Wilders' take on Islam
...Those who are making the threats against him are proving his point. They are playing right into his argument. Certainly respect for Islam has declined since the followers of the Egyptian Brotherhood and their spin off's like al Qaeda started engaging in mass murder for Allah.Mr. Wilders, 44, is in the news here these days for a 10-to-15-minute film he says he has made depicting the Koran as the inspiration for terrorist attacks and other violence. Having failed to persuade a single Dutch television network to broadcast the film in its entirety, he said he planned to release it on the Internet by the end of this month.
He routinely equates the Koran with Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” saying it should be banned in the Netherlands, and he declared in an interview that the Prophet Muhammad could be compared to the German dictator.
“In his Medina time, if he would be alive today, Muhammad would be treated as a war criminal, being sent out of the country, being sent to jail,” he said.
Moderate Dutch Muslim leaders like Mohamed Rabbae, chairman of the Dutch Moroccan Council, are exasperated by Mr. Wilders’s standpoint on Islam and its prophet.
“Wilders is a little bit crazy, if I may say it in this way, because he is fighting against somebody who has been living in the sixth century, not in our time,” Mr. Rabbae said.
Virtually no one knows exactly what is in Mr. Wilders’s film; even the Netherlands’ worried prime minister has not been granted a screening. But the simple fact that Mr. Wilders is its muse makes people here and in parts of the Islamic world nervous.
Mr. Wilders said he made the film to show that “Islam and the Koran are part of a fascist ideology that wants to kill everything we stand for in a modern Western democracy.”
SOME here see Mr. Wilders’s film — titled “Fitna,” Arabic for civil strife — as a potential hate crime and have already filed police complaints in various Dutch cities, concerned that his past statements and the film will polarize religious groups and foster discrimination.
His supporters say he protects traditional Dutch values. His critics, and there are many, say he is an out-of-control, right-wing extremist risking his country’s good name for his own political gain. Others are even harsher; one former trade union leader called Mr. Wilders “evil.”
“Of course I am not evil,” Mr. Wilders responded, looking a little annoyed. “Do I look evil to you? Maybe I do, but I’m not.”
Mr. Wilders, who lives under constant police protection in an undisclosed location, is undeterred by threats from the Taliban to escalate attacks against Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan if the film is released.
Nor is he moved by Dutch expatriates abroad who, remembering the fallout from the Danish cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad, worry that the film may make their lives harder, or even dangerous.
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Bin Laden also proves his point. Those who throw tantrums because of cartoons prove his point. They also demonstrate one of the central weaknesses of the religion. Its followers make it look brittle and weak by going to extreme lengths to suppress those who disagree with it. It is as if they think the religion will fall a part if it is criticized are disrespected. But their very acts cause even more disrespect.
If they react with tantrums and murder to his film they will be turning him into a prophet.
On saturday 22nd of March a yearly demonstration against racism took place on Damsquare in Amsterdam. The demonstration this time was very much a sign to Geert Wilders and the world that the hatemongering of Wilders is affecting the tradition of tolerance the Dutch nation had for many centuries, in a very destructive way. Many Dutch citizens don't like that.
ReplyDeleteThe more because Wilders is behaving like a spoiled child, always choosing the role of victimizing himself. He is running away for every invitation for a reasonable debate. The man is emotionally handicapped and living on tranquilizers. He is just a pawn in the Bilderberg powergame.
The whole Fitnahype was started of by leaking confidential information, given by Wilders to Dutch anti-terrorism boss Joustra, from sources within the Dutch government. This whole hype is part of the Dutch governmental Bilderbergplan to destabilize the country.
It is not only this movie that is triggering a lot of Dutch people, but more the constant bashing of muslims that hurts the hearts of many Dutch citizens.
During the demonstration one of the protesters was arrested by the police. Quess why? He handed out a pamphlet in witch he had collected some of Wilders' phrases and replaced the words Muslim and Islam by Jews and Judaism. He was held by the police and offended for antisemitism. Yeah, that is our freedom of speech in the Netherlands.
By the way, Mr. Wilders has strong ties with Israël, wich have been coming in the open lately.
What is wrong with supporting Israel? The BTW suggest those who support Israel are somehow sinister and not worthy of belief.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is the Palestinians have a very weak argument for claiming the area occupied by Israel and it is further weakened by their willful ignorance of history and their obvious religious and ethnic hatred.