Wilders Delenda Est!

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The following article by our Dutch correspondent H. Numan provides some a useful follow-up (and palate-cleanser) to last night’s post about the “Dutch” rapper who targeted Geert Wilders for mock assassination in his latest video.

The political climate in the Netherlands surrounding Mr. Wilders now resembles the demonization of Pym Fortuyn in the months leading up to his assassination almost twelve years ago. In order to facilitate the permanent elimination of a popular politician, any shame concerning his murder must first be removed from popular culture.

It’s not as if the major Dutch political parties custom-ordered that video from a Muslim thug-rapper. “Kill Geert” is simply part of the ubiquitous political atmosphere in the Netherlands at the moment. Everyone — liberal or conservative, native or immigrant — is breathing it. Hozny just inhaled it more deeply than most.

Wilders Delenda Est!
by H. Numan

On Wednesday 19 March municipal elections were held in The Netherlands. What follows is a lengthy article what happened afterwards and why.

As expected, the labor-conservative coalition got a drubbing. The PvdA (labor party) lost massively. So did the VVD (conservative party). Just slightly less.

The winner was, as expected, D66. This is a center-left wing party. Left-wing enough for disillusioned labor voters to vote for, and at the same time conservative enough for conservatives to vote for. As we often say here: conservative D66 voters are VVD voters with a conscience. This party has no other principles than ‘how do we get elected today?’

There is only one real issue D66 stands for: get rid of Geert Wilders! This party mainly focuses on people with a better than average income and is the party most in favor of the EU. Something which the PVV (Wilders’ party) firmly opposes. Both D66 and the PVV are offspring of the VVD party. But you couldn’t find any two parties more opposite to each other.

Not that long ago Dutch politics used to be dominated by four parties: VVD (conservatives) on the center right, CDA (Christian Democrats) somewhere in the middle, together with D66 a bit more to the left, and PvdA (labor) on the left.

Then a new party came along, with a very different agenda. The PVV, whose main issues are: (1) does The Netherlands need so many Muslims, in so many important positions, with so much attention (social welfare)? And (2) do we really need to remain in the EU?

The PVV electorate are the common folk ignored by main stream parties. Something very Dutch, actually. We call this group ‘de kleine luyden’, that’s old fashioned Dutch for ‘the little people. It’s not the first time those people have been ignored.

The conservative VVD is an abbreviation of ‘People’s Party for Democracy’ in Dutch, but can also be translated as ‘Society for Managing Directors’ (Vereniging Van Directeuren) which would be a much better description of that party. The ‘little people’ in that party are the ones serving drinks or cleaning up after a meeting.

The CDA (Christian Democrat) Party used to be the voice of those little people. A long time ago. The CDA is a merger of the Roman Catholic Party together with two Protestant parties. The ‘kleine luyden’ were in the past staunchly conservative Catholic and/or Protestant.

The CDA party was formed as a response to their individual member parties’ losing out to secularization. By merging they were still able to dominate the political landscape, which they couldn’t do alone anymore. This worked for about twenty years. However, secularization is an ongoing process. Since 1980 they have gradually lost so much support that the ‘C’ nowadays is an empty meaningless letter.

The Christian Democrat Party warmly welcomes any religion, especially the one worshiping a black stone in the desert. Representing ‘the little people’ is just about the last item on their agenda. Having lost the national and previous municipal elections they have only one thing on their minds: how do we get back in?

Lastly the PvdA or Labor Party. The last in this list claiming to represent ‘the little people’, notably the workers. Since the late sixties they have focused on migration rather than on laborers. Anyone is welcome, but some are much more welcome than others. The PvdA today is the number one party focusing on ethnic minorities, especially the Islamic ones.

The PVV electorate are the lower social classes, up to and including average-income workers and a bit above. Hence the often voiced complaint that the PVV is actually an extreme left-wing party in disguise.

Nope, they aren’t. They are staunchly conservative. Not extreme right-wing nor even slightly to the left. They run the real risk of having to use the social welfare system a lot more than financially better-off people, and they see that the available funds are being squandered on lots of things, but none of them essential. Usually on something multicultural.

