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Dutch Politician: ‘If You Are Waving an ISIS flag You Are Waving an Exit Ticket. Leave!’
CNS News ^ | 9/4/2014 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 09/04/2014 7:05:07 PM PDT by markomalley

A Dutch lawmaker once put on trial for his views on Islam called Thursday for Dutch Muslims supportive of groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) to leave the country and never be allowed to return.

“Anyone who expresses support for terror as a means to overthrow our constitutional democracy, as far as I’m concerned, should leave the country at once,” Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders told parliament in The Hague. “If you are waving an ISIS flag, you are waving an exit ticket. Leave!”

On Monday British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed measures to prevent British Muslims from leaving the country to join ISIS or other terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

But Wilders said aspiring jihadists should not be stopped from leaving.

“Let them leave, with as many friends and family members as possible. I will go to Schiphol [airport in Amsterdam] to wave them goodbye, if that helps. But don’t let them ever come back – that is the condition. Good riddance.”

“Deprive all jihadists of their passports – even if they only have a Dutch passport,” he said. “Let them take an ISIS passport.”

Thousands of European passport-holders are believed to be among an estimated 12,000 foreigners from dozens of countries, including the U.S., fighting with ISIS or other jihadist groups in Syria. The “foreign fighter” question has caused such concern that President Obama is hosting a U.N. Security Council session on the issue later this month.

In a parliamentary speech marking a decade since he left the ruling party to form the PVV, Wilders said he has been harshly criticized over those ten years for sounding the alarm about Islam, but suggested that the current rise of ISIS and its brutal behavior vindicated those warnings.

He said he had been vilified, and prosecuted, for a 2008 documentary, entitled Fitna (Arabic for “strife”), which interspersed passages from the Qur’an with footage of terror attacks, along with clips of Muslim clerics endorsing violence.

“While not so many years ago, everyone refused to broadcast my film, Fitna, we can today watch Fitna 2, 3, 4 and 5 daily on our television screens,” he said. “It is not a clash of civilizations that is going on, but a clash between barbarism and civilization.”

Wilders accused the Dutch government of playing down the threat, even as public rallies in the Netherlands over the summer featured ISIS banners and “death to the Jews” chants.

While the Dutch cabinet argued that jihadists were a small and insignificant group, the reality was very different, he said, citing an opinion poll that found 73 percent of Dutch respondents of Moroccan and Turkish origin regarded those who go to fight in Syria as “heroes.” (The May 2013 poll referred to Muslims going to fight in the civil war, not going specifically to join jihadist groups.)

‘Handbook for terrorists’

Wilders’ core message Thursday – as it has been for years – was the one that has been most controversial: That the problem lies in the ideology of Islam itself, that Muslims committing violence in the name of their religion were simply emulating their prophet, and obeying the Qur’an.

After reading three verses from the Qur’an – including one (47:4) which jihadists point to in justifying beheading “unbelievers” – he described the Qur’an as “a handbook for terrorists” and “the hunting permit for millions of Muslims.”

“That book is the constitution of the Islamic State,” he said. “What ISIS does is what Allah commands.”

Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the infallible “final revelation” of Allah to Mohammed.

FitnaWilders’ Fitna, which linked the revered text with terrorism, caused an uproar in the Islamic world. The European Union joined Arab and Islamic multilateral organizations condemning the 16-minute documentary, and Britain denied Wilders a visa and deported him the following year. A tribunal later overturned the visa ban. Also in 2009, an appeals court in Amsterdam instructed prosecutors to indict Wilders for “inciting hatred and discrimination,” charges relating both to the film and to public comments about Islam. He was acquitted in 2011.

As much as Wilders’ views have stoked controversy, they also resonate with many Dutch voters; in the most recent general election, in 2012, the PVV won the third most votes out of 11 parties entering parliament.

About six percent of the population of the Netherlands is made up of Muslims, mostly of Moroccan and Turkish origin. Islamic radicalism has become an troubling issue for many in the traditionally liberal country, where a Muslim extremist in 2004 shot and stabbed to death a filmmaker critical of Islamism.

Wilders has faced numerous death threats over the years, and has been under police protection since 2004.

