Islam Is Taking Over, Says Dutch Politician

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-1-2007 | Bruno Waterfield

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Islam is taking over, says Dutch politician

By Bruno Waterfield in The Hague
Last Updated: 2:29am GMT 01/03/2007

An anti-immigrant politician is making a meteoric rise with his call on the Dutch - once one of the most tolerant nations in the world - to stop Islam taking over Europe.

Geert Wilders: 'The Prophet Mohammed was a violent man'

Geert Wilders, the 43-year-old leader of the Freedom Party, is convinced that governments are being forced to accommodate a 'tsunami of Islamisation' that is fundamentally incompatible with European social values.

"Islam itself is the problem. Islam is a violent religion," he told The Daily Telegraph. "The Prophet Mohammed was a violent man. The Koran is mostly a violent book. We should invest in Muslim people but they have to first get rid of half the Koran and half of their beliefs," he said.

The Freedom Party has jumped from six to 10 per cent in opinion polls since November. His passionate campaign for a ban on the Islamic veil, or burqa, in public places is gaining such momentum that the country's new coalition government could be forced to introduce the ban it does not support.

On the burqa, Mr Wilders is adamant: "It is a medieval token of a barbaric time, of how not to treat women, even if they want to wear it themselves," he argues.

Allowing Muslims to wear the burqa in the Netherlands, or to have segregated swimming sessions so as not to offend religious sensitivities, amounts to "religious apartheid" he says.

The new government coalition of mainstream centre right and left political parties had planned to ditch a decision by the previous government to ban the burqa in the Netherlands which now has a population of one million Muslims, six per cent of the total population. But, Mr Wilders crows, weekend opinion polls show 66 per cent of Dutch citizens support a ban.

The minority opposition leader who has won two previous votes for a ban on the burqa is convinced that support will be there for new legislation he will table in the spring as the Dutch become increasingly concerned over Muslim separatism.

Wilders is convinced there is growing support for his views across Europe but its political leaders, particularly in Britain, are too obsessed with being politically correct.

"There is almost no country more politically correct than the UK. Look at the terrible things that happened in London after Madrid, you have more reason than most to make this debate transparent and public," he said.

Mr Wilders split from the Dutch liberals in September 2004 over their support for EU membership for Turkey.

Two months later he was living in fear after police arrested suspected terrorists, armed with grenades, accused of planning to kill him. The Dutch politician says he and his wife have received more than 600 death threats.

Mr Wilders, who is always surrounded by plain clothes police guards, said: "I lost my freedom and privacy because of my opposition to Islam."

[26lemoncharlie]

DUH!! is the word! This ahs been going on for years, someone has finally pulled his head out of his A??!!

Our "LEADERS", what a joke! I am looking for an AMERICAN on any ticket this year. To many MINORITIES, TIME FOR THE MAJORITY TO RULE AGAIN!!

[Rosemont]

bttt

[Rosemont]

How many BBC/CNN hit pieces will be written against this guy?

[Fairview]

Is it his REAL hair color... ?

He's Dutch, so probably yeah.

[twoputt]

Do the Dutch have something equivalent to our Federal Witness Protection? I think he may need it.

[Aria]

My brother in law is Dutch, born in Amsterdam, and I'd say yes, that is his real hair color.

[xJones]

You're our resident Dutchman, what do you think about this guy?

[aculeus]

Let's hope he survives!

[Red6]

He's a bold man.

In Europe politicians who take his position tend to die: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1971462.stm (Pim Fortuyn was murdered by an Islamic radical)

And even then the Europeans largely minimized, downplayed, and rationalized what happened. The murderer was described as confused and as an Islam convert from Christianity. By the time the European MSM was done, the fact that the murderer was Muslim had been buried behind European secular disbelief of what Islam is about.

Much of Europe is already today being heavily influenced by a minority that is more unified (Around their religion), more aggressive, willing to escalate to greater violence than the European can stomach, and growing at a rate faster than any other demographic.