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Oh! The Microaggressions!

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A useful website called Global Voices has posted an article translated from the Spanish about the latest EU survey on violence against women in Europe.

Needless to say, the phenomena investigated by the survey include behaviors that only a dedicated leftist would describe as “violence”. This is the EU we’re dealing with, after all — what else do you expect?

On March 5, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published the results of a survey on violence against women [pdf], the most comprehensive of its kind ever conducted. Undertaken simultaneously throughout the region, it is the first time comparative data has been available by country on the kinds of violence women suffer in their families, at work, in public and on the Internet as well as the effect it has on their lives and the way in which victims respond to aggression.

The report is based on direct interviews with 42,000 female residents of the EU aged 18 to 74, and it reveals some staggering numbers. According to one of the videos presented along with the report, “the results show the scale of violence against women in the EU is vast, and simply cannot be ignored.” In the words of the FRA Director Morten Kjaerum:

The enormity of the problem is proof that violence against women does not just impact a few women only — it impacts on society every day. Therefore, policy makers, civil society and frontline workers need to review measures to tackle all forms of violence against women no matter where it takes place. [sic]

Some of the conclusions of the survey include:

  • 33% of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, while 5% have been raped.
  • 55% of women have suffered some form of sexual harassment (unwelcome kissing, hugging or touching) since the age of 15.
  • 75% of women in high level jobs or who are highly qualified have experience sexual harassment at some point in their lives.
  • 11% of women have experienced inappropriate advances on social websites or have been subjected to sexually explicit emails or text (SMS) messages.
  • 67% did not report the most serious incident of partner violence to the police or other organizations.

Surprisingly the countries with the highest percentage of victims of violence against women are in northern Europe: Denmark (52%), Finland (47%) and Sweden (46%), while Hungary (21%), Austria (20%) and Poland (19%) have much lower rates. Spain, at 22%, is well below average:

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It seems counter intuitive that Scandinavian countries, which have higher rates of gender equality should also have higher rates of violence against women. Blanca Tapia, spokesperson for the FRA, explains in El diario [es] newspaper this apparent contradiction:

In countries like Finland, Denmark, Sweden or France, it is culturally more acceptable to talk about violence against women, so women are more likely to denounce it. Women in northern countries have greater gender awareness; they know they have the same rights as men and it is clear to them that there are certain things they do not have to put up with. They don’t let things get by them.

So because women in Scandinavia are more liberated, they are more likely to have the courage to report the abuse. Hmm… I’m not so sure I agree with that logic.

And it goes without saying that there are no statistics correlating the level of cultural enrichment with the rate of gender-based violence, so there’s no way to tell whether it is Swedes or “Swedes” who are whaling on their womenfolk.

As is usually the case with politically correct news articles, the most interesting content may be found in the comments. Not all the Spanish-speaking male readers are as ready to buy the feminized zeitgeist as their purportedly male counterparts in northern Europe:

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Rappin’ on Geert

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On March 18, 2014, the “Dutch” rapper Hozny released a new song called “Geertje”, along with a video.

The video clip shows a man in a blond wig representing the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom. The fake Geert is abducted by armed men and brought to Hozny, who makes him kneel in front of an Islamic flag. The clip ends with a shot of Wilders being executed.

In his lyrics Hozny refers to Volkert van der G., the assassin of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, and Mohammed B., the assassin of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Both men were murdered because they were critical of Islam. Hozny hopes that Geert Wilders will have them as cellmates.

Mr. Wilders is taking the implied threat seriously. According to Dutch News:

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam PVV, said on Tuesday he will take legal action against a rapper for a video clip featuring a man in a bad blonde wig being kidnapped and possibly shot. ‘If this is no threat, then what is?’ Wilders said in a reaction to the video, from Frisian rapper Hozny.

And the NLTimes:

Wilders will file charges against Hozny. [Prime Minister Mark] Rutte also condemns the video. The Minister of Justice and Security, Ivo Opstelten, had not seen the clip yet and stated the Public Prosecution would have to review the clip to assess whether the law was violated.

