And above, he debates Islam on Dutch TV (video thanks to Pamela). One wonders if, given the stifling politically correct straitjacket that is the British public debate, if the Lords will be able to recognize the truth of his message.
"Geert Wilders to show anti-Koran film in Lords," by David Charter for The Times, March 5 (thanks to Twostellas):
The Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders arrives in Britain today on the crest of an electoral triumph that could mean him entering government in a matter of months.Mr Wilders's Freedom Party made big gains in Dutch local elections this week, widely regarded as a dress rehearsal for the national poll on June 9.
He has been invited to the House of Lords by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the UKIP leader, to show his controversial film Fitna. This has already provoked widespread anger for its crude juxtaposition of extremist atrocities, such as beheadings and the 9/11 attacks, with verses from the Koran.
The Freedom Party, founded by Mr Wilders in 2005, won in the town of Almere, near Amsterdam, and came second in The Hague, the only two places in which it fielded a candidate out of 394 cities and towns, aiming for maximum impact with minimum campaigning.
Opinion polls show Mr Wilders vying for the national lead with the Christian Democrats, whose coalition Government collapsed last month after the Labour Party walked out in a row over keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan.
"Today Almere and The Hague, tomorrow the whole of the Netherlands. This is our springboard for success in parliamentary elections," said Mr Wilders, who campaigned in Almere for a ban on the wearing of headscarves in public. "We are going to take the Netherlands back from the leftist elite that comforts criminals and supports Islamisation."...
"We are going to take the Netherlands back from the leftist elite that comforts criminals and supports Islamisation."...
You said it Geert.
Go in and smash it mate. Glad the party is going well.
Stay safe, Mr Wilders.
I know you're a 'Catholic atheist' - just like the redoubtable Oriana Fallaci, for whom you have publicly expressed admiration, and whose truth-telling you obviously took to heart - but I hope you won't mind if you know that this Anglican Christian is fervently praying that you and your family, and all your colleagues in the Freedom Party, will be protected and guided.
O Friend of Zion, lover of Jerusalem, friend of Jews, may the Holy One of Israel place a wall of fire round about you.
And may you be given words of fire to waken hearts in a world grown cold.
There's one line in that debate where Bos is going on about those Muslims who do well in the Netherlands, including "dentists, accountants, mechanics, bakers, and butchers of the future."
Butchers of the future? Unless this is a mistranslation, butchers of the future does sound appropriate for a Muslim majority as they would essentially butcher non-Muslims wherever this might be, regardless of the Netherlands. Thus, Bos' description there is accurate although he wouldn't see it in that way.
Are butchers deeply revered in Holland?
I offered the following comment to 'The Times' online today, but it was not posted.
"Mr. Wilders is not anti-Muslim, as stated in your article, he is anti-Islam. It's like saying that during WW2 we were anti-German, when, in fact, we were anti-Nazi."
It seems that the mainstream media wants to present s skewed view of Geert Wilders, and anything that runs counter is ignored.
Like you DDA, I am also praying for Wilders. I pray he's kept safe and will continue to have the strength to battle endlessly against those who have their heads in the sand.
http://newstime.co.nz/2010/political-show-process-geert-wilders.html
The Political SHOW Process on Geert Wilders!!! (live stream)
Pat Condell 06:30 “… This man (Geert Wilders) is a HERO!!! Not a criminal! And it’s time, the rest of us stood up and said so, loud and clear, because …”
Wow.
I have been posting out here a long time, and this is a hell of a concrete sign that all is not lost.
Thank God this is happening!
Now if all those chowderheads in the House of Lords cans just come to the succinct observation:
"Oh my God! You mean all that crap really is in THEIR Bible?"
Where's Lord Ahmed and his 10,000 strong band of merry musulmen who will storm Parliament?
The Marxist dhimmis and other useful idiots will be out in force. Here's a typical exerpt from their website, Lancaster Lunacy:
Emergency protest this Friday
Protest this Friday 5th March, 12pm at House of Lords, Westminster.
UAF demo against the rally called by the EDL to greet and support Gert Wilders, the Islamaphobic Dutch MP. Wilders has been invted to the House of Lords by Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson, Leader of UKIP, to show his racist film Fitna.
