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...Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques, ramping up monitoring of foreign imams and stripping suspected extremists of their Dutch passports. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands, and now we're paying for it," says Geert Wilders, another politician who went into hiding after receiving separate death threats...
...whether the country's age-old reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash of civilizations. "We have allowed a climate to develop in which everything is tolerated," says Geert Wilders, a right-wing member of parliament who has received death threats from radical Muslims. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands - and now we're paying...
...high. In the Netherlands, 41% are against while 21% are in favor; in Germany, the figures are 46% and 45%. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 52% of those surveyed in Britain, France and Germany say they oppose Turkish entry, while 39% favor it. Turkey in the E.U.? Dutch M.P. Geert Wilders says simply: "Never! Turkey is an Islamic country and doesn't belong in the E.U. I'd sooner let Australia or Canada join." What opponents are not talking about are the consequences if the E.U. says no. Reform could come to an end as the unity inspired...
Weinstein's coach Geert Kinthaert developed his strict training routine...
...enjoyed reading your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always...