Below is a subtitled version of the controversial video. Many thanks to SimonXML for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/20/2014

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The latest media theory about the missing Malaysian jetliner is that it fell into a black hole. A more likely explanation seems to be that the newly-discovered pieces of wreckage in the far south of the Indian Ocean are from the missing plane.

In other news, the Turkish government has restricted access to Twitter after recordings of wiretaps of Prime Minister Erdogan were leaked on social media.

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To Be Considered: Are Socialists Fun-Impaired?

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Some visible differences were on display in the videos of a debate in a Oxford Union debate in December on whether or not socialism “works”. As someone committed to conservative principles, I was interested to see what the socialists would say in defense of a system that is running out of time and running out of other peoples’ money.

What struck me most, though, were the differences in demeanor. I was tempted to suggest a private charity might offer the socialists some scholarships to a charm school.

Do you ever fall into a You Tube hole? You watch one and then an hour later you look up and realize you’ve been sucked in again. I started watching these displays because someone sent us a video of Daniel Hannan speaking to an Israeli marketing group. Like many of our readers, I enjoy watching Hannan for reasons beyond content; sometimes I don’t agree with him but mostly he gets it right about, say, America. The disagreements are minor; that he has attempted to understand what makes America tick makes him unusual.

Thus it was that after the first video, I looked on the sidebar to see what else was on offer by Mr. Hannan and so came across these December debates, with both ‘for’ and ‘against’ well-represented. And among those speaking “against” was Mr. Hannan, so I watched him explain why socialism is essentially unworkable.

See for yourself:


In the comments, one fellow said:

This was a compelling argument. The other side such as Robert Griffiths didn’t seem to be able to counter this. His ending especially the portion where someone asked “What about the right to be fed, to go to a good school, to get a job” and he responded “And where do you think you’d find the best opportunity for that in North Korea or in South Korea?” was pretty on point.

Definitely, Mr. Hannan is a disciple of Frederic Bastiat. Britain is fortunate to have him.

To be fair – we’re dealing with the question of socialism after all, so things must always be “fair” – there is equal time for a proponent of socialism below the fold. And what a self-righteous prig he is. I chose him because throughout the presentations of the “aginners”, who were having fun with their subject, his face and body language was the very picture of someone being tortured.

Be sure to notice the red-headed fellow sitting near the prune. The former was a bowlful of sour socialist jelly. His face seemed to get increasingly red and apoplectic as the Hannans and Dalrymples spoke. I take it back: the redheaded dude doesn’t need charm school. He needs to see one of those free doctors about his blood pressure.
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We’re Back!

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Teh Intertubes were disabled for us sometime overnight. It was a widespread outage, and the Powers That Be phone company resolved the issue fairly quickly, all things considered (their estimate was tomorrow).

Many thanks to Vlad for posting the outage notice, and to Henrik for moderating the comments.

Normal service will resume shortly — as soon as I go through all the $#!!&?*$*! accumulated email.

The Baron is offline

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The Good Baron has temporarily lost access to the Internet, thus posting is suspended for a while, probably around 24 hours.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/19/2014

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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has weighed in on the Crimean crisis, saying that Russia’s annexation rectifies a historical error created by the USSR, and should be celebrated. Meanwhile, in an acknowledgement of the Russian fait accompli, Ukraine says it plans to pull its remaining military forces out of the Crimea.

In other news, in just two days, the Italian Navy and Coast Guard have plucked more than two thousand illegal immigrants from the sea and brought them to safety on Italian territory.

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From Rochdale to Sioux Falls

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The following news story from South Dakota — which has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100% — will be depressingly familiar to regular Gates of Vienna readers and anyone else who’s been following the “grooming and pimping trials” in Rochdale, Bradford, Oxford, and elsewhere in the UK.

