The Dutch Wake Up

Testimony this week in the brazen murder of a Dutch filmmaker for his critical portrayal of how women are treated in Muslim countries ought to provide a much-needed wakeup call in the War on Terror.

"What's extraordinary is the calmness with which as he did this," said the prosecutor, identified only as F. van Straelen. "Several witnesses described how he coolly knelt next to Van Gogh's body and reloaded his gun."

An autopsy showed Van Gogh's throat had been cut nearly to the spinal cord with a kitchen knife.

A note impaled in Van Gogh's chest threatened prominent politicians and vowed Islamic holy war, or jihad, against nonbelievers.

A bystander who witnessed the crime yelled at Van Gogh's killer "You can't do that!" to which the suspect replied: "Oh, yes I can. ... Now you know what's coming for you."

Bouyeri allegedly then walked away, apparently in search of police, Van Straelen said. He opened fire at the first police car he found, injuring a police officer.

The gunman fired about 30 times in a shooting spree, Van Straelen said.

Western Europe has been thoroughly infiltrated by terror cells among recent Muslim immigrants. Rather than aggressively deal with this problem, Europe does what it has always done---appease the worst offenders and lock out the rest, in this case, by denying moderate Turkey EU membership in addition to limiting the influx of Turkish workers West.

Turkey's response to terrorism is much different, and not surprisingly, more successful.