Posted on 07/16/2010 9:45:23 AM PDT by Palter
Populist Dutch anti-Islam politician will launch his party in USA and UK
The anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders, whose Freedom party (PVV) won 24 seats and third place in the Dutch national election last month, says he is forming international alliances to launch branches of his Islamophobic party across the Western world.
Almost 1.5m Dutch people voted for the PVV in June. Now Wilders, who is under constant 24-hour protection because of his incendiary public statements on Islam, has said he will start groups in the US, Canada, Britain, France and Germany later this year.
Wilders left the right-wing Liberal party (VVD), which came first in the recent general election with 31 seats, in 2004 in protest at their support for Turkey’s accession to the EU. He has since made his fierce opposition to Islam the central – and most frequently articulated – tenet of his new party.
Among other goals, he hopes his mooted international alliance will lead to a block on immigration from Islamic nations to the West and a ban on Sharia law.
Speaking to reporters at the Dutch parliament yesterday, Wilders said: "The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom', is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world."
He added: "The fight for freedom and [against] Islamisation as I see it is a worldwide phenomenon and problem to be solved."
Wilders equates Islam with fascism and, in speeches and a notorious short film, Fitna, expounds on the threat of violence he claims is inherent in the Koran. His rhetoric has led to him being charged under Dutch anti-hate laws - he will stand trial in October - and at one stage being refused entry to the UK, though a court overturned this.
Speaking about the UK yesterday, Wilders said his nascent organisation, dubbed the Geert Wilders International Freedom Alliance, would try to occupy the space between the Conservatives and the BNP, which he said was "racist" and "not my party". Wilders is often described as far-right but frequently stands up for gay and women's rights.
Reacting to Wilders yesterday, Ayhan Tonca, a well-known spokesman for Dutch Muslims, said he feared Wilders would meet with success as he spread his Islamophobic message. "So long as things are going badly with the economy, a lot of people always need a scapegoat," he said, calling on "well-meaning people in Europe to oppose this".
They will immediately kill you. If you succeed in converting any muslims, they too will be killed.
Have a nice day.
Its a very old joke....
It is already global — it consists of everyone who is not a Moslem or leftist.
I do think he is making a mistake in the UK. The English Defense League and the UK Independence Party already exist.
If you want to witness, witness to the atheist Europeans selling out their civilization.
In one place in the article it says party in the other group. If it’s a group fine, if it’s a party it’s dangerous.
Great irony that the left attacks those who tell the truth by calling them "far right."
You just made my point. The Christians didn't witness... they fought... and lost.
Good thing there is a resurrection from the dead! whew!
Sounds like a plan! Where do you sign up?
let the GOP join this as an associate. Anti-Islam should be the goal of the US
"Good thing there is a resurrection from the dead! whew!"
What if on Judgment Day, God says to you: "You committed suicide...get out!"?
First of all, your direct question is flawed. It is not "suicide" to be killed for following a command of Jesus to make disciples out of all nations.
Second of all, your underlying assumption that suicide is the unforgivable sin is also incorrect. Nowhere in scripture does it state this. Therefore your question is to be rejected.
Fine, let us know when you get back.
How come we never hear the words "Christianophobic" or Judeophobic"????
Please read Robert Spencer's Myth of Islamic Tolerance and Bat Ye'or book Eurabia.
Fascinating. The Dutch are now trying to export common sense to the US.
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