Posted on 04/28/2015 8:35:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a letter obtained by Foreign Policy, two Democratic members of Congress are urging the Obama administration to ban a Dutch lawmaker from entry into the United States due to his controversial views on Islam.
The Dutch lawmaker, Geert Wilders, is scheduled to speak at a reception on Capitol Hill this month at the invitation of Tea Party firebrand Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). In recent years, Wilders has become internationally famous for his bombastic broadsides against Islam, which include calls to ban the Koran in the Netherlands and to arrange for the removal of Moroccan immigrants from his country. In 2010 and 2011, Wilders was formally charged in the Netherlands with inciting hatred and discrimination and is currently facing charges for hate speech.
“We respectfully request that the U.S. government deny Mr. Wilders’s entry due to his participation in inciting anti-Muslim aggression and violence,” wrote Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and André Carson (D-Ind.) in the April 23 letter. “Mr. Wilders’s policy agenda is centered on the principle that Christian culture is superior to other cultures.”
The letter, addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calls on the officials to deny Wilders’s entry under the authority of the International Religious Freedom Act, which empowers the State Department to ban the entry of a foreign leader responsible for severe violations of religious freedom.
The somewhat obscure 1998 law has only been used to deny the entry of a foreign official once when Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India and former chief minister of Gujarat, was accused of failing to protect Muslims during communal rioting in 2002.
Wilders has called Islam the “ideology of a retarded culture” and his writings were favorably cited by Anders Breivik, the Norwegian white supremacist responsible for murdering 77 people
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The left is using a common tactic here...
Disapproval = anti-X aggression and discrimination
And yet, the family of the Boston terrorists
was brought into the USA at taxpayer expense, first class.
How about: Judeo-Christian culture is superior to other cultures.
He’s threatening their “safe space”.
Let’s make a deal: we’ll take him if Holland takes ten of the RATs who want to “ban” him!
Islamo-phobic?
I’m not afraid to talk about islam.
The left is in a panic that we’ll address the numerous and dangrous shortcomings of muslims.
So who’s “islamo-phobic”?
Democrats are “veritasophobes”.
I think that Christianity is a superior culture, but I won’t chop your head off if you disagree.
Right - Democrats. Defending mussies since 9/11 ....
So telling the truth about Islam is islamaphobic.
Hmm.
I gotta say, if I were Geert Wilders, my response to that would be, "Please! Make my day!"
Hiw can they ban him?
The concept of legal entry into the country is no longer relevant.
Shove it, libs.
Up your community Obamaholes.
Before there was a Tea Party, there was Geert Wilders.
If our Tea Party had a leader like Wilders we wouldn’t be as disparate and disorganized.
He is a brave good man who requires round the clock protection.
I want to ban the term “Phobe” from the lexicon because it is hurtful and allows the other side to paint those with legitimate concerns as a “frothing at the mouth mad dog”...
And it is hurtful!
See, we can play their same lame game...
Even England tried to prevent entry of Geert Wilders for a while. But they relented, finally.
Geert Wilders has been here many times in the past, giving the exact same message, in different US cities. He isn’t saying anything different this time!
See Geert Wilders’ video ... FITNA
http://www.veoh.com/m/watch.php?v=v18194091Bzm5chet
FITNA
Fitna is a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. Approximately 17 minutes in length, the film attempts to demonstrate that the Qur’an motivates its followers to hate all who violate Islamic teachings. The movie shows selected excerpts from Suras of the Qur’an, interspersed with media clips and newspaper cuttings showing or describing acts of violence and/or hatred by Muslims.
The film argues that Islam encourages – among other things – acts of terrorism, antisemitism, violence against women, violence and subjugation of infidels and against homosexuals and Islamic universalism. A large part of the film details the influence of Islam on the Netherlands. The film was published on the Internet in 2008. Shortly before its release, its announcement was suspended from its website by the American provider because of the perceived controversy. It stirred a still continuing debate in the Netherlands as well as abroad, and a criminal prosecution for hate speech.
The Arabic title-word “fitna” means “disagreement and division among people” or a “test of faith in times of trial”. Wilders, a prominent critic of Islam, described the film as “a call to shake off the creeping tyranny of Islamisation”.
On 27 March 2008, Fitna was released to the Internet on the video sharing website LiveLeak in Dutch and English versions. The following day, LiveLeak removed the film from their servers, citing serious threats to their staff. On 30 March, Fitna was restored on LiveLeak following a security upgrade, only to be removed again shortly afterwards by Wilders himself because of copyright violations. A second edition was released later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna_(film)
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But here in the good old USA, a true hate-monger actually responsible for deaths, is given a TV show. Al Sharpton!
“during communal rioting”
Communal rioting. I like it.
Yes. Islam IS a retarded philosophy. It is a religion who’s biggest goal is to consume the entire word and take it back to 700ad. Aside from a few places where Muslims live peacefully (pssst, like Israel) with others Dar al Islam has been at constant war with each other and everyone else.
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