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by Guy Millière
• April 11, 2017 at 5:00 am
- None of Wilders's
speeches incites violence against anyone; the violence that
surrounds him is directed only at him.
- The only person
talking about these problems is Geert Wilders. Dutch political
leaders and most journalists seemingly prefer to claim that
Geert Wilders is the problem; that if he were not there, these
problems would not exist.
- What adherents of
this view, that the West is guilty, "forget" is that
Islam long oppressed the West: Muslim armies conquered Persia,
the Christian Byzantine Empire, all of North Africa and the
Middle East, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and the Balkans,
virtually all of Eastern Europe, Greece and southern Spain.
The Muslim armies were a constant threat until the marauding
Ottoman troops were finally turned away at the Gates of Vienna
in 1683.
In 2004, Moroccan-Dutch terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri
(left), shot the filmmaker Theo van Gogh (right) to death, then
stabbed him and slit his throat.
Even if the
Dutch politcian Geert Wilders had won and if the Party for Freedom
(PVV) he established eleven years ago had become the first party in
the country, he would not have been able to become the head of the
government. The heads of all the other political parties said they
would reject any alliance with him ; they maintain this position to
this day.
For years,
the Dutch mainstream media have spread hatred and defamation
against Wilders for trying to warn the Dutch people - and Europe -
about what their future will be if they continue their current
immigration policies; in exchange, last December, a panel of three
judges found him guilty of "inciting discrimination".
Newspapers and politicians all over Europe unceasingly describe him
as a dangerous man and a rightist firebrand. Sometimes they call
him a "fascist".
by Burak Bekdil
• April 11, 2017 at 4:00 am
- This is the first
time that Erdogan is openly challenging a concerted European
stand.
In July 2016, Erdogan apologized for downing a
Russian plane, and in August he went to Russia to shake hands for
normalization. Pictured: Russian President Vladimir Putin with
Turkey's then Prime Minister Erdogan, meeting in Istanbul on
December 3, 2012. (Image source: kremlin.ru)
Turkey's
foreign policy and the rhetoric that presumably went to support it,
has, during the past several years, aimed less at achieving foreign
policy goals and more at consolidating voters' support for the
Ankara government.
Self-aggrandizing
behavior has predominantly shaped policy and functioned to please
the Turks' passion for a return to their glorious Ottoman past.
Assertive
and confrontational diplomatic language and playing the tough guy
of the neighborhood may have helped garner popular support for
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development
Party (AKP), but after years of "loud barking and no
biting", Turkey has effectively become the victim of its own
narrative.
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