The pattern is almost identical: vulnerable young girls — in this case, as young as 14 — are lured with drugs and gifts into a life of sexual slavery. This particular form of vile criminal behavior is very, very rare except among Muslim males who live in non-Muslim cultures. Yet there the mainstream media have lowered a cone of silence over the JIM aspects of these sex-slavery gangs.

The good news is that this despicable creature will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Below are excerpts from the report in The Argus Leader. Some of the more lurid and disturbing details have been redacted:

Iraqi refugee called monster gets life for sex trafficking

An Iraqi refugee who sold several women and girls for sex at his Sioux Falls apartment will spend the rest of his life in prison after U.S. District Court Judge Karen Schreier agreed with victims who called him a “monster.”

A jury convicted Mohammed Alaboudi in December on four counts of sex trafficking. His lawyer asked for the same 30-year sentence given last April to a co-conspirator, Emannuel Nyoun. But the judge noted that Nyoun had victimized just one young woman, while Alaboudi had hurt many, many more.

“I don’t think the two of you are comparable,” Schreier said. “You have been described by the victims as someone who is a monster. I do not think that is an unjustified characterization, based on how you treated the young women who came through your home.”

Four victims, identified only by their initials, recounted during Monday’s hearing the physical and sexual abuse against them at the hands of the 45-year-old Alaboudi. Earlier at trial, many of them had testified how he had given them drugs and shelter to lure them into dependency and prostitution, using his one-bedroom apartment in central Sioux Falls as headquarters for what U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson has called “a house of horrors.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Koliner noted Alaboudi’s status as a refugee who was welcomed into the country and community, only to take advantage of that hospitality.

Alaboudi preyed on the vulnerability of his victims, many of them homeless with drug addictions and, in some case, mental health issues, Koliner said. The women, two of them underage, were kept high on drugs and alcohol while forced to engage in sex acts with strangers.

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“The defendant, who purposely drugged the girls and raped them repeatedly, then allowed his cohorts to come in” and do the exact same thing, Koliner said.

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Tommy Robinson: I’m Not Leaving HMP Winchester

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The latest word is that Tommy Robinson refused to leave prison this morning to attend his court appearance, because it would have meant being returned to a different, more dangerous prison — and in solitary.

The following message just came in from a source in the EDL:

Tommy refused to leave the prison today.

If he left Winchester and appeared in court in London he would have been returned to HMP Wandsworth, and he didn’t want to go there, as it would have meant solitary confinement.

I’ve just spoken to him and he said the case was due to be heard in his absence this afternoon, with afternoon sessions starting at 2pm. He won’t know the outcome until later when he speaks to his solicitor. CPS presented evidence late yesterday, so he doesn’t think it would have been adjourned.

When more news about the case comes in, I’ll post it here.

Previous posts about Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll, and the Quilliam Foundation:

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Tommy Robinson: In Court Again Today

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Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, will appear in court later today on charges unrelated to those that led to his current imprisonment.

We just received this message from a source in the EDL:

Regarding Tommy: Today (the 19th of March) he is facing court over charges of a public disorder offence. Specifically, he is accused of “inciting illegal public assembly” at an EDL rally in Tower Hamlets on 7 September 2013.

Why was Tommy arrested? His “crime” was to make a speech that was slightly longer than three minutes.

There is a new risk that may result from his court appearance: during the hearing he will be moved to another prison, and it is highly likely that this will be a much more dangerous place than HMP Winchester, where he is at present (Tommy “likes” his current prison; the place is quite friendly for him, with a lot of soldiers) .

Keep your fingers crossed for him today! And, for those so inclined, please say a prayer for him.

Any additional word on today’s events in court will be posted here as soon as it comes in.

Previous posts about Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll, and the Quilliam Foundation:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/18/2014

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A culturally enriched “Dutch” rapper made a rap video entitled “Geertje” in which a man in a blond wig representing Geert Wilders is kidnapped and threatened with death by two gunman. Mr. Wilders has demanded that legal action be taken against the rapper, and the Dutch government has condemned the video.

In other news, the Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov has died (some reports say he was “killed”). The Russian government has yet to confirm his death officially.

