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Courage

Do you remember when Dan Rather was actually a journalist? Remember how he used to close out the CBS Evening News broadcast? He'd utter a single word: "Courage."

No one has ever figured out what he was talking about.

Today we have an example of true courage:

Islam is taking over, says Dutch politician

Geert Wilders, the 43-year-old leader of the Freedom Party of the Netherlands, is making waves - and converts - by calling on the Dutch to stop Islam from taking over Europe.

Geert Wilders, the 43-year-old leader of the Freedom Party, is convinced that governments are being forced to accommodate a 'tsunami of Islamisation' that is fundamentally incompatible with European social values.

"Islam itself is the problem. Islam is a violent religion," he told The Daily Telegraph. "The Prophet Mohammed was a violent man. The Koran is mostly a violent book. We should invest in Muslim people but they have to first get rid of half the Koran and half of their beliefs," he said.

Strong words.

Brave words, especially in the current atmosphere of western appeasement of Islam.

The thing to note here is that Wilders is right. Islam is the biggest threat to the west, particularly Europe, we have seen since the rise of The Third Reich. It's more dangerous than communism, because it can spread its fascist hatred and violence behind the mask of "religious freedom."

Those who object to Islam's fundamental globalist beliefs can easily be called "intolerant of the faith of others." CAIR - The Hamas-funded Council on American Islamic Relations - calls all objections "Islamic Intolerance," and by doing so they attempt to use the religious freedom of western countries as a sledge against those who correctly point Islam's violent intentions.

Unfortunately for the safety and security - yes, even the survival - of the west, political correctness walks hand-in-hand with religious tolerance to create an environment where violent Islamic zealots can operate freely in our society. When the bombs go off and the heads roll, the hand-wringing is the only recourse left to those blinded by their PC beliefs.

There is almost no country more politically correct than the UK. Look at the terrible things that happened in London after Madrid, you have more reason than most to make this debate transparent and public," [Wilders] said.

Because of his courageous stand, Wilders is now a marked man. The "tolerant" religion of Islam has sentenced him to death for his "defamation" of Mohammad and the "true faith."

Two months later he was living in fear after police arrested suspected terrorists, armed with grenades, accused of planning to kill him. The Dutch politician says he and his wife have received more than 600 death threats.

Mr Wilders, who is always surrounded by plain clothes police guards, said: "I lost my freedom and privacy because of my opposition to Islam."

The only way to see Islam defeated is for more people to join Wilders in his stand. To hide behind fear and political correctness is to play in to the hands of the jihadists.

For the sake of our children, this is something we cannot and must not do.

We must take on the mantle of true courage.



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posted by Tomás @ 3/02/2007 11:38:00 AM