Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "euronews" channel.

Far right? No, populist right, anti-islam right, nationalistic yes. But nothing far or extreme about the idea that the Dutch government should start serving the Dutch people again, it's their government, their democracy.
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Shutting off the pump didn't stop the earthquakes and was never going to. But it has allowed Shell and Exxon to get out wihout paying for a huge reinforcement project.
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"Give me your money!" "Eh, wait a minute....." "You're frugal!"
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Journalists like this are part of the problem too because they want to tell their own stories and have ignored the real problem. The victims weren't racially or etnically profiled, they were profiled on dual citizenship, which actually is a risk factor for fraud. They weren't allowed to so that is a breach of the rule of law and allthough serious enough by itself, it's a minor side issue in this case because starting an investigation into fraud wasn't what got people into trouble. That was the way the investigation was conducted and led to sanctions without getting a proper chance to defend oneself, with failing judges allowing cover ups by the civil service. If journalists had done their job like scrutinizing government and the judicial system rather than claiming racism where it's not it wouldn't have gotten this bad.
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@mmarques2736 Islam is anti-Dutch values like freedom of religion, freedom of conscience and equality. Allthough those are the only reasons there are muslims in the Netherlands in the first place. It's for the Dutch muslims to make it work. That's about time.
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Of course Erasmus has always been a program to create a 'European' (EU actually) identity at the expense of national identities. Ironically paid for by national tax payers and at the expense of the level and opportunities of the national students and research. Yes the Dutch are good at English, no their English is not good enough for a truly academic level. I don't mind student exchange, but traditionally it was for the brightest who impressed with that on their curriculum because they had to reach an academic level in a foreign language. Now it's just another way of dumbing down.
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A bit strange to make a video with a man who's still in denial about his own people's slavery past. Akwasi that is. His parents were welcomed as refugees from Ghana despite crossing many safe countries. He whines about beeing called Aquarium in school as a racist name joke, while he has also said he went by his real name of Anton back then. He whines about black kids not beeing sent in high enough education while his education was too high for him and didn't manage to finish it. He whines about how the Dutch got rich from slavery, not true, but can't accept his own Ahsanti forefathers beeing far bigger and worse slavetraders than the Dutch. He comes to Amsterdam and claims the canal houses should be his because of slavery, allthough they were build with money from the Baltic Sea trade and not with the slaves his ancestors sold. He acts like he wants to have a reasonable conversation about racism but threatens with violence and has been doing so for a decade. He's such a fraud.
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@tuntejaable It was not because of their ethnicity. They were profiled for investigation based on several risk factors, one of them was dual citizenship and that wasn't allowed but that's just a very minor part of the massive breach of the rule of law that happened here. Beeing investigated shouldn't have been much of a problem if you had done nothing or little wrong, but it was because the civil service, the government and the judicial system failed them massively and for a very long time which went unnoticed because the media were busy convincing the people how great this government and the judicial system was.
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They can quit the 1950s refugee treaty per tomorrow. That would give judges far less possibilities to make and force mass immigration policy.
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The pro EU left lost seats. It's a false claim to victory, a desperate attempt to suggest to voters elsewhere that the right EU-skeptic anti mass immigration surge has been held. It isn't, it has just been confirmed in the Netherlands. The PVV won 600% more seats, the PvdA-GL lost 4% compared to the previous EP elections.
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@mmarques2736 Freedom of religion, the reason there are muslims in the Netherlands in the first place, also includes the freedom from other people's religion. It in includes apostasy, it includes not respecting other's religious rules about drawings, ridicule and their 'holy' books. Islam needs freedom of religion and welfare to grow in Europe, but most muslims can't handle the freedom of religion they enjoy so much. Islamophobia does not exist, the threat it poses to the free country of the Netherlands is very real. The Dutch have had freedom of religion since 1579 and haven't had any religious violence until a couple of decades of presence of muslims in numbers, and corpses were laying in the streets. For a change muslims should reflect on themselves and their religion and why it has been such a pain to all the European people that welcomed them. Muslims should be ashamed for their European fellow muslim communities.
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@mijicmugendo It's not about the most basic level of understanding, is it? At univeristy you have to be able to express and grasp abstract ideas. In a lot of disciplines that can't be done in digits and formula's so you'll have to truly master the tool that is language. I'm sure the anglophones would understand the limitations of a learned language if only they had bothered to learn one. In British universities there is still a benchmark set by academics teaching in their native language, whithout such a benchmark level would slip. Dutch people who claim they are comfortable enough in English don't get what 'enough' should be at a university.
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These Ukrainians fled from war, the asylum system is not for them.
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@tuntejaable No, the reporter just made that up. They used dual citizenship as one of five indicators to start an investigation. In 2015 the law was changed which meant it was no longer allowed to have data about dual citizenship. They failed to destroy those dat and kept using them. That's why they got a slap on the wrist from the privacy authority Citizenship is a legal situation. It's not ethnicity, it's not race and names have nothing to do with it. One of the reasons for the law change was to avoid the risk of ethnic profiling, because it could be used indirectly for ethnic profiling. But for fraud the foreign citizenship is often a risk simply because the other citizenship with all it's rights makes it easier to commit fraud and easier to get away with it.
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