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The Reawakening of National Identity

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Two articles about two European nations — one inside the EU and one outside it — illustrate in their different ways the growing awareness within Europe that national identity actually means something, something too precious to toss onto the dung heap of borderless Multiculturalism.

JLH, who translated both articles, has this to say about them:

Here are two short articles that caught my interest because they reflect so ironically on aspects of what goes on here in the USA, as well as in Europe.

The first (about the citizens of the former German Democratic Republic being unashamed of being German) and the second (about the Swiss People’s Party going after the anti-racism law) made me think about how different and how similar they are.

The so-called Ossis of East Germany spent forty years under a Germanized version of Communism, and learned to preserve their identities as Germans until they were able to express them openly again. The citizens of Switzerland — who may seem the diametric opposite, since they began by defying the great imperial power of the time and wrested themselves from the grasp of the house of Habsburg — are in reality brothers under the skin, because the end result was the same kind of self-recognition. The kind we tend to find here in “flyover country.”

How far so many of us here and in the Old Country (whichever one that may be) have come from the simple recognition of who we are and why we are who we are!

The first translated article is from Zuerst!:

AfD Head, Lucke: “In the East, Being German is Nothing to be Ashamed Of”

Berlin. Bernd Lucke, chair of the Euro-critical party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), which enjoyed especially good election results in the so-called “new federal states,” is in agreement with the less inhibited relationship of Germans in the east of the Federal Republic on the question of national identity.

“People there are not ashamed of being German,” Lucke declared in an interview with the Thüringische Landeszeitung. Standing for the national interest was met with more sympathy in Thuringia and Saxony than in the west of the country, he said. That was a result of the socializing of so many people in the west. They had learned never to say that something was in German interests. Everything should be in the interest of Europe.

The second article is from Junge Freiheit:

The SVP Wants to Abolish the Anti-Racism Law

Bern. The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has called for the repeal of the Anti-Racism Law, with no substitution. Since its introduction 20 years ago, this law has not stood the test of time, leading instead to a state ruled by judges and denunciations (instead of the rule of law*), complained acting SVP chief, Gregor Rutz.

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“A Prolonged Desire” to Wish Away Israel’s Existence

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The venerable Pat Robertson performs a deft interview with Caroline Glick in the video below.

As you can see, it’s obvious he has read her book and can speak knowledgeably about some of the players who have strolled through this evil farce during his own time on the public stage. At one point he talks about Yasser Arafat, whom he met on several occasions, as a “stone cold killer” who knew how to be “kissy” to your face.

Ah the things the world will do for oil.

Here’s the book:

The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East

During the course of this interview Pat Robertson runs footage of the various presidents who have played their relentlessly unvarying roles in “The Two State Game”; he then asks Caroline Glick why American administrations persist in performing this ritual. She says (this is a paraphrase) there is a “prolonged desire to wish away” the reality of Israel. Indeed. Even now you can catch glimpses of our current Secretary of State perfervidly salivating over the idea that it might be he, John Kerry himself who will finally catch the golden ring on this merry-go-‘round. Malvolio’s excitement comes to mind.

Like Pat Robertson, I had no idea that the United States military actually uses our tax dollars to train Palestinians! Train them to do what, precisely? To umm…make peace?…build hospitals?…maybe reconstruct those greenhouses the world bought for them and presented to the Palestinians as a gift in order that they might increase their productivity and provide a source of income. Cynics that they are, PoorPalis™ are always ready to assume the characteristic pose of professionally aggrieved victims the world over: snarl on face, hand outstretched waiting for someone else’s goods and money to magically appear. The fact that our government fosters this behavior means our peace talk is only that: talk. We don’t walk the walk and we don’t really want peace.

As for the PoorPalis™ delusional demands? With their unceasing internecine warfare and their leaders’ inclinations toward corruption and kleptocracy, they have proved repeatedly their congenital disinclination to do the heavy lifting required for self rule. The American government ought to be ashamed of itself for persisting in this squalid farce. At the very least it’s insulting.