Death Threats Greet Dutch Lawmaker's Call to Ban the Koran?

Question

A Dutch lawmaker under fire for urging that the Koran be banned in his country says he will press ahead with the proposal, and submit it in the form of a parliamentary resolution next month.

Geert Wilders of the right-wing Freedom Party told Cybercast News Service that since calling for a ban -- in a letter published Wednesday in the newspaper De Volkskrant -- he had received death threats and criticism, "but fortunately also many positive responses from voters."

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Question - What are your thoughts ?

Answer 1

I love this guy!

I will send him a contribution for his next campaign

Where can we get an American Geert Wilders?


What's good for Mein Kampf is also good for the Koran. Both are hate-filled texts

Answer 2

I'm Dutch. Though he may "press ahead", he won't make it. There's freedom of religion in the Netherlands, and there's a minority in the government that wants to ban the quran either, so in that respect his efforts are pointless. It's already legally impossible to ban islamic women from wearing burqa's in public. What he does win is another percent of the populist voters.
Personally I think this Wilders is a megalomaniac who is looking for attention and deliberately making himself in a martyr. Since he's been threatened by fundamentalist islamists, he's grown more radical. The same happens to other people that are cornered, suppressed or even tortured, they become more and more radical. This is exactly the effect his fear based strategy has on the muslims living in the Netherlands right now as well. I think what he is doing is very counterproductive, and is adding energy to an already hard to stop vicious circle of distrust.
Btw, I'm some kind of atheist myself, if it were for me every religion may vanish from the face of the earth, but I think it's just not useful to try to make it government policy.

Answer 3

The EU is going to become an Islamic state to one degree or another in the next 10-15 years. That's pretty much unavoidable at this point, especially for France and perhaps several other former nations.

It's encouraging that some folks don't want to live under sharia law, and that Dutch stubborness is still alive and well in the oh-so-sensitive EU of the 21st century.

Good luck to Herr Wilders, but he's probably a dead man walking.

Islamics enter political debate with car bombs and assassinations, that's just their nature. Once you invite them in, you have a hell of a time getting them out.

Answer 4

I think that if the Koran is being used as a tool to manipulate and encourage the random taking of innocent lives, they have every right to ban it.

Muslims need to take heed of the backlash of radicalism and take responsibility for their own. That means acting swiftly to deter those among them who are wrongfully using the book and ensuring those same people are called to the attention of the law immediately. I don't see that happening and until that time, they have to bear responsibility as a whole.

Regardless of the sadness of the situation, there is simply no other choice that can be made. When faced with a situation as mixed up and nonsensical as this, we have a right to protect ourselves in any way we see fit.

Answer 5

As Brian C. ok. pronounced, "in basic terms commentary and expenses from the Koran." it particularly is what's interior the action picture "Fitna", that Geert Wilders produced. If all of us had paid interest to the action picture, you would be wanting the Islamists out of your united states too. there is not any longer something interior the Koran this is sturdy for us Kafirs.

Answer 6

I think they should ban all religion. The Koran may be the major influence of death and terror right now, but it wasn't all that long ago the Bible was the cause and it still is in certain parts of the world. I hope he completes it. We need more of these guys in the world today.

Answer 7

I think attempting to outlaw any religion with large numbers of followers in the country is going to cause an uproar.

Banning the Koran is in effect banning the practice of Islam in the country -- and religious persecution never happens quietly.

Answer 8

I think it is sad that the moderates DON'T speak up and defend their reglion against the extremist who are defiling the 'religon of peace'. Yet I bet they will be VERY vocal to this. Who can blame him for wanting to ban hatred--but it will come at the expense of peaceful moderates since they are unwilling to go after and shut down the radicals.

Answer 9

Well the muslims got their panties in a bunch over a bunch of cartoons so I guess he shouldn't be surprised about a death threat for banning the "how to" guide for global death and destruction.

Answer 10

That's cool. However,I hope this guy doesn't end up like the late Dutch politcian Pym Fortuyn. He wanted to curb immigration. He was killed by an animal rights activist sympathetic to Muslims.

Answer 11

Then he would wind up like their fallen cultural icon, that desendant of Van Gogh that got the treatment a couple of years back. After all, thats how Islam-facists react to anybody that disagrees with them. = Cut their head off!