Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Pogrom in Amsterdam of November 6, 2024-8 Nov 2024
But now consider the Amsterdam police. Around twenty years ago, a well-intentioned plan was implemented to encourage the participation of ethnic minorities in all areas where they are underrepresented. The police and security agencies were considered to be too white. Initially, the program of “encouraged” representation was unsuccessful because the standards were simply too high for those who applied. Only a few of the allochtonen (aliens, literally “those from another soil”) managed to make their careers as police officers and even to join the secret services and other security units.
But then two things happened. First, the Islamists (Muslim Brotherhood) adopted the strategy of Islamization through participation. Then the impatience of the leftist establishment to hasten the process of participation resulted in the lowering of standards for minorities. As a result of this Dutch version of DEI, the vetting processes became less and less stringent.
I well remember when I was reliant on Dutch police protection to ensure that I did not suffer the same fate as my friend Theo van Gogh, who had been stabbed to death by a jihadist in the streets of Amsterdam. One day, one of the agents assigned to my security detail turned out to be of Turkish descent. I became uneasy when he began to criticize me for my work with van Gogh on “Submission,” a film about the treatment of women under Islam. When I expressed my concerns, I was told by his superior officer that it was not up to me who was given the task of protecting me. I was required to learn a new kind of submission—to the dictates of the DEI bureaucracy.
Today, a large part of the police force in Amsterdam is made up of second-generation migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Since October 7 last year, some officers have already refused to guard Jewish locations such as the Holocaust Museum.