Geert Wilders finally gets his chance to speak in London.
The issue, as ever, is not whether you agree with what he has to say. It’s that he got to say it.
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Out of the Wilders-nessBy lex, on March 8th, 2010
March 8th, 2010 | Tags: culture | Category: Politics and Culture
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No more Mosques to be built? Stop Islamic immigration? Wow, that will never fly. But then, if it doesn’t, maybe it’s too late for separation of church and state.
A lone voice in the Wilder-ness.
Yes, he must be allowed to say it!
From what I gather, there are a lot of people in the UK that agree with his message. The major trouble is so much of what would be required to actually put legs on it is not politically acceptable to so many of those same people that agree. The simple result is nothing happens and the slide continues.
Once the flame of freedom dies in a people, it is very hard, if not impossible, to relight it. Historically, it’s never happened. Toynbee is good, if sad, reading on this issue.
He’s an interesting fellow. And as much as I agree with many of his points (and his ardent Zionist views!), I find it a tad scary – as a Jew and an American – that he is targeting a particular group of people as problematic. However, he’s got many valid points.
Going through his speech, one other statement struck me as quite accurate. Mr. Wilders said that “The left is facilitating islamization” and cultural relativism through the universities. We’ve got that here, too, most certainly. As a center-left liberal who attends a far-left liberal arts college, I can say, without a doubt, that the left (and academia – with the notable exception, it seems, of the natural sciences and economics, at least, in my experience), is certainly pushing a ridiculous agenda upon undergraduates. This agenda, at least, in my view, places security towards the bottom of our list of priorities, and “accepting cultural differences” (i.e. subjugation of women) – even when they’re fundamentally harmful towards the top.
Indeed. Much of Academia claims to be “enlightened”, yet I do not think that word means what THEY think it means.
Respects,
Much like Orwell’s newspeak it means what they want it to mean.
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