Wilders was banned from coming to the UK before due to his racist remarks. He has described the Netherlands as facing a “tsunami of Islamification” – the Netherlands Musilim population is 6%. Also, he has said that a “head rag tax” should be issued on Muslim women who wear headscarves.
Protest against this racist coming to whip up race hatred and bolster the BNP.
Note the use of the word 'racist' three times.
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE!
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE!
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE! etc, etc, etc...
Lord Ahmed has a "previous engagement"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/25/lord-ahmed-dangerous-driving
However, as other posters have indicated, I am sure that the "brothers and sisters" and their usual supporters/apologists will be out in force.
Clearly, it's a "slap in the face for the entire Muslim community" and Islamophobia. Perhaps Tower Hamlets council will offer "tea and refreshments" (halal, of course) after the protests?
Mr Wilders, is not against muslims but
against Islam and muhammadan muslims..
Muhammadan muslims everywhere in the world
are the same.. they creat troubles everywhere
they migrated too...
Islam has everything in these world except
TRUTH..in their cult religion...
Just show one thing good that Islam has
to offer...in any countries in the world...
Allah say one thing, mohammad teach another
thing..the muslim creat their own thing....
One can just imagine when you quote from the
koran what Allah says and what mohammad says
the muslims will say that you are wrong.....
Can some mohammadan muslim says what Mr Geert Wilders
did was wrong in saying all the WORDS that he quoted
from the Al Qua'ran..and show them in pictures to non-muslim who could not read or understand Arabic....???
My apologies. The conviction was 2009 not 2010. So perhaps Lord Ahmed will be in attendance with his "offended" horde.
My feeling about this is that BBC news etc, will effectively try to ignore this event all in.
there has been virtually no coverage in any live
BBC/SKY news of the Wilders trial at all.
There has obviously been some collusion, between BBC etc and muslim pressure groups.
The evidence, on his last visit, when a (supposedly open),BBC 5live phone in debate, was a complete orchestration, with Mr Wilders, facing detractor after detractor, over 2hrs.
Ex. Ramadan fnd, Mus. Forum, the laughably named Islamic Human Rights etc, re-all the "Usual Suspects" it was so "framed", that i was probably the lone balanced view,(stating importance of retaining freedom of speech etc)...
HOWEVER, it turned into a massive "own goal" as Mr Wilders
literally wiped the floor with them all, so so easily, "not intending offence, but facing facts"
I can t see the BBC/SKY wanting that scenario again....
so my feeling is they will try to ignore,(just like the Trial itself), the event.
Maybe the expected, islamic nutjobs will cause, with
loudhailers etc, enough trouble, or violence,(against freedom of speech supporters)to "create" sensationalism
that will warrant coverage.
Ive heard, the collusion lobby, will do their utmost to remain silent, & the news do their utmost to ignore it.
maybe, the old adage "a good day to bury..er.. good news"
will be order of the day
I really hope not, but lets see
Buraq wrote:
"Mr. Wilders is not anti-Muslim, as stated in your article, he is anti-Islam. It's like saying that during WW2 we were anti-German, when, in fact, we were anti-Nazi."
That is the crux of the debate concerning Islam & Democracy. And to many, as me, that is the most important issue in the coming elections in Holland.
Wouter Bos in many respects is an excellent man, with excellent policies, like prioritizing good education and work for all young people, including Muslims. In contrast Geert Wilders may favor some bad policies, like preserving 65 as retirement age at all costs and resisting more European cooperation.
But, as an atheist, I presume, Wouter Bos, and his party, should also realise that Islam is just as manmade as the Freedom Party. And he cannot rely just on his own judgment, he is no expert on Islam, its teachings, interpretations, practices worldwide. He may rely in part on Muslims Islam-experts but to balance that he should also rely on the testimony of Islam-experts that believe Islam is manmade.
People should ever more pinpoint the man-made Islamic beliefsystem on its teachings and their consequences in the whole world. It is not good to forever try to exonerate Islam of all bad influences as the Muslims insist, which is what Wouter Bos obeys. In his eyes for the sake of love, respect and unity. Out of fear the good Muslims will turn against us, it is often said!
He wants Muslims to be completely, uncritically, comprehensively FREE to believe in and follow Islam as they interpret it, (and the interpretation must be also totally free for him). Even if it is shown by Islam-experts of Human-origine-variety that there are values and rules in Islam that directly contradict the West's most cherished values & rules.
