Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders threatens to revoke slavery apology as coalition talks drag

Fox News ^ | January 3, 2024 1:27pm EST | Peter Aitken

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Prospective Dutch Prime Minister Geert Wilders has threatened to rescind the country’s apology for slavery, as he continues haggling with various parties to form a coalition government.

“The apologies for the history of slavery and the police actions, as made by the king, will be withdrawn,” Wilders had warned in his election manifesto, according to The Times newspaper of Britain.

Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), shocked political experts when his party won the Dutch general election, but he first needed to create a coalition of parties to form his government or face another election. Those closed-door talks between PVV and three other parties have dragged on for weeks. […]

Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy ruled out any possible participation in Wilders’ cabinet, though the new leader Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius said he would consider offering “outside” support to PVV.

Rutte and King Willem-Alexander issued an apology for the “crime against humanity” of slavery and colonialism last year, but Wilders blasted the apology during his campaign as “nonsense excuses about the distant past” and “left-wing hatred” of the country’s history. …

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This is as badly written as any AP screed. Faux News sure has fallen hard since the late Roger Ailes announced the so-called “course correction” over twelve years ago.

[Tell It Right]

FWIW, the Netherlands and other European nations was every now and then raided for white slaves to sell in the slave markets of Muslim nations. But I don’t hear Muslim nations apologizing for that.

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Well, since the Koran and Hadith both validate slavery, that’s not going to happen.

[Jacquerie]

Muslim slavers raided the UK and even Iceland in search of slaves.

Gutter religion that practices slavery to this day.

[fella]

Slavery has been human kinds way of business since before the written word. It is freedom that is the aberration being around in only few places for a historically short time and with new technologies it is quickly being erased where it has gained a toehold.

[fella]

Slavery has been human kinds way of business since before the written word. It is freedom that is the aberration being around in only few places for a historically short time and with new technologies it is quickly being erased where it has gained a toehold.