Holland: This is your King, on Queen's day!

National Anthem:‘Mijn schild ende betrouwen ‘A shield and my reliance,
zij gij, o God, mijn heer, 0 God, thou ever wert.
op U, zowil ik bouwen, I’ll trust unto Thy guidance
verlaat mij nimmermeer. 0 leave me not ungirt.
Op dat ik vroom mag blijven, That I may stay a pious
Uw dienar, t’allertijd, Servant of Thine for aye
De tyrannie verdrijven, And drive the plagues that try us
Die mij het hart doorwondt’. And Tyranny away’

Pray for Holland, please...

The Islamization of Europe, part III

BY MICHAEL HORTON

In Holland, according to the Calgary Sun, the most common name for boys is currently “Mohammed,” and there are some reports that this is the case in Belgium as well. The paper also asserted that in Holland, “there are more observant Muslims than either observant Catholics or Protestants (but not yet all Christians combined),” and there are reportedly 30,000 Dutch converts to Islam. On March 11, 2004, 192 people were killed in a train bombing in Madrid, Spain, by members of Al Qaeda, and one of the demands of the terrorists was the removal of an historic statue of Santiago Matamorros at the cathedral in Compostella, because it was seen as offensive to Muslims. Spaniard officials caved in to the terrorists’s demands and removed the statue.

Italy is now home to between 700,000 and one million Muslims. As a result, Islam is the second most dominant religion in that country. The city of Bologna in recent years, according to a London Times article, experienced a controversy over a 600 year old fresco inside the town’s cathedral. Painted by Giovanni da Modena in the fifteenth century, this fresco depicts Dante’s Inferno, and part of this image includes a representation of the prophet Mohammed being tortured in the ninth circle of hell. Islamic extremists have been so offended by this that they have demanded that the fresco be either painted over or destroyed, or else they will blow up the cathedral.

The Islamization of Europe, Part II.

BY MICHAEL HORTON

Current estimates, which are not easy to calculate because many immigrants remain unregistered, place the total number of Muslims currently living and working in Europe somewhere between 15 and 20 million. France alone is home to 5 million Muslims, and there are an estimated 3 million in Germany. As TownHall.com columnist Jonah Goldberg puts it, these Muslims who are coming from all over the world, “aren’t buying into the European model of peaceful assimilation, tolerance and another round of kumbaya.”

Islam is now the fastest growing religion in England, which is home to more than 2 million Muslims, 1,500 mosques, and 100 Islamic schools. According to The London Times, on the third anniversary of Sept. 11th, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams spoke from the pulpit of an Egyptian mosque saying that Christianity shared with Islam the common inheritance as “children of Abraham.” Plans are in the works to have Islam taught in English schools, which is also the case in Denmark where, according to the The Copenhagen Post, legislation recently passed making it compulsory for Danish high school students to read sections from the Koran, though there is no such regulation pertaining to the Bible.