Islam And The West

It appears that the whole world and his dog has been wrong about Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Many thought that his pronouncements about Islam and Muslims were driven by a base hatred of Muslims. However as you will see from the following interview he gave to a British newspaper Geert Wilders does not hate Muslims just Islam:

“Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,” says Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, ‘the ideology of a retarded culture.”

The Dutch politician, who sees himself as heir to a recent string of assassinated or hounded mavericks who have turned Holland upside down, has been doing a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, he wants the ‘fascist Koran’ outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make that possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave and all Muslim ‘criminals’ stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported ‘back where they came from’. But he has nothing against Muslims. “I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people.”

Wilders has been immersing himself in the suras and verse of seventh-century Arabia. The outcome of his scholarship, a short film, has Holland in a panic. He is just putting the finishing touches to the 10-minute film, he says, and talking to four TV channels about screening it….

…Where a few years ago the far right in Europe concentrated its fire on immigration, these days Islam is fast becoming the most popular target. It is a campaign that is having mixed results….

…Wilders echoes some of the arguments against multiculturalism that have convulsed Germany in recent years. Like many on the traditional German right, 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.” (Source: The Observer)

I am so relieved to be informed that Geert Wilders does not in fact hate Muslims.

Image source: Groep Wilders

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