I’m not actually too up on this topic, but superficially it would appear to me as if Wilders is to Islam as maybe Stalin was to Nazism; not quite as extreme, but you get the point. To heed him is one thing; to exalt him is another.
Wilders is to Islam as Solzhenitsyn is to Lenin.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html
No! Hitler and Stalin, a political power grab. Wilders is fighting an insane religious, 7th century cult of death & enslavement, and the forcing of their religion on the entire world. Wilders country, the Netherlands, is overrun with Moslems continually agitating, rioting, oppressing the native Dutch and threatening to force them into shar’ia law. Put simply, Wilders does not want his people enslaved, women raped & stoned, children mutilated, and the torture and beheading of anyone—man, woman or child who does not convert.To Put it even more simply, he has testosterone.
Why would you consider Wilders to be an extremist like Stalin or Hitler? I think that’s an entirely unjustified stance.
Here is part of his party’s official position statement:
“The Party for Freedom combines economic liberalism* with a conservative programme towards immigration and culture. The party seeks tax cuts (€16 billion in the 2006 election programme), de-centralization, abolishment of the minimum wage, limiting of child benefits and government subsidies. Towards immigration and culture, the party believes that the Judeo-Christian and humanist traditions should be treated as the dominant culture in the Netherlands, and that immigrants should adapt accordingly. The party wants a halt to immigration from non-western countries. It is skeptical towards the EU project, is against future EU enlargement with countries like Turkey and opposes the presence of Islam in the Netherlands. The party is also opposed to dual citizenship.”
Does this sound fascist to you? Wilders seems to me to be the sort of politician that the average American conservative could easily support. His rhetoric is more politically incorrect than Americans are used to, but I think that only the supposedly “conservative” elites and mouthpieces care about abiding by the rules of political correctness.
*Liberalism here, of course, means classical liberalism, i.e., laissez-faire capitalism.