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Geert Wilders tries to break America

Luckily, his anti-Muslim tract gains little traction in the US.

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Published 09 June 2012 19:38

Geert Wilders in 2011. Photo: Getty Images

The deepening of the Eurozone crisis – with Greece, Spain and Italy on the brink and threatening to bring the rest of the EU down with them – has stoked fears about the rise of the far-right and the future of European politics.

In Greece, the extreme right party Golden Dawn secured twenty-one parliamentary seats, making it the most far-right party to enter an European legislature since the Nazi era. Similarly, Marine Le Pen’s anti-euro, anti-immigrant National Front Party achieved a record 17.9 per cent of the April vote in the first round of France’s presidential election. These wins illustrate how frustrated voters, disenchanted with mainstream political parties, are increasingly turning to fringe parties on both left and right.

No wonder that Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has just released his new book, Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, in New York. With 24 seats in the Dutch parliament in 2010, Wilders’ party was the third largest bloc, supporting Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s minority coalition in return for a range of anti-Muslim concessions – a crackdown on immigration and a ban on the burqa. But last April, when Wilders pulled out of the coalition due to its support for austerity measures, Rutte’s government collapsed.

Wilders’ broad anti-Euro, anti-austerity agenda – calling for Netherlands’ budget policies to be decided domestically, not by the EU lawmakers in Brussels – has given him a platform to exploit the wave of opposition to austerity sweeping across Europe and beyond. A new poll shows that for the first time, his Freedom Party has outstripped the ruling Liberal Party in popularity, making them second only to the Socialists, who have doubled their seats to 30.

But Wilders’ Muslim thesis is so unhinged that it raises concerns about the resurgent legitimacy of far-right ideology under the stress of political and economic crisis. His Marked for Death essentially sets out a rationale for his call for an “International Freedom Alliance”, an umbrella organisation of groups and individuals “fighting for freedom against Islam”. The agenda is simple – the Qur’an should be banned, mosques forcibly shut down, Muslim women who wear a headscarf taxed, Muslim immigration halted, and potentially dangerous Muslims deported en masse.

Wilders’ hostility toward anything to do with Islam makes him incapable of recognising the growing impetus for reform across the Muslim world. For instance, Wilders takes aim at the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the intergovernmental body for 57 Muslim member states, as a clandestine vehicle for a global Islamic Caliphate conspiring to “elevate Shari’ah Laws over human rights.”

While the OIC is far from perfect, this overlooks how since 2005, under the leadership of Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the body has taken serious steps to promote internal Muslim reform – establishing the world’s first Muslim human rights commission to investigate abuses of “internationally-recognised civil, political, economic and social rights” in Muslim countries; issuing a comprehensive resolution condemning “all forms of terrorism”; while condemning Arab dictatorships trying to crush local democratic movements.

In his zeal to demonise Islam as a Nazi-like “totalitarian political ideology” and “existential threat”, Wilders turns a blind eye to such efforts for progressive Islamic reform. It is not a surprise, then, to find Wilders equally oblivious to the American Muslim experience. A study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security finds that American Muslim communities “have been active in preventing radicalisation”, and that the threat of home-grown terrorism, while already “minuscule”, has continued to decline. American Muslims regularly confront “individuals who express radical ideology or support for terrorism”, prevent “extremist ideologues from preaching in mosques”, and communicate “concerns about radical individuals to law enforcement officials”. No wonder even the RAND Corporation concludes that terrorists “would find little support in the Muslim community” in the US.

But then, published by notorious neoconservative outlet Regnery Publishing, Wilders’ Marked for Death offers little new in the profitable field of anti-Muslim scaremongering. Indeed, it is no coincidence that his Freedom Party has for years received funding to the tune of six figures from many of the same US sources published by Regnery, such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes and Pam Geller – whose stale stereotypes about Islam are amply regurgitated in his book ad nauseum.

The US publication of Marked for Death in English thus reveals the extent to which US ultraconservatives are getting desperate. With upcoming elections on the horizon, they have thrown the ‘Wilders card’ in a vain attempt to project his alleged European experiences on to an American audience to scare them into voting against Obama – which is precisely why Wilders is marketing his book in the US, and not Europe.

