Netherlands — The Next Country Up
A funny-sad guide to how one goes from tulip kingdom to religious censorship kingdom
If Belgium was a political horror flick, then the Netherlands is the sequel — same shadow, more flat bikes, coffee shops, and excessive self-confidence that “it couldn’t happen here.”
Yes, the Netherlands — a land of freedom, cannabis, rights, cheese — looks like the last place Sharia would find a fan base. But as we saw in neighboring Belgium: in Europe 2025, the impossible becomes real before you finish your latte in Amsterdam.
When Freedom Becomes Religion — And Religion Becomes Too Free
Holland has always prided itself on being “the most open country in Europe.”
Here, everything is legal — smoke, love, gender change, even marrying yourself, and calling it “progress.”
But extreme liberalism has a basic flaw: if there are no red lines — any ideology with a spine will fill the void.
The great irony: the world’s most tolerant country is giving way to an ideology that tolerates nothing.
A teacher in The Hague who dares discuss free speech may need a bodyguard.
A politician who criticizes extreme Islam must hide — not because they hate foreigners, but simply because they dared say what everyone is thinking.
From the Land of Tulips to the Land of the Muezzin
If Belgium was the first experiment, the Netherlands is the upgraded sequel.
In some neighborhoods of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague, the music of Tupac has been replaced by the muezzin’s call from nearby mosques.
Do the Dutch complain? Not much — it’s “colorful,” “authentic,” “cultural diversity,” they say.
So like a Van Gogh painting defaced with burqas, the Netherlands is changing hue:
From the birthplace of free speech — to a place where you think twice before sketching a cartoon of Muhammad.
From a nation where feminists fought for equal rights — to one where schoolgirls already ask if it’s allowed to remove the veil during class.
The New Fear Among the Dutch
Once they feared the sea.
Today, they fear tweets.
Yes — tweets. Not birds, but social media chirps.
Any criticism of religious extremism is labeled “the new Nazis,” and any talk about security becomes a moral lecture: “Who are we to judge?”
So the situation becomes this: the Dutch are more afraid of offending than being offended.
They build cultural bridges while the other side digs ideological tunnels.
We are in the West of 2025 — still polite, still civilized, and preparing its own grave with fresh flowers and a Nietzsche quote on tolerance.
When Government Ministers Act Like Therapists
The Dutch government seems preoccupied with “not generalizing.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s a terror attack, threats to journalists, or a university refusing to show an exhibit on free speech — the official response is always the same:
“We must understand the pain of the offended community.”
But when that pain translates into violence, and the state spends its time “understanding,” it stops being a state and starts being a therapeutic couch.
Meanwhile, anyone who warns — is silenced.
Anyone who talks about Dutch identity — is called a nationalist.
And anyone who remembers what the Netherlands used to be — is labeled a “colonial trauma dinosaur.”
The Bicycle Battle for Western Values
Look, nobody wants to go back to the Middle Ages.
But when you see unofficial “morality patrols” in Rotterdam telling women “dress modestly,” you know something in the West has gone very wrong.
The Netherlands has become a country where free speech is crushed under bicycle wheels, and tolerance chokes itself slowly so as not to hurt feelings.
Geert Wilders — Symbol and Warning
You can’t talk about the Netherlands without mentioning Geert Wilders — the most hated politician, and ironically maybe the most accurate prophet among them.
The man who spoke of the danger of Islam in Europe back in the early 2000s was mocked, silenced, treated as crazy.
And now in 2025, even his critics admit: he was right about far too many things.
The real irony? While society sees the results, people still fear publicly supporting him. Because in Europe — worse than being a victim of terror is being seen as someone who loudly opposes it.
Lesson for Israel — How Not to Vanish
The Netherlands is like a distorted mirror of the West: a country with beautiful culture, endless tolerance — and zero will to defend itself.
Here at home, some try to import the same model of “freedom to the extreme.”
But we already know what happens when freedom is placed above identity:
You start with equality laws, you end with Sharia laws.
Belgium already wrote the first chapter. The Netherlands is writing the second. And unless the world wakes up, the third will be all of Europe.
So what does the Netherlands look like in 2025?
Cute, orderly, cultured — and frightened.
A nation of polite people who are afraid to say “no.”
A country where the word identity is considered crude, and border is considered violent.
They say the Dutch know how to stop storms.
But there’s one flood they haven’t learned to fight yet —
It doesn’t come from the sea,
It comes from ideology.
And when asked: who’s next after Belgium?
It’s the Netherlands.
But don’t worry — they’re already working on a five-year plan to restore relations with Sharia.
There’s even a budget for translation.
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