Thursday, April 10, 2008

DAR AL HARB-NETHERLANDS: "ATTACKS DON'T HAPPEN IN THE NAME OF BUDDHISM OR CHRISTIANITY..."

'Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction'


Right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders wanted to provoke an international scandal with his anti-Islam film "
Fitna." He succeeded. He talks to SPIEGEL about his crusade against Islam.

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SPIEGEL:

Your tirades are a challenge to all moderate Muslims and those pushing for Islamic reform.


Wilders:

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

SPIEGEL:

But immigrant youth crime has nothing to do with religion.

Wilders:

It's true, they don't carry the Koran under their arms. But it's at home. And their fathers go to the mosque. They don't tell their children that beating women or believers of other religions is not allowed. That's why we have to push harder for a kind of Leitkultur, a guiding culture. Not a monoculture but a culture that draws on our Christian, Jewish, humanistic traditions and that poses a challenge to the Islamic problem. This is patriotism, not nationalism, this is pride in our own culture.

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