Fortunately, his book’s boring message is falling on deaf ears. Bar an interview with the equally unhinged Sean Hannity on Fox News, Marked for Death has received negligible acclaim in the American press. Discerning readers will note the most obvious reason: in the name of defending “freedom”, Wilders’ political programme is based entirely on the idea of forcibly eliminating the freedom of all Muslims across the West to practise and speak about their faith – whether or not they oppose extremism (which most do). Only someone utterly ignorant of American history would attempt such a thing in the Land of the Free.

Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an international security expert and Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development. His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), which is now a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

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156 comments

Mon, 2012-06-18 06:49 — Armin ius (not verified)

Fascist Exposed - Geert Wilders in HARDtalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6SJELKlY0

Mon, 2012-06-18 20:07 — jankaas (not verified)

but it's not that simple Arminius. Wilders is at least correct when he says our European leaders were weak when they should have been strong regarding the Danish cartoons. Europe should have stood as one and faced up to those who demanded we censor our free press. some religious people were insulted and upset, tough.
and, Wilders is also correct when he says that Turkey just does not belong in the Eurozone. not yet at the very least. their human rights record is shockingly awful.
this doesn't make Wilders a good person though, he remains a divisive bigoted xenophobe. this whole Wilder's debacle merely highlights that our politicians have avoided the tough issues for short term gain, and now it's turned around and bitten them in the arse. it was so predictable it's embarrassing to see where we are.

Mon, 2012-06-18 20:48 — Armin ius (not verified)

I do not disagree especially as regards Turkey. For cultural and historical reasons I cannot see that Turkey has a place in the EU and believe that its destiny lies in Asia. In any case, I think the Eurozone crisis has made the possibility of EU membership for Turkey a more remote prospect with the Turks themselves less keen.
In my travels through Europe I have come across several individuals on the far right who made "good and valid points" most recently in Budapest. Members of Jobbik were campaigning in the underpass at Oktagon on the Pest side of the Danube and the chap I spoke to (he was the only one who spoke much English or German) made some valid points about Roma beggars and criminal gangs. As I had seen such Roma criminal gangs in action in Sibiu, Transylvania the previous year (using young children as pickpockets) this struck a cord with me. For victims of crime, economic hardship and alienation, the message of the far right (and far left) can be very seductive.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:25 — Isabella T. (not verified)

I'm not prepared any longer to see areas of Britain turned into Gay-free zone, to see the evil sharia imposed or watch women being forced to wear medieval oppressive clothing. I am not prepared to watch our media being subjected to antijew and antichristian prejudices by Muslim fanatics. The Islamization of Britain must end now.

Sun, 2012-06-17 19:52 — Coleridge (not verified)

Two more Churches and scores of innocent Christians butchered today by the murderous Islamist terrorists Boko Haram in Nigeria who seek to emulate Moslem fanatics in apartheid Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in murdering and ethically cleansing Christians from their homeland. And total silence from the Christian Establishment! When will the free world rise and give these islamofascist scum what they truly deserve - napalm.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:18 — Armin ius (not verified)

"United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons prohibits, in all circumstances, making the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat or a combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target. The protocol also prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against military targets near concentration of civilians, which may otherwise be allowed by the principle of proportionality. Protocol III lists certain munition types like smoke shells which, even if they contain White Phosphorus, only have a secondary incendiary effect; these munition types are not considered to be incendiary weapons".
I think you will find troll that napalm falls into this category so you will have to find a rogue state prepared to use such weapons against civilians. Israel for example.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:27 — Isabella T. (not verified)

I agree. Napalm is illegal. The Islamist killers should be stoned to death. A means of despatch much favored by Muslim fanatics.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:33 — Armin ius (not verified)

Better pack your bag and head off looking for these "Muslim fanatics" so you can do the job yourself. Let me know how you get on (don't lose your head).

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:36 — Isabella T. (not verified)

better you pack your bags with your racism you'll enjoy life more back home in your apartheid Pakistan.

Sun, 2012-06-17 21:03 — Armin ius (not verified)

I am Scottish and live in Scotland where less than 2% of the population is Muslim. I enjoy life here just fine free from this "Islamisation" you refer to and also free from EDL boneheads like you.

Sun, 2012-06-17 21:37 — Isabella T. (not verified)

hahahahahahah yeah right. and I'm from Venus.

Sun, 2012-06-17 21:36 — Isabella T. (not verified)

hahahahahahah yeah right. and I'm from Venus.

