DAR AL HARB - NETHERLANDS: SAUID AMBASSADOR DEMANDS APOLOGY FOR THE CLAIM THAT "ISLAM IS VIOLENT" AS MADE BY WILDERS

Saudi envoy insists Dutch politician retract anti-Islam remarks
dpa German Press Agency

Riyadh- Saudi ambassador Waleed al-Khareejy demanded Sundaythat a Dutch right-wing politician apologize and retract remarks madelast week and deemed insulting to Islam and its holy book.A leader of the conservative Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders,had told the press that half of the Koran should be torn and thrownaway.

He also lashed out at the Prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam,describing Islam as a "violent" religion.

Al-Khareejy said an apology was "necessary" and that Wilders hadto withdraw his statements.

However, the ambassador seemed reluctant to attract media, sayingthat the embassy would rather follow up the issue "away from thepress."

The main aim was to stop such insults to Islam, al-Khareejy toldthe Saudi-based al-Watan newspaper.

Geert Wilders made the following statements (ones that I have captured & posted on my blog at any rate):

Dutch populist attacks Koran, Prophet Mohammad

AMSTERDAM – Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders was quoted on Tuesday as urging Muslims to dump half the Koran and saying he would chase the Prophet Mohammad out of the country if he was alive today.

'Islam is a violent religion. If Mohammad lived here today I could imagine chasing him out of the country tarred and feathered as an extremist,' Wilders told De Pers daily in an interview.

Wilders, who is seen as an heir to murdered populist Pim Fortuyn and whose new party won nine seats out of the 150 in parliament in November elections, has warned of a 'tsunami of Islamisation' in a country home to 1 million Muslims.

'I know that we're not going to have a Muslim majority in the next couple of decades, but it is growing,' he said.

'You no longer feel that you're living in your own country. There is a battle under way and we must defend ourselves. There will soon be more mosques than churches here.'

...

and

Sleepwalking Dutch Lulled Into Complacency On Terrorism
...

Wilders, who has braved the constant death threats to campaign and crafted a party of people who are jeopardizing their own safety by joining with him, is fighting the good fight. He knows that a Muslim majority would be mean "the end of civilization as we know it' and be a death knell for Holland.

"The day there are more Muslims than Christians in the Netherlands, I will leave this country whether I am a parliamentarian or not," he says "I wouldn't feel it was my country any more."

In an interview with Ian Buruma, the author of "Murder in Amsterdam" Wilders criticized the Dutch immigration policies favored by the left.

"We just let everybody in. There is no sense of urgency…I'm furious that the Dutch government is incapable of taking hard measures. That would be better for the moderate Muslims, too. We must crack down. In this country, politicians have always tried to pacify minorities by mollycoddling them. All that holding of hands. It makes me sick."

The Green Party's demonization of Geert Wilders echoed the 2002 election campaign during which Pim Fortuyn - a prime ministerial candidate who had written a book entitled, "The Islamisation of Holland," warning of the demographic threat posed by Muslim immigration - was assassinated.

...


Pertinent Links:

1) Saudi envoy insists Dutch politician retract anti-Islam remarks

2) Geert Wilders search of American Infidel