You better believe that some of the political considerations for France in 2003 had to do with their memories of bombings when they were on our side in 1991 and that minor detail that 10% of their population is Muslim. TEN PERCENT! Need I mention the riots of the "disenfranchised youth" in French suburbs last year?

And there again, we had the scenario described as a situation of simple kids who were angered, and the detail that much of this crystallized around the preachings of certain clerics and that most rioters were Muslim was buried as inconsequential.

In Germany not to long ago they foiled a train bombing. Guess how this was presented in the media? Guess who was behind it?

Parts of Europe are in trouble. Long term, as in a decade or more from now, Europe will be the center stage of a major meltdown IF the trend is not stopped. Long porous boarders in the East, high Muslim population concentrations, resource dependent on the Middle East, in range of Syria, Libya and soon Iran, the clash is only a matter of time. It is ironic that many of them look at the US efforts in the Middle East with such "Schadenfreude". But I saw this before. Growing up largely in Germany during the Cold War, I can't help myself but create parallels to this time I so vividly remember. Many in Europe cheered as the US withdrew from Vietnam. Did they realize they were cheering for the victory of an empire that said "We will bury you!" (Khrushchev)?

[Pontiac]

Allowing Muslims to wear the burqa in the Netherlands, or to have segregated swimming sessions so as not to offend religious sensitivities, amounts to "religious apartheid" he says.

A lone voice of reason crying in the wilderness.

police arrested suspected terrorists, armed with grenades, accused of planning to kill him. The Dutch politician says he and his wife have received more than 600 death threats.

Mr Wilders, who is always surrounded by plain clothes police guards, said: "I lost my freedom and privacy because of my opposition to Islam."

My personal recommendation to the Europeans is to enact legislation to put in place a moratorium on immigration from Islamic States.

Then find some way to improve the integration of those of Islamic origins in to their society.

I would also like to see such legislation in our country. I won’t hold my breath while I wait for it to happen.

I would place the odds of it happening in the Netherlands higher than it happen here.

[rawcatslyentist]

Great tag line.

Compromise with Islam means you will submit to them killing you!

[Cobra64]

He's all wrong. "Islam is ---

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[RetiredArmy]

Two months later he was living in fear after police arrested suspected terrorists, armed with grenades, accused of planning to kill him. The Dutch politician says he and his wife have received more than 600 death threats.

Which just goes to prove that the statement he made about the religion being violent is TRUE!!!

[sneakers]

God bless him. I wish more politicians had his courage.

My prayers for his safety

[Right Wing Assault]

Bring this guy over here before it is too late.

[Mila]

"He's gonna get Pimmed."

Or Van Goghed.

[guitfiddlist]

Excellent. What the craven, appeasing elected officials in these cowering countries don't realize, is that as they trample backwards on their own electorate to appease the invading scum, the electorate gets pissed off, even the progressivist pinheads that pushed so hard for their current multi-culti insanity. After all, it's these very types that are often targeted by the Islamo-fascists for their "open-minded" depravity, in a classic primer case of "Be careful what you ask for".

Then, the electorate throws their oh-so-progressive morons out of office, new laws get passed, and the native population, fresh out of "really like progressive multicultural" tolerance, turns on the Islamofascists with a vengeance. Liberals are usually converted when they themselves are made to suffer the consequences of Liberalism.

Islamofascists should have read a bit of European history to see what might come next, before they shot their pig-ignorant 7th-century mouths off.

[knighthawk]

I voted for him last elections. He is so right about this issue, and also about other issues. He is for harder punishment of criminals and he is more of the conservative kind than Fortuyn was.

[knighthawk]

"Islam itself is the problem. Islam is a violent religion," he told The Daily Telegraph. "The Prophet Mohammed was a violent man. The Koran is mostly a violent book. We should invest in Muslim people but they have to first get rid of half the Koran and half of their beliefs," he said.

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[xJones]

Thanks for the reply, and if you're for him, so am I.:)