Sun, 2012-06-17 21:39 — Armin ius (not verified)

Nah, you're from the planet troll, a planet populated entirely by cretins.

Sun, 2012-06-17 17:37 — Armin ius (not verified)

Wilders hatred is not solely reserved for Muslims:
"His father, the head of research at Océ, a manufacturer of copying machines, had hidden from the Nazis in World War II. Forty years later, he still refused to cross the bridges over the Meuse River to neighboring Germany. This strict devotion to principle seems to have made an impression on the young Geert. Referring to his military service, he says: "I too was happy not to have to share a tent with the Germans during joint maneuvers."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/islam-critic-wilders-a-missio...
"Do you have trouble of CEE nationals? Or have you lost your job on a Pole, Bulgarian, Romanian or other Central or Eastern European? We would like to hear. The Freedom Party has a platform on this website to your symptoms to report. These complaints, we will identify and offer the results to the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment".
http://www.meldpuntmiddenenoosteuropeanen.nl/

Sun, 2012-06-17 17:19 — Armin ius (not verified)

"Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has called on Israel to settle the West Bank. In a speech Mr Wilders gave in Tel Aviv on Sunday, he urged Israel to build more settlements in "Judea and Samaria", as the West Bank was historically known, in defiance of international calls for a construction freeze.
The Freedom Party leader said that Israel needs defendable borders for its own survival and security: "A county that is only 15 kilometres wide is impossible to defend. That is the strategic reason why Jews need to settle Judea and Samaria".
Mr Wilders also said Palestinians should be allowed to voluntarily settle in Jordan. The country could then rename itself Palestine and the Palestinians could "freely elect their own government in Amman." The Dutch politician said there was no reason for the Jordanian king to become nervous: "If the present Hashemite King is still as popular as today, he can remain in power. That is for the people of Palestine to decide in real democratic elections."
He told his audience that the West too often points an accusing finger at Israel, which, according to Mr Wilders "is not to blame for the situation in the Middle East." The Dutch politician said he knew why the Palestinians are a problem in Israel: "Because the Palestinians were not welcomed in the neighbouring Arab countries. There was no Arab solidarity; the refugees were forced into camps and slums, where many of their descendants still linger today."
Mr Wilders also said that the United Nations has not handled the situation well: "Under international definitions the status of refugee or displaced person only applies to first generation refugees. However... descendants of Palestinian refugees are granted the same refugee status as their ancestors. Consequently, the number of so-called Palestinian refugees registered with the UN increased from 711,000 in 1950 to over 4.7 million in 2010. These refugees are being used as a demographic weapon against Israel."
Mr Wilders said the Jews had built new lives for themselves in Israel and that Palestinians should do the same in Jordan. The situation could then slowly return to normal, even though he warned that: "Islam... conditions Muslims to hate Jews. It is a religious duty to do so." He said it made him sick to see how Western leaders refuse to acknowledge that Israel plays a vital role in the region: "If Israel falls, the West falls. That is why we are all Israel."
Unlike his former personal visits to Israel, Wilders was in Tel Aviv on Sunday as the result of an official invitation by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman!.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/wilders-urges-israel-annex-west-bank
There is no doubt that Wilders is simply a "kosher fascist" closely allied to the more extreme Zionist elements in Israel.

Sun, 2012-06-17 19:55 — Coleridge (not verified)

The islamofascist regime in Tehran has just put online an openly neo-Nazi website glorifying the Holocaust. The islamoNazi Arminius/jackass must be delighted.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:21 — Armin ius (not verified)

Where's the link? Where is the evidence? Or is this just another of your "Handschar Division wiped out Bosnian Jewry" b*llocks story (you've gone all quiet on that too for some reason)?

Sun, 2012-06-17 16:58 — Armin ius (not verified)

"The leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, is demanding that the Dutch state apologise for not doing enough to save Dutch Jews during the Second World War. His call comes a few months after the publication of a book, Judging the Netherlands, in which two former ministers say that the then monarch, Queen Wilhelmina, and the government-in-exile hardly did anything to help Jewish citizens.
A spokesman for the Jewish community, Ronny Naftaniel of the Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel, says Jews would welcome an official government apology for having ignored what was happening to the Jews. "Turning a blind eye," he says, "is often a more serious crime than committing it yourself".
Geert Wilders' demand puts Prime Minister Mark Rutte in a tight spot. Any apology would get him in trouble with Queen Wilhelmina's granddaughter, Queen Beatrix".
http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/wilders-wants-official-apology-wartime-i...
Like Wilders, Naftaniel is a Zionist apologist for the Israeli state. Under his leadership the CIDI has expanded its task to monitoring anti-Semitism in the Netherlands besides challenging criticism of Israel. To him they are one and the same thing.

