We need to welcome Geert Wilders

nero_bolt
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DUTCH politician Geert Wilders is creating waves – and he has yet to hold a single public meeting in Australia.


 


http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/ 


 


http://www.qsociety.org.au/ 


 


The taxpayer-funded multicultural channel SBS gave what it would think was a lengthy interview with Wilders last night and the taxpayer-funded ABC provided a shorter and very slanted interview with anti-Wilders protesters.


 


But his message cut through strongly - Islamists make poor migrants in Western liberal democracies.


 


We need to hear his message and think about what our misguided multicultural policy has wrought here.


 


Coincidentally, almost exactly a year ago The Economist magazine examined the effect of Islamic migration in the Nordic nations and the picture was not pretty.


 


In Sweden, it found that despite the best efforts of the Swedish state, the city of Malmo is a no-go zone with a 62 per cent rate of unemployment.


 


Angry (Muslim) youths have taken to rioting, torching bicycle sheds and recycling centres as well as cars.


 


Mass immigration, the magazine said, is posing serious problems for the region. For the Nordic countries to be able to afford their welfare states they need to have 80% of their adults in the workforce, but labour-force participation among non-European immigrants is much lower than that.


 


In Sweden only 51% of non-Europeans have a job, compared with over 84% of native Swedes. The Nordic countries need to persuade their citizens that they are getting a good return on their taxes, but mass immigration is creating a class of people who are permanently dependent on the state.


 


In the mid-1990s immigrants in their 40s—the age group that generally contributes most to the public budget—paid only marginally more in taxes than they received in benefits.


 


In Sweden 26 per cent of all prisoners, and 50 per cent of prisoners serving more than five years, are foreigners.


 


Some 46 per cent of the jobless are non-Europeans, and 40 per cent of non-Europeans are classified as poor, compared with only 10 per cent of native Swedes.


 


High immigration is threatening the principle of redistribution that is at the heart of the welfare state.


 


Income inequalities in the Nordic countries are generally lower than elsewhere, but Matz Dahlberg, of Uppsala University, reckons that immigration is making people less willing to support redistribution.


Immigration is also causing culture clashes.


 


Nordics fervently believe in liberal values, especially sexual equality and freedom of speech, but many of the immigrants come from countries where men and women are segregated and criticising the prophet Muhammad is a serious offence.


 


Peaceful Denmark found itself on the front-line of the culture wars when Jyllands-Posten, a newspaper, published cartoons making fun of Muhammad.


 


Immigration has divided the Nordics.


 


The Economist said the Swedes regard their open-armed approach to asylum-seekers as an expression of what is best in their culture.


 


The Danes revisited their immigration policies in 1999, spurred by the rise of the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party.


 


They tightened the rules for family reunification, made it more difficult for newcomers to claim benefits and set up an integration ministry.


 


Today Denmark receives more non-European immigrants than ever, but it has radically reduced the number of refugees while increasing the number of people on student and work visas.


 


Liberals are increasingly on the defensive.


 


The number of immigration-related attacks is rising.


 


In 2010 Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly blew himself up in the middle of a crowd of Christmas shoppers in central Stockholm; remarkably, he managed to injure only a couple of people.


 


Wilders has seen the problems arise in his native Netherlands and is here to warn Australians of the failure of multiculturalism.


 


He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and was invited by US politicians to address them.


 


Political correctness is so rife in Australia that former Immigration Minister Bowen stalled attempts to bring him here last year though Islamist hate speech imams appear to enter Australia and hold rallies at will.


 


What is good for hate-filled Islamists should be good enough for a Dutch MP and leader of the third largest political party in the Netherlands.


 


Wilders deserves support, his message needs to be heard – debate on this issue is more urgent than ever.


 


Yet the Q Society http://www.qsociety.org.au/ which brought him to Australia has had difficulty finding a venue and locations for his addresses must be kept secret until the last moment to make it more difficult for the protesters to disrupt those who wish to hear him.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Society_of_Australia 


 


This is what multiculturalism has reduced our once liberal democracy to.


 


Where once we used to pride ourselves on free speech we now need to hide champions of freedom from the bullies and thugs who don’t want or cannot debate its virtues.


 


Shame upon the nation.


