[Mere Survival]

Oh, yeah. Great thinking Geert. As an expert in American politics it is the right thing to split the vote in a 2 party system. /sarc

Stupid Dutch. Language sounds like a fart in a bathtub anyway.

[mancini]

God bless and keep him.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Islamophobic

I hate propaganda "journalists". Anyone who isn't "Islamophobic" is retarded.

[xjcsa]

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".

How long until we hear Ayhan Tonca has sawed his wife's head off for looking at him wrong or some such thing?

[Persevero]

“his Islamaphobic party”

Every time you don’t like something now, you are “-phobic.”

I guess it’s just not possible to oppose something. You have to be afraid of it.

[KarlInOhio]

Now Wilders, who is under constant 24-hour protection because of his incendiary public statements on Islam

Do Dutch words have some boomerang effect where if someone says them they can swing around and cause physical injury to the speaker? Or is the author too scared to say that Muslims don't like what he is saying and might kill Wilders too because of their hatred?

[marron]

he is forming international alliances to launch branches of his Islamophobic party across the Western world.

I don't see them refer to Islam as "freedom-phobic" or "civilization-phobic" but they should.

Opposing totalitarianism isn't a phobia. Its what you do if you love freedom and you aren't completely gutless.

[Ramius]

I’d like to see an honest and intellectually rigorous movement aimed at the destruction of Islam worldwide. Other religions can all peacefully coexist side by side, but Islam is not capable of this.

I’ve got no quarrel with most Muslims themselves, but they are shackled to a false and culturally cancerous faith that must be stopped. It’s us or them.

[StolarStorm]

Might have some use in countries with systems that allocate representatives by the percentage of the vote. It will do little in the USA except to be a fly trap for federal law enforcement who view any perceived "radical" group to be a threat.

I'm sure that the tea party, minutemen and other organizations are riddled with LEOs. So much for true freedom of assembly.

[marron]

Wilders accuses Islam of being violent and, coincidentally, apparently unrelated, has to be guarded 24 hours a day to keep him from being murdered by muslims.

Its his own fault for accusing them of being violent. Violence is not inherent in Islam; if you don’t oppose them they usually won’t murder you. Or in any case not that many of you.

[Guyin4Os]

Sorry to go against the grain, but anti-Islamism will not be effective. The crusades have already been tried. They didn't work. Charles Martel fought the Islamics off in Tours, but they are now streaming into Paris. Jefferson sent the USMC to fight them on the shores of Tripoli, but they are building mosques at ground zero in New York.

I suggest something much more simple. Encourage people to commit their lives to Jesus Christ and then teach them witness to muslims. Make Islamics into disciples who also follow Jesus Christ, get them baptized and teach them to spread the good news. It works everytime it is tried.

[PGR88]

He hasn’t hardly achieved anything in The Netherlands yet. Why doesn’t he focus there instead?

[Cowboy Bob]

...says he is forming international alliances to launch branches of his Islamophobic party across the Western world.

Was American considered Naziphobic during WWII?

[Candor7]

Geert is 100% right on about t he fascist part. Where do I sign up?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"His rhetoric has led to him being charged under Dutch anti-hate laws - he will stand trial in October"

I thank God all the time for being in a country where I have the right of free speech and to keep and bear arms to protect all of my other rights he gave me.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Coming from a parlimentary system of government, I’m guessing he does not fully understand a republican form of government. If he did, he would realize that it is best to work within the existing party(s), more specifically the only sane one left than to start a new party.

[ScottinVA]

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.

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“Islamophobic”... That’s not slanted... not a bit.

[Maelstorm]

I don’t support one issue parties but if he thinks it can work power to him. I’m getting a little tired of everything being described as a phobia when individuals oppose something. There is nothing irrational in opposition to radical Islam.

[RoadTest]

“Islamophobic”

Is that an aversion to being blown up or a fear of seeing an airplane coming at one on the 85th floor?

[SunkenCiv]

It is already global — it consists of everyone who is not a Moslem or leftist.