A story about the country of my origins, The Netherlands (also known as the Low Lands and not Holland).
Some years ago there were a couple of young Moroccan "boys" who fabricated a "shocking" *cough* hiphop track, which threatened one of the extreme right populists "politicians" *coughing loudly* to kill him.
Name of Politician: Geert Wilders
Name of Moroccan hiphop "formation" *again that cough*: Youssef & Kamal
The song:
Soon, the whole country was in panic and Mr. Wilders felt afraid of being murdered. The boys apologised and made a new song to show how sincere they were:
Today the news came out that the boys have a new song and executed Mr. Widers in the video (the conventional way with some sort of knife). Mr. Wilders became angry and now he threatens the boys with legal sanctions. The website that uploaded the song can be found here and the song:
Mr. Wilders is known in the Netherlands as the "politician" (darn, what an awful word) who favours a change in the Dutch constitution in order to prohibit the Islamic belief in the "country of tolerance" *coughing till puking*.
Some things that come into mind:
"freedom of expression"- surely, before the Internet people also expressed their wish to execute someone. However, naturally this did not became known. Ultimately leading to the thought: "can we say less due to the information flows" or "did society become less tolerant (perhaps not the best word to describe it - maybe "innocent" is better)
"how serious to take two little boys, who obviously do not have any musical gifts" - I mean seriously now, these little boys can't be a threat to national security (or can they?).
"finally" - at the end of the day, what is worse: a constitutional reconfiguration in order to ban a religion, inevitably leading to segregation (and God knows what more), proposed by a democratically elected "politician" or two boys that never made it to their A-levels, because primary school was difficult enough?
Some years ago there were a couple of young Moroccan "boys" who fabricated a "shocking" *cough* hiphop track, which threatened one of the extreme right populists "politicians" *coughing loudly* to kill him.
Name of Politician: Geert Wilders
Name of Moroccan hiphop "formation" *again that cough*: Youssef & Kamal
The song:
Soon, the whole country was in panic and Mr. Wilders felt afraid of being murdered. The boys apologised and made a new song to show how sincere they were:
Today the news came out that the boys have a new song and executed Mr. Widers in the video (the conventional way with some sort of knife). Mr. Wilders became angry and now he threatens the boys with legal sanctions. The website that uploaded the song can be found here and the song:
Mr. Wilders is known in the Netherlands as the "politician" (darn, what an awful word) who favours a change in the Dutch constitution in order to prohibit the Islamic belief in the "country of tolerance" *coughing till puking*.
Some things that come into mind:
"freedom of expression"- surely, before the Internet people also expressed their wish to execute someone. However, naturally this did not became known. Ultimately leading to the thought: "can we say less due to the information flows" or "did society become less tolerant (perhaps not the best word to describe it - maybe "innocent" is better)
"how serious to take two little boys, who obviously do not have any musical gifts" - I mean seriously now, these little boys can't be a threat to national security (or can they?).
"finally" - at the end of the day, what is worse: a constitutional reconfiguration in order to ban a religion, inevitably leading to segregation (and God knows what more), proposed by a democratically elected "politician" or two boys that never made it to their A-levels, because primary school was difficult enough?
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