Thursday, January 1, 2009

Geert Wilders: Front Page Magazine's Man of the Year

Geert Wilders has been named Front Page Magazine's Man of the Year:

It’s a safe bet that Geert Wilders won’t be Time magazine’s Man of the Year any time soon. If anything, the unusually coiffed Dutch MP is a favorite hate figure of the Western media, which has spent years vilifying him as a “reactionary,” a “particularly dangerous type of demagogue,” a “racist” and an “Islamophobe.” Wilders would almost certainly plead guilty to the last charge, and with ample reason. His tireless campaign to sound the alarm about the growing threat of Islamic radicalism in the West has turned him into a target of Islamic jihadists and the object of untold assassination plots. A 2006 death threat, one of hundreds he’s received, declared that his “infidel blood will flow freely on cursed Dutch streets.” Al-Qaeda has specifically singled him out for slaughter.

Against this menacing background, it would have been no failing in his character if Wilders had decided that the price of speaking out about Islamic fundamentalism was too high; others in his prominent position would have reached just that conclusion. Instead, Wilders has persevered. Braving daily death threats and sacrificing the security that his critics take for granted, he has opted for the often-thankless task of saving Western civilization from its Islamist discontents – beginning with the valuable reminder that the demands of Islamic zealots are not only not congruent with Western values but are, in fact, in direct conflict with them. For his impressive personal courage, his steadfast political commitment, and his refreshing disdain for the suffocating pieties of political correctness, Geert Wilders is Front Page Magazine’s Man of the Year in 2008.

The steep risks involved in Wilders’s anti-Islamist campaign are tragically illustrated by the fates of two of his countrymen. Pim Fortuyn, the popular Dutch politician who warned against the Islamisation of Dutch society and railed against the “backwardness” of certain Islamic traditions, was gunned down by a crazed animal-rights activist in 2002. His killer later claimed that he had shot Fortuyn in order to
defend Dutch Muslims from persecution.

Next on the hit list was Dutch provocateur and documentarian Theo Van Gogh. In 2004, Van Gogh was gruesomely murdered in Amsterdam by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-born Islamist who judged Van Gogh’s film on the mistreatment of women in Islam, Submission, to be a crime deserving of death. To Van Gogh’s butchered body, Bouyeri pinned a list of “infidels” who “deserved to be slaughtered.” Among the names singled out for execution was Geert Wilders.

The threats were all too real. Shortly after Van Gogh’s murder, Dutch authorities discovered an Islamist network with advanced plans to kill Wilders, and an internet video surfaced promising 72 virgins to anyone who carried out the deed. As police investigated, Wilders was forced into 24-hour protection, traveling from safe house to safe house to avoid his pursuers. Even today he is never without dark-suited bodyguards by his side. “There’s no freedom, no privacy,” Wilders says. “If I said I was not afraid, I would be lying.”
There's lots more at the link. I like this line from the conclusion:

Geert Wilders has made all the right enemies. At a time when many counsel accommodation of Islamist demands, Wilders remains defiant. In an era of civilizational self-loathing, he defends the West without apology. Despite the threats to his life, he refuses to be silenced. For all this, Wilders deserves the praise of many – including the many in the West who scorn his name.
I wrote earlier on Wilders' interview at the Wall Street Journal. See, "Mumbai: India's 9/11."

4 comments:

  1. I know others will focus on other aspects of this article that are very pertinent. These thugs think they can kill those who refuse to knuckle under to the Islamic-ization of Western civilization. But I'd like to speak out about their foul use and abuse of women. I'm sure it's been pointed out many times. But allow me to be brutally blunt. All women are in that culture is a piece of ummmm... "work"... to be owned and controlled by men for ONE REASON. Look at that. They offer 72 virgins to men for murder. And anyone wants to claim that this neandrethal dark ages evil political hate group is "politically correct"???

    Women are pieces of meat owned by men for one reason... and that's made clear by their "reward system". Let this evil empire be damned. And let women unite in the USA to call it damned.

    The only people who would think this religion is something to advance would be the lefists males in the USA who secretly think the same thing and pimp women for their votes. I'll just be blunt. I think women ought to wake up. The left panders to them and uses them. The Republicans who gave us a woman VP candidate. The left is pimping the women's vote... or why else isn't the voice of women strong enough to call Islam the evil pagan Dark Ages oppressor of women that it is?? It's a HATE GROUP!!

    Grace.

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  2. Interesting, Grace, and actually, your point is totally related to the overall totalitarianism of Islam.

    Thanks for commenting!

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    Good for you Grace! Where are the women on the Left who call themselves feminists when it comes to Islamic subjugation of women? Pure hypocrites.

    As you may suspect, Geert Wilders is NO racist. He is simply against out-of-control immigration; and against immigrants who won't assimilate; and the ones who beat Gays and rape non-Muslim women for not being covered up.

    He is also very much against the ones who kill their own daughters and sisters for their 'family honor'.
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    here’s an absurd thought -
    your Supreme God knows
    Christ was a pedophile

    and a raping terrorist
    converting slaves by the sword
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    Muslims are not a 'race' anyway, they are followers of a religion/ideology and its Sharia Law.

    Most Muslims aren't even Arabs, which by the way, is also not a 'Race'.

    Which their duty is, according to their Koran, to spread Sharia law over the whole Earth. It might take 100-200 years, if they succeed.

    Is that the kind of world you want for your great-grand children's great-grand children? A Taliban Planet? I bet not.

    Muslims are the biggest victims of Islam. Wilders is NOT against Muslims, he is against Islamic Fundamentalism.

    You should read the Koran, but be careful, for the Koran prohibits non-Muslims from reading it.

    I wonder why.

    This is BIG, this is REAL BIG! SPREAD THE WORD to the world everyone! The EU Mandarins have crossed the line! If this goes to court, how much more of the public will become aware of this tyranny?

    All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. If there is no freedom of speech, then there can be no real freedom.

    The Christians and Jews don’t riot when somebody makes fun of Christ or Jews. People must learn to be civilized, and held to account when they are not. Muslims included.

    Geert Wilders is a hero spreading the painful truth. He MUST be protected!
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    here's an absurd thought -
    your Supreme God says
    Christians are a race

    who love the Jewish race
    and the peaceful Buddhist race

    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe wants
    Islam for everyone

    submit to glorious life
    slavery and servitude

    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe says
    outlaw self-defense

    exposing violent crimes
    shall be deemed hate speech

    .
    absurd thought -
    God of the Universe says
    decide to change your race

    just simply change religions
    your religion is your race
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    All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.
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    Philosophy of Liberty Cartoon
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    Help Halt Terrorism Today!
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    USpace
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    :)
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