He wants Muslims to be completely free to follow Islam, even if the loyalty of the Dutch Muslims is not adequately tested, if they favor, in worldwide context, theocratic, dictatorial rules over our cherished democratic rules or not. In the name of love, respect and unity, he refrains to ask them even about their primary loyalties.
It is this failure, or fear, of this otherwise fine politician, that forces me to turn to the Freedom party.
Sean, mahoundianism isn't a race, but it sure is a racist ideology whose hatred and contempt for black people are kept out of the debate on it solely because of political correctness and mahoundian-appeasement.
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As for the PVV's chances of governing the Netherlands after June 9, despite its lead in opinion polls, a Gates of Vienna reader ominously pointed out once that the Dutch queen's loathing of Wilders might get in the way of the will of the Dutch electorate and trump democracy in favor of allowing the status quo to continue its cultural suicide against the wishes of the people. I hope this won't turn out to be the case.
"Fitna" is not an "anti-Koran" film. It is simply a "Koran" film.
I am reminded of Harry Truman's remark about people who accused him of "giving hell" to others: "I don't give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it's hell."
Finally Britain's rationality is coming back.
Maybe we may get some more converts who will acknowledge that islam is not a race and that individual muslims may be good/bad but islam is all bad.
Go, Geert.
Good luck.
There is too much emphasis on crime in that debate. Mr Wilders would be on a safer ground debating the evils of islam and quran and what it means to ordinary Dutch folk in terms of their personal freedoms. People do not automatically associate a criminal with his/her faith and listening to Mr Wilders they will think of him as a racist seeing that he goes on about the Moroccans and Turks.
In Britain, muslims are far too powerful, organised and intimidating than anywhere in Europe. Our politicians, media and academics are completely sold on the idea that islam in the future and a way to go. The anti-Semitic progressives are ruling the roost here.
Previous engagement? Could it have anything to do with his earlier threat:
[Lord Ahmed] ". . .threatened to mobilize 10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr. Wilders from entering the House and threatened to take the colleague who was organizing the event to court.
Go Geert!
EDL stand strong!
Lan Astaslem!
Hey Eleanor,
The EDL is staging a rally for him to provide a "firewall" so to speak.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/english-defense-league-edl-london-rally-in-defense-of-geert-wilders-friday-2pm-go.html
Their numbers keep increasing so not to worry..
Hope someone's filming to provide footage for his second film..Rock On Geert!
"People do not automatically associate a criminal with his/her faith"..
In this case they do. Unless they're hermits.
Feelings are running high about Wilders and his message. See the comments following The Times article. Some call him a hypocrite for wanting to limit freedoms in the name of freedom. This is the crux that so many can't and won't understand. Should we have allowed Nazis freedom to oppress, Communists freedom to jail, and Fascists freedom to torture? There is a line we (Europe and the West) must draw and Wilders is the one to do it.
Bias is obvious throughout The Times article. Regarding Fitna it says,
"This has already provoked widespread anger for its crude juxtaposition of extremist atrocities, such as beheadings and the 9/11 attacks, with verses from the Koran."
Crude juxtaposition, or accurate portrayal of actions and their inspiration?
Good to see this, Wilder is winning and it is a great success to defeat Islamization of Europe. We wait until he finishes showing his fitna in U.K.
"We are going to take the Netherlands back from the leftist elite that comforts criminals and supports Islamisation.".
There is a tendency among politicians outside the mainstream...to moderate their rhetoric once the prospects of victory seem imminent. Not Geert! He's the real deal.
I wonder if 10,000 foaming at the mouthers will show up...That was the threat last time by the wonderful Lord(?) Ahmed...The threat worked as most threats do in the UK...All Mahoundians have to do is threaten something and the authorities crumble...I hope the House Of Lords has grown a spine since the last time they rejected Geert and banned him from the country...
Not seen or heard this visit reported on the BBC. Strange?
Who is that whatshername PC Slave-to-Islam who banned Geert from entering England last year?
Hello,
What is shameful is that simply speaking the plain and obvious truth is villified. The bottom line is we know what it is, exactly, that causes Islamic "youth" to be criminal in their behavior, and what it is that causes Islamic "radicals" to subsist on welfare. It is jihad. Jihad is used to weaken the State. Once the State is too weak to resist armed violence then it brought under the House of Peace. This is a tried and true methodology of Islamic warfare.
