society “?
Inimitable monologue
Wilders’ bizarre tweet was at The Oranjezomer (SBS) rejected in strong terms by Lale Gül and Sander de Kramer. But Jack van Gelder felt, even though he found the tweet unpateable, the need to say that Wilders is not extreme, because “he finds something a lot of people find.” In an inimitable monologue, he also mentioned GroenLinks-Pvda a genocidal and radical extreme left party, and Kati Piri (“Piri Piri Lekker on the Gambas”) much worse than Wilders, to then say that he finds it “to put on parties and people and religions and origin”.
Making chocolate from Jack van Gelder seems impossible to me. But now that the refrigerator without Wilders plug is wide open again, views are more evaluated than ever, it is always the task of the media to distinguish the populist seduction of so -called nuance. Because the complaining fear that is fueled for Islamization that does not exist causes an aversion to people who do indeed exist, who also think of Holland. In the meantime, three out of ten Muslim youths feel unsafe in our country, nine out of ten have no faith in politics and are considering no less than two thirds of them to emigrate, according to a survey of opinion house for De Nieuws BV. The result of for years of vain populism. In the meantime, the Christian city councilor Lilian Janse is not allowed on the SGP’s Lower Chamber List because she is a woman. But hey, we are all against the intolerance of Muslims.