Posted on 01/07/2006 9:53:36 PM PST by SpaceBar
THE HAGUE: Maverick right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders said yesterday he would weed out radical Muslims by sealing the border to non-Western immigrants for five years and shutting down mosques advocating fundamentalism. Wilders, who inherited the populist mantle of slain politician Pim Fortuyn, told The Associated Press in an interview that the Netherlands must take strong measures to stamp out Islamic fundamentalism _ or face the collapse of the country’s democratic system. “We were asleep for too long,” he said. “The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.” Wilders, who stunned the political scene with his success at the polls, left the free-market coalition partner Liberal Party two months ago for backing the candidacy of Turkey _ a predominantly Muslim country _ to the European Union. He formed his own party. Recent polls suggest he would win more seats than the Liberal Party, known by its Dutch acronym, VVD, if elections were held today, and that his party would finish among the top three parties. Despite tough measures enacted over the last two years to limit immigration, Wilders said the government has failed to respond adequately to a growing Muslim militancy in the Netherlands. His remarks came two weeks after a Dutch filmmaker – who had produced a television drama critical of how women are treated in some Muslim societies – was shot and stabbed to death, allegedly by a 26-year-old suspected extremist who holds Dutch and Moroccan citizenship. Wilders’ style and cause are reminiscent of Fortuyn, a flamboyant political outsider who put immigration on the national agenda before the 2002 elections. Fortuyn was shot to death by a Dutch animal rights activist days before the vote, but major parties since have largely embraced his ideas.
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Who'd have thunk it? We should learn from them.
This'll be interesting...
I said this right after 9-11.
Who would ahve thunk it?
I found this article while searching online for something else and didn't find it posted. It appeared to be newsworthy for posting on FR. I find it most interesting how the most liberal nation in Europe is the only one that seems to "get it".
It's only ONE Dutch politician. If they actually do something, then I'll be impressed.
Well, thank goodness - at least SOMEONE in the West seems to "get it." Now if only the understanding would catch on a little...
Hope everyone listens!
You can't beat their birth rate though. If Dutch women have 1.5 babies, and Muslim women in Holland have 5....do the math.
Demography is destiny. Eurabia is Europe's future.
The Euros are terminally weak and will continue to be soft on this issue. Don't expect any developments here.
Designer drugs
Legalized "everything"
Emmanuelle XVII, Menopause of a Woman
The products of liberal culture do not constitute strong national identity. They are hollow, illusionary at best.
The Dutch better find more than chocolate, pot, and sex if they think that walling off immigrants will solve their trouble.
Years late, millions of Euros short.
He cited a report by Dutch intelligence saying recruitment for jihad, or holy war, is taking place in as many as 20 mosques in the Netherlands, and said they should be closed and their imams, or preachers, arrested and deported.
“If you chose radical Islam, you can leave, and if you don’t leave voluntarily then we will send you away,” he said. “This is the message and the only message possible.”
I wonder how many there are here in just the SF Bay Area?
It's a start..
The smartest guy in Denmark.
In a tempest of liberalism, I can imagine what this guy is going through. Hey, it's a start! The Great Oz Has Spoken
Now if the Dutch would start having their own babies.
That's why every time they have a baby or make a convert you let two non muslims in.
"The products of liberal culture do not constitute strong national identity. They are hollow, illusionary at best. The Dutch better find more than chocolate, pot, and sex if they think that walling off immigrants will solve their trouble."
So very true. It is only when a society develops homogenously and in isolation that a shored national identity begins to form. When you have a wholly tolerant (i.e. identityless) society, you can't form an identity outside of that.
Here's an interesting article on the falling Dutch birthrates, the fall of traditionalism and the accompanying ballooning rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing, all accompanying the push for same-sex marriages. A society that gives up what it has stood for in the name of "otherness" is, by definition, decaying.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200406030910.asp
No Explanation: Gay Marriage has sent the Netherlands the way of Scandinavia.
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