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Dutch politician for ban on Holy Quran
 Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders has called for the Holy Quran to be banned in the Netherlands, branding it a "fascist book" in the vein of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', which legitimises violence.
Master of the Obvious. But to say so publicly!
| Sounds like a reasonable step to me. Makes a lot more sense than teaching it to impressionable non-Muslims... |
Writing in Dutch daily De Volkskrant on Wednesday, Wilders said, "Ban this wretched book just like Mein Kampf is banned. Send a signal...to Islamists that the Quran can never, ever be used in our country as an excuse or inspiration for violence."
| He meant "be used again," but we guessed that... |
Mein Kampf, published in 1925, outlines Hitler's racist ideology. It has been banned from sale in the Netherlands since the end of World War II.
| You can still buy a copy in many American bookstores, but then we were never occupied by Germany. |
Ayhan Tonca, chairman of the CMO umbrella group of Dutch Muslim organisations said Wilders' comments were best ignored.
You do so at your own peril, Annie.
"This is typical Wilders. This is a ridiculous idea," he said. "There is not much news at the moment so he is trying to create some."
| Tonca seems to realize that the part of the Dutch population that isn't too whacked out to care is to scared of the turbans to actually try to do anything substantive about them. |
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.
From the little acorn the mighty oak grows.
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.
| Which kind of proves his point, if you're not into some heavy dope. Even if you're scared of the Islamists. You don't need protection from people who aren't a threat. Q.E.D. |
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.
| Driving the point home, aren't they? That's because they don't expect anyone to do anything substantive. |
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.
| That lasted all of about six months, at the outside, proving that you can always count on the European attention span to let you literally get away with murder. |
"Allah sees the death penalty as fitting for those who no longer believe," Wilders wrote on Wednesday, adding this view had fuelled the attack on Jami, now under police protection. The Muslim holy book should be banned from sale, from use in mosques and private households, Wilders added.
Posted by: Fred & Nimble Spemble 2007-08-09 |