In 2010 a radical Muslim cleric in Australia urged Muslims to kill Wilders for denigrating Islam, saying they should “chop off his head.”


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1 posted on 09/04/2014 7:05:07 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Wilders deserves some serious applause for this!


2 posted on 09/04/2014 7:06:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: markomalley

Speech by Geert Wilders during parliamentary debate in the Netherlands

Madam Speaker, actually I was expecting flowers from you. I am celebrating an anniversary these days. Exactly ten years and two days ago, I left a party whose name I cannot immediately remember. During these ten years and two days, I have been much criticized. Most importantly for always saying the same thing.

My critics are right. Indeed, my message had been the same during all these years. And today, I will repeat the same message about Islam again. For the umpteenth time. As I have been doing for ten years and two days.

I have been vilified for my film Fitna. And not just vilified, but even prosecuted. Madam Speaker, while not so many years ago, everyone refused to broadcast my film Fitna, we can today watch Fitna 2, 3, 4 and 5 daily on our television screens. It is not a clash of civilizations that is going on, but a clash between barbarism and civilization.

The Netherlands has become the victim of Islam because the political elite looked away. Here, in these room, they are all present, here and also in the Cabinet, all these people who looked away. Every warning was ignored.

As a result, also in our country today, Christians are being told: “We want to murder you all”. Jews receive death threats. Swastika flags at demonstrations, stones go through windows, Molotov cocktails, Hitler salutes are being made, macabre black ISIS flags wave in the wind, we hear cries, such as “the Talmud”, on the central square in Amsterdam.

Indeed, Madam Speaker, this summer, Islam came to us.

In all naivety, Deputy Prime Minister Asscher states that there is an “urgent demand” from Muslims to “crack down” on this phenomenon. Last Friday, in its letter to Parliament, the Cabinet wrote that jihadists are hardly significant. They are called a “sect”, a “small” group.

This is what those who look away wish, these deniers of the painful truth for 10 years and two days, the ostrich brigade Rutte 2.

But the reality is different. According to a study, 73% of all Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands are of the opinion that those who go to Syria to fight in the jihad are “heroes”. People whom they admire.

And this is not a new phenomenon. Thirteen years ago, 3,000 people died in the attacks of 9/11. We remember the images of burning people jumping from the twin towers. Then, also, three-quarters of the Muslims in the Netherlands condoned this atrocity. That is not a few Muslims, but hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the Netherlands condoning terrorism and saying jihadists are heroes. I do not make this up. It has been investigated. It is a ticking time bomb.

Madam Speaker, is it a coincidence that for centuries Muslims were involved in all these atrocities? No, it is not a coincidence. They simply act according to their ideology. According to Islam, Allah dictated the truth to Muhammad, “the perfect man.” Hence, whoever denies the Koran, denies Allah. And Allah leaves no ambiguity about it what he wants. Here are a few quotes from the Quran:

Surah 8 verse 60: “Prepare to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.”

Surah 47 verse 4: “Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks”. We see it every day in the news.

Another quote from Allah is Surah 4 verse 89: “So take not friends from the ranks of the unbelievers, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them.”

Madam Speaker, the Koran on the table before you, is a handbook for terrorists. Blood drips from its pages. It calls for perpetual war against non-believers. That Koran before you is the hunting permit for millions of Muslims. A license to kill. That filthy book is the Constitution of the Islamic State. What ISIS does is what Allah commands.

This bloodthirsty ideology was able to nestle in the Netherlands because our elites looked away. Neighborhoods, such as Schilderswijk, Transvaal, Crooswijk, Slotervaart, Kanaleneiland, Huizen, you name it. There, the caliphate is under construction; there, the Islamic State is in preparation.

During the past ten years and two days, the ostrich Cabinets did nothing. It has nothing to do with Islam, they lied to the people. Imagine them having to tell the truth.

But the people have noticed. Two thirds of all Dutch say that the Islamic culture does not belong in the Netherlands. Including the majority of the electorate of the Labour Party, the majority of the voters of the VVD, the majority of the voters of the CDA, and all the voters of the PVV.

