My kid, Dana, once told me, "Mom, if you don't get away from watching the news, you're going to have to get on medication." She is right; if I did not have my columns, speaking engagements and television show to blow off steam, I would be in big trouble.



On good days, I head to the gym and try to work out the hostilities. It's not easy being a sex goddess. For the past few years, I've seen an older couple from Holland working out there, and from time to time, we would chat.



That was until a year or so ago, when I mentioned my disgust at the latest Muslim atrocity carried out against Israel. To my absolute shock, the wife's response was that the Israelis must have been doing something to deserve the attacks. After all, the Palestinians did need their own homeland. Then she began to go on about the suffering of the poor Palestinian people. You get the idea.



After that, I gave them a wide berth. Until the recent attack against her fellow citizen, director Theo van Gogh, who had the audacity to make a film that denounced the mistreatment of women in Muslim communities. That was apparently enough to cause barbarians, who are now residing in Holland, to slaughter Van Gogh. This act has set off a wave of savagery that is now threatening to have a spillover effect in neighboring countries, inducing Muslim communities to do what they do best - murder and terrorize.



The Dutch, however, are not used to dealing with a mentality that reveres death and seems to cause destruction and suffering wherever it settles. So, who suffers because the Dutch are a society who have only known permissiveness and a social policy that always had the welcome mat out for 'visitors'?



The artistic community is in fear because they have a clear threat of death hanging over their heads if they even consider writing something that could be interpreted as "anti-Muslim". Dutch legislators are also living in fear and being forced to travel to 'safe-houses' every night to sleep, while Arab killers are allowed to walk freely down the street. "The police can't arrest them... there is not enough evidence."



I find it fascinating how this culture, which only seeks to destroy and kill, has learned how to use democracy as a weapon to further radical and violent Islamic ideas.



So, where did their huggy, kissy welcome get the poor people of Holland?



This is what I heard from the nice Dutch woman at my gym when I confronted her with the latest events from her city: "Oh, it is terrible, just terrible. Most of my family is moving, as they don't like what they are seeing. And it has gotten very dangerous."



Oh really?



Spokesmen for the Muslim community are giving press conferences explaining how they are "afraid and don't speak to the [Dutch] community. And that's not good for the society."



Well, folks, I am happy to see that some of them sense a little fear as a consequence of the dysfunctional behavior of their culture. Yet, somehow, it doesn't seem as if the authorities of Holland 'get it' yet. They continue to shut their eyes to the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism. Apparently, they have leftist, politically correct citizens there who mistakenly believe that any interaction they have with the new citizens from Arab countries should be as permissive as their liberal attitudes toward gay marriage, drugs and prostitution.



Besides, like Salman Rushdie, van Gogh spoke out about how the uninterrupted influx of these new residents from Muslim lands (along with the inordinate influence allowed them via leftist policies) were beginning to change the character of the Dutch culture. Being a happy-go-lucky and gracious people, they are now terrorized and don't know how it happened.



I wonder if it was the same in Paris before their culture changed. Do they look back today and think, "I should have done something when the first church was torn down to put up a mosque?" Whatever. It is too late to get it back now. The women of Paris are now wearing burqas as a fashion statement. Gone is the atmosphere of the little French cafes, and it's a given that violence is always just beneath the surface.



How ludicrous that the legislators of Holland are so afraid of the violent Arabs, who are taking over their community, that they can't sleep safely in their homes for fear that one of them might come in and behead them.



People, for now, seem to be rising up and measures have begun to be taken to beef up anti-terrorist laws, ban foreign imams and deport extremists. Funny, they always call these savage killers "extremist".



It's a terrible conflict for the "nice people" of the world. To people who revere life instead of thinking it is cool to strap bombs onto babies' backs and teach the art of death in school, it's a big problem. Because the only thing the savages understand is power. Yet, to those who do not understand the mentality of the fundamentalist Muslims, the conflict that could cause the demise of democracy is eventually spelled out in bullets.



To my way of thinking, the only thing the seventh-century minds of the fundamentalists can deal with is exactly that. Again, the word is power. Theirs is a culture that lives for death. Why should we deprive them of it ? Give them what they want!