In The Netherlands, which is a traditionally tolerant country, patience of the Dutch has been worn thin by the calculatedly outrageous antics of the “provos” (provokers) in recent years.

NOT since the 1930s, when Adolf Hitler rallied the German people with his guttural call for Ruhe und Ordnung, has Western Europe been so preoccupied with the problem of law and order. This fact is curious in itself, since Europe is suffering from none of the specific agonies that are…