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  thabet 1:47 pm on May 8, 2011 Permalink
  Tags: anti-muslim bigots ( 10 ), demagouges, far right ( 97 ), free speech ( 53 ), free speech frauds, geert wilders ( 36 ), holland ( 4 ), Islam ( 451 ), netherlands, politics ( 979 ), racists ( 74 ), Superior Sophisticated Civilisation Watch ( 44 )   

  Oh, delicious irony, how sweet do you taste!

  What do a punk song and a WW2 address have in common? Both have been banned for criticising Geert Wilders’ anti-islamic PVV, the Freedom Party. Is freedom of speech doomed in the Netherlands? Not if it’s up to cultural historian Thomas von der Dunk.

  Von der Dunk was invited to deliver an annual address named after the Dutch resistance hero Willem Arondeus. The address is aimed at underlining the relevance of World War Two to the present day. Von der Donk planned to criticise Geert Wilders’ PVV party, which he claims is discriminatory and undermining the rule of law.

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  But Von der Dunk is apparently not allowed to say this in the Netherlands, and his address has been cancelled. The organisation says his speech was “too politically coloured”. But Von der Dunk says it’s impossible to avoid politics in an argument about social issues.

  There’s more at Radio Netherlands.

   
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  Lawrence of Arabia 10:18 am on October 22, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: free speech ( 53 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), netherlands   

  Geert Wilders’ trial will have to start over after judges are replaced due to bias against the defendant.

   
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  Lawrence of Arabia 6:29 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: free speech ( 53 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), netherlands   

  In the Netherlands, the prosecution recommended acquittal in the Wilders case, arguing that it is permissible to criticize a religion.

  shams, aziz, Muffy, and 8 others are discussing. Toggle Comments

   
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    MikeLyons 8:45 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    The injustice is that he was even charged for a “crime” of criticizing religion or religious people.

    He should have known better. If he didn’t want to be charged he should have confined his criticism to Christianity or Judaism. His mistake was thinking that you can even say a slightly bad thing against Islam or Muslims.

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      Pretty Pink Ponies 10:44 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      “Mr Wilders is accused of inciting hatred against Muslims and inciting hatred against Moroccans specifically as well as non-Western immigrants.”

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        MikeLyons 12:50 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Which is still absurd. We limit the right to free speech when people are inciting violence. If you’re going to put people in jail for inciting “hatred” (or even it’s linked emotion fear) you’re going to have to put a boat load of Muslims in jail.

        Because they and their actions are the greatest “incitement” of hatred of fear in Europe, America, pretty much everywhere.

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          Pretty Pink Ponies 1:37 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          You are applying American standards of free speech. Other Countries Are Not America.

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            MikeLyons 2:12 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            And America is the most advanced country with regard to individual human rights. Muslim countries need to learn to adopt our innovation.

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            Pretty Pink Ponies 3:44 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            The Netherlands is suddenly a “Muslim country”?

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            thabet 6:18 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Does the US recognise socioeconomic human rights?

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            MikeLyons 6:39 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Depends on what you mean by “Socioeconomic human rights”.

            If you mean positive rights like the “right” to an income or a “right” to healthcare whereby the government must force someone to provide services to you (which is a form of slavery) then no.

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            Muffy 11:16 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Pretty Pink Unicorns, I’m a bit confused by your point. Are you saying that Americans should not judge the Netherlands for having illiberal freedom of speech laws?

            MikeLyons, whether you agree with him on other issues or not, at least has a perfectly sensible stance on the issue — free speech is good , and that it’s perfectly fine for Americans to criticize other countries for not living up to our high standards, Muslim or no.

            Is there anybody here who does think that Wilders should be tried? If so, I want to here your opinion.

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            Pretty Pink Ponies 12:58 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Muffy, Mike Lyons’ argument is being stated as though the case is taking place in the United States. We do not understand the situation in the Netherlands. We do not understand the atmosphere or what is going on. And we definitely do not know the laws of the Netherlands.

