Support Geert Wilders’ Right to Speak
The Jawa Report is linking to a petition aiming to organize a boycott of Dutch goods and services if Wilders is punished or prosecuted over the Fitna affair.
Like Wilders’ film or not, it’s a no-brainer that making the video and distributing it are well within the realm of free, protected speech. For that much Wilders deserves to be supported in his struggle against the Dutch government that would muzzle him if it could.
As for some of his other statements, I’d remind you that the right to speak is more important than liking what you hear.
So wait. You’ll hurt me, my father, my mother, and many others in their wallets because of something the government may do to Wilders? You’re calling for a boycott of Dutch products for something the Dutch government may do?
Something that doesn’t even directly concern Americans? But you’re calling on people to boycott Dutch products?
This while several Muslim countries are already boycotting us and my father told me yesterday that his company would lose millions of euros this year because of it?
Appreciate that! Thanks Marc!
I believe this is meant as a counterweight, Michael. The government of the Netherlands seems so weak and willing to so easily bow down to Muslim oppressors that there needs to be a balance. Perhaps this will help remove the financial component. Perhaps they will do what is right.
this post might as well be titled "support racism"
Michael, this year, your father’s company will lose a few million dollars. In 10, the last thing on your family’s mind will be to make an extra buck. And in 20, you will be forced to convert to islam or live in misery while paying a significant portion of your salary to the mosque. So would you rather tackle the issue now, or face dire consequences in the future.
It is not the Dutch that are silencing Wilders. The government has not "muzzled" him, although they’ve waged an extensive campaign to distance themselves from the movie, in the interest of the country. A boycott on Dutch goods is exactly what Middle Eastern countries will be doing, and the only ones harmed from that are the Dutch themselves.
Notice that the petition is to boycott Dutch products only if the Dutch government takes action against Wilders. I can support that. Michael, given that your government is democratically elected, you can’t really make the distinction between the people and the government for actions taken by the government. You and your fellow citizens choose the government.
That’s the distinction between the calls for a boycott by Islamic factions and the conditional calls for a boycott here. It is not proper to hold the Dutch collectively responsible for the individual actions of a Dutch citizen. However, if the Dutch government takes action against Wilder, then the Dutch are collectively responsible for that action, as they are collectively responsible for the government itself. Boycotting all Dutch products on the basis of a collective Dutch action is entirely reasonable.
The truth hurts. We will not be silenced by those who would seek to enslave us. This is a must watch video for everyone in the world.
That’s the distinction between the calls for a boycott by Islamic factions and the conditional calls for a boycott here. It is not proper to hold the Dutch collectively responsible for the individual actions of a Dutch citizen. However, if the Dutch government takes action against Wilder, then the Dutch are collectively responsible for that action, as they are collectively responsible for the government itself.
Nonsense. So you are responsible for the torture of prisoners of war? So you are personally responsible for all Bush did, Clinton did, Reagan did, Nixon did, Carter did, and so on?
Good, then we have enough reasons to boycott your butts.
That’s fine by me, Michael. As an American, I support the actions taken by our government. Whether I agreed or disagreed with any particular action is immaterial, because I support the democratic process which resulted in those actions. Having consented to those rules, that process, I am in part responsible for the outcome.
At the moment, it’s not my government that’s in the process of surrendering a fundamental freedom in response to threats from violent fanatics. Are any Dutch busy putting intense pressure on your government to NOT capitulate to the Islamists? Since the Islamists feel free to try to impose their values on Western governments by violence, force, and coercion, what methods to those of us in the West have available to try to keep your government from succumbing to those threats?
Whatever you meditate, you become automatically sensitive too. If you read many terrible sura’s (verses) in the Koran every day - from childhood on, at school and at home and everywhere - you WILL change. ‘What you think in your heart, you are’. So verses to kill and destroy unbelievers, WILL give fruit. Proves it, it in many, many countries now. Thanks to Wilders to speak openly about it, he is a hero!
I’ve lived between the Muslim, in different countries… How can I explain?! Just believe me? There are many nice Muslim -I really love them and even like them - but I hate what is written in the Koran, and I hate the things most of them say, and I hate the actions (the fruit) we see of ’some’ of them.
But, ’some’ will be ‘more’…. in some families and groups even ‘most’. Please take heed a bit?!
Marc, I would like to know if you are Dutch.I am and completely support your idea. This government is a spineless bunch who are very afraid of offending anybody and I didn’t vote for them. Wilders has been living under constant guard for almost 4 years and nobody seems to care about that.There is no doubt in my mind that he would be killed without this protection. But he will never back down and his number of supporters are growing rapidly.