I spent a week in Rotterdam with my wife about 15 years ago. I was attending a conference and she would sometimes go out walking by herself. One day she turned  in the wrong direction and ended up in a Muslim neighbourhood.  She was in her forties and conservatively dressed, but she felt under threat from young men walking in the street and  hightailed it out of there as quickly as she could. When Dutch women can no longer walk in parts of the larger towns—things have gotten worse since we were there—it doesn't take a true fascist, which Wilders is not, to ignite things.  The Dutch are accepting of those who insist on the right to exercise personal freedom, not of those who threaten to take it away.  Ms. Wente appears blind to all this.