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February 18, 2007
Netherlands: Saudis Insist Wilders Retracts Islamic Comments
Last Tuesday, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders made some scathing assessments of Islam. The comments were made during an interview with De Pers newspaper. Wilders said: "If Mohammed lived here today, I would propose he be tarred and feathered as an extremist and driven out of the country." He said half of the Koran shoulf be torn up and thrown away, and also stated: "Everything we are proud of, we are selling to the devil. Former head of the Mossad Efraim Halevy says that World War III has begun. I would not use those words, but it's true."
He added: "Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!"
Now, DPA reports that the Saudi ambassador to the Netherlands, Waleed al-Khareejy has today demanded that Wilders should retract his remarks. Khareejy said an apology was "necessary".
The ambassador did not want to invite publicity for his demands, saying he would prefer to follow up the issue "away from the press". One thing the Saudis should realize is that in the Western world we have freedom of speech. If the Saudi Embassy decides to make a political issue about one man's expression of his personal opinions, he could find himself provoking a backlash.
Islam in the Netherlands is allowed to be practised freely, and mosques are in most towns. In Saudi Arabia, no other faith can be followed other than Islam, and freedom of speech is unheard of. If this ambassador decides to interfere with a politician's freedom of speech concerning the ideology which is Islam, when his own country refuses people the freedom to worship, he will only highlight the failings and repression of his own society.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 18, 2007 3:34 PM
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Wilders WILL retract his remarks and apologise.
But not before the hole in his backside heals up.
Posted by: Sir Henry Morgan ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 18, 2007 6:53 PM
Since they execute people in Saudi Arabia for believing the wrong thing, or in the case of one foreigner who accidentally ended up on the wrong road during a pilgramage, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Saudis have a hard time proving anyone else is "intolerant" or that what they preach and fund the preaching of around the world, is not violence to the infidels. The only thing that Saudis do good is lower oil prices to help prevent Iran from being able to take over a good chunk of the Middle East, especially the holy cities in Iraq and Saudia Arabia, they are relying on the USA to protect their butts, as usual. But their oil reserves are vastly overstated and if a truthful appraisal was done the world would realize they have fraudently leveraged equity value to buy into other assets worldwide.
Posted by: Catawhumpus at February 19, 2007 8:32 AM
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