Apostasy

Here’s an English-language article (from The Times) about today’s launch in The Netherlands of the committee of ex-Muslims. Good luck to them. The Volkskrant today carries a perhaps-less-than-helpful political cartoon showing Ehsan Jami, the leader of the committee, caught in the tentacles of an octopus. One tentacle, behind him, holds a cudgel spiked with nails, which it is raising to strike at Jami. 

 

One thing that irritates me about the Times article is that it repeats the canard that links the assasination of Pim Fortuyn with Muslim extremists. Can we please put this to rest? He was murdered by a white, Dutch, non-muslim, animal rights activist…

 

Update: Ophelia also picks up on some of the odd language of the article that I had missed… I’m getting lax in my old age.