According to Gates of Vienna (http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/07/geert-wilders-is-very-pleased.html#readfurther), the PVV -- the party of Geert Wilders, the anti-Islamist Dutch political leader -- has become part of a ( Read more... )

What would you say about a "democracy" in which there was a pressing political issue, about which existed several main opinions, and one of those opinions was outlawed? In which a man was elected to office promising to advocate that opinion, did so, and was then arrested for expressing that opinion publicly ( Read more... )

IntroductionBy now, I'm sure that most of you are aware that the government of the Netherlands has begun the prosecution of Geert Wilders, a member of the national parlaiment. The "crime" of which he stands accused is nothing more than the expression of opinions which could be deemed hateful to Islam -- in other words, it is no crime, but merely ( Read more... )

The blogger known as El Ingles deeply affected my thinking about the likely consequences of the Muslim attempt to colonize Europe in his original post at ( Read more... )