Recently this twisted "I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam" subject was
raised elsewhere in this forum. Doesn't this sober media re****t, from the
mainstream "Guardian", clearly bears witness to the subtle extent of
bigoted racist and white supremacist sentiments being artfully expressed
by
these so-called "critics" about Muslims. Don't all these far-right
demagogues and party spokesmen have neo-Nazi party connections (e.g.
'British National Party' [BNP], Vlaams Belang [VB], Swedish Democrats
[SD],
etc.)? Aren't these extremist views then being banally echoed and parroted
in this forum and over on the Islamophobia inspired "Apocalyptic
Blogosphere"? Full "Guardian" indictment at this link:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/17/netherlands.islam
<Extract> ...
TV addict with bleached hair who adores Maggie Thatcher and prefers kebabs
to hamburgers, Geert Wilders has got nothing against Muslims. He just
hates
Islam. Or so he says. 'Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology,' says
Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, 'the ideology of a retarded
culture.'
... Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler's Mein Kampf, he wants the
'fascist Koran' outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make
that
possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants
paid to leave and all Muslim 'criminals' stripped of Dutch citizen****p and
de****ted 'back where they came from'. But he has nothing against Muslims.
'I
have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim
people.' ...
... If 18 months ago he sat alone in the second chamber or lower house in
The Hague, his People's Party now has nine of 150 seats and is running at
about 15 per cent in the polls. His Islam-ba****ng seems to be paying off.
And not only in
Holland. All across Europe, the new breed of right-wing populists are
trying
to revive their political fortunes by appealing to anti-Muslim prejudice.
...
Last month in Antwerp, far-right leaders from 15 European cities and from
political parties in Belgium, Germany and Austria got together to launch a
charter 'against the Islamisation of western European cities', reiterating
the call for a mosque-building moratorium. ...
Where a few years ago the far right in Europe concentrated its fire on
immigration, these days Islam is fast becoming the most popular target. It
is a campaign that is having mixed results. In Switzerland, the Blocher
party has been highly successful. In Holland, Wilders is thriving by
constantly poking sticks in the eyes of the politically correct Dutch
establishment. But when Susanne Winter ran for a seat on the local council
in the Austrian city of Graz last month by branding the Prophet Muhammad a
child molester, she lost her far-right Freedom Party votes.
Wilders echoes some of the arguments against multiculturalism that have
convulsed Germany in recent years. Like many on the traditional German
right, he wants the European Judaeo-Christian tradition to be formally
recognised as the dominating culture, or Leitkultur. 'There is no equality
between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views
on
homo***uality or women,' he says.
But he does want to create a stir. 'Islam is something we can't afford any
more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop
the Islamisation of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more
Islamic schools, no more imams... Not all Muslims are terrorists, but
almost
all terrorists are Muslims.'
Free speech or hate speech? 'I don't create hate. I want to be honest. I
don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims. I hate their book and their
ideology.'
<End extract> ...
As someone who announced "I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam" recently
wrote
in this forum :-
<Quote> ...
Unfortunately the BNP propaganda is true, as I have repeatedly shown on
this
forum. ...
<Unquote> ...
What does this sound like to you the open-minded readers?
--
Peace
--
The "men of culture", with their developed faculty of reasoning, tend to
"give the hysterias of war and the imbecilities of national politics more
plausible excuses than the average man is capable of inventing". [Reinhold
Niebuhr]
Zuiko Azumazi
zuiko.azumazi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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