Sun, 2012-06-17 19:46 — Coleridge (not verified)

Arminius you very sick IslamoNazi scum. Not content with supporting the Moslem SS Handscar Division that murdered 90% of Bosnian Jewry, not content with supporting the Moslem Nazi collaborator Haj Amin-el Huuseini the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem, not content with excusing the SS background of Gunter Grass, not content with supporting the islamofascist state of Iran which holds Holocaust Denial Conferences, you now seek to excuse those who assisted in the genocide of Dutch Jewry.
You are a Nazi Islamist maggot. God alone knows why the NS permit your racist comments to appear on its website? The only consolation is that any sane person reading your Nazi/Islamist sh.t will readily identify your Islamism with Nazism.

Sun, 2012-06-17 20:30 — Armin ius (not verified)

Trollridge; you obviously didn't read the information about the Handschar Division I posted earlier otherwise you would realise that the responsibility for the destruction of the 70% of Bosnian Jews that perished in the Holocaust lies with the (fanatically) Catholic Croatian Ustase. Why else would you keep posting the same lie over and over (might have worked for Goebbels but doesn't cut much ice nowadays)?
The NS allows my posts because you are a lying b*stard who only makes trolling and defamatory comments because that is all you pea brain is capable of.

Sun, 2012-06-17 15:00 — Julia Harris

ISLAMAPHOBIA IN NIGERIA - WHERE ARE THE MODERATES AND REFORMISTS THE ARTICLE TELLS US ABOUT????

Three blasts hit churches in Nigeria Kaduna province

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At least three blasts have hit churches in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna.

A local Red Cross worker told Associated Press that at least two people had been killed and 48 injured in two of the attacks.

Two blasts hit Sunday church services close to the city of Zaria.

No one has yet claimed responsibility, but Kaduna state has previously seen attacks by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.

Sun, 2012-06-17 14:56 — Julia Harris

WILL THE ISLAMAPHOBIA EVER END???

This last week isnt remarkable at all. between 09 - Jun. 15 we saw 39 Jihad Attacks, 6 Allahu Akbars or Suicide attacks, all leaving 168 Dead Bodies, with 461 Critically Injured.

Sun, 2012-06-17 14:40 — www.barometerbisnis.com (not verified)

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Sun, 2012-06-17 06:49 — Armin ius (not verified)

Toot, toot went the troll.....

Sun, 2012-06-17 00:33 — Coleridge (not verified)

Hey Arminius/jackass just thought you should know: your racist apartheid Pakistani homeland has no right to exist.

Sat, 2012-06-16 20:35 — Armin ius (not verified)

Why the Dutch fascist "Witch Finder General" dyes his hair blond:
"Wilders' grandmother, Johanna Ording-Meijer, came from an old Jewish-Indonesian family and that Wilders lied about this in his 2008 biography. However, Van Leeuwen, an expert on the position of Indo-Dutch people in the post-colonial age, goes beyond the notion that a politician known for judging others on their ethnic roots can himself be traced to foreign ancestors".
"But more than anything, he was defined by his Indo-roots, she says. Indonesia was a Dutch colony until 1949 and many mixed-race people moved to the Netherlands after the Indonesian independence. Van Leeuwen describes how these people were put in the same 'cultural minority' box with labour immigrants from Turkey and Morocco, whom they felt no connection to at all. More so, they had always felt very patriotic about the Netherlands and harboured strong sentiments against Islam, the dominant religion in their motherland.
Van Leeuwen explains how this group has long been part of extreme-right movements (many supported the Dutch Nazi party NSB in Indonesia in the 1930s) while others belonged to the far-right of the right-wing liberal party VVD. She puts Wilders' statements in the conservative and colonial tradition of this group, which strongly believed in patriotism and "European values""
http://vorige.nrc.nl/international/article2350022.ece

Sat, 2012-06-16 13:12 — Julia Harris

This last week isnt remarkable at all. between 02 - Jun. 08 we saw 37 Jihad Attacks, 6 Allahu Akbars or Suicide attacks, all leaving 347 Dead Bodies, with 535 Critically Injured.

