En professor ved Utrecht-universitetet i Nederland hadde tenkt å snakke om hvordan troen på den jødiske blodritusen er overtatt av muslimske antisemitter i Europa, men fikk nei av ledelsen. De kunne ikke garantere hans sikkerhet.
Saken har fått en kort omtale i avisen Trouw, og er såvidt nevnt av NCR Handelsblad, men er ellers ikke omtalt i nederlandske medier. Innlegget i Trouw ble oversatt og innsendt til www.Jihadwatch.org
Trouw, 18 June 2006
Prof. dr. Pieter W. van der Horst has deleted passages on modern Islamic Antisemitism from his farewell lecture, which he gave yesterday in Utrecht.
The University Board had urged Van der Horst to adjust his farewell lecture, according to Van der Horst out of fear for negative responses from Muslims.
The profesor of New Testament Studies, who is since 1969 a member of Utrecht University’s Faculty of Theology, is very indignant about the affair, calling it “an outrageous infringement of my academic liberty”.
The text of the lecture landed quite some time ago on the desk of Prof. Dr. W.H. Gispen, rector magnificus of Utrecht University. Van der Horst was called to justify himself before a commision of four. In the Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad he says: “The Muslim students might make trouble, the rector could ‘not even guarantee my safety’, the lecture was ‘below scholarly standards’.”
In his farewell lecture ‘The Myth of Jewish Cannibalism’ Van der Horst wanted to call attention among other things to ‘a great global problem, namely that part of the Islamic world has taken over the torch of hatred for the Jews from the nazis and is carrying it forward enthusiastically. The Islamisation of European Antisemitism is one of the most horrendous developments of the last decades.’”
Argumentet om at man er provokatør, og at det er uklokt å si visse ting, lesser ansvaret over på den som prøver å ytre seg.
Innsender/oversetteren skriver i et vedlegg at det forrige kom en rapport til regjeringen som tilrår at det sekulære rom ommøbleres slik at muslimer føler seg mer komfortable.
I think this is a deeply worrying development, the more so as it comes on the heels of a report commissioned by the Dutch government and published last Wednesday in which it is recommended to deal in a more “flexible” manner with “secularism” in order to provide Muslims with more space. Which is, of course, a coded way of saying that criticism of Islam should be off limits.
Hvis Nederland skulle slå inn på en slik kurs etter Pim van Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh og Ayaan Hirsi Ali, er det et signal som vil bli hørt utover landets grenser.
Dutch professor censored for daring to criticize Islam