            I was merely pointing out these things because Mr Lyons clearly doesn’t give a rat-damn about the facts, not because I am ‘against free speech.’ Note his reply to me that “Muslim countries need to learn to adopt our innovation.”

            Did Geert commit a crime? The government seems to think so. I’ll await the judgment of his peers. I don’t live in the Netherlands, so I don’t really understand the level of his rabble-rousing racism nor do I fully understand the country’s history regarding anti-Semitism and Naziism. His attempts to ban the Qur’an and rewrite the Constitution of the Netherlands to specifically assert that Christianity and Judaism are the foundations of the state certainly undercut his position that he is only trying to establish “Free Speech” in the Netherlands.

            Nonetheless, if this case turns out to be a cut at his free speech – a very United Statesian principle – I will think it is a travesty.

            If they successfully link it to criminal enterprise, then I’ll think it was just. I just don’t know enough about the case to say.

            It’s okay not to have all the answers.

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            Hitch 7:19 am on October 17, 2010 Permalink

            I hope you don’t mind me saying but the fact that the case is held in Europe does bear some relevance, but it does not bear relevance whether or not one advocates that he should be either charged or convicted.

            And free-speech is not a USian principle though it is certainly extremely strong given the prominence, wording, history of the 1st Amendment. Europe tends to be less absolutist about the notion, but that goes for virtually everything and is more a reflection of cultural predisposition than difference in relevant attitude.

            But yes, Europe does not have a deep tradition of criticism of blasphemy laws and libel in a free-speech context. The latter is changing somewhat (specifically in the UK) but the former is under-challenged.

            I think it is relevant whether or not someone can even be charged for certain expressions of speech because just the threat (energy, emotional drain, cost, risk) of a law suit can act as a deterrent.

            All this is abstract. Frankly I haven’t been following the Wilders case. It’s mostly to clarify how I see the European situation re free-speech and criticism of religions and the relation to the legal system.

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        Muffy 12:31 pm on October 17, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I hope you don’t mind me saying but the fact that the case is held in Europe does bear some relevance, but it does not bear relevance whether or not one advocates that he should be either charged or convicted.

        And I would agree with this statement. Just because Dutch laws are different than American laws doesn’t justify his conviction (anymore than his conviction would be justified under, say, Saudi law).

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    MikeLyons 8:49 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Which is becoming the way on this side of the Atlantic also. Say something bad about Christians. Christianity, Jews, Judaism (Heck, even Hindus or Buddhist) and either people shrug or agree with you. Say something even slightly bad against Muslims or Islam and you get News agencies investigating your “Bigotry”; the President condemns you and sends a Secret Service agent to harass you (See the Koran burning incident); and angry, bigoted leftists call you “Islamophobes” and hold angry, potentially violent protests to denounce you (See the pro-Ground Zero Mosque protests)

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      Dan 10:20 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Dude go back to jerking off to Serbian war criminals. That’s all you victimizing hacks are good at doing anyways.

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      Matt 10:52 pm on October 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I dunno, Mike, I’m living in America and frankly I’m not feeling the love for Islam. If you try to build a church, or a synagogue, or heck, even a mandir or a temple, people either shrug or show up for the ground-breaking…… mosques seem to be a different matter….. distrust and stereotyping of Muslims seems to be pretty acceptable on major TV and print media outlets….. of course you would probably say that this is because “the Muslims” really are out to Dhimmify everybody…. but that really just proves my point…..

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      aziz 6:12 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I suspect 99% of your worldview, Mike, is a visceral reaction to the crunchy, granola liberals that surely surround you on all sides.

      There surely must be a side business for you in selling them paint thinner.

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        thabet 6:24 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        It appears he has been sniffing most of his stock.

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          aziz 6:39 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Or maybe it’s just how they roll at [school redacted upon request of Mike Lyons].

