MOROCCAN ASSAULTS IN CULEMBORG

The relations between Euro-Moroccans and others in the Netherlands took a turn for the worse recently, with a number of violent incidents culminating in vehicular assault in Culemborg.

Telegraaf article 1.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/5709217/__14_Aanhoudingen_in_Culemborg__.html?p=17,1
[In Dutch: Fourteen people arrested for using driving a driving a car into a group of people in the Terweijde neighborhood.]

Telegraaf article 2.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/5709328/___Honderd_relschoppers_in_Terweijde___.html
[In Dutch: Roughly one hundred troublemakers in the Terweijde neighborhood in Culemborg, where conflict between Moroccans and Moluccers has been going on for years.]

Telegraaf article 3.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/5710692/__Molukse_bewoners_houden_de_wacht__.html?p=1,1
[In Dutch: Moluccers patrolling neighborhood to prevent further outrages by Moroccan thugs, no faith in burgomaster - accuse city fathers of ignoring problems, attending only to needs of white community. Quote: "we have no burgomaster..."]



MENA - MURIA

My sympathies, naturally, lie with the Moluccers.

For four centuries Moluccers were an intrinsic part of the Dutch realm as soldiers whose loyalty and guts were beyond reproach. Following the Japanese occupation of the East-Indies they took to the hills and continued the fight long after the formal Dutch surrender.
During the Bersiap period in Indonesia after the war, Moluccan soldiers guarded the survivors of the prison camps from assaults by the terrorists on the Nationalist side.
The Moluccan soldiers left Indonesia with the Dutch, and the post-war government (*) screwed them over just like they screwed over every one else: the camp-survivors, the Indos who were kicked out of Indonesia, the loyalist soldiers who remained in the East, as well as the returnees from Hitler's hell-holes.

Moluccers are tough and stubborn, and their contribution to the Dutch cause throughout the centuries has been inestimable.

[(*) DUTCH GOVERNMENT: Para 1: The Dutch government is ALWAYS right. Para 2: If, exceptionally, the Dutch government should be wrong, para 1 become effective again immediately. Para 3: Disregarding either para 1 or para 2 is lèse majesté.
Note here the clear superiority of the Napoleonic code, especially when coupled with a constitutional mercantile monarchy (ie: "Western European Democracy").
I did not write this and I have no idea how this utterly disloyal text crept into my blog. Must be them furreners! Honest!]


Moroccans in the Netherlands do not have a sterling reputation. That probably explains why so many other Dutch are also voicing support for the Moluccans in this issue. The Moroccan-Dutch hooligans in Culemborg may discover that though they outnumber the Moluccers, they have bitten off more than they can chew.
In which case it is quite likely that Culemborg burgomaster Roland van Schelven, precisely as he is doing now, will bleat ineffectively.
Little more than officious hand-wringing can be expected from so astute a politician in any case.


NOTE: Mena Muria is the Moluccan battle cry, originally derived from phrase yelled by rowers on war canoes to synchronize their strokes. Literally, it means "front - back", but by extension it is a powerful expression of unity and resolve. It is also used at protests and demonstrations as a slogan and rallying cry.
The modern meaning is roughly 'all together'.