Nothing much new here, but this underscores the threat to free society that the jihadists pose. From the Times Online, with thanks to Anthony:
GEERT WILDERS, the Dutch MP and controversial critic of Islam, has two policemen by his side even when in his high-security parliamentary office in case someone tries to decapitate him. Each day, he does not know where he is going to sleep that night, as he is taken from safe house to safe house in a convoy of armoured cars. He was taken into hiding when police investigating the murder of the film-maker Theo van Gogh on November 2 uncovered a network of radical Muslims with advanced plans to kill Mr Wilders, and other “enemies of Islam”. A video circulating on the internet offered 72 virgins in paradise to any Muslim who beheaded him. “My life has changed completely. I am sleeping very badly. To think that someone plans to kill me is something that no person would have a good night’s rest about,” he said. “Even though I have this protection, I am afraid. Even when I am on the floor of the parliament, I don’t feel comfortable.”The maverick parliamentarian, a former speech-writer for Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch European Commissioner, rose to prominence with his denunciations of radical Islam. Seen as the heir of Pim Fortuyn, the assassinated anti-Islamic populist, his critics call him a far-right racist, inflaming the passions that led to a spate of mosque burnings after Van Gogh’s murder. His supporters claim that he is telling the truth about radical Islam that others refuse to face up to.
His hardline message is proving popular with the Dutch electorate, whose attitudes have hardened so much in the past fortnight that, according to one survey, 40 per cent hope that Muslims no longer feel at home in the Netherlands. On Monday he will set up his own political party. Opinion polls suggest that it would be the country’s second-biggest, getting 15 per cent of the vote or 23 seats of the parliament’s 150....
“I believe people who work against our democracy, and who favour this fascistic Islamic radicalism, don’t deserve the rights of our democracy. They don’t deserve the rights of the rule of law. Without going to a judge, they should be arrested and expelled,” he said.
"40 per cent hope that Muslims no longer feel at home in the Netherlands"
Good! That's what's needed. A fire under their butts. If they don't like feeling unwelcome, well they can bloody well do something about it then! Like, dig up and denounce all those "radicals" who apparently tarnish their belief system, the ones plotting and planning attacks on Western countries. Like, condemn anyone who preaches extremist dogma in their mosques. Loudly and stridently! None of these muted pathetic little pseudo-apologies and excuses with the "but" at the end of them. But the US this or that. But Tony Blair this or that. But, but, but. Mewl, whine, simper.
It's amazing that people in the West have to put up with this crap from the Dark Ages. Here we are, in the year 2004, and it's like it's really 904 or earlier. It's astounding that a "culture" can be so backward and so idiotic. How can you be a Muslim and have any pride, knowing that your fellow Muslims are up to this sort of lunacy? And that they have religious backing to do so. How pathetic and embarrasing. Why do we put up with this? It's so frustrating.
Along with "right-wing", "controversial" is another much repeated epithet in these stories that labels the critics of Islam while it whitewashes its most violent proponents. Those mosques where violent Jihad is preached are called "controversial", those Imams who teach believers to murder homosexuals and beat their wives, are called "controversial". And those writers and politicians who dare to resist and criticize that kind of incitement to violence, are called "controversial" too. There is something disturbing about this symmetry thus created between those who incite violence and those who oppose it.
I wish I was Dutch so I could vote for him.
There are no anti-Islamic politicians in Australia, and probably not likely to be.
The Dutch, as in many other things, are leading the way.
"Death threats force controversial Dutch MP underground"
And if in the next few decades Holland gets taken over by Islamists the next heading will be..
"Controversial Dutch MP dissapears in concentration camp...mysterious puff of smoke seen rising from chimney shortly afterwards."
Islamists have learned from their European experience how easy it is to get their way. Shortly American and Canadian officials will either have to give in to Islam or face the death threats and living in hiding because they are not taking the lesson of the European situation. This could all be avoided by early interventions.
The Harsh Truth?
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=28
I vehemently assert my right to free speech and this picture should remind us that we should *not* tolerate the intolerable. We did not see this picute in the news in the UK. It was barely mentioned about Theo Van Gogh, yet a US soldier shoots an unarmed terrorist holed up in a 'holy' mosque and we never hear the end of it...
Perhaps Holland's Muslims would feel more at home in the Netherlands if their social benefits were cut off and they are again able to enjoy the same standard of living they did wherever they came from.
When our senators and congresmen,here in the US will have to go into hiding for fear of muslim assasins,then and only then all hell will break lose.
The politicians and the media are not likely to do anything before it is themselves who are in danger of being murdered.
Holland may decide to throw out some of the more detestable imams and convicted jihadis. I'm afraid this is all too little and far too late. The islamisation of Europe will continue apace, as the tide of muslim immigration is not being reversed, as well as due to the huge muslim birth rate. The same projection is for the US as well. It is just a few years behind Europe but catching up rapidly.
It wont be long before the little that is being thought about now, such as deportation of radical imams, will become politically impossible.