The voters demand that, after ten years and two days of slumber, measures are finally taken. The voters demand that something effective happens. No semi-soft palliatives. Allow me to make a few suggestions to the away-with-us-mafia. Here are a few things which should happen starting today:

Recognize that Islam is the problem. Start the de-Islamisation of the Netherlands. Less Islam.

Close our borders to immigrants from Islamic countries. Immediately border controls. Stop this “cultural enrichment”.

Close every Salafist mosque which receives even a penny from the Gulf countries. Deprive all jihadists of their passports, even if they only have a Dutch passport. Let them take an ISIS passport.

Do not prevent jihadists from leaving our country. Let them leave, with as many friends as possible. If it helps, I am even prepared to go to Schiphol to wave them goodbye. But let them never come back. That is the condition. Good riddance.

And, as far as I am concerned, anyone who expresses support for terror as a means to overthrow our constitutional democracy has to leave the country at once. If you are waving an ISIS flag you are waving an exit ticket. Leave! Get out of our country!

Madam Speaker, war has been declared against us. We have to strike back hard. Away with these people! Enough is enough!


3 posted on 09/04/2014 7:06:20 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Full text of his speech just above.


4 posted on 09/04/2014 7:06:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: markomalley
Where are the Gert Wilders of the US?
5 posted on 09/04/2014 7:10:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: markomalley
Amen to the Dutch.
They have, according to some blogs, HAD IT with the Muslims in Holland who won't allow themselves to "fit it."
The HECK with them. SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR MUSLIM brethern.

The problem with that is most of the Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia, for one, WON'T let them back in. That means: no haj for them, ever.

NO ONE WANTS THOSE MONSTERS.

O'Reilly reported that ISIS was KICKED OUT of Al Qaeda. That tells you how vicious ISIS/ISIL are considered by OTHER terrorists.
6 posted on 09/04/2014 7:10:51 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: markomalley

Is there any politician in this country who comes close to the B-A-L-L-S that Wilders has?

If only.


7 posted on 09/04/2014 7:10:54 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Travis McGee
"War has been declared against us. We have to strike back hard."
8 posted on 09/04/2014 7:14:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Travis McGee

Sounds like common sense if not just for mere survival. WTF is wrong with our so-called leaders?


9 posted on 09/04/2014 7:17:03 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: markomalley

We should be saying that.


10 posted on 09/04/2014 7:20:50 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: markomalley
On Monday British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed measures to prevent British Muslims from leaving the country

and then they will chop the heads off old ladies in the garden instead.

11 posted on 09/04/2014 7:22:19 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Let the British muslims leave..

Just don’t let them back in.


12 posted on 09/04/2014 7:25:09 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: markomalley

‘If You Are Waving an ISIS flag You Are Waving an Exit Ticket. Leave!’

I’d like to hear crazy Joe say that!


13 posted on 09/04/2014 7:26:14 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: markomalley
"(The May 2013 poll referred to Muslims going to fight in the civil war, not going specifically to join jihadist groups.)"


14 posted on 09/04/2014 7:33:53 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: nuconvert

“That Koran before you is the hunting permit for millions of Muslims. A license to kill. That filthy book is the Constitution of the Islamic State”.

Perfectly clear and fully understood.


15 posted on 09/04/2014 7:36:04 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: markomalley

Funny article. I liked the part where he says he will go to the airport
and wave the Muslims goodbye.


16 posted on 09/04/2014 7:48:44 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: markomalley

Can you see an American politician say it?

He’ll have the ACLU and CAIR lawyers crowding his office and he’ll be hiding in terror.


17 posted on 09/04/2014 7:51:51 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: MeshugeMikey

Geert, ik ben trots op jou.


18 posted on 09/04/2014 7:53:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: markomalley

I’ll say it right here: Anyone waving an ISIS flag anywhere near me I’m going to consider as a hostile, immediate threat to my personal safety, and as a CCW holder will react accordingly to protect myself.


19 posted on 09/04/2014 7:53:28 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: nuconvert

He can’t because we have a Constitution that guarantees the right for muzzies to join ISIS and come back.

We then read them their Miranda rights, arrest them and get them expensive lawyers, paid for by the American taxpayer, who are trying like hell to get them off.


20 posted on 09/04/2014 7:57:59 PM PDT by 353FMG
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