Posted on 02/24/2009 8:49:45 PM PST by americanophile
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is hosting a film screening at the Capitol building on Thursday for a far-right Dutch lawmaker who claims that Islam inspires terrorism.
Kyl is sponsoring the event for Geert Wilders, who was denied entry to London earlier this month because British authorities said he posed a threat to public order.
Wilders’ 15-minute film juxtaposes verses from the Quran with images of violence by Muslims. Wilders has called the Quran a "fascist book" and said it should be banned.
Kyl agreed to facilitate the event because "all too often, people who have the courage to point out the dangers of militant Islamists find themselves vilified and endangered," said spokesman Ryan Patmintra.
Thursday’s event was being sponsored by the International Free Press Society, headed by Danish activist Lars Hedegaard, and the Center for Security Policy, a think tank in Washington led by Republican Frank Gaffney.
The event is closed to the public and press, but the film is being shown to members of Congress and their staff in the ornate "LBJ room," a Senate office once used by Lyndon B. Johnson as majority leader and later vice president.
Wilders’ film has sparked protests around the world, as well as inspired a debate on the freedom of speech. The lawmaker had been invited to Britain by a member of Parliament’s upper house, the House of Lords, to show his film. But the British government refused Wilders entry into the country, saying he posed a threat to "community harmony."
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the British Broadcasting Corp. that Wilders was guilty of "extreme anti-Muslim hate." He said "there is no freedom to stir up racial and religious hatred."
Hedegaard, who helped sponsor Wilders’ visit to the U.S., said Europe’s hate speech and blasphemy
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Agreed.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025005.php
February 24, 2009
“Kyl under pressure for hosting Fitna”
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Note: Video included.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024988.php
February 23, 2009
“Wilders to screen Fitna at the Capitol!”
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Re Fitna:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fitna
I saw Geert Wilders in Beck and BOR last night. He has the Islamists pegged as the terrorists parasites they are.
The Boston Herald thinks Geert Wilders is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church. They're also extremely skeptical about any connection between islam and, you know, that thing that George Bush claimed he was fighting.
a far-right Dutch lawmaker who claims that Islam inspires terrorism
It is now just 7 years since 9/11. Is there any doubt that this statement is true? Yet it is written as if only a "far right" (read: nut) would believe it.
This crap from a country that flew an Al-Qaeda terrorist into their country on a government jet just yesterday. Apparently they regard him in much higher light than Mr. Wilders.
Miliband is guilty of extreme wussiness and political correctness. ...and if Britain doesn't drastically alter its course he'll will one day be guilty in a Sharia court of being an infidel.
Yes, in today’s congressional climate, cohones grandes!
Geert Wilders and FITNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders
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You can see FITNA here...,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/03/watch-fitna.html
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Someone else posted a YouTube interview of Geert Wilders, another thing to see.
First part of 6 parts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGh3WNsfTb4
It is not just the them. The folks at LGF seem to think he is the 21st century’s Sir Oswald Mosley.
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When LGF trashed Robert Spencer I trashed them.
Used to be a great site but no más.
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Nailed It!
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Damn,just damn...The Brits are / seem to have lost it completely....Sad....
hahaha. true.
The “people” at lgf are pathetic, certainly not conservative, and just plain ignorant.
They seem to trash everyone there these days.... Christians, Europeans, Conservatives, Palin, Jindal, Freerepublic...
Actually, now that I think about it, it wasn't "the folks" at LGF that trashed Robert Spencer. It was the site's owner, Charles Johnson.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023447.php
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