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Paris attacks boost support for Dutch anti-Islam populist Wilder
2015-01-12
[Ynet]. Support for the anti-Islamic Freedom Party of Dutch populist Geert Wilders has jumped to its highest level in more than a year after the Islamist bully boy attacks in Gay Paree.

Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, said after the Gay Paree bloodshed that the West was "at war" with Islam, drawing a rebuke from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday.

If elections were held now, his party would be the single largest in the Netherlands, with 31 seats in the 150-member parliament, more than twice as many as it won in the last elections, according to a Sunday poll.

Wilders this week called in an interview for measures against Islam: "If we don't do anything, it will happen here," he was quoted by the newspaper Het Parool as saying.

But speaking to Dutch public television shortly before leaving to attend a peace rally in Gay Paree, the Dutch prime minister distanced himself from Wilders's comments.

"I would never use the word 'war,'" he said. "We are in a struggle with bully boyz who are using a belief as an excuse for attacks."
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Why would 'war' be an inappropriate term?

Because... Shut up serf!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-12 23:08  

#1  Foreign powers have officially declared that they don't recognize Western nations' sovereignty.

They have officially demanded that their totalitarian laws be imposed on residents and citizens of Western nations.

They are threatening and/or engaging in asymmetrical warfare in order to attain their stated goals.

Why would 'war' be an inappropriate term?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-12 15:45  

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