WILDERS TRIUMPHS! BIG ELECTION VICTORY IN EURO PARLIAMENT
I am looking forward to similar US elections in 2012. By then, all of America will be reeling from the Obama hangover, much the way Europe is waking up now.
Wilders is a great man. This is a very hopeful sign of things to come.
According to exit polls by Dutch news agency ANP and broadcaster NOS, the Freedom Party gained four seats from none in 2005, while the three major Dutch parties all lost seats.
Dutch voters gave a populist, anti-immigrant party its first four seats ever in the European Parliament, sending a warning to incumbent European governments, according to exit polls.
The triumph for the Party for Freedom and its leader Geert Wilders kicked off four days of European Union-wide elections involving more than 12,000 candidates competing for more than 730 seats.
Mr. Wilders’s party was expected to win four of the 25 seats allocated to the Netherlands, according to exit polls by Dutch news agency ANP.
EU leaders fear nationalist parties are gaining ground by exploiting anxieties over job losses brought on by the financial crisis. Nationalist fringe parties are expected to pick up seats in the U.K., France, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Austria and Belgium. Other groups fear they could form a disruptive alliance. Still, such parties are unlikely to tip the balance of power in Brussels.
No politician exemplifies establishment fears more than Mr. Wilders, a charismatic orator whose platinum-blond hair has been compared to Mozart’s wig. He is a polarizing figure in European politics who has been banned from entering the U.K. under hate-speech laws. He travels with bodyguards and keeps where he sleeps a secret.
Mr. Wilders, 45 years old, has sat in the Dutch Parliament since 1998. In 2004, he left the conservative People’s Party over a dispute about whether Turkey should be allowed to join the EU. (It isn’t a member but has applied to join.) He founded the Party for Freedom and discovered a knack for tapping into Dutch xenophobia.
The Netherlands has 800,000 Muslims, mostly Turks and Moroccans, in a population of 17 million. Mr. Wilders has progressively ramped up his anti-Islamic rhetoric, calling the Koran a “fascist book” and making a movie depicting Islam as inherently violent. The British government cited the movie, “Fitna,” as grounds to ban Mr. Wilders from visiting the U.K. earlier this year.
Mr. Wilders added a strong anti-EU plank to his platform during a 2005 Dutch referendum on a new EU constitution. He helped defeat the measure, effectively scuttling the project.
His party, known by its Dutch acronym, the PVV, won nine of 150 seats in parliament in the 2006 national elections. Polls now show that roughly one-fifth of Dutch voters support Mr. Wilders, making the PVV the most popular political group in the country and its leader a long-shot candidate for prime minister. The next general election, however, isn’t until 2011.
Should Turkey as an Islamic country be able to join the European Union? We are the only party in Holland that says, it is an Islamic country, so no, not in 10 years, not in a million years,” Wilders said Thursday as polls opened.
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Videography by Barbara Rosenfeld 
June 6th, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
AHH RIHGT!!! At least the Dutch are wakinhg up!! I hope and pray that America follows suit before it’s to late
June 6th, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Geert Wilders Videos:
Fitna The Movie (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjFh4wR2QcM
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020472.php
Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, part 1
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022975.php
Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 2
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022985.php
Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 3
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023016.php
Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 4
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023061.php
Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 5
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023091.php
Spencer Interviews Geert Wilders, Part 6
https://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023183.php
June 6th, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
I have been following Geert Wilders for quite some time now. He is another hero of mine, and this is great news. This, and the news about Rex Duncan reviewing Orly’s dossiers has made it a very good day indeed!!!
GO ORLY!!! GO GIRL!!!!! GO!!!