It becomes more and more obvious that the murderer was not a lone extremists but the one acting for a group of Muslim fanatics planning this murder together since long.

In the Netherlands, like in many other European countries, there are closely cooperating small groups of Islamists ready to use physical force including murder for their aims.

That the murder was committed 911 days after the murder of the outspoken anti-Muslim-fundamentalism Pim Fortuyn may be a coincidence or a planned sign.

The Netherlands are asking now whether they are too tolerant towards militant groups. On the other hand, they have to ask themselves what they have done wrong (or failed to do) in the integration of foreigners: 40 % of the Maroccan youths in the Netherlands have not finished school. Foreigners are 4 times as likely as born Netherlanders to be without job. One third of all people in Amsterdam are not Netherlanders. They live in a parallel world, at best ignoring the liberal Netherland world or at worst fighting militantly against it and against the values liberal Dutch have fought for since decades.

Wolfgang