The Anti-Fascist

March 17, 2010 00:42


With all due respect to my friends in the media, let me paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen:  I know Geert Wilders, Geert Wilders is a friend of mine and Geert Wilders is no fascist, demagogue or extremist.

Center for Security Policy | Mar 15, 2010
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

At a time when President Obama insists that the most pressing threat facing America is the growing cost of health care, a recent speech in Britain’s House of Lords by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders is a salutary reminder of what is really endangering us all:  The rising tide of Islamic supremacism codified by authoritative Islam in the brutally repressive law of Shariah – the law of Saudi Arabia and Iran among other Islamic states.

For pointing out that danger and striving in his native Netherlands to counteract it, Mr. Wilders is being reviled and slandered.  Condemnation from the Islamists is to be expected. Ditto the attacks from their friends on the political Left.  Unfortunately, he has also recently been sharply criticized by several prominent and influential American conservatives.  On Fox News last week, Glenn Beck called him “a fascist,” Bill Kristol said he was “a demagogue” and Charles Krauthammer described him as “extreme, radical and wrong.”

With all due respect to my friends in the media, let me paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen:  I know Geert Wilders, Geert Wilders is a friend of mine and Geert Wilders is no fascist, demagogue or extremist.

In fact, at great personal cost and with extraordinary courage, Geert Wilders has been trying to save his country from the true fascists of our time, those whose demagoguery is unmistakable and whose extremism is all too real: Shariah-adherent Muslims in the Netherlands, in Europe more generally and in the wider world – including, increasingly here in the United States.

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