Dutch schools avoid trips to cities that are targets for Islamic terrorism

“Many schools have scrapped London, Paris and Berlin as destinations and are favouring smaller cities, like Valencia or Glasgow. Some schools are avoiding all European capitals.”

What makes them think that Valencia and Glasgow can’t or won’t be targets of Islamic terrorism? There was an Islamic jihad bombing at Glasgow’s airport in 2007. These Dutch schools are whistling in the dark if they think anywhere is safe from the Islamic jihad terrorists that European leaders have been so insistent on bringing into Europe. And in the Netherlands, the one politician who has for years been calling attention to the risks of these policies, Geert Wilders, has been vilified and excoriated as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

Next step: cancel school trips altogether. Cower inside. Submit, and hope that your new Islamic masters will not be too harsh. That is the path Europe is traveling on, unless things change drastically, and soon.

“Dutch schools avoid trips to cities that are targets for terrorism,” Dutch News, February 13, 2018:

A quarter of Dutch school trips abroad no longer include destinations that have been hit by terrorist attacks, a new poll says.

Educational research bureau DUO polled 200 secondary schools and over two thirds of the respondents expressed doubts about the safety of such trips. Many schools have scrapped London, Paris and Berlin as destinations and are favouring smaller cities, like Valencia or Glasgow. Some schools are avoiding all European capitals.

A small number of schools said they are abolishing trips abroad altogether, not because of terrorism but because of the risks involved in sending teachers abroad with a group of teenagers.

‘Safety is relative, of course. Something could happen at home as well,’ the AD quotes school administrator Rob Aarts as saying.

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According to the researchers, parents play an important role when it comes to deciding a destination. At over half of the schools some pupils are not allowed to go on a school trip abroad because their parents object. ‘Many schools respect the opinion of the parents although the ultimate decision lies with them,’ DUO researcher Liesbeth van der Woud told the paper…..