But I guess its still better to ignore any kind of link between Islam and Terror, Violence and Human rights abuses, its people like Geert Wilders who are the real problem...

Sat, 2012-06-16 19:17 — jankaas (not verified)

thank goodness you're out and about Julian as there is a data issue, and we all know that when it comes to facts and figures you are the go-to-guy so to speak.
can you tell me please how many humans on this planet are Muslims?
and
how many Muslims carry out terror attacks?
and
thereby calculate what proportion of Muslims are scum-sucking-Islamofascist-terrorist?

that way we can all see exactly what an extremist and odious religion Islam truly is. your hero Geert has failed to do so it seems. thanks in advance!

Sun, 2012-06-17 01:28 — Julia Harris

Your stupidity knows no bounds. Presented with a facts of how many people have been brutally massacred last week and seriously injured by Islamic Jihadi's you belittle there deaths by trivializing those stats and prefer for that they are now aired because the greater number of Muslims dont kill etc etc...your a fool.

Sun, 2012-06-17 08:47 — jankaas (not verified)

i see.
so you don't have the facts.
so you can't do the calculation.
so you can't claim that Islam is a religion of violence.
so you are the stupid one.

Sun, 2012-06-17 14:54 — Julia Harris

That's not the point you fool, your happy to write horrible things about Wilders for being concerned about Islam, he is 1 man. But you wont have it then when within one week hundreds are dead and others who are seriously injured but it doesn't matter a damn to you because your too scared of offending the wider Muslim population. How can these killings ever stop if you don't talk about it and understand it? This goes on every week...

Your a fool of immense proportions, an idiot, a 24 Karat moron.

Sun, 2012-06-17 22:13 — jankaas (not verified)

look Julian, last chance ever.
this notion you have my position is me being; "too scared of offending the wider Muslim population".
that is a nonsense. i care as little for Islam as for all other religions. i do not 'do' religion. the Danish cartoon debacle and the Satanic Verses fiasco is to our wider shame. i stand for absolute free speech. and if it offends another, tend tough t*tt*es, be offended for all i care.

Mon, 2012-06-18 15:45 — Coleridge (not verified)

'I care as little for Islam as for all other religions.' ! Last week the Islamist fanatic Jackarse told us he was a Christian!!!!

Mon, 2012-06-18 17:33 — jankaas (not verified)

that is a lie. you are lying. go on, find that post you refer to and prove you are not a liar Trolldirge.
i will bet the farm on you failing to deal with the fact you are a liar. you care nothing for the truth.
go on, prove me wrong, should be ever so easy if you weren't a liar. where is that post you think i wrote?

Tue, 2012-06-19 21:03 — jankaas (not verified)

well colour me shocked, still no evidence from Trolldirge.

Sun, 2012-06-17 14:54 — Julia Harris

Your a fool of immense proportions, an idiot, a 24 Karat moron.

Sat, 2012-06-16 13:06 — Julia Harris

Latest Islamaphobia, like talking about the weather???

2012.06.15 (Maroof, Afghanistan) - Terrorists detonate a bomb at a marketplace, killing a patron.
2012.06.14 (Parang, Philippines) - A 90-year-old woman is among four people strafed with machine-gun fire by Abu Sayyaf.
2012.06.13 (Hillah, Iraq) - Twenty-two people at a restaurant are massacred in mid-bite by two Sunni car bombs.
2012.06.13 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Sixteen people at a dining hall are liquidated by Religion of Peace blast.
2012.06.13 (Baghdad, Iraq) - A bomb at a commercial compound rips nine people to shreds.
2012.06.13 (Fallujah, Iraq) - Women and children are among the casualties when Jihadis blow up a house.

Thu, 2012-06-14 21:40 — Armin ius (not verified)

THE HAGUE - Geert Wilders’ umpteenth visit to Israel on Sunday will offer him refuge not only from the cold gripping Holland, but also from the worst political storm to hit this famous and controversial Dutch politician so far.
For Wilders, this will be the first visit to Israel since reaching real power for the first time. And it will also be the first time he is greeted in Israel with protests by people who oppose his views.
Over the past month, reports about the questionable practices of some of the members of his Party for Freedom have dominated Dutch media, which seemed to relish breaking one scandal after another about the rightist, anti-Islam, anti-crime PVV party.
The latest scandal concerned Marcial Hernandez, who settled last week out of court for assault. Earlier, Eric Lucassen was found to have been convicted of sexual abuse in the army and to have reportedly threatened his neighbors. Yet another allegedly head-butted a waiter in a bar, and another was caught lying on his CV.

