Re: Geert Wilders
 

I was going to mention this. Downright offence which causes incitement has been unlawful in many jurisdictions and a decent and necessary measure. It's obvious that you shouldn't tell a bunch of people to "**" off on TV.

But agree that just because someone is offended is not a good enough test in my book for offense to be considered so... In Criminal law, there were tests whereby what a reasonable person would have done and thought was the test. If one person has a chip on their shoulder and is overly sensitive or difficult then it is not the thought of the many, or indeed rest..

Re: Geert Wilders
 

The fact that you find it acceptable for someone in your country - an elected politician no less - to have to have round the clock armed protection because of something he said speaks volumes about the state of the democracy in a nation considered to be one of the greatest liberal democracies of Western Europe

A very sad state of affairs but indicative of the mess that many European countries have got themselves into

Re: Geert Wilders
 

A coward is someone who kills blacks and dismisses it as "T'was a war at the time...bla bla"

Re: Geert Wilders
 

Democracy does not mean and never has that you can say anything you think/want. Name a country without laws relating to slander and libel or one where you can peddle whatever hate you want with impunity? The 'hooked cleric' met your criteria of saying it as he saw it etc, etc, I bet you have no time for his particular ideas? He too needed protection for some reason which will escape you.

Wilders (and you it seems) have conveniently forgotten (it seems) that the Dutch stripped the world's most populous Muslim country (Indonesia) for centuries and yet he would bar their people from entering the Netherlands if he had his way. A further irony is the Green of Islam shall not enter the Orange of the Netherlands!

Wilders likens the Koran to Mein Kampf but his ideas suggest he also has one ball.

Question (in response to your argument 'the only answer is to assimilate; dress, think, behave, worship etc like the county you live in). Did the Dutch and the British (and French, Americans, Monguls, Stalin, Turks, Italians, Greeks, Romans,...................................) 'assimilate' with the people of all the countries they included in their empires?

Now don't be a coward and just spout insults, argue your position.

Re: Geert Wilders
 

Please keep this thread civil and to the point i.e. no personal attacks. Thank you. :fingerscrossed:

Re: Geert Wilders
 

I'll defer to Alfresco and give you a pass on your name-calling, personal attacks - this time

You know nothing of the military or warfare or ROE or Africa or the conflict in Namibia and Angola or just basic human survival instincts. When you do and have managed to get out of your western, blinkered, champagne socialist comfort bubble, we can debate. Until then......:p

Re: Geert Wilders
 

What's the magic word?

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Predictable response ignoring all I said and deflecting from Wilders. Goodbye!:rofl:

Re: Geert Wilders
 

It's a thread praising an out and out racist and one is to be civil in response? I thought I was actually.:confused:

Re: Geert Wilders
 

You replied to the wrong thread turbo! :rofl:

Re: Geert Wilders
 

I liked him in Blazing Saddles & as Willie Wonka.;)

Re: Geert Wilders
 

Now that's a funny movie

Re: Geert Wilders
 

Attack the subject matter please, not other posters. The nature of the thread is irrelevant, even ones that may get heated, like this one.

BE rule #1 quoted below to save everyone the effort of looking it up.

1. Personal Attacks
BritishExpats.com is an interactive site, and everyone who participates is “in it together”, please treat others the way you wish to be treated. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. Challenge others’ points of view and opinions, but do so respectfully and thoughtfully … without insult or personal attack.

Thank you and have a nice day. :starsmile:

Re: Geert Wilders
 

It would be good if you could carry on the points you discuss. Sadly you tend to chime in with a single post, spark a discussion point, then vanish. Not everyone is going to agree and that's the beauty of life. Its a discussion point.

Re: Geert Wilders
 

Because he's concerned about the islamification of his homeland and the rest of Western Europe and the hatred, intolerance, conflict, violence, misogyny, anti-semitism, homophobia and eventual dhimmitude that this will bring, he's a racist? Wow

Then again, if you think about it, this is how the left works - if you can't impose your hateful views on the people, then play the race card. Works a treat :rolleyes: