Rotterdam Mayor Aboutaleb Tells Fellow Muslims: If You Don’t Like It Here, Leave

Mayor Aboutaleb’s good — just a little too good — press for his “fuck off” to Musliims who don’t like it in the Netherlands.

Good can come of this, and evil. The good is obvious: Muslims are not wanted, have earned distrust and dislike. That has happened everywhere, even in such countries as the Netherlands and Denmark, that have elevated Tolerance to the level of a state religion. Aboutaleb, who is Mayor of Rotterdam, in the heat of the emotion following the Paris attacks, has expressed the fury of Muslims who are doing well, and who realize that the True Believers are making it harder for Muslims. And having a Muslim state what many non-Muslims are feeling, but have been timid about expressing — “fuck off if you don’t like it here” — allows them now to do so.

But there is also a danger. That is, the heartwarming tale of Aboutaleb — who is also an apologist and Defender of the “Real” Faith of Islam, and the “Real” Muhammad (who of course wouldn’t want any violence committed in his name, or to protect his good name)– feeds into the feeling that we must be grateful for what we can get from (a few) Muslim leaders, must take perfectly seriously their ostentatious condemnations after each large-scale atrocity (the small, daily ones that occur all over no one any longer bothers with), without questioning the sincerity of many. Just look at the naive enthusiam of Boris Johhson for Aboutaleb’s remarks.

And still worse, Aboutaleb’s remark implies that “if you like it here” — that is, if you don’t speak openly about what needs to be changed in Infidel societies — thiis means that you are fine, no one should object to your presence. But there are all kinds of reasons why Musliims might “like it here” — well-run societies, fantastic benefits of every kind, including free or heavily subsidised health care at a level impossible to find in any Muslim country, free education also impossible to find any ditto, free or heavily subsidised housing, and so on. The Muslims who don’t say they dislike it, are still both a fantastic economic and social burden, and unless they drop Islam altogether, as long as they follow Qur’an and Sunnah, and regard Muhammad as the Perfect Man, they will be a danger to all non-Muslims. “Fuck off” is fine, and it makes headlines, and it should be used, but used correctly.

The obvious danger is of such a remark being used to throw back in the faces of intelligent critics of Islam and, therefore, of the Muslim presence in Europe and to silence them: “see, moderate Muslims like the Mayor of Rotterdam stand with us, have told the Muslims who are not willing to integrate (that’s the little false addition bouind to creep in and confuse) that they can “fuck off” if they “don’t like it here.”

The right way to use that sentence is simply to say “well, even the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam, who no doubt doesn’t wish to endanger his power and influence,” and is alarmed by the growing number of people who are disturbed by the observable behavior  of Musolims, and not only in Paris a few days ago, but all around Europe, and in the Middle East, and around the world, where the same problems, the same cruelty and violence and aggression, against both non-Muslims of every kind, and against Muslims who, either because they belong to a different sect, as Shi’a from Sunni, or because they are regarded as insufficiently Muslim in their behavior and beliefs even if they call themselves Muslims, are treated as Infidels. I am certain that Mayor Aboutaleb, despite the good press he’s getting, would prefer that non-Muslims in Rotterdam and the Netherlands not find out what is in the Qur’an and Sunnah that explain not only those who because they openly dislike the Netherlands should, in his words, “fuck off,” and those who do not dislike it openly, but covertly, or don’t dislike it at all, because they receive so much for free, or who don’t dislike it because, you see, they know that if they keep quiet, and simply outbreed the locals, as they are doing everywhere, they will gain inexorably in power and be able, in the end, to accomplish what violent acts cannot at this point accomplish: the removal of all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam.