Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Geert Wilders Explains Why His Election Should Scare the EU" video.

  1. That has been used to give us more and more to tolerate. Tolerance is a virtue but situation in which you have to tolerate a lot are not good things. We shouldn't be stretched to the max by our government.
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  2. Sharing a place is already quite something but you have to truly share it to be one community. Lots of Dutch muslims voted for Wilders and many others respect him for standing up for Dutch culture and values. Being internationally minded, welcoming and a melting pot has been Dutch culture for ages. Not mincing wordst too and Wilders can be a bit coarse. The Dutch have had freedom of religion since 1579, when it was codified in the Union of Utrecht. There have always been different religions, lots of different denominations too, with different values living together here when catholics and protestants were still mass killing eachother everywhere else. The problem with muslims from muslim countries, Wilders is explicitely opposed to mass immigration from muslim countries, not opposed to any muslim immigrant, is that they expect islam to rule, rule the streets, the public spaces, the debate, allowed expression, blasphemy laws, etc. That's where it clashes with Dutch culture. They often don't understand that their freedom to be muslim in the Netherlands is the same right as everyone else's to be free from other people's religion and be as gay, blasphemous, judaistic, apostate or whatever as they want. If they understood that there is not much of a homogenity issue left. They will just be another addition to our wide range of religious nutcases.
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  3. He speaks English. It's not the only word or name in English that reflects the English historic ignorance about the rest of the world.
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