Fri, 2012-06-15 07:07 — Coleridge (not verified)

More garbage from the Islamist fanatic who laments that the Holocaust was "incomplete", who refers to Jews as "zhids" and who is a stout defender of The Moslem SS Handscar Division that slaughtered most of Bosnian Jewry.

Fri, 2012-06-15 12:50 — jankaas (not verified)

again Coleridge claims the Holocaust was incomplete. you are scum and vermin of the lowest depths of the gene pool for playing fast and loose with that terrible event. stop already ffs.

Fri, 2012-06-15 07:19 — Armin ius (not verified)

Blah, blah, blah...same lies, different day. The clock is ticking for trolls just as it is ticking for the Zionist death cult.

Sat, 2012-06-16 23:27 — Coleridge (not verified)

Its Islamism that is a primitive death cult - witness the number of Moslems killed by their own co-religionists in Iraq, afganistan and apartheid Pakistan in just the past 7 days. Arminius you nazi loving Islamist return to MPAC and stone some of your vile women.

Sun, 2012-06-17 06:57 — Armin ius (not verified)

Tick, tock little troll.....

Fri, 2012-06-15 12:45 — Armin ius (not verified)

Since you are probably too tight to buy a book here is the next best thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Jews#The_Holocaust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustashe
Note a few key phrases in the last article:
"Fiercely nationalistic, the Ustaše were also fanatically Catholic", "The Ustaše were chiefly responsible for the World War II Holocaust in the NDH. Around three hundred thousand were killed by the NDH government's racial policies, which condemned all Serbs, Jews and Roma to death in the concentration camps, alongside Croat resistance members and political opponents" and "By the end of war, the Ustaše, under Pavelic's leadership, exterminated 30,000 Jews, about 29,000 Gypsies, and between 300,000 and 600,000 Serbs".
Note that there is no mention of the Handschar Division. That is not to excuse this unit which fought in a guerilla war which was notoriously brutal on both sides but it shows that you are an ill-educated liar of the worst type.

Thu, 2012-06-14 21:19 — Julia Harris

ISLAMAPHOBIA IN GAZA / ISRAEL

Gaza kindergarten teaches jihad and hate: "I want to blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide bombing" Raising their children on poisionous rage, hatred and violence. But remember: the real problem is "Islamophobia." "Gaza kindergartners want to 'blow up Zionists.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4241588,00.html

Thu, 2012-06-14 21:17 — Julia Harris

ISLAMAPHOBIA IN GERMANY

"Germany: 1,000 police in seven states raid organization of Misunderstanders of Islam that calls on Muslims to fight Germany's "constitutional order" The Millatu Ibrahim wants to impose Sharia on Germany. So what? What's wrong with that? Everybody knows that Sharia is perfectly benign and compatible with Western notions of human rights, and that to oppose it constitutes an unpardonable "Islamophobia," right? Right? So what if Sharia denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and equality of rights for all people! Mustn't be "bigoted," now!

http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/breaking-news/world-news/german-police-raid-...

Thu, 2012-06-14 21:15 — Julia Harris

ISLAMAPHOBIA IN INDONESIA

Indonesian jailed for Prophet Mohammed cartoons.
An Indonesian man arrested after writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online.

http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/indonesian-jailed-for-prophet-mohammed-c...

Thu, 2012-06-14 20:53 — Armin ius (not verified)

Who best knows Wilders?
'His method is simple: he plays people off against one another – in a highly distasteful fashion,' Verhagen said. 'He is not looking to find common ground, uphold shared values or work toward constructive solutions based on these shared values. In fact, his approach is the opposite of constructive: by spreading fear and hatred, he is only destroying, not building.
'And in the process, he is damaging the interests of the Dutch people and the reputation of the Netherlands in the wider world. If we allow discrimination and hatred to spread, this will only lead to segregation, polarisation, escalation and eventually, confrontation.'
These are not the words of any Islamist fanatic but rather Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen a politician in the Dutch Christian Democratic Party and a government minister.