{"id":183258,"date":"2015-01-14T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/14\/straight-talking-politician-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:54:00","slug":"straight-talking-politician-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/14\/straight-talking-politician-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talking Politician of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i4nO3CyS_uw\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rotterdam&#8217;s mayor, who is himself a Muslim, has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/01\/rotterdams-muslim-mayor-to-violent-radical-islamists-in-west-pack-your-bags-and-fck-off\/\">choice words for Islamists who wish to eschew modernity<\/a>, &#8220;Pack your bags, and f%$# off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Moroccan-born mayor of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam said in a television appearance on Tuesday that Muslims like himself who choose to live in the West should adopt a more tolerant worldview or \u201cpack your bags and f%$# off.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Aboutaleb moved with his family to the Netherlands when he was a teen. During the television program Nieuwsuur (News Hour), he spoke to Islamists living in the West, saying, \u201cIt is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBut if you don\u2019t like freedom,\u201d he continued, \u201cfor heaven\u2019s sake pack your bags and leave.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf you do not like it here because some humorists you don\u2019t like are making a newspaper, may I then say you can f%$# off,\u201d Aboutaleb said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Straight talk from a politician, how quaint.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that there were more politicians like Aboutaleb, and fewer snollygosters out in the political sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotterdam&#8217;s mayor, who is himself a Muslim, has some choice words for Islamists who wish to eschew modernity, &#8220;Pack your bags, and f%$# off.&#8221; The Moroccan-born mayor of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam said in a television appearance on Tuesday that Muslims like himself who choose to live in the West should adopt a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroism","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}