Morocco eliminated the Netherlands from the World Cup on penalties Monday night, and migrants in The Hague responded by pelting Dutch police with stones and fireworks — a preview of what open borders deliver to any nation that imports millions with no intention of assimilating them.
The Netherlands hosts what the Associated Press calmly calls a "sizable Moroccan community." When Morocco won, that community took to the streets of the Schilderswijk district — not to celebrate peacefully, but to attack the officers of the country that took them in. Police reported "heavy fireworks were set off" and that officers were pelted with fireworks and stones. Riot squads charged the crowd. A water cannon was deployed. Arrests followed for what police called "committing open violence."
AP framed the unrest as "sporadic clashes" that "also erupted" — burying the violence beneath paragraphs about jubilant fans in Casablanca and the tense silence in coffee shops. The framing matters: a more honest account would lead with the fact that residents of a European capital attacked their own city's police force over a soccer match involving a foreign nation.
On the pitch, Morocco's Ismael Saibari buried the decisive penalty after goalkeeper Yassine Bounou saved Crysencio Summerville's attempt, sending the Netherlands to its earliest World Cup exit, according to AP News. Morocco moves on to face Canada in the Round of 16.
The pattern is familiar across Europe. Mass immigration from North Africa and the Middle East has produced parallel societies where loyalty lies with the old country, not the new one. The Hague is just the latest street where the bill comes due — and the establishment press can't bring itself to name the transaction.
Meanwhile, South Korea offered a different kind of dysfunction: riot police were deployed at Incheon International Airport for the national team's return after a group-stage exit. Manager Hong Myung-bo resigned, apologized, and reported receiving death threats, according to GIVEMESPORT. Some 160 officers stood by to prevent fans from throwing objects at their own players. At least that anger was directed inward — a nation furious at its own team, not guests attacking their hosts.
The Dissenter stake is plain: Europe's immigration experiment created populations that identify with foreign nations so completely that they riot in European streets when those foreign nations triumph over their hosts. Washington is running the same experiment at scale. The Hague is what it looks like when the results come in.