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            MikeLyons 5:06 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Wow, Aziz. You’re releasing my location. I take that as a threat to go away. I’m considering that as just another Islaomfascist terrorist thug using the threat of violence where you can’t use reason and persuasion.

            Because Islam deprives you of reason.

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            Pretty Pink Ponies 2:51 am on October 17, 2010 Permalink

            Mike, you consider me reading the Qur’an at home quietly before watching Caprica evidence I am just another Islamofascist terrorist thug using threats of violence when I can’t use reason and persuasion, so color me surprised.

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    MikeLyons 12:52 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    We’re not talking about the hoi polloi; we’re talking about the hoi oligoi (the authorities, the media, the politicians, etc). The worst the former can do is commit a crime for which they’ll be jailed; the worst the latter can do is completely destroy you and your life (and those around you) and walk away unscathed.

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      Pretty Pink Ponies 1:39 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      O, here we go with the talk of the Liberal Elites.

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        aziz 7:24 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I know! where is it coming from? Almost overnight. Was it on Beck or Rush?

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      aziz 9:22 am on October 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I wonder if PhDs count as “hoi polloi”. if so, then Im an elite, as is anyone else with a PhD (or seeking to acquire one.. ahem.)

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        Shams al-Nahar 9:39 am on October 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        you are an elitoi, like meh.
        what good is it to pretend stratification by IQ isn’t happening?
        why pretend?

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    shams 8:10 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    actually, one must pity Lyons. America IS segregating into two distinct aggregates, and the liberal aggregate, the hoi elitoi as we will call them, IS all the scientists, academics, cultural elites (like hollywood), intellectuals, and upper tailers. One of the Last Conservative Intellectuals, Dr. Jim Manzi, has now fled to France. But the hoi elitoi never had sufficient numbers to achieve permanent electoral majority……now thanks to the democratic timer and the alienation of millenials, and black and brown and female citizens from the party of race-baiting and IQ-baiting….it is possible that ‘conservatives’ are about to become a forever rump in this country.
    Lyons is just expressing old white xian butthurt.
    And please….any human that crits jews is greeted with screams of anti-semite, even here….like brother thabet called me an antisemite when i said America is Israel’s bitch.
    Aziz should know about that, lol…..blood libel?
    But Israel has overdrawn the holocaust guilt account with American millenials.
    We dont give a shit and we are going to kick j-street to the kerb when we get in.
    Blacks and browns dont give a shit about israel either.
    We dont hate jews…….we hate Israelis.

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      bk 11:23 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Nobody criticizes “Jews,” they criticize Israeli militant zionists or the likud or neo-kapos if you prefer…sell-out who have turned judaism into a religious regime of terror. Most people think Avi Leiberman’s people are behind the talibanization of Israel and his political backing comes from people who want to expel arabs.

      As for holocaust guilt…it is an open secret that it has been played-out. “Never Again” was used to start the pre emptive attacks on Egypt during the 6day war and it has been an excuse for atrocities ever since.
      http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-holocaust-as-political-asset-1.218447

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        midwinterspring 11:46 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        “Nobody criticizes “Jews,” they criticize Israeli militant zionists or the likud or neo-kapos”

        Well, no, an unfortunate number of people still criticize “Jews.” Rick Sanchez got rightly fired for just such anti-Semitism recently. And that is to say nothing of what gets said amongst people in places where anti-Semitism isn’t nearly as taboo (if at all) as it purportedly is in the West.

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          bk 12:52 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          In other words, midwinter: tell it to Helen Thomas.
          Do you live in the USA?
          Maybe a different USA from me.

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          bk 1:02 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          You think that Rick Sanchez saying CNN is run by Jews means Rick is an anti-semite and ought to be fired and ostracized?

          Do all ethnicities get the same sacred standing and privilege? Or is that simply a product of socio-economic status?

          Yes, double-standards and hypocrisy abound on this topic.

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            midwinterspring 4:48 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            “You think that Rick Sanchez saying CNN is run by Jews means Rick is an anti-semite and ought to be fired and ostracized?”

