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France will back the Netherlands in film row
Radio Netherlands ^ | March 05 2008

Posted on 03/05/2008 1:45:09 PM PST by knighthawk

Paris - During a meeting in Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende that he will support the Netherlands if it comes under attack because of the anti-Qur'an film Fitna by populist leader Geert Wilders.

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen has asked Dutch ambassadors in Islamic countries to do their best to protect Dutch citizens and companies. Pakistan has also brought the issue to the attention of the European Union and the Vatican. At Islamabad's request, the matter has been placed at the top of the agenda at next week's summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Senegal.

There have been new demonstrations against the Netherlands and Denmark in Afghanistan. Dutch flags were burned in a number of cities. The website on which Mr Wilders' film can be viewed has been online since this morning. So far, there is only a picture of a Qur'an along with the text: 'Geert Wilders presents Fitna - Coming Soon.'


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartoonjihad; europe; france; netherlands; wilders

1 posted on 03/05/2008 1:45:10 PM PST by knighthawk
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2 posted on 03/05/2008 1:45:28 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: knighthawk

Didn’t France have enough of Algerian/North African youths torching cars and store fronts in Paris not long ago?


3 posted on 03/05/2008 1:46:41 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: knighthawk

Never thought I’d live to see the day I’d be envious of french leadership.


4 posted on 03/05/2008 1:47:41 PM PST by skeeter
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To: kiriath_jearim

Maybe they’ve grown a spine,

and maybe they’ll decide to treat the criminals as criminals

instead of trying to appease them.

Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.


5 posted on 03/05/2008 1:48:18 PM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: knighthawk
Uh.......where does the non-Muslim world go to censure the hate speech that passes for scripture in the Mosques, or the barbaric practices still practiced by Muslims while on welfare in the non-Muslim west?

When Muslims are enraged - and it takes only discussion of facts to achieve that — they do one of two things:
1. Propel themselves into a literally murderous rage.
2. Propel themselves into a verbal and marching rage.

I for one - propose we adopt the SAME response when their behavior outrages OUR sensibilities...

Perhaps it will take burned Mosques, internment camps, redlined immigration practices, etc.....
India’s experience showed retaliation and segregation as the ONLY successful response to militant Islam.

Their self declared Jihad against the West — doesn’t require us to drop to our knees and offer our necks to their swords....

Jihad is a two way street — in that direction lies serious consequences for the Jihadists AND their supporters..

6 posted on 03/05/2008 1:57:21 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: MrB

Viva La France!


7 posted on 03/05/2008 2:04:46 PM PST by cameraeye (The Lords Prayer on Obama's Lips? Where's the video?)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Time to buy stock in European fire extinguisher and auto glass companies.


8 posted on 03/05/2008 2:06:05 PM PST by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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9 posted on 03/05/2008 2:26:57 PM PST by Gritty (Islam is not a religion, it's the ideology of a retarded culture-Geert Wilders, Dutch People's Party)
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To: knighthawk

Isn’t the Netherlands a NATO country?

An attack upon a NATO country by agents of a foreign power calls for a NATO response!

Or NATO can just bomb the Netherlands and give these agents their own new “Nether Regions” ala the new “state” of “Kosova”.


10 posted on 03/05/2008 2:34:38 PM PST by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: knighthawk

Time to watch out when the French say they have your back...

George Patton said “I’d rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me.”


11 posted on 03/05/2008 4:04:18 PM PST by glorgau
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To: river rat

Indeed. I remember a book was sold at a mosque that said all homosexuals should be thrown of large buildings, and at the same mosque people were told we were the enemy. Yet they were allowed to under the pretext of ‘freedom of religion’.

Now they get the same things back and now they want us to take away the freedom of speech. Well too bad for them. Even if they want to ban the movie over here, Wilders will host it in the US were freedom of speech is still respected and defended.


12 posted on 03/06/2008 2:48:04 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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Well — then maybe we need to push OUR clerics to preach the “Crusader Theology” calling for the defense of Christians by the slaughter of Muslims....

Nowhere is it written that Jihad be a one way event....

In my book — a “religion” that preaches by the sword should expect that swords will be turned against them....

It has been their choice for centuries — and they continue to make the same offensive choice - VIOLENCE against non-Muslims.

Severe consequences are LONG overdue...
NO site, city, icon or target IMPORTANT to Islam should be exempt from attack.. NOTHING.....

Jihad must not and can not be allowed to be an act of “individuals” with their home “Nations” exempt from the consequences of NOT CONTROLLING THEIR LUNATICS.


13 posted on 03/06/2008 5:09:25 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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