Posted on 01/11/2015 10:54:06 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
Support for the anti-Islamic Freedom Party of Dutch populist Geert Wilders has jumped to its highest level in more than a year after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris.
Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, said after the Paris bloodshed that the West was "at war" with Islam, drawing a rebuke from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday.
If elections were held now, his party would be the single largest in the Netherlands, with 31 seats in the 150-member parliament, more than twice as many as it won in the last elections, according to a Sunday poll.
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More than 80 percent of respondents to the De Hond poll said people who left the Netherlands to wage jihad (holy war) in Syria should lose their Dutch citizenship and those returning from fighting in Syria or Iraq should face lengthy jail terms.
The attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo had particular resonance in the Netherlands. In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, known for making anti-Islam remarks that were designed to offend, was stabbed to death by an Islamic radical as he cycled down an Amsterdam street.
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Al-Reuters is at it again.
“filmmaker Theo van Gogh, known for making anti-Islam remarks that were designed to offend”
What we would do without the modern press corps’ insight into what people are, or were, thinking and intending? If the remarks were designed to offend...
“Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, “
Like saying Muslims are deranged murderers? Because they are?
Je suis Geert.
Exactly. . . ! His “remarks” weren’t necessarily intended to offend. What they were, were accurate statements related to the film he made about the abuse of women by moslems.
It was the truth that the moslems found offensive.
Oldplayer
80%, that’s pretty much everybody.
How long will 80% of the people tolerate the less than 1% who “govern” them to put their lives at risk?
Eh, my grammar is a little screwed up, I think, but I trust you get my point.
Yes. Muslims ridicule these ridiculous fools for interpreting Islam for them.
They have appointed themselves interpreters of everything for everyone.
The absurdity of the Left has no limits.
If they were not too stupid to understand how stupid they are, there might be hope for them, but alas!
He’s the best they have in the Netherlands, but he has an ‘incitement’ charge against him.
Trust me, much as the EU did with Golden Dawn in Greece, if Wilders ever gets close to power, he will be thrown in jail. The system is rigged.
The jihadis hate Wilders. Reason enough to support him.
The Dutch and maybe the French are waking up,
meanwhile Obama murmurs, “Go to sleep, all is well”.
I've always thought Øbama resembles Sandman in Santa Clause 3.
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