Posted on 11/12/2010 7:38:08 AM PST by ventanax5
n a SPIEGEL interview, Dutch Islam-opponent Geert Wilders discusses his fight for a Koran ban, why German Chancellor Angela Merkel is running scared on the immigration issue and his belief that the Netherlands' debate over Muslims has now crossed the border into Germany.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Wilders, you are said to be the strong man behind the new Dutch government because the minority cabinet depends on your support in parliament. Why is your party, 65 years after the Holocaust, relying on outdated approaches -- on religious and racial exclusion?
Wilders: We do not support religious exclusion -- and certainly not racial exclusion. We have no problems with other skin colors, nor with Muslims -- our problem is with Islam. Indeed, we are expressing exactly what many of our compatriots feel. We became the third strongest party during the elections in June and are now, according to the most recent opinion polls, already the second strongest party in Holland. SPIEGEL: What do you have against Islam?
Wilders: Europe's greatest problem -- not just today, but already for decades now -- is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation today where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are -- because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.
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Geert Wilders is awesome. The Dutch, Germans, Italians, Danes, Czechs, French, Swedens, Asutrians, Swiss and others need to wake up to Islam. I think they are slowly getting it.
Here in America it is idiots watching TV with corn cobs.
As long as the rest of the world worries about the sensibilities of ‘peaceful’ muslims, those that want to take over the world know there is no consequence.
Unless we are in it to win, bring our troops home. Get Bin Laden (if he is still breathing), destroy the Taliban, and put the world on notice; a terrorist action against the US will bring a swift, deadly retaliation.
(Interesting that Obama used the phrase “Die to Tie” when speaking to the troops about Korea. )
That interviewer was very hostile towards him. I confess that I don’t have a clear understanding of European parlimentary politics. It’s a little confusing at times. I like a lot of what Geert says but this idea of banning the Koran is ananthema in this country. Just as they note that Mein Kampf is banned in a lot of places in Europe. It seems to be accepted to ban books in Europe. Not true freedom IMO. The offensive speech and writings are the most important free speech to be protected.
Doncha love the liberal media - they criticise Wilders for pointing out obvious ugly violent truths about Islam, then in the next instance slams him for the cost to taxpayers of bodyguards required to protect him from Muslims.
If they want to prevent a rise of xenophobic sentiment, then they have to behave like real adults and acknowledge the real problems with Muslim integration into European society.
This sort of trouble is now brewing here. As long as we were "the melting pot," things were good. Most Americans don't care what country someone comes from as long as they enter this country legally, work hard, learn English, and embrace our civic institutions.
It should be no surprise that German voters are unhappy with immigrants who enter Germany illegally, go on the dole, don't learn German, etc.
Only overeducated leftist "intellectuals" can get this wrong.
I sincerely hope Wilders is as genuine as he seems.
The leftists in the media can't help but lie, can they.
In a time of war, to allow the free dissemination of the documents used to foment the breeding, and education of the enemy within your nation, is insane. Those practicing Islam, are not practicing a religion, but a philosophy EXACTLY like that espoused by Adolph Hitler. They have a plan to take over the entire world, not by convincing others of the rightness of this philosophy, but by intimidation and murder. To call this a religion, and allow it to be freely practiced, must not happen if we are to remain free.
I read your profile page and saw the following:
[I like Bjork and Royskopp. I live near Reykjavík.]
[In Iceland we have the worlds oldest parliamentary democracy. We would never elect a Muslim like Obama.]
I'm curious, are you now an American, or living in America?
Geert Wilders BUMP.
We need men like this who will speak the truth in our country instead of telling bald-faced lies like “Islam is a religion of peace”.
So I am allowed to write a publish a book that says we need to convert all Dimmorat “Vice-Minister Amissa’s followers, or cut their heads off, and the only thing to worry about is the actual violence? Do you think maybe I would be targeted by the FIB, probably imprisoned if one of my “converts” starts the process with a few bombings. My book would not be the problem at all, just those interpreting it and acting violently, right? My new religion has to be treated as legitimately as Islam, doesn’t it? After all, my “sky god” telling me to do these things, is as real to the secular govt as Bozo the klown, and his towel wearing klan.
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