{"id":1198,"date":"2007-08-16T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2007-08-16T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:40:06","slug":"death-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Death Wish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dutch politician, leading perhaps more with his heart and his rage, takes on militant Islam at its’ heart<\/a> – and maybe more:<\/p>\n

Writing in Dutch daily De Volkskrant on Wednesday, [Dutch parliamentarian Geert] Wilders said: “Ban this wretched book just like Mein Kampf is banned. Send a signal … to Islamists that the Koran can never, ever be used in our country as an excuse or inspiration for violence.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hitler’s Mein Kampf, published in 1925, outlines the future Nazi dictator’s racist ideology. It has been banned from sale in the Netherlands since the end of World War Two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, I don’t ever advocate banning books.\u00a0 Indeed, I recommend reading things like Mein Kampf <\/em>and The Turner Diaries<\/em>, just so one knows what one is up against.\u00a0 I’m planning on finding a Koran someday soon, here, in fact.<\/p>\n

But back to the story:\u00a0 while I don’t endorse Wilders’ solution, it’s a sign – along with the rebounding electoral fortunes of the CDU in Germany and the Sarkozy victory in France – that maybe, just maybe, Europe is starting to get serious about defending its culture in the face of a “multicultural” assault.<\/p>\n

Wilders, whose new party won nine seats out of the 150 in parliament in last November’s elections, is well known for his firebrand remarks on Islam.<\/p>\n

He has warned of a “tsunami of Islamisation” in a country home to 1 million Muslims, and has lived under heavy protection since receiving death threats from Islamist militants in 2004.<\/p>\n

Wilders said an attack over the weekend by two Moroccans and a Somali on a young Iranian-born politician who heads a Dutch group for “ex-Muslims” had spurred him to write.<\/p>\n

The attack on Ehsan Jami, 22, caused an outcry in the Netherlands, where the November 2004 murder of Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker critical of Islam, by a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim militant led to an anti-Muslim backlash and exposed social tensions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a lot less worried about the Dutch than about much of the rest of Europe; the Dutch still have a sense of nationalism; they are among few people in Europe that actually treat their National Anthem the way Americans do.\u00a0 That means little in and of itself, but it’s a hint that maybe the Dutch will give up their national identity a little more dearly than some of the rest of the continent.<\/p>\n

(Via Miss O’Hara)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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