Fortschritte wrote:Geert Wilders is loony, quite frankly. He wants to ban the Quran, and stop all Islamic immigration.
He's a bit eccentric, but he's a necessary counter-weight to the naive idealists who've been running this country (and running it into the ground) since the spring of 1968.
Banning the Quran is not a good idea, I think, because having it available freely for everyone to read is probably a much more effective way of combating the faith behind it. The moment I read that ghastly work was the moment I became an 'islamophobe'. The Quran really is a manifesto for war, famine, slavery, rape, brutal torture and murder and mass execution of prisoners of war. Everything the Islamic State does is perfectly justified by what the Quran says (and according to even mainstream islamic theology, the Quran contains only the direct and literal word of God).
Stopping all islamic immigration to the Netherlands would be a godsend, I think. We just can't deal with this any longer. We can't deal with the deliberate undermining of the values and rules that make our society peaceful and prosperous by islamic migrants who choose self-segregation even when offered much cheaper and better housing away from their own communities. We can't deal with an inflow of migrants who, according to figures released a few years ago, cost the government between €40,000 and €50,000 more than they will ever contribute to society and pass that effect on to their children. We can't deal with yet more Muslim migrants settling in a country where already there are more non-western migrants receiving bijstand than Dutch people. We're just overloaded, and adding more Muslims will light the fuse of war.
Fortschritte wrote:Pim Fortuyn, while a notable Islamaphobe and eurosceptic, was a lot less radical than Geert. Though I almost completely disagree with his political beliefs, I admired his love of liberalism, and find his death tragic.
What's wrong with not being a fan of the religion in whose name, at the moment, more than ninety-five percent of all deaths by terrorism in the world occur? What's wrong with not being a fan of a religion whose holy book calls for the total humiliation and submission of all infidels wherever they may be, and whose followers have been invading Europe for thirteen hundred years and used to raid our coasts to capture slaves and harvests for centuries on end? Respect is earned, not simply given, and Islam has done everything it possibly could to ensure that no rational man could respect it.
And the European Union - well, it's ineffective and inefficient and corrupt and motivated by a very dangerous kind of ideological zeal (trying to create a state without a nation, an army without loyalty, and one of the world's biggest countries with forty or more languages and five hundred million inhabitants who usually do not want to be part of such a state). It's the reason Europe was exceptionally hard-hit during the last economic crisis, is hardly getting enough economic growth for any job creation, has more and more insecure temporary jobs to keep up with the American trends (because America is a blueprint for the European Union), and will probably stumble into an even worse economic, social and political crisis within this decade. All in the name of unity-in-diversity.
