GEERT WILDERS IN CANADA: THE BRAVEST MAN….JERRY GORDON
Wilders in Ottawa May 10, 2011
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/34619#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm
Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party in The Netherlands, spoke in Ottawa last night at an event co-sponsored by the International Free Press Society and the Free Thinkers Film Society at the National Arts Centre (NAC). According to a CBC report, “Dutch anti-Islam speech in Ottawa angers Muslims”,his appearance at the NAC was hotly contested by Imad al-Sukkari, of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations, who complained about Harper government one-sided treatment of “free speech” barring controversial former UK Parliamentarian, George Galloway, controversial fund raiser for Hamas. Throngs of Muslim and leftists protesters had successfully thwarted an appearance by US conservative icon Ann Coulter at the University Ottawa alleging that she engaged in “hate speech.” That did not stop Wilders’ three city Canadian tour this week in London, Toronto and last night in Ottawa. Later today Wilders wings his way to Nashville for private events and a major address Thursday evening at the Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tennessee.
Wilders’ theme was moral equivalence, inherent in multiculturalism, would promote Islamization. Note these comments in an Ottawa Citizen report, “Politician warns of Canadian culture disaster.”
“Multiculturalism, I’m afraid, has been a disaster, but only because it is being used as a tool to promote Islam,” he said Tuesday evening in a private reception at the National Arts Centre.
The reception, which saw more than 200 people pack the Fountain Room at the NAC, was jointly sponsored by the International Free Press Society and Ottawa-based Free Thinking Film Society. It was part of Wilders’ three-city tour of Canada that also included stops in London and Toronto. Maverick political activist and media commentator Ezra Levant introduced Wilders as “the bravest man in Europe.”
He reiterated that attitude Tuesday evening. “Islam and freedom are incompatible,” he said, arguing that all the demands for democratic freedom currently embroiling the Middle East will come to nothing unless Arabs “liberate themselves from Islam (and) reject this evil book, the Koran.”
Canadians, too, need to liberate themselves from notions of cultural relativism that regard all cultures to be of equal worth. How, he said, can a religious culture that allows honour killing, the genital mutilation of women and the stoning of adulterers be considered as anything other than barbaric.
In Wilders’ view, Islam is more an ideology than a religion. Unlike Christianity and Judaism, which long ago made their accommodations with the modern liberal secularized world by accepting the separation of church and state, Islam continues to hold religion and politics together. In that sense, Wilder said, Islam is a totalitarian religion.
Wilders issued a challenge to Canada’s PM Harper’s new Conservative majority in the Ottawa Parliament.
Wilders, noting that Canadians recently elected a majority Conservative government, said that if Canadians want to conserve their way of life, they need to pressure the Tories to adopt certain policies: curbing immigration from Islamic countries, expelling immigrants who turn to crime, stopping the construction of mosques and closing Islamic schools where, he said, hatred against western values is promulgated.
“Islam is causing most of the problems for our societies because it insists on its own agenda. But Islam has only one goal, and that is the submission, by persuasion, intimidation or violence, of non-Muslims.”
We await his momentous arrival in the Music City with its own multi-cultural controversies triggering by plans to build mega-mosques and pending anti-Sharia legislation in the state legislature.
Comments are closed.
