The Divine Conspiracy Blog

SPIEGEL does a hit piece on Geert Wilders, calling him “the Netherlands’ fearmonger.”

There are a million Muslims living in the Netherlands today, about six percent of the country’s population. Only a few hundred of them are radical Islamists, and perhaps a few thousand have actually committed crimes. But facts like these have taken a back seat to people’s emotions and fears. The Dutch have become wary of their own country, where veiled women and men in kaftans are now part of daily life. After the murder of Theo van Gogh, the author Geert Mak spoke of the fearmongering practiced by politicians and the media. Wilders is the biggest fearmonger of all.

Because of Wilders outspoken views, this is how he has to live.

Wilders has been under police protection for the last five years. The government built him a house that resembles a prison more than a residence, with bomb-proof walls, bullet-proof windows and security cameras everywhere. For the last five years, Wilders has lived in a world of back doors and armored limousines, a world in which he is constantly accompanied by a dozen bodyguards. When he does go out in public, perhaps to hand out flyers in a market square, his appearance seems more like a bank robbery than a demonstration of populism.

And yet according to SPIEGEL, it’s Wilders that is the “fearmonger,” not the radical Islamists. The is a perfect example of the accuracy of comments by Lawrence Auster I linked below (Our Guardians):

Under liberalism, as soon as the society recognizes the existence of a non-Western enemy and begins to oppose him, as happened after the 9/11 attack, the society simultaneously begins reaching out to that non-Western enemy more than it has ever done before, in order to show that it is not bigoted against him. Thus the more dangerous the non-Western enemy becomes, and the more measures that are put in place against him, the greater the compensatory gestures toward that enemy that must also be put in place. The more of a threat he is, and the more we fight him, the more we must empower him.