The Dutch Report blog is reporting that the head of the (doubtless feared, and possibly legendary) AIVD (the country’s intelligence service) has given his first interview since the ritual slaughter of Theo van Gogh. The Dutch Reporter highlights this comment (I have tidied up the English a little):

“I think that we should realize that the way that we sometimes agitate in an extreme way against Islam makes it more likely that people who are already unstable will go in the direction of radicalism than moderate their opinions”

Translation: if you are even thinking about criticising extremist Islam, keep your mouth shout. Over in Britain, Blair’s proposed religious hate crimes law is based on very much the same type of thinking and, somewhere up high, or maybe down below, the ghost of Neville Chamberlain is smiling…