Some of you have probably heard how last Sunday 22 year old Dutch-Moroccan Bilal Bajaka ran into the police station in Amsterdam Slotervaart, stabbed two police officers with a knife and one of the officers shot and killed him. Then riots broke out in the following few days when Dutch media crowded the premises and unleashed yet another series of attacks on Moroccan youth portraying them in the most negative way possible as usual.
No one really knows for sure why Bajarka tried to kill the two cops at the police station, but considering the history of the youth in this particular neighborhood I'm guessing it has much to do with his poor psychological health in combination with his inability to process the news of a totally separate incident that took place at a school nearby just a few days before he snapped. The school incident involved a 14 year old Moroccan kid who was stabbed and killed by some Turkish kid in a fight over a pen. Once again the Dutch media focused more on the Moroccan kid and the Moroccan aspect of that neighborhood than anything else.
I've been watching the drama unfold since Sunday and I'm really amazed at the intensity that the media is taking it out on the whole entire Moroccan community, not just the youth, all because of one psychotic individual's deed.
What in the world is going on with these people? Why are they getting away with this?
Imagine living in Amsterdam, a pretty crowded city which depends heavily on public transportation, with bus and tramline connections taking you to every corner of the city. Where every tramline (except one for some odd reason, but that's a whole other story) has it's own conductor on board checking for tickets and every tram is equipped with a TV set constantly broadcasting daily news. Now imagine how every single Moroccan on board those trams must feel having to be subjected to the constant hostile glares and what not by fellow travelers, while listening to these extremely negative news flashes involving fellow Moroccans. Imagine what this does to one's psyche, especially with regards to Moroccan youth. How would you feel if this was done to the people of your own community?
But to get back to this latest Slotervaart incident, the question is why is it that the Moroccan youth in this particular neighborhood always seems to cause trouble and be in the center of attention?
The answer is: it's a Moroccan ghetto!
If the majority pupulation in that area is Moroccan, then more than likely it's going to be a Moroccan who did it when a crime occurs.
Now the next question is, who is responsible for the formation of that ghetto?
I actually lived in the Slotervaart for about 8 months, I even gave birth to my daughter in the Slotervaart Hospital. Back then most of these troublesome youths were still under the age of 10. My apartment was just a couple of blocks down the street from the police station - which didn't exist back then BTW, when I lived there, there was a movie theater in that location (right next to the mosque no less). Back then it was a pretty nice livable neighborhood and nowhere near what one would classify as a ghetto. How could things have changed so bad just within the last 13 years?
As an outsider now looking in, it is hard for me to fathom how the local authorities allowed this to happen. I'm sure they have all kinds of pitiful bureaucratic excuses explaining how they've done their part to provide solutions with the best of intentions, but reality proves otherwise because the process is still ongoing.
What you won't learn from Dutch newspapers today is that in fact this neighborhood transformation started taking place long before Theo van Gogh was murdered in 2004 by a Dutch Muslim fanatic of Moroccan descent, who grew up in Slotervaart. It happened even before Dutch Politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered by a native Dutch radical environmental activist in 2002 - whom they tried to link to Islam desperately with all their might but to no avail - and yes, it even happened before the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.
And heck it even happened before the previous Slotervaart riots that broke out way back in 1998. As a matter of fact the riots of 1998 were actually THE straw that broke the camels back, thanks to biased media coverage. The clashes started with a few minor incidents and gradually got out of control as the Moroccan youth grew angrier with the media and responded with violence to protest against the excessive negative media coverage. Dutch media bias actually destroyed the image of Moroccans as a whole, but especially Moroccan youth throughout the Netherlands.
Another important aspect you won't read in Dutch newspapers today is that Muslim radicalism in the Netherlands is a case of forced conversion entirely orchestrated by Dutch authorities and conveniently facilitated with the help of import imams from anywhere between Muslim Asia and the Middle East, but rarely from Morocco. And thanks to the local authorities' implementation of the so-called "black schools" the Moroccan nightmare became irrevesible. Whether this was done intentionally or not is besides the point. The point I'm trying to make is that it take two to tango. We should be looking at the cause and effect to come up with solutions, because I'm personally tired of this one-way finger pointing nonsense.
This media bias needs to be stopped once and for all. It's dangerous, people are dying for crying out loud!
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