September | 2009 | Defend Geert Wilders

Dutch government prosecutors have announced they will put legislator Geert Wilders on trial January 20 on charges of discrimination and inciting hatred. Wilders said he wants to put Islam on trial and that he is “considering calling on radical imams and other idiots as witnesses.”

The Netherlands’ largest newspaper called it the “trial of the century.” It will begin on January 20, two months before municipal elections in which Wilders’s Freedom party is involved.

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Times Of The Internet – Hate speech trial date set for Wilders

Politeia – Wilders: Obama is a Cultural Relativist

The Washington Independent – Quote of the Morning

Atlas Shrugs – Trial of an Embattled Century: Geert Wilders, “Wilders said he wants to put Islam on trial and that he is ‘considering calling on radical imams and other idiots as witnesses.'”

DutchNews.nl – Wilders’ discrimination case in January

PipeLineNews.org – Wilders “Trial Of The Century” Set For January, Blasts Obama As Chamberlain

Jihad Watch – Geert Wilders: “In illuminating for Westerners exactly what the Koran teaches, Spencer has performed a valuable service in the defense of Western civilization against the Islamic jihad” – and Shame on the Netherlands: Wilders to go on trial January 2010

Gates of Vienna – Change For Our Time

The Brussels Journal – Who is Crazy in Holland Today?

Last week, an article by the cultural anthropologist Lizzy van Leeuwen in the leftist weekly De Groene Amsterdammer (“The Green Amsterdammer”) caused a stir. She explains Wilders’s “rabid anti-immigration and anti-Islam ideas” as stemming from his ethnic mix. The article is considered to be “an intellectual attempt to analyze what drives Wilders.” According to Mrs. van Leeuwen his statements – plus the fact that he dies his hair peroxide blond – are connected to his genealogical link to Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world.

Of Barack Obama it is said that his worldview has been influenced by his childhood years in Indonesia, the former Dutch colony that is also said to have shaped Geert Wilders’s worldview. Van Leeuwen reveals that Wilders’s maternal grandmother, Johanna Meijer, was a member of a prominent Jewish-Indonesian family. Her husband, Johan Ording, was a regional financial administrator in the Dutch colony. According to van Leeuwen, the latter was fired while on leave in the Netherlands and reduced to poverty when the government refused to give him a pension. Van Leeuwen says that Wilders is out to avenge the injustice done to his granddad.

The Indonesian colonial background of his grandfather is also said to explain Wilders’s “far-right” opinions. She claims that in the 1930s many colonial administrators sympathized with the Dutch Nazi party NSB. After the independence of Indonesia in 1949, they were forced to leave for the Netherlands. This frustrating experience led to their attachment to patriotism and European values. Moreover, they harbored strong sentiments against Islam, the dominant religion in Indonesia. In Wilders’s case, his anti-Islamic and pro-Israeli feelings were exacerbated by the Jewish origin of his grandmother.

Van Leeuwen’s revelations – if true, because Wilders has not responded to them and keeps his private life absolutely private – do not explain, however, how Wilders’s father can have harbored sympathies for the anti-Semitic NSB while being married to a Jewish wife. That accusation makes her thesis highly unlikely, if not ridiculous.

It is astonishing, however, that leftist intellectuals in Europe no longer see a contradiction between Nazism and pro-Jewish positions. Indeed, Israel is consistently depicted by the European left as a racist Nazi-like state. Meanwhile, the Dutch media criticize Wilders for not disclosing his genealogy. “Wilders hides his family roots,” a major (center-right) Dutch newspaper headlined.

No-one ever demands (would even dream of demanding) that a leftist politician, even one from the far-left, disclose who his ancestors are in order to allow anthropologists to come up with an explanation for his crazy political views. However, a politician on the right, who is pro-Israel and opposes the Islamization of Europe, is treated like a weirdo whose “ethnic mix” has to be researched in order to explain his “incorrect” ideas. When he insists on keeping his family out of the limelight, he is accused of trying to hide something and has the media delving into the lives of his long deceased parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, trying to find the Jew, the Nazi, preferably both, and preferably both combined in one person.

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DutchNews.nl – Budget: Wilders calls for new elections – and ‘Liberals should work with Wilders’

CentrePoint News – Wilders’ trial set for January

Klein Verzet – Someone else did it for us

My Personal Thoughts – Geert Wilders Dutch MP

[ Dutch interview ] NU.nl – Wilders vergelijkt Obama met Chamberlain

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Earth Times – Dutch lawmaker wants to fine women for wearing headscarves

Partij Voor De Vrijheid – Inbreng Geert Wilders APB 2009 (1e & 2e termijn)

Muslims Against Sharia – There are different Minds behind different Scarfs

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