I understand the human need to deflect, but what is going on is no secret, made plain by Islamists themselves, and unless we put a stop to it they will gain political power to the point where the Jihad will move forward unimpeded.
V/R
CamNC4Me
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith
Darcy - apologies for the multiple reply, don't know why that happened. Jacqui Smith left office on June 5th, 2009 after a leaked poll of Labour Party members revealed that Smith was considered to be the worst performing member of the cabinet and after having to account for a variety of expense controversies.
Darcy - apologies for the multiple reply, don't know why that happened. Jacqui Smith left office on June 5th, 2009 after a leaked poll of Labour Party members revealed that Smith was considered to be the worst performing member of the cabinet and after having to account for a variety of expense controversies.
Jacqui Smith at the time - but she's no longer in that job.
Thanks miira and Kuffar_England - right, that's "whatshername!" Better forgotten, yes?
Thrilled to hear she no longer has any power! Ha-ha, it must really burn her up that Mr. Wilders is coming to town!
I'm watching the live feed provided by the EDL and notice there are a troubling number of box trucks passing the main entrance.
I'm watching the live feed provided by the EDL and notice there are a troubling number of box trucks passing the main entrance.
I am with you also EFOC & DDA. Praying for Geert. He speaks truth and "truth always stands on truth".
Geert---one the few who have guts to stand up to the gutless!
May the Lord Jesus Christ be with you Geert !
www.livingwaters.com/good
Does Geert have his bodyguards to protect him from the Religion of Peace?
I wonder what would have happened if Geert Wilders had replied to Wouter Bos'words: "We believe that Muslims should be free to believe in and practice their religion and be treated absolutely equal with other citizens."
With the following:
Geert Wilders: "Mr Bos, I am a messenger from God, my words are all from HIM, HE tells me what to say. My followers all believe this, and I claim respect for our religion and freedom to practice it in our way."
Would Wouter Bos THEN try to balance the conflicting views propagated by Mohammed and Geert in as balanced a way as possible?
Or would he even maintain that the "Wilderian" religion and its texts are "not the cause of any bad behavior" so NOT responsible for any division in society there might be?
And that it should be respected and left alone totally? Regardless of whatever atrocious words/ acts any self-confessed "Wilderian" would say or do?
Wouter Bos'words: "We believe that Muslims should be free to believe in and practice their religion and be treated absolutely equal with other citizens."
Good God, what an idiot. What a slave to a "religion" that mandates either his subjugation or murder.
Newsflash, Dhimmi: Islam believes it's "more equal" than others, so when the Muslims come for you in 20 years or so after your types have brought England to it's knees, you'll either be converting or they'll kill you. And your family. And think nothing of it. Capische?
I wish I could say that to your face.
I just stopped by the EDL demo. V. depressing - just a small crowd of beery skinheads chanting England football songs. About a third of them couldn't even be bothered leaving the pub along the road from the Tate. I doubt there were more than five people there who could tell you who Geert Wilders is.
The UK is miles away from having a PVV. If the EDL is all that stands in the way of the Islamists then they've got a clear run in.
Great for Geert, great for the whole of mankind! Some have said he spoke too much of crimes, but you have to remember his perspective that with his words his life can be taken by islamists, yet those who speak against him have no fear from any non-Muslims. l know many times myself after a debate l wish l would of said something else, and perhaps Wilders can explain this difference that when you speak out against islam you life is threatened and not the other way around.
Riots and mayhem to commence in 3....2....1...
You could also maybe chec out still frames of happenings on TrafficLand.com - London - Parliament Square, except that the camera is currently "unavailable for operational reasons."
Probably an intentional security measure.
I'm amazed that the Brits let Wilders in. Don't they have a habit of barring entrance to people they deem "hateful"?
It seems to me that forbidding the headscarf is as bad as mandating the headscarf. A party calling itself the freedom party should be consistent in its support of freedom.
As for veiling the face, showing only the eyes, and the like, it seems to me that these could legitimately be banned for security reasons.
Of course, many Muslims globally are engaged in 'al-HIJRA'.