 

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From Wiki


 


Multiculturalism (or ethnic diversity) relates to communities containing multiple cultures. The term is used in two broad ways, either descriptively or normatively.[1] As a descriptive term, it usually refers to the simple fact of cultural diversity: it is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, sometime at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighbourhoods, cities, ornations. As a normative term, it refers to ideologies or policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalisation; in this sense, multiculturalism is a society “at ease with the rich tapestry of human life and the desire amongst people to express their own identity in the manner they see fit.”[2] Such ideologies or policies vary widely, including country to country,[3] ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society, to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group they belong to.[4][5] However, two main different and seemingly inconsistent strategies have developed through different Government policies and strategies:[6][7] The first focuses on interaction and communication between different cultures. Interactions of cultures provide opportunities for the cultural differences to communicate and interact to create multiculturalism. (Such approaches are also often known as interculturalism.) The second centers on diversity and cultural uniqueness. Cultural isolation can protect the uniqueness of the local culture of a nation or area and also contribute to global cultural diversity.[citation needed] A common aspect of many policies following the second approach is that they avoid presenting any specific ethnic, religious, or cultural community values as central.[8]


Multiculturalism is often contrasted with the concepts of assimilationism and has been described as a "salad bowl" or "cultural mosaic" rather than a "melting pot".[9]


 


 


A huge problem with multiculturalism is that it can create divisions in the community rather than bring people together... it turns into a them and us culture that does not create a harmonious environment but ghettos of "other" people that are not understood by the bulk of the population. 

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 As a descriptive term, it usually refers to the simple fact of cultural diversity:


 


 


A huge problem with multiculturalism is that it can create divisions in the community rather than bring people together... it turns into a them and us culture that does not create a harmonious environment but ghettos of "other" people that are not understood by the bulk of the population. 



 


I think it's bigoted people that create us and them environments, not multiculturalism.


 


The same happens when you lump any marginalised group into a ghetto.

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i'll give you solid reason why we should not be greetin' this geetgerm.


 


australia is a signatory to the United Nations Human Rights Council, resolution 16/18 which was passed in march 2011.   


 “Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence, and violence against persons based on religion or belief


 


geets and the q mob represent the epitome of everythin' that works against that resolution, plus o'course the u.s. democrats, more specifically, hilary clinton, who is buildin' a strong case for becomin' the next president of the U.S.

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No idea Freaki.......


Enjoy your week :8}


I don't agree with anything the guy says.... to do so would mean I am racially/religiously intolerant, when really, I am only intolerant of stupid people.......

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I have actually read comments on here over the years about Hitchens, so that statement could be in error.


Freedom of speech .... has to be balanced with the rights of others.

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I foun d this while googling Geert....


 


Says what I think.....


 


The mark of an open society is that all its members are free to speak their minds, even when their minds are diseased by hate, prejudice or bigotry. The mark of a civilised individual, on the other hand, is that out of respect for the well-being of others, you sometimes choose not to say what you are free to say. Restraint and regard for the common good are unfashionable virtues, but they are virtues nonetheless.


Hugh Mackay,22nd June 1996


 

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link, I forgot, interesting as a whole read too.


http://www.humanrights.gov.au/racial_discrimination/media_guide/speech.html

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http://theconversation.edu.au/whos-afraid-of-geert-wilders-populism-and-the-politics-of-hate-12326


21 February 2013, 6.35am AESTWho’s afraid of Geert Wilders? Populism and the politics of hate


 


 


From the link 


 


Who is Geert Wilders?


Wilders is leader of the Netherlands’ third largest political party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), and has been a Member of the House of Representatives since 1998. He is best known for his anti-Islamic stance, having compared the Koran to Mein Kampf, and labelled Muhammad a paedophile.


He has been banned from entering a number of countries such as the United Kingdom, and has been taken to court for incitement of hatred and discrimination.


Due to threats on his life, Wilders lives under constant security protection and is moved to a new l...


 


read the complete article http://theconversation.edu.au/whos-afraid-of-geert-wilders-populism-and-the-politics-of-hate-12326


 

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hm.. all he does is state his opinion on the Koran and all of a sudden he has death threats ans needs 24 hour protection..... 


 


I think that makes a very valid positive argument for his side of the story.... 


 


Who do you think want to kill him??? 

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hm.. all he does is state his opinion on the Koran and all of a sudden he has death threats ans needs 24 hour protection..... 


 


I think that makes a very valid positive argument for his side of the story.... 


 


Who do you think want to kill him??? 



No excuse for him needing protection or being threatened.....  but that is not all he has done, from reading about him...

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