            Yes.

            “Do all ethnicities get the same sacred standing and privilege? Or is that simply a product of socio-economic status?”

            They certainly ought to. Granted, the person who recently said “All terrorists are Muslim” on a mainstream news channel ought to have been dealt with in the same way. But I see no reason to deprive one group of deserved protections just because society is slacking off in protecting another.

            “Yes, double-standards and hypocrisy abound on this topic.”

            I would never suggest otherwise.

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            bk 5:04 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Himo, helen thomas and rick sanchez should be immediately hired by news sources which are more fair and balanced.

            Anti-Descrimination in this country is not an all or none proposition. It is a one at the cost of others.

            Do we support free speech or not. When people heard about the Mohammad cartoons, it was all free speech.

            Now it’s taboo.

            Your attitude may be intentionally correct and heartfelt. In the end, your are simply an enabler.

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            bk 5:16 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            anyway, mws..

            The right thing to do, humbly in my opinion, is to make Helen Thomas or Rick Sanchez work through their “anti-semitism.”

            Be chastised by your employer, show contrition, make nice and be humbled by the offended. show reconciliation. Talk about what you learned.

            BUT! that is not what these neocon facists want, is it? No working it out or a teaching moment about ethnicity in America..no no….total taboo…total intolerance.

            A word and glimpse at something vaguely anti-semitic is immediate termination. It is the same as circulating porn at the office, except circulating porn gets you sent to “counciling.”

            When did we become so intolerant?
            Who inserted that into our culture?

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        bk 12:45 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        In American society, EVERYONE is a victim. Litigiousness spawns it.

        While you are correct to-the-letter, the truth is, what gets said about Jews or Blacks or Mexicans in certain circles or dark corners gets said openly about Muslims. And no one bats an eye. And surprisingly, Muslim Americans don’t really care, even if Daisy Khan can spin a little extra airtime on major news.

        My point is that it is unethical to criticize Jews for being Jewish and everyone knows it. If people are criticized, it is for their politics: muslim, jew or christian right.

        We would do well to keep that clear.

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          bk 12:51 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Unethical pariah like Rupert Murdoch, keep digging up the spector of the holocaust to defend the mistreatment of the Palestinians by the ISRAELIS (not jews). In ruperts weird world, victims have certain rights to displaced aggression which allows Israelis to punish Palestinians for what the Nazis did to European Jewry.

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      thabet 11:51 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      If you claim the US does Israel’s bidding, even against its own supposed interests, then yes this brings up a well used and well-worn antisemitic trope of ‘Jewish power’. Israel can be criticised for a lot of things, but it cannot be criticised or blamed for US foreign policy.

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        midwinterspring 11:57 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        But, Thabet, the US government would never make horrible decisions of its own free will!

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        Matt 11:59 am on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I don’t know if I can agree with that, Thabet. The US political system pays a high return to well-coordinated lobbying efforts. Have you read the book “A Calculated Risk” by Evan M. Wilson?

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        bk 1:18 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        yeah, and goldstone and mearsheimer are self-loathing jews.
        moronic.

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          thabet 1:35 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Have you been trawling jewwatch.com again?

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            bk 1:44 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            Nope. Muzzlewatch.
            Far more interesting

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        bk 1:33 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Anyone that criticized PM Tony Blair for following Bush to Iraq is a defacto Islamic Terrorist.

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        shams 3:56 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        If you claim the US does Israel’s bidding, even against its own supposed interests

        step away from the crack pipe, brother thabet. WTF do you think the “judeochristian” nation is all about?
        dig Eric Cantor, minority house whip and CERTIFIED JEW.

        Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Christian Zionists that U.S. policies in the Middle East must be “firmly grounded” in Judeo-Christian principles.

