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Written by R. Cort Kirkwood   
Monday, 04 May 2009 06:00

Geert WildersIt appears as if another country is afraid of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders because of his outspoken views about Islam and his film Fitna, which intersperses excerpts from the Koran with depictions of Islamic violence. Following the lead of Great Britain, Denmark has postponed a conference on free speech to which Wilders was invited by the Danish People’s Party.

The conference was scheduled for February, then delayed until June, the Copenhagen Post reports. “But now, according to information received by Berlingske Tidende newspaper, the conference has been delayed again because of government’s concern over Geert Wilders.” The Danish Foreign Ministry fears Muslims will not attend a climate conference in Denmark if Wilders is permitted to warn about the dangers of Islam at the free-speech conference.

This kind of trouble is nothing new for Wilders. In February, Britain denied entry to the Dutch politicians after Nazir Ahmed, a Muslim member of the House of Lords who was born in Pakistan, decided Wilders must not be allowed to speak. Wilders lives under 24-hour guard thanks to a Muslim death threat, but it was he, the British border agency said, who threatened harmony and public security. After that ignominious episode, the French Association for the Defense of Human Rights announced that it wanted the authorities to prosecute Wilders for “hate speech.” AEDH cited a speech he gave at the Hudson Institute in New York in September, which was part of Wilders’ truth-telling crime spree.

The French may well have to update their indictment. In April, Wilders received a free-speech award from the Florida Security Council at the group’s Free Speech Summit, where he explained precisely what Islam is and isn’t:

The take-over of Europe is part of the global fight of Islam for world domination. Islam is not a religion. It is a political ideology. Islam’s heart lies in the Koran. The Koran is a book that calls for hatred, violence, murder, terrorism, war and submission. The Koran calls upon Muslims to kill non-Muslims. The Koran describes Jews as monkeys and pigs. Churchill compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

The core of the problem with the Koran is twofold. First, the commands in the Koran are not limited by place or time, they apply for all time, to all Muslims. Second, the Koran is Allah’s personal word. That leaves no room for interpretation. Therefore, there is no such thing as a moderate Islam. Of course, there are many moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam. As the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan once put it, “There is no moderate Islam, Islam is Islam.”

As if to affirm Wilders’ depiction of Islam, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that Florida’s state Rep. Adam Hasner, who co-hosted the event, resign his post as Republican leader in the Sunshine State’s House of Representatives. CAIR was an unindicted coconspirator in the federal government’s successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development for its funding the terror group Hamas.

See also: "No Free Speech Allowed for Geert Wilders."

 

R. Cort Kirkwood, managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., has been writing about American politics and culture for more than 20 years. Mr. Kirkwood has written for Chronicles, The New American, National Review, The Remnant, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register, Taki’s Top Drawer online magazine, and LewRockwell.com. For several years, he syndicated a column, “The Hard Line.” Mr. Kirkwood is the author of the nonfiction title, Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans To Know And Admire, published by Cumberland House.

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witness said:

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This will be taken as the actions of the weak, in fear of islam, to be exploited.
 
May 05, 2009
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Nick said:

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Europe's Suicidal Tendencies
Europe has a death wish.It is not a simple death wish as to perform skydiving without a parachute or to commit hara-kiri.
It's way more subtle than than for most of the European "elite" brains.

For a regular person it is obvious that muslims use the democratic instruments in Europe to take over step-by-step.

To many Europeans it's not obvious and besides providing the muslims with the means to survive they also imprison their own people who speak out and warn of this REAL threat.

If Europe continues to shun their own activists and keep its head in the sand pretending nothing is happening it is DEAD wrong!

All our European ancestors who fought the ever expanding Ottoman empire are rolling in their graves idiots! How come that they knew what they fought for and today's Europe doesn't know anymore? How has it come to this to accept crap as the truth and to not see the real threat of islam?

That is the price you pay when you continue to tolerate and even support those who are intolerant !!!

It is one thing to be wrong, but being DEAD wrong is ..., well, DEADLY!

Wake up Europe and protect your own behind !!!

Geert Wilders keep up the good work, fight, and know that you DO have MANY friends !

Well many of your friends do not have the spine to stand straight and speak up, shutting up and conforming to the suicidal stupidity of masses is so easier.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the most important thing before ANY kind of religion!!!
 
May 05, 2009
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Philip Saenz said:

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We Love Truth In The USA
Denmark hates the TRUTH because it can't handle the TRUTH. We Americans in the USA have always been big enough and courageous enough to handle the TRUTH. We welcomed Geert Wilders recently, and allowed him to speak the TRUTH. I hope you sissies in Denmark grow up. You're letting the Muslims run all over you. Good-bye sissies.
 
May 05, 2009 | url
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Joe Kaffir said:

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Shame on Denmark

LANG LEVENDE GEERT WILDERS ! ! ! !
 
May 05, 2009
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Anne Marie Buch said:

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Geert Wilders has not been denied access to Denmark. The conference on which he has been invited to speak may be postponed, but that is not because Geert Wilders is not welcome in Denmark. It may be for security reasons - which is fair enough, we don't want anything happening to him while he is here.
 
May 06, 2009
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Anne Marie Buch said:

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Besides, Geert Wilders was in Denmark not even a year ago:

http://snaphanen.dk/2008/06/01/geert-wilders-landstinget-søndag-1608/

So it's not that he is being denied entrance.
 
May 06, 2009
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Stelwagen said:

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Geert Widers will be marching on....hopefully waking up more sleepy-heads....S
 
May 06, 2009 | url
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KansasGirl said:

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Lessons
Will Europe never learn from their past?
 
May 07, 2009
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White racists are trying at full to ethnic cleanse Muslims from Europe., Lowly rated comment [Show]

Eva said:

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Why can muslims and all non-white people enjoy free speech but white people cannot? ALL people should be free to express their ideas, if certain people don't like what somebody says, you can ignore it, present a counter argument, etc. but to threaten and try to shut people up is wrong.
 
May 07, 2009
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Jack Worthing said:

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Imran--how deranged can you possibly get? What have the "Red Indians" got to do with this? And news flash--people in Bosnia and Kosovo are white!

Geert Wilders is not a racist. He just believes that Muslims who come to the Netherlands should assimilate and not the other way around.

I suppose trying to be a pundit in a madrassah in Pakistan doesn't work...
 
May 07, 2009
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Anne Marie Buch said:

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Imran:
"They did that in Bosnia now they want whole Europe, These white racists have ethnic cleansed Red Indians in America, now they are attacking Muslim countries left and right, These white racists are danger to whole world , these fan of Hitler must be stopped before it is too late."

As it is, it s actually muslims in Kosovo thatr ethnicly cleasned christians, who were the orignal population.

Funny you mention the red indians in America - the are to be compared to the europeans, whereas muslims take the role of the europeans that came to America.
We, the europeans, were here first you know, in Europe. Muslims are the aggressive immigrants, that openly declare war on us, the original inhabitants.

Besides, the risk for an etnic european to be klled by a muslm immgrant s much, much higher, than the opposite. Crimerates for muslim immigrants in Europe are alamingly high, even when socioeconomic factors have been considered.

So who has to be stopped before it's too late? The europeans that are simply trying to protect themselves from invasion, or the invaders that frequently use violence as a means to terrorize the original population?
 
May 08, 2009
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Anne Marie Buch said:

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And you really should change that headline. It's not true.
 
May 09, 2009
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Ahmed said:

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Hail Hitler. Gas the juden
 
May 10, 2009
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