printThe malfunctioning media is compounding its always objective reporting with breathless adjectives—“huge,” “stunning,” “shocking” and “peroxide-haired politician”—all to express “subtle” dismay at the election victory of Dutch populist Geert Wilders. My mother, a loyal Wilders supporter, alerted me to this “huge” good-news story:
Wilders yesterday stunned the Netherlands by coming third in general elections – a historic vote that could see him enter a coalition government.
Best known for his strident attacks on Islam, Mr Wilders’ electoral triumph sent shock waves through the country’s large immigrant communities and sounded the death knell for the image of the Netherlands as a bastion of tolerance.
The shock-factor was all the greater as the peroxide-haired politician had appeared sidelined during the election campaign, as the mainstream parties focused on how to deal with the nation’s economic woes and immigration slipped down the political agenda.
Yet Mr Wilders made the strongest gains in Wednesday’s election, doubling the number of seats for his Freedom Party to 24. The pro-business VDD party – which Mr Wilders left to set up on his own – won 31 of the 150 seats up for grabs, pipping the Labour Party of former Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen by a single seat in the narrowest ever electoral victory.
Cohen’s platform, I believe, is in the tradition of the Judenräte.
Let’s hope Glenn Beck doesn’t repeat his affront to this Dutch patriot.
UPDATE: “How can the pitchfork folks who elected this man be so stupid as to imagine Islam poses any threat to the tolerant Dutch way of life?” Preposterous. That’s me paraphrasing the PBS’s apoplectic correspondent in the Netherlands.
The far-right Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, grew from nine to 24 seats in the 150-seat parliament following Wednesday’s vote. Wilders wants to ban Muslim face veils and the building of new mosques in the country of 16.6 million with a Muslim population of 1 million.
Paul Ames, GlobalPost’s Belgium-based regional correspondent, said Wilders built on people’s fears about the influence of Islam on the Netherlands.
Thank you for posting this. This is good news. I love the way he tells the truth about Islam. It would be nice if we had leaders like him in the United States. Oh well, I’ll keep praying.
Beck is what I term a “redneck Republican.” They are the contemporary corollaries of useful idiots http://www.reference.com/browse/Useful+idiots and good Germans http://www.reference.com/browse/good+Germans
Many redneck Republicans are not even rednecks; many if not most are just like Beck. They have a wee bit of education, a dollop of smarts, but are just dimwitted enough to trust the elites.
[I think you are wrong. Have you watched the guy regularly? I’ve tracked his progress. I think he’s a vital force for liberty. Check my Beck articles, where I track his thinking.]
Great news. There was absolutely nothing of this in our press here in SA. Now why is that I wonder….?
With pride and success, we succeeded in making GEERT WILDERS’s party the third largest party in Holland and may he succeed hugely with his program because he is not only the pluckiest and most foresighted of all the politicians here, but he has endured endless threats to make Nederland a better and more european country. Success to Wilders
With pride, we voted for Wilders here in nederland hoping that his party will come in, and the people have spoken, his party is now the third largest in Nederland. May he bring better conditions and rights and safety to Holland. Viva Wilders.
Dmitri,
I cannot say whether there were anything about this in the SA media, I do not support them (for years now). The story was however carried on Dan Roodt’s website PRAAG (unfortunately it is Afrikaans, maybe you can read Afrikaans?). I have long since given up on MSM, and only get my news from these alternative sources (which inludes Ilana’s blog).
The peal of church bells for the hours, the joys, and the sorrows of Christians is now barely a faint echo. In its place is the din of the muezzin and the adhan (Muslim call to prayer).
Yet the commentator hears death knells and sees an image of a tolerant Netherlands. Pareidolia is now pandemic.
Let’s hope the EU doesn’t put the clampdown on the Dutch should Wilders ever become prime minister of the Netherlands. Or rather let’s hope Wilders has the foresight to pull out of the EU so his country does not have to be subject to EU immigration policies.