        “Reaching out to the Muslim world may help in creating an environment for peace in the Middle East, but we must insist as Americans that our policies be firmly grounded in the beliefs of the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which this country was founded,” said Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip and the only Jewish Republican in Congress, in a speech to the Christians United For Israel annual conference in Washington.

        why are you losing brain mass, dude? hangin’ out at Secular Right too much?

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          bk 5:08 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          my belief is thabet is steadfastly anti-American and there is plenty of reason to support his position. America has always been a little hypocritical (“all men are created equal”) to ALOT hypocritical lately with the teabagger movement and all the rightwing hawkish hysteria and islamophobia,,,America has lost touch with its soul.

          I don’t know if it can be recovered or if capitalism always ends in corruption.

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            shams 5:38 pm on October 16, 2010 Permalink

            nah…..thabet drank the razib koolaid.
            like sistah willow.

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    aziz 9:21 am on October 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Good.

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  thabet 3:30 pm on October 4, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: anti-muslim bigotry ( 32 ), anti-Muslim fearmongering ( 56 ), eurabia ( 32 ), europe ( 120 ), far right ( 97 ), freedom of expression ( 13 ), freedom of speech ( 88 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), islamophobia ( 348 ), netherlands, politics ( 979 ), racism ( 249 ), racists ( 74 )   

  Geert Wilders’ trial for inciting racial hatred was halted after his lawyer argued the judge was biased against his client.

  Wilders’ party is part of the government and used his weekend victory speech to declare an Europe-wide anti-Muslim hate campaign:

  On October 2, Wilders took his anti-Islam campaign to Germany, where he is trying to help start a branch of his Freedom Party. He told supporters in Berlin that Germany needed a political movement “that opposes the Islamization” of the country:

  “Today there is a ghost going around Europe. It is the ghost of Islam,” Wilders said. “This danger today is also political. Islam is not just a religion, as many believe. Islam is above all a dangerous political ideology.”

  Europe never learns, does it.

   
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  thabet 9:09 am on October 3, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: anti-Muslim fearmongering ( 56 ), far right ( 97 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), netherlands, politics ( 979 ), racists ( 74 )   

  Even members of the conservative Dutch party VVD dislike Geert Wilders.

   
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  thabet 11:26 am on September 30, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: austria ( 5 ), europe ( 120 ), far right ( 97 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), neo-nazis ( 26 ), netherlands, politics ( 979 ), racism ( 249 ), racists ( 74 ), Superior Sophisticated Civilisation Watch ( 44 )   

  It seems the Superior Civilisation never learns its old lessons:

  An Internet game targeting minarets and mosques, women in burqas in hot pursuit of an elderly white pensioner; across Europe far-right parties are flying high thanks to anti-immigrant, anti-Islam rants.

  The burqa-versus-pensioner TV ad devised by the far-right Sweden Democrats, who scored a maiden entry into parliament this weekend, in the end was modified by law-enforcers, and Austria’s website shootout at Islam was shut down by the authorities.

  Yet Sweden and Austria are on a lengthening list of nations where far-right politicians are notching up impressive gains thanks to spin-off from 9/11, and fallout from the global economic crisis.
  “Politics is becoming nationalistic and nativist in many parts of Europe,” said cult economist Nouriel Roubini, “reflected in an anti-immigrant backlash, raids against the Roma, Islamophobia, and the rise of extreme rightwing parties.”

  Far-right parties currently are in government in Italy and sit in the parliaments of Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Slovakia, Sweden and The Netherlands.

  Geert Wilders’ party is now part of a minority government in the Netherlands and the far-right in Austria made gains where it seems even so-called left-wing Social Democrats are keen to go into power-sharing arrangements with the Hitler lovers who helped promote anti-mosque hysteria via an online game.

   
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  thabet 1:48 am on September 16, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: afghanistan ( 507 ), liberal imperialism ( 30 ), NATO ( 84 ), netherlands, occupation ( 147 ), war crimes ( 135 )   

  ‘Dutch soldiers accused of war crime’.

