Not All Westerners Are Chicken: Dutch Pol Geert Wilders

Well my last post was a bit pessimistic. Realistic, but pessimisic.

Not all Westerners are cowards, just their governments. There is a French school teacher in hiding for criticizing Islam in print, with death Fatwas issued against him by the Religion of Murder.

Now there is Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, who is a hero in my book. He got in trouble (I almost said "in Dutch") this past week for saying Muslims who want to live in the Netherlands must tear out half of the Koran and throw it away. The jihad parts, the murder of infidel parts, would have to be discarded. Saudi Arabian officials demanded a retraction and an apology, but he refused to give it. He said he had nothing to learn about freedom of speech from totalitarianists.

Yesterday Wilders had a few more things to say that won't play well in Ryadh or Tehran. He said:

"I do not want to live in a country where some day six or seven members of cabinet could be Muslim," adding that Islamic laws were "barbaric", referring to four people who were beheaded in Saudi-Arabia this week.

"I want to encourage Muslims to leave the Netherlands voluntarily. The demographic development should become such, that the chance is small that we again have two Muslims in the cabinet." About 1 million Muslims live in the Netherlands out of a population of 16 million.

Last week Wilders called on Muslims to ditch half the teachings in the Koran and said he would chase Islam's Prophet Mohammad out of the country if he were alive today. The Iranian embassy called those remarks "spiteful", while the Saudi Arabian embassy held talks over the comments with Dutch foreign ministry officials.

Damn, we complain a lot about the Euroweenies, but there are also some EuroSTUDS out there too. Wilders is one of them. Long may he wail. I absolutely agree with everything he said.