
Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders was cleared of all five charges in the Netherlands on Thursday, where he had faced up to a year in prison for allegedly inciting violence through his anti-Islam rhetoric.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)If you like free barbecue and Islamophobia and you weren't hanging with Tennessee Republicans on Thursday, you seriously missed out.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)If today's rally against the Park51 Islamic center was an exercise in contradictions about tolerance, then Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders was the perfect pick for keynote speaker. In his remarks Wilders repeatedly lauded America's record of tolerance while asserting that "openness can never be open-ended. A tolerant society is not a suicidal society."
"We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us," Wilder said. "New York is rooted in Dutch tolerance. New York is tolerant, not intolerant. What if New York was intolerant?" Then it "would not be New York, it would be Mecca."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)In downtown Manhattan today, about 1,500 people gathered to protest the planned Park51 Islamic center near Ground Zero. Speakers assured the crowd that it's not that they're intolerant, because this isn't about tolerance, exactly -- but so what if it is, because Islam is intolerant? Or something.
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