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Dutch MP Geert Wilders voted Man of the Year
The Hague. Besieged Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who is living with constant death threats by muslim-extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, has been named Man of the Year by the David Horowitz Freedom Center in the USA.
However, there probably will be no award-ceremony in any public venues: Wilders has an army of guards around him at all times because he needed constant protection from 2004, after he publicly slammed the Koran as a ' fascist, violent book which should be banned from Dutch libraries and bookshops.
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The only other book now banned in the Netherlands - albeit it is still made available for studying by bonafafide political-history students -- is the late Nazi leader Adolph Hitler's 1932 book Mein Kampf, in which he describes his detailed plans on his extermination of European Jewry and other 'undesirables' such as gypsies and the mentally-frail.
In spite of these personal dangers, Wilders continues warning against what he refers to as the Stealth Jihad in Europe, see
Wilders was not available for comment: he is currently on a world tour to introduce his controversial movie, Fitna, to political groups.
Fitna highlights specific passages in the Koran which order followers to kill non-Christians and to suppress women. He showed it to groups of Israeli parliamentarians two weeks ago. (see his speech in Jerusalem in the video submitted with this story)
Wilders stood up in Dutch parliament in 2004 and described the Koran as 'the islamic-fascist version of Muslim Mein Kampf - warning that 'this is the Koran's core theme ... it is the duty of all Muslims to fight non-Muslims; an Islamic Mein Kampf, in which fight means war, jihad."
- "The Koran is above all a book of war, a call to butcher non-Muslims (2:191, 3:141, 4:91, 5:3), to roast them (4:56, 69:30-69:32), and to cause bloodbaths amongst them (47:4). "Jews are compared to monkeys and pigs (2:65, 5:60, 7:166), while people who believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God must according to the Koran be fought (9:30).
"It is still possible, even today, for Muslims to view the Koran, which they regard as valid for all time, as a licence to kill. And that is exactly what happens."The Koran is worded in such a way that its instructions are addressed to Muslims for eternity, which includes today's Muslims. "This in contrast to texts in the Bible, which is formulated as a number of historical narratives, placing events in a distant past. "Let us remind ourselves that it was Muslims, not Jews or Christians, who committed the catastrophic terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London; and that it was no coincidence that Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered by a Muslim, Mohammed Bouyeri."
Wilders'political influence is growing: he started out as a lone member of his own party, the Party for Freedom, in Dutch parliament. His views have proven to be so popular that he now has five MPs in parliament - and the leader of the Dutch co-ruling party in the coalition government, the Labour Party, also recently tabled a proposal for its forthcoming party-political conference to 'stop all the political-correctness' and to specifically start talking about these issues publicly, without fear of being murdered for speaking one's mind about such matters.
Horowitz is an American conservative writer and activist. He is the son of two life-long members of the Communist Party, and once a supporter of Marxism as well as a member of the New Left in the 1960s. However, Horowitz renounced his left-wing political radicalism and became an advocate for conservatism.
Editor of the conservative website FrontPage Magazine, his writings can be read on news sites and publications, including the conservative magazine NewsMax. He founded the activist group Students for Academic Freedom and is affiliated with Campus Watch. He occasionally appears on Fox News Channel. He is almost completely shunned by the rest of the main-stream news media in the USA.
Horowitz writes that "it’s a safe bet that Geert Wilders won’t be Time magazine’s Man of the Year any time soon. If anything, the unusually coiffed Dutch MP is a favorite hate figure of the Western media, which has spent years vilifying him as a “reactionary,” a “particularly dangerous type of demagogue,” a “racist” and an “Islamophobe.”
Horowitz praises Wilders for his 'tireless campaign to sound the alarm about the growing threat of Islamic radicalism in the West, which has turned him into a target of Islamic jihadists and the object of untold assassination plots.
Noting that Al-Qaeda has specifically singled Wilders out for slaughter similar to the fate which befell the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, 'it would have been no failing in his character if Wilders had decided that the price... was too high.' Instead, he noted, Wilders has 'persevered. Braving daily death threats and sacrificing the security that his critics take for granted..."
He writes in his summary that Wilders had been proven correct about many of his warnings about the dangers of surging Islamic radicalism in Europe:"
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While he has been condemned for calling for the closure of radical mosques and the deportation of militant clerics, back in 2004 Wilders accurately pointed out that 25 Dutch mosques had terrorist connections, while their resident imams preached against the evils of democracy and Dutch values. One such preacher, Tilburg-based Syrian imam Ahmad Salam, first came to Dutch public attention with sermons urging Muslim men to beat their wives.'He then refused to shake hands with Dutch Integration Minister Rita Verdonk in 2004. And this muslim cleric again courted notoriety when he urged his followers to avoid paying taxes in order to “damage the state. Despite his undisguised contempt for Dutch laws and culture, Salam continues to call Holland home. It would be hard to find more telling confirmation of Wilders’s warnings." Horowitz noted. read here
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at 09:15 on January 2nd, 2009
Unbelievable. This man needs a good hair advise and a psych.
at 09:18 on January 2nd, 2009
How shallow you are - with your mind set in concrete. Why don't you listen to what this man has to say? Unless of course you prefer to live under this Islamic oppressive regime, and put your next generations into their straight-jacket too.
at 09:47 on January 2nd, 2009
Please - keep your comments respectful and related to the story. This article raises a number of areas for debate which could be discussed. Thank you.
at 23:38 on February 5th, 2009
The man should be given the Nobel prize, Though a visit to a hairstylist wouldn't hurt either
at 15:08 on February 6th, 2009
Hey, if the American Civil Liberties Union could find it in its leftist heart to defend American Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, a city with a large Jewish population and a great number of Holocaust survivors in the early '70s, an event immortalized in the film, "The Blues Brothers", then the leftist wimps of America and Europe could back this guy, however mistaken or not about the nature of Islam, and answer talk with talk and not repression enforced by police with guns, batons and the keys to prisons.
Islam, as all great organizations do, has a dark side, and being critical of Islam, even when mistaken, is a NATURAL RIGHT, and is enshrined in the US constitution and the Universal Bill of Human Rights of the UN.