Geert Wilders Threatened With Suicide Attack (videos, interviews)

February 16th, 2008 — activism, terrorism, Geert Wilders, YouTube, smiley, Koran, video, Europe, counterjihad, Islam, censorship

Update 3/30/08:

Update 2/27/08: What did the near-worldwide YouTube outage have to do with Geert Wilders’ new movie? Click here to learn more! Fitna, The Movie: Due Out This Week

Courageous Dutch MP Geert Wilders has faced such threats from the beginning:
2/1/2005: Dutch politician Geert Wilders watches the latest Internet video clip calling for his beheading. He has adopted an aggressively anti-Islamic position, saying that Islam and democracy are “not compatible, not now and not in a million years.” (Keith B. Richburg — The Washington Post)

Geert Wilders

Suicide attack planned on Wilders

From Expatica, with thanks to Fjordman, who keeps an eye on the international reporting on Dutch affairs. Something we at KV should be doing a lot more, instead of relying on internal MSM reporting. Because this bit of news should have made headlines in the Netherlands, but didn’t. Not by a long shot. One wonders why not…

MP Geert Wilders was threatened with a suicide attack last week. Two young men reportedly planned to shoot the politician down and detonate a van full of explosives next to the politician. “Many innocent people were to die in the chaos.”

This has emerged from the report Wilders filed with the Haaglanden police. A warning of the attack planned for either The Hague or Amsterdam came via the anonymous hotline for crime tips. A similar, but less detailed, death threat came in via the hotline this week. It is unusual for this hotline to be used to announce death threats.

The initial, very concrete warning spoke about an attack planned for early February. Wilders would first be shot, and then a man would drive a white delivery van into the victim and detonate the 500 to 600 kilos of explosives in the vehicle.

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The person who called the hotline said that the perpetrators were not fundamentalists, but “just wanted revenge.”

Well, that’s okay then. Just as long as they’re not fundamentalist. Because that would be, eehm… awkward?

Anyway, this news comes hot on the heels of an interview that Wilders gave yesterday, in which he doesn’t exactly mince words viz-a-vis and apropos of (small Thin Blue Line reference) the Religion of Peace(tm). See also Isaac Schrödingers post below.

According to Wilders, Islam is a violent religion. “If Mohammed lived here today, I would propose tarring and feathering and hunting him out of the country as an extremist. (…) If Muslims want to stay here, they must tear up and throw away half the Koran. They must not listen to their Imam. I have read the Koran. (…) And I know that there are enough terrible things in it. If Muslims do assimilate, they are fully-fledged citizens, not a millimetre less valuable than you or I.”

Wilders believes his new PVV party - it obtained 9 Lower House seats in November - can grow into “one of the biggest parties” in parliament. “Other parties avoid the themes that threaten us in our existence. Everything we are proud of, we sell to the devil. (…) You feel that you are no longer living in your own country.”

On his thoughts about Israel:

The only criticism he has of the country is that “I find Israel sometimes listens to Europe too much. It should have intervened in Lebanon much earlier. I am more inclined to consider that Israel does not go far enough than that it goes too far.”

Read it all.

(Cross posted at Klein Verzet)

Smileys raising steins (Stein hoist: Atlas Shrugs)

In his own words:
Why Geert Wilders won’t back down

Geert Wilders Speaks: Anti-Koran Film - Part 1 of 2

Geert Wilders Speaks: Anti-Koran Film - Part 2 of 2

Wilders’ film is to be called “Fitna” (فتنة)

Dutch MP says anti-Islamic film set for broadcast in March

Feb 9, 2008

THE HAGUE (AFP) — Dutch far-right deputy Geert Wilders said in an interview published Saturday that his controversial anti-Islam film will be called “Fitna” , arabic for ordeal, and will be aired in March.

The leader of the Freedom party (PVV), which has nine of 150 seats in parliament, said in November that he planned to make a short film showing that Islam’s holy book, the Koran, is “a fascist book” that “incites people to murder”.

According to the interview with Dutch GPD news agency, Wilders’ 15-minute film is almost done, and he hopes it will be shown on Dutch television in March. He had initially said it would air at the end of January.

Wilders said he has called the film Fitna, an Arabic word that in Islam is used to describe all things that can test the faith and is sometimes synonymous to evil.

“I use the term in an inverse sense because for me Islam … is fitna,” he said.

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