Terrorists' Veto
When you live in societies that don't allow heckling (free speech what?), you have to develop new ways of destroying speech:
The Rotterdam international film festival has pulled the last contentious work by Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh at the eleventh hour, amid fears that the screening might trigger further acts of religious violence... Explaining the decision to withdraw it, the film's producer Gijs van de Westelaken said: "We do not want to take any chance of endangering anyone else who participated in the film."
These incidents, occurring with increasing frequency, demonstrate how far Europe's commitment to absolute pluralism has carried them from exactly that goal. The threat of violence has now made it literally impossible to criticize Islam in the Netherlands.
The Rotterdam international film festival has pulled the last contentious work by Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh at the eleventh hour, amid fears that the screening might trigger further acts of religious violence... Explaining the decision to withdraw it, the film's producer Gijs van de Westelaken said: "We do not want to take any chance of endangering anyone else who participated in the film."
These incidents, occurring with increasing frequency, demonstrate how far Europe's commitment to absolute pluralism has carried them from exactly that goal. The threat of violence has now made it literally impossible to criticize Islam in the Netherlands.
