Geert Wilders: "Islam is a Fascist Ideology"

Dutch politician Geert Wilders may be many things, but he is not the right-wing populist he is accused of being. What the debate over his film "Fitna" reveals most clearly is the West's cowardice toward Islam.

If fanatical Muslims do, in fact, go ballistic over Wilder's film "Fitna," it's not because they have a flawed relationship to freedom of speech and religion, but because they've been insulted and provoked by Wilders -- or so the reasoning goes.
So, it comes as no surprise that TV presenter Tom Buhrow opened the Friday late-evening news on the German TV channel ARD with a report on the "anti-Islamic video of the right-wing populist" Geert Wilders -- as though there were a central authority in the otherwise censor-free Federal Republic of Germany that is responsible for prescribing the vocabulary of Euro-Islamic affairs. It was followed by a report on the relaxed response of Dutch Muslims, who were shown sitting in their cafes peacefully drinking coffee while Wilders raised havoc outside.

According to Buhrow's narration: "The knives are already being sharpened -- but only for the doner kebabs." But he forgot to mention that, by that point, "Fitna" had already been pulled off the video portal LiveLeak, where it had been first published (more...). The British provider had received death threats that it took as seriously as they were intended -- a not entirely irrelevant bit of information that the ARD anchorman opted to omit, so as not to confuse his viewers with too many details.

According to this interpretation of events, Wilders has only himself to blame for the fact that he has to be under 24-hour police protection and sleep in a different location every night. If he'd taken on, say, the Federation of Dutch Floriculturists, his private life would be fully intact.

What he wanted to accomplish had already been accomplished (more...) with the threat to show an "anti-Islamic video." He showed the "free West" to be a paper tiger. The Dutch government distanced itself from the project and asked its ambassadors in Muslim countries to explain to their host governments the situation in their home country, where the government is not as omnipotent as it would like to be.

The EU, wanting to please all sides, issued a statement that emphasized the importance of freedom of speech while at the same time relativizing it: "We believe that acts such as (Geert Wilders') film serve no other purpose than inflaming hatred."

Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chimed in to condemn the Wilders film "in the strongest terms." He said that nothing can justify hate speech or incitement to violence. "The right of free expression is not at stake here. ... Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility."

Source: www.spiegel.de/international

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[Jolav4]

Islam IS fascism

[BUZOSKARSON]

ALL MUSLIMS LIE !

IT GOES WITH THEIR RELIGION, ISLAM:

BORN A MUSLIM, BORN A LIAR,

IT´S THE SAME THING !

ALL MUSLIMS HAVE A KORANIC-LICENCE TO LIE !

YOU SIMPLY CANNOT TAKE ISLAM RELIGIOUSLY,

& VERY SERIOUSLY WITHOUT BECOMING

ADEPT AT THE ART OF LYING !

[LiveJoyDivision]

@Jolav4 what is fascism to you you stupid swine!

[IamanInfidel]

@MrIbrahimagha

Islam is an Arab imperialistic, supremacist ideology. It's fascist.

[IamanInfidel]

@MrIbrahimagha

Don't tell lies!

[seahorse1945]

Geert Wilder is a Patriot to his countrymen and a Wise individual who calls a "spade a spade"! Look at the origins of Islam-steeped in the blood of innocent people -as a Persian once told me-"A knife to the throat and a command to the people to "SUBMIT" to Allah-this is Islam" end quote and " I know Christianity is the perfect religion-but if I convert to Christianity I will be killed when I return home " end quote -A real conversation I had at Oklahoma State University in 1982 w/ a Persian

[MrIbrahimagha]

@Jolav4 Why do you think Islam is fascism? Is it because you have read the Qur'an, went to mosques and after doing extensive studying of Islam you have found no other conclusion other than Islam teaches fascism? Or is it because you heard a bunch of people foaming at the mouth while yelling Islam is evil?

[MrIbrahimagha]

@Jolav4 I would really like to know what the source of that information saying that Islam tells all Muslims to lie. I mean I was born Muslim and I've never read that anywhere in the Qur'an nor have my parents taught me that its OK to lie.

[satojinnthehero]

Does this mean that if a muslim cleric says shit about my religion i can burn his picture and piss on it and burn a poster with a bullseye on his head yes I think so ALRIGHT BRB GOING TO BURN A PHOTO OF A RADICAL MUSLIM CLERICAL!

[HalalKafir]

@wef3r No, you do NOT respect all religions - you Muslims OPPRESS all religions other than your own! 100 MILLION Christians are in constant danger of being persecuted and/or killed every year in the Islamic world. Islam is nothing more than the most archaic form of fascism - the Arab version of Nazism. No wonder, Hitler and Himmler, the 2 worst Nazis, were admirers of Islam and Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the defacto leader of the Muslim world at the time, an admirer of the Nazis.

[wef3r]

@MrFaceeatingcancer

STOP PLEASE JUST STOP

[wef3r]

@BUZOSKARSON

WTF is wrong with SHUT THE HELL UP. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THIS. We respect all religions. AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT ON SAYING THIS