Wilders to warn Australians of threat from Muslim migrants and Islam

Controversial rightwing anti-Islamic Dutch politician Geert Wilders says Australia has nothing to fear from him when he visits the country starting next week.

Mr Wilders, speaking on the ABC’s Lateline on Wednesday, said he was on a global jihad to preserve freedom.

He said he wants to warn Australia against allowing the mass immigration of people from Muslim countries “because Islam and freedom are incompatible”.

“I believe with mass immigration into our free societies, those societies will change, and they will change for the worse,” Mr Wilders said.

He wants to tell Australians that we must learn from the mistakes they made in Europe and be vigilant of Islam. “It is not a religion of peace – it is a totalitarian ideology,” Mr Wilders said.

AAP, 13 February 2013

Wilders’ Australia visit inspires far right to threaten violence

White supremacists are urging Australian “patriots” to gather at public meetings by the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders, ready for trouble and a no-holds barred fight.

Tensions have been mounting over the impending visit of the far right-wing politician who has been accused of Islamophobia and racism.

One group, Australian New Nation, has been encouraging followers to react to any threat or sign of violence from Muslim protesters who might attend.

On its website, the group has posted an audio from “Radio Free Australia, the voice of white revolution in Australia” warning them to “expect an Islamic rent-a-crowd outside screaming and foaming at the mouth like the evil bastards they are”.

“We encourage all patriots to exercise their legal right of self defence if any ragheads try to prevent them accessing the venue, or threaten, or use violence against their person once they try to strike the first blow, everything that follows is self defence on your part,” it said.

The vitriolic broadcast, which lasts almost 10 minutes, goes on to say, “go . . . and be prepared to defend yourself and if they take a swing at you, they push at you, they spit on you, don’t hold back. You have a legal right of self defence do what should be done to this rag-head camel f— . . . Islamic filth who have no place in civilised society.

Social media sites protesting against Mr Wilders’s visits to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth have also been the target of hate messages.

The Age, 2 February 2013

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Wilders launches anti-mosque website

MoskNee

Geert Wilders has launched a new website, MoskNee (MosqueNo), which aims to offer advice to non-Muslims who want to mount a legal challenge to plans for a new mosque in their area. The site claims:

“The Netherlands is not an Islamic country and should never be. Yet we see the influence of Islam increase hand over hand…. Under the influence of the fast-growing Muslim population – around 1 million people in 2013 – the number of mosques has increased sharply. The Netherlands now has more than 450…. What would be nice is a Netherlands without mosques. The PVV therefore says: enough is enough. As far as we are concerned there will be no more mosques in the Netherlands.”

In an interview with Algemeen Dagblad Wilders states that “the mosque is a symbol of an ideology of hatred, violence and oppression” and that ideally the PVV would like to ban mosques from the Netherlands altogether. However, this has proved legally impossible, so the PVV has adopted a different approach. The purpose of the initiative is to promote “more resistance to the Islamisation of the Netherlands”, Wilders explains. He also admits that MoskNee has been set up in conscious imitation of Gavin Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation (aka Mosquebusters) in the UK.

Wilders to visit Australia in February

Dutch anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders will visit Australia next month.

The right-wing MP was due to visit in October but was forced to postpone because the federal government took its time deciding whether to approve his visa.

Tour organisers Q Society – a group concerned about the so-called “Islamisation of Australia” – have now announced Mr Wilders will speak in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in February.

“The Australian experiment of multiculturalism is failing in relation to Islam, just as it has failed everywhere else,” the group says on the event website. Australians are being misled to believe Islam is ‘just another religion’ – when it is in fact much more.”

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has condemned Mr Wilders’ extremist views but ultimately decided not to use his ministerial discretion to block his visa.

AAP, 16 January 2013

Wilders to step up international anti-Islam campaign

PVV leader Geert Wilders is to step up his campaign against Islam in 2013, the parliamentarian told Nos television in an interview.

The fight against Islam is a mission for life, Wilders told the broadcaster. Wilders said he would step up his fight against “the biggest sickness” the Netherlands has had at home and internationally, “from Australia to America, from Switzerland to wherever”.

Wilders also again renewed his statement that the Netherlands has a “Moroccan problem”. It is Moroccan racism that they rarely rob each other, Wilders said.

Dutch News, 27 December 2012

See also Xinhua, 27 December 2012

Dutch minister dismisses ‘halal homes’ fears

Home affairs minister Ronald Plasterk told a television programme on Sunday he has no problem with housing corporations renovating homes and taking the wishes of Muslim tenants into account.

Plasterk was responding to a report in Parool newspaper on Saturday which said 188 apartments in western Amsterdam had been adapted to meet the wishes of Muslims, with a special cupboard for storing shoes and an extra tap for “ritual cleansing”.

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Alliance with Wilders did hurt Netherlands’ reputation

Wilders and Rutte2The previous coalition government, which involved Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV in a supporting role, did have an image problem abroad, civil service documents supplied to website nu.nl show.

Ministers repeatedly said foreign governments understood the relationship between the minority coalition and Wilders and that he was not officially part of government.

However, official papers show “time after time” that diplomats wanted proper instructions on “how to avoid reputation damage as much as possible” – for example, when Wilders published a new book. This often did not work, the documents state.

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