As Geert Wilders said, in a speech (2009):
"The Christian city of Constantinople fell in the fifteenth century. And now, in the twenty-first century, Islam is trying again. This time not with armies, but through the application of Al-Hijra, the Islamic doctrine of migration. As expounded so masterfully by my good friend Sam Solomon in his book Al-Hijra, this doctrine is based on the example of Muhammad, who himself migrated from Mecca to Medina.
"Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi said, 'We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquest. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.'
"Ladies and gentlemen, Gaddafi is right. The Al-Hijra doctrine is, and has been, very successful. For the first time in world history there are dozens of millions of Muslims living far outside Dar al-Islam, the Islamic world. And that poses enormous problems to the West. Ladies and gentlemen, Al-Hijra may be the end of Western civilization as we know it."
It is late in the day, but non-Muslims, and European people especially, must campaign against the immigration from Islamic countries; and oppose U.S. and E.U. plan to get Turkey into E.U.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/04/geert-wilders-the-take-over-of-europe-is-part-of-the-global-fight-of-islam-for-world-domination.html
and:
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Day-Trojan-Horse-Immigration/dp/0979492955
Hip, Hip, Horray!
Geert, Geert, All the Way!
This is the bravest man in the world today. His is the only way to stop the spread of Islam in Europe.
Some good comments here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/04/dutch-elections-pvv-wilders-right
It's good to see Wilders isn't being banned from the UK anymore (That may be old news, I don't remember).
"I don't give them hell. I just tell them the truth and they think it's hell."
That's a great quote, thanks Islam_Macht_Frei.
"This is the bravest man in the world today. His is the only way to stop the spread of Islam in Europe."
So right. STAY SAFE GEERT!
Geert Wilders' wife - who is of Hungarian origin, and spotted him years ago, when she was an employee of the Hungarian embassy in the Netherlands - must surely qualify as the smartest woman in Europe.
With the Third Jihad well underway, she chose one of the few men around who would recognise the danger, and who would have the guts and the smarts to stand in front of her and her house and defend her. And remember: she picked him, I think, *before* he embarked on his public career.
God bless Mrs Wilders!
I don't know whether they have any kids. I hope they have, despite everything. If they haven't yet, then if Mrs Wilders is still young enough to do so (I know Wilders is in his forties, but maybe Mrs Wilders is a bit younger) I would urge her to celebrate and affirm life in the most concrete fashion possible. Spit in the eye of the jihadists by raising at least one happy little Dutch citizen and preferably more. During the Israeli war of independence, John Roy Carlson met a young Jewish couple, survivors of the Shoah, fighting off Arab Muslims from a rooftop in Jerusalem. They'd already made sure they had a personal stake in their resurrected nation, and something to fight for, tooth and nail; for the bride, all of seventeen, was *three months pregnant* already. L'chaim!
Ladies and gentlemen
the posting by 'Yaffle', above appears to be somewhat misleading, whether deliberately or no.
For a UK poster who regularly visits here, one 'Esmerelda Weatherwax', gives a very different, much more detailed and much more heartening account of the pro-Wilders forces and what they did and said.
She was right there in person. She has spoken with people from the EDL and from the March for England.
Her account, with many pictures, is well worth reading, slowly and carefully.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/26312
Among other things she observes that the pro-Wilders rally, made up of the EDL, the March for England, and ordinary people from the general public - there were, according to her, many more than *sixty* people present, and their number included elderly men and women (just look at the pictures and count the grey heads) - was addressed by (among others) a young Sikh speaker, and the proceedings included (I quote her account, verbatim):
"a minute's silence for the latest British casualties in Afghanistan
"and [for] *the two Sikhs beheaded in Pakistan last week for refusing to convert to Islam* {my emphasis - dda}.
This was followed by the National Anthem."
Esmerelda estimates that the pro-Wilders procession (comprising EDL, March for England, and others) was about 1000 strong; and that a subset of the EDL contingent, some *200* strong (her estimate), were placed by the police in an area around the King George V statue.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I leave it to you to decide whom to believe - 'yaffle', above, or Esmerelda Weatherwax.
Me, I believe Mrs Weatherwax.
Geert Wilders needs our prayers for safety and protection! Just for proclaiming the truth about Islam his life is in jeopardy. We need many more millions of Geert's in this world, and many millions less of those of the Islam faith.
I am concerned about the numbers of Islamics and the way they are multiplying thruout the world. The numbers concern me very much.
If they outnumber the "infidels", what then?