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ADL Condemns Remarks by Geert Wilders

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NamDoc674/30/2009 7:54:19 pm PDT

#511 - Charles

You are mixing up apples and oranges. The question was about Wilders diagnosis. Your answer is about Wilder’s prescription.

The un-American measures you mention were in fact undertaken in the USA, in some form, during past wars. One thinks of the “deportation” (albeit internal) of the Japanese in the 40’s, and the supression of the Bund (who could say that outfit did not have religious overtones); Lincoln’s suspension of habeas, Wilson’s crackdown on the newspapers during the “Great War”, etc.

If you grant freedoms to existential enemies that enable them to destroy your political system, what freedoms have you preserved? This is the bind Islam has us in. This is the real question. If Islam overtakes Europe, as it will do demographically if no other way, we then face a worse nuclear threat than a Talibainized Pakistan, which is also evetually coming, and sooner than Europe will fall.

If things do not change in our approach to this whole subject, we or our children face a war in which tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, may die. If most of those dead are Muslims, Islam will then reform. If most of those dead are not Muslims, then Isalm will effectively dominate the world and our cherished freedoms will not be even a permissible memory.

As it now stands, few will openly or publicly oppose those aspects of Islam, the religion, which are completely antithetical to our Constitution and way of life. In fact, the political elites, espercially on the Left, actively enable the religious practices and demands of only one faith - Islam.

So it depends really on how you are willing to define the problem.

Wilders has the courage to see a greater and more fundamentally based threat to our way of life than most people are willing to face up to. It may be because he personally has been subjected to its lash.

IF you agree Wilders diagnosis is correct, then what is your prescription?