Fitna! Or fit for discussion? ‘I don’t hate Muslims. I hate Islam’

Says Holland’s, bottle blond politician, Geert Wilders.

The MP whose film FITNA has fuelled the debate on race in Holland.  He wants an end to mosque building and Muslim immigration.

Is irrational fear, a disease and is there a cure?

Freedom of speech means, we accept his right to hold his views regardless of how ridiculous it might sound. There is nothing new for White Supremacist to say, except to try and attempt a reaction.

If he’s looking for publicity he’s got it, at least the discussion is out in the open.

This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday February 17 2008 on p40 of the World news section. It was last updated at 00:06 on February 17 2008. Ian Traynor met him in The Hague.

Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/Reuters

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A TV addict with bleached hair who adores Maggie Thatcher and prefers kebabs to hamburgers, Geert Wilders has got nothing against Muslims. He just hates Islam. Or so he says. ‘Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,’ says Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, ‘the ideology of a retarded culture.’

he wants the European Judaeo-Christian tradition to be formally recognised as the dominating culture, or Leitkultur.

‘There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women,’ he says.

CONTENT YOU COULD NOT DISPUTE

Planes flying into World Trades Centre on 9/11

Graphic images from the bomb attacks on London in July 2005 and Madrid in March 2004.

Pictures of a woman being stoned, scenes from a beheading and images of the Dutch director Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a radical Islamist in 2004, are also included.

And pictures appearing to show Muslim demonstrators holding up placards saying “God bless Hitler” and “Freedom go to hell”.

The film shows a young girl in a headscarf making derogatory comments about Jewish people.

It also displays a graph of the growing number of Muslims in the Netherlands and Europe.

Copied from and link to video

And ongoing discussion here

Or follow it on Jihadwatch

Walking a tight rpoe of objectivity

And ‘Fitna’ Site Suspended…

Leave you with this thought; Is irrational fear a disease and is there a cure?

Dehumanizing made easy.

A poem by Winslie Gomez

 

It.

 

So easy to portray another, a little less than you

A little-more less than you,

A lot-more less than you.

So different and nothing, remotely like you.

A lower species not just deformed, disfigured, scarred or scorched.

Totally another, not even human a creature to be scolded, spurned.

a sub, ape like, uncivilized, under-developed.

A scab, a blister, fit to be burnt.

Will it, has it, ever learnt?

The good God came to your rescue and gave you IT for your use.

Be fruitful and multiply, breed your stock of it, let it’s offspring ensue

Mate it with the best stock for the good God endowed

You with the divine knowledge of how to.

If it had known, it would have done it too!

Deny it heritage, history, whole way of life.

Pluck it from it’s home like fruit. Transport it. store it, peel it pulp it.

do anything you want with it.

Gracious God has blessed you

You can have it’s spices, land, gems, mines, minerals or more.

You are not uncaring of course, for your God is good,

You know how to be good.

You will clothe it, teach it, to repeat after you,

Sing the glories of the most high in hymns of praise,

in strange tongue, strange meter, strange rhymes, strange rhythm.

Quote scripture even and understand sin

Though it has no bloody chance of getting to heaven

For it is after all – an it.

Ban Islam? Really!

What happened to good old tolerance?

Surely, it is not dead!

Bit pushed for time, so - May I point to Daniel Pipes of the New York Sun, August 29, 2007

Non-Muslims occasionally raise the idea of banning the Koran, Islam, and Muslims. Examples this month include calls by a political leader in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, to ban the Koran — which he compares to Hitler’s Mein Kampf — and two Australian politicians, Pauline Hanson and Paul Green, demanding a moratorium on Muslim immigration.
What is one to make of these initiatives? First, some history. Precedents exist from an earlier era, when intolerant Christian governments forced Muslims to convert, notably in 16th-century Spain, and others strongly encouraged conversions, especially of the elite, as in 16th- and 17th-century Russia. In modern times, however, with freedom of expression and religion established as basic human rights, efforts to protect against intolerance by banning the Koran, Islam, or Muslims have failed.

Read the rest for yourself and my advice would be, take your time and become acquainted with the various efforts throughout our human history to ban anything that does not sit confrotably with our value sytems.