Where does the freedom of speech crosses the line and turns into discrimination

Geert Wilders of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV) of Netherland.

The Koran is a facist book which incites violence, writes Geert Wilders. That is why this book, just like Mein Kampf, must be banned.

I have been proclaiming this for years: A moderate Islam does not exist. For those who don't want to believe me: read the speech which the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci who alas, died last year held in New York on November 28th 2007 when she received a prize for her heroic resistance to Islamo facism and her struggle for freedom:

"A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no difference between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that it the end of it. Islam is the Koran, and nothing other than the Koran. And the Koran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that desires to eliminate others- non –Muslims-who are called infidel dogs, and inferior creatures. Read the Koran, that Mein Kampf, yet again. In whatever version and you will see that the evil which the sons of Allah against us and themselves has perpetrated comes from that book". Read more here.

In the past, Wilders has said that half the Quran should be torn up and compared it with Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf."

Wilders' planned broadcast is reminiscent of the film "Submission" — a fictional study of abused Muslim women with scenes of near-naked women with Quranic texts engraved on their flesh.

"Submission" director Theo van Gogh was shot and had his throat slit by a Muslim extremist on an Amsterdam street in 2004. Prominent Muslim critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who wrote the screenplay, was threatened in a note left on Van Gogh's body. She now lives under round-the-clock protection in the United States.



Who Is Geert Wilders? The ultra conservative politicians pointed out several times that the Qur`an should be banned.

The controversial Dutch politician is the founder and president of the Party for Freedom, a right-wing conservative party. He is also its representative in the Dutch Parliament. He began his career at the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, but left it in 2004 over a dispute within the position on how to start negotiations with Turkey about its EU accession.
His party programme states that Wilders' party is committed to "freedom of the individual", lower taxes, less social programmes, more severe fines and limitation of the number of immigrants. He claims the Netherlands has been held hostage by elitist politicians: the social democrats and left-wing liberals. Wilders wants to give back the Netherlands to the people.

His party`s popularity suddenly dropped after the murder of Theo van Gogh by a Dutchman of Moroccan origin. When the uproar calmed down in the country, the party`s popularity suddenly dropped, but it rose again after the scandal over Muhammad caricatures.

He is famous for his intolerance of Islam and Muslims. In interviews, he has pointed out that the Dutch Constitution and the European Convention on human rights should protect people from “Islamist extremism”. He said he was afraid there would be more mosques in the Netherlands than churches and that the Qur`an should be banned because it is a fascist book, much like Hitler`s “Mein Kampf”. He told the Muslims to burn their holy book because it contains “terrible things”, while prophet Muhammad would be hunted down like a terrorist today.

Although a Catholic, he has admired Israel many times, which he had previously visited “about 40 times”. He claims that people can “work for their money” there, unlike in the Netherlands. He has experienced a special feeling of solidarity, which he had not experienced in any other country before and he would like to move there. People from his former People`s Party for Freedom and Democracy have pointed out several times that they suspect Wilders is being instructed by the Israeli Embassy in the Netherlands. He has denied the allegations, but when he was a member of the party, he had an employee who came directly from the Israeli Embassy.

Due to death threats, Wilders is constantly under protection.

Three out of four citizens of the Netherlands reject a populist lawmaker's call for the Koran to be banned, according to a poll that also indicates a deep level of concern about the role of Islam in their country. The poll indicates there is steadily growing support for the controversial politician's party.

Some Comments

"I find Wilders an opportunist with no respect for others. While everyone is entitled to his/her own oppinion, and even to voice out that oppinion, there is a responsibility when tends to bring out the debate to the public. Else we will just turn into barbaric bunch that just throw insults to each other. There are lots of other venues for him to voice his position constructively, and achieves a lot more. But launching a film where he knew would be preceived as an open insult by millions of people is really showing his selfish motives. Shame on Dutch to have such a person in their senate. Shame on Dutch to vote on him. Being one of the richest and most influential country in western Europe, they are supposed to show more mature leadership. Fortunately, not all Dutch people is like Wilders…."

Is Mein Kampf banned in the Netherlands?