This is what happens when you appease the unconscionable. After its shameful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali whom it has thrown to the jihadi wolves, the Dutch have further run up the white flag for their culture by allowing the jihadis to take over the Dutch TV Muslim broadcaster, as this story reports:

Until recently, the Netherlands had two Islamic public broadcasters: the moderate NMO and the orthodox Dutch Islamic Broadcasting Organisation (NIO). Media watchdog Commissariaat voor de Media demanded that the two would merge so that the Islamic faith would have a single representative body in the public system. But according to Nova, this resulted in NIO staging a coup of NMO…

One of the members of the new board of directors is Yahia Bouyafa, who ‘is believed to have close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood,’ as Nova reported. Another is Abdelmajid Kayroun, chairman of the Al Farouq mosque in Utrecht ‘whose imam was deported from the Netherlands in 2001 for espionage for the Libyan secret service’. Also among the eight directors is Mohammed Nanhekhan, a member of the ‘radical movement World Islamic Mission’.

The Commissionership for the Media says it has ‘no indications’ that anything is wrong. It will only instigate an inquiry if the Justice Ministry or the secret service AIVD requests it, as a spokesperson stated.

If any Dutch person thinks such craven capitulation will buy them peace, they are tragically mistaken. On the contrary, such a display of cultural cringe only serves to embolden and incite the enemy still further. This is what happened in Amsterdam last night:

A group of dozens of youths in the Slotervaart neighbourhood in western Amsterdam set cars on fire, damaged several other cars and threw stones through the windows of a police station. The riots followed the death of 22-year old Dutch-born Bilal Bajaka, of Moroccan descent.

On Sunday, Bajaka entered the police station of Slotervaart, stabbing two police officers with a knife. Although having sustained serious injuries, one of the officers, a policewoman, shot and killed her alleged attacker on the spot…

From the age of 13 up to his death on Sunday, the police said, Bajaka had been involved in several major criminal incidents, including armed robberies and a series of violent incidents. He was allegedly part of a criminal gang. In addition, police said he was personally acquainted with Mohammed Bouyeri, the convicted killer of the late film director Theo van Gogh, as well as with other Moroccan-Dutch terrorist suspects.

Mohammed Bouyeri and the others allegedly involved in terrorist activities also came from the Slotervaart neighbourhood… Moroccan-Dutch residents of Slotervaart complained to reporters they were ‘sick and tired’ of continuous ‘negative news reports’ about fellow Moroccan-Dutch, adding they felt increasingly stigmatized.

Several television reporters who came to report on the fatal incident at the police station were threatened by Moroccan-Dutch youths. Responding to the riots, Ahmed Marcouch, Moroccan-born chairman of the Slotervaart city council, said ‘it is always the same horrible people spoiling things for everyone.’

Rather what the entire free world feels about the global jihad. And maybe, soon, also about the Dutch —the people who have removed their finger from the dyke.

*In 1683, Europe stopped the 300 year advance of the Ottoman empire at the Battle of Vienna.