By Shelley Emling
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ehsan http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1439 sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy who used his finger to plug a leaking dike.
Jami, a Dutch politician, is trying to prevent a flood of what he views as intolerant Muslim immigrants threatening to overrun the Netherlands and all of Europe.
Muslim women chat at a market in downtown Amsterdam. ‘I’ve lived here for 40 years and I still don’t feel welcome,’ said Atel Alireza, a taxi driver from Turkey.
An Islamist killed filmmaker Theo van http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1285 after his movie of a naked Muslim woman came out.
He’s not alone. In France, Germany and across Western Europe, a vigorous public debate is under way over preservation of national identities, the assimilation of minorities and tolerance of different cultures.
A former Muslim who was born in Iran, Jami is a right-wing member of the Dutch parliament who has used his position to issue strong criticism of Islam.He’s especially critical of “radical” Muslims but he also takes issue with Islam’s treatment of women and homosexuals.
The harsh rhetoric has made him the most talked-about public figure in Holland and provoked physical attacks and death threats, forcing him into hiding.
“I don’t mind if people are Muslim, but I do mind when their values go against Western values,” Jami said in a recent interview, under the watchful eye of his bodyguards. “We have to be very clear with Muslim immigrants that we will not negotiate our values.”
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/10/20/dutch_1021.html
Residual political correctness means that articles like this look for and find people like Ehsan Jami who journalists are able to disingenuously call Europeans and paint them as upholders of the the supposedly-still-workable fantasy of multiculturalism. In fact Jami is no “Dutch boy” with his finger in the dike but was born and raised in Iran, only coming to the Netherlands in 1994. He is now pandered to and touted as a left-wing token ex-Muslim. However, for every Ehsan Jami there are 10,000 Muslims and other Third Worlders who seek only to leech off of Europe while despising and subverting the humanist and democratic values at her core.