In the Netherlands around the year 2000, a liberal gay professor named Pim Fortuyn wrote several critical books about multi-cultural society and the dangers of radical Islam. He was mocked, widely, and even assaulted at times. In one instance he even had a cake with human excrement thrown in his face by left-wing activists…

Fortuyn was a reasonable man — he was not opposed to other cultures had no problem with different religions, he merely disliked extremism. The type of extremism that would not allow him to exist as a liberal gay man. He was a hundred times more nuanced and eloquent in his assessments of society than modern-day demagogues and far-right politicians typically are. This man was a gentleman and a scholar, and yet he was terribly abused by both the press and the public. The media created a rather vile atmosphere in which Fortuyn was labeled a Nazi, a Fascist, anything evil and wicked under the sun was flung his way…

In 2002, mere days before the Dutch national elections in which he was set to win, Pim Fortuyn was assassinated leaving a TV studio following an interview. He died, aged only 54. A far-left animal rights activist was the gunman, who has since been freed from jail. And Fortuyn, in retrospect, was a 100% right in his assessments, much of what he said now being uncontroversial.