   
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  thabet 11:07 am on July 19, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: anti-muslim bigots ( 10 ), democracy ( 113 ), europe ( 120 ), geert wilders ( 36 ), Geert Wilders' Superior And Sophisticated Civilisation ( 3 ), identity politics ( 18 ), immigration ( 65 ), Islam ( 451 ), islamophobia ( 348 ), muslims ( 433 ), netherlands, politics ( 979 ), Superior Sophisticated Civilisation Watch ( 44 ), Western culture ( 2 )   

  Geert Wilders ‘to take anti-Islam party global’:

  The anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders, whose Freedom party (PVV) won 24 seats and third place in the Dutch national election last month, says he is forming international alliances to launch branches of his Islamophobic party across the Western world.

  
  Almost 1.5m Dutch people voted for the PVV in June. Now Wilders, who is under constant 24-hour protection because of his incendiary public statements on Islam, has said he will start groups in the US, Canada, Britain, France and Germany later this year.

  
  Wilders left the right-wing Liberal party (VVD), which came first in the recent general election with 31 seats, in 2004 in protest at their support for Turkey’s accession to the EU. He has since made his fierce opposition to Islam the central – and most frequently articulated – tenet of his new party.

  
  Among other goals, he hopes his mooted international alliance will lead to a block on immigration from Islamic nations to the West and a ban on Sharia law.

  
  Speaking to reporters at the Dutch parliament yesterday, Wilders said: “The message, ‘stop Islam, defend freedom’, is a message that’s not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world.”
  He added: “The fight for freedom and [against] Islamisation as I see it is a worldwide phenomenon and problem to be solved.”

   
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  thabet 11:45 am on July 11, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: bosnia ( 21 ), ethnic cleansing ( 24 ), genocide ( 22 ), netherlands, serbia ( 16 ), srebrenica ( 4 ), srebrenica massacre, UN ( 34 )   

  Srebrenica victims file complaint against Dutch peacekeepers:

  A complaint was filed with the Dutch prosecutor’s office on Tuesday alleging that three Dutch soldiers, operating as UN peacekeepers, were complicit in the commission of war crimes and genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which resulted in the death of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. The complaint was filed by the relatives of two of the victims and contends that the soldiers knew the victims would be killed if they were handed over to Serbian troops led by Serbian general Ratko Mladic. According to the complaint, the soldiers forced the victims from a UN-designated “safe area”, resulting in their deaths. The complaint also states that the men knew about the Serbian hatred of Muslims and about the previous execution of Muslims, making the soldiers complicit in the deaths of the victims. The lawyer representing the families has stated that evidence against the peacekeepers includes the fact that they expressed concern about the possibility of mass execution but still evicted the men from the base that was being protected by Dutch troops. The Dutch prosecutor will now consider whether to investigate the charges. If the men were to be convicted, they could face a sentence of life in prison.

   
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  thabet 1:49 am on June 15, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: europe ( 120 ), Islam ( 451 ), Muslim women ( 106 ), netherlands, PR ( 2 ), public relations ( 6 )   

  I see the Dutch are also having their own ‘positive Muslim’ campaign:

  Al Nisa (Arabic for “the women”), a Muslim woman’s organization based out of the Netherlands, has found a new and eye-catching way to combat misconceptions about Muslim women in the Netherlands.

  In early May they launched their campaign titled, “Really Dutch.” This poster campaign features Muslim women, pictured wearing a headscarf, doing things which are “Dutch.”

  What is “Dutch,” you ask? According to the posters, drinking tea and eating herring are things which are indicative of one’s Dutch-ness.

  Leyla Çakir, the chair of Al Nisa says, “We want to make it clear, in a humorous way, that we are Muslims, but we’re also Dutch. And we want to break down the negative prejudices about Muslim women. That we are oppressed, that we spend all our time indoors. That we have nothing to say.”
  

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    Drip Tray 2:51 pm on December 21, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    there are times that good public relations cannot be always achieved `,-