I know it’s just me, but I find it hard today to think about the election because of the murder of Dutch filmmaker and Islam

critic Theo van Gogh. Here’s a cover story I did for NRODT two years ago, in the wake of the assassination of politician and anti-immigrant crusader Pim Fortuyn, explaining why the Netherlands was in a very, very bad situation with its unassimilable and fast-growing Muslim population, and why its culture of Multiculturalism Uber Alles left it virtually defenseless against Islamic militancy.

This murder in Amsterdam is a much bigger deal than it will seem this week

in America, given that we are focused on the election. For one thing, murders just don’t happen in northern Europe like they do here, so any killing is a big deal. But this is another high-profile political assassination, the second one in two years, and the second one related to the target’s critical views on Islam. You may have noticed that Frits Bolkestein, a high-profile EU politician and formerly a Dutch parliamentarian, caused a huge row in September with a

speech in which he stated his opposition to Turkey’s joining the EU, and cited Bernard Lewis’s observation that by the end of this century, demographics will have turned Europe into a Muslim-majority continent. What does that mean for Europe, particularly when very many of its Muslims are not assimilating, and when fundamentalist Islam is on the rise?

Anyway, this morning I was thinking about this murder in Amsterdam, and

feeling very happy that I had voted for George W. Bush, who, for all his flaws, really does understand the nature of the war we’re in.