GEERT WILDERS 2011

When ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent profiled anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders mid-year, our story 'The Stop & Go Back Man' caused a storm. We revealed the strident, inflammatory Netherlands politician planned to visit Australia and that a prominent Australian politician had offered to lend a hand. Here's reporter Eric Campbell on the difficulty of securing an interview with Wilders, particularly in the shadow of a mass shooting in Norway by a fanatic who'd cited Wilders many times in a manifesto justifying his killing spree. This is a web-special addition to Foreign Correspondent's recent year-ender 'Around The World & Back Again'. The program is viewable in full at our website www.abc.net.au/foreign

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[Trompenburgh]

Ron Paul 2012.

[kjartisen]

He is a HERO.

[ToadsMGodes]

@AquaExecution Name one Christian country where they execute someone for being gay. It happens in Iran all the time, along with other muslim countries.

Christians disagree with homosexuality. Muslims kill homosexuals. See the difference here?

[martyaus2905]

Muslims are the scum of the earth.

[BoredToDistraction]

@AquaExecution If I were gay, I'd rather have christians dreaming I'm going to hell, than muslims dreaming of hanging me under islamic law. Wouldn't you?

[MrUnderself]

Nah, it's only within Christian or secular based societies that gays have rights and all this. Although, I'm sure a lot of Christians don't support gay rights their higher ups do. I'm not Christian and not fond of gay culture, but a culture with gay rights pales in comparison to one living under Islamo-facism/ Political Correctness.

[AquaExecution]

Christians are also against gays, so how can Wilders support both? To say that you support Christian values and you are against Islam because they are against gays is an oxymoron.

[TheMuttaFkkinTitz]

@LibertarianAussie I can't help you out. I'm still dying from laughter after reading the comment "For starters, women under Islam are better protected that under Western culture..." The whole comment almost killed me from laughing too much.

[LibertarianAussie]

@Invesigator There are many ways in which Western Culture and Values are simply better. Take women for instance that you think proves proves that islam is better - In the West Women are not 2nd class chattel, they can marry who they want and they don't get doused in acid for saying no to a mans advances, they don't get married off at age 9 and we don't genitally mutilate little girls.