Wilders event at University Cut Short as Crowd Turns Nasty
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“Where Islam sets roots, freedom dies,” Geert Wilders told the students during his 30-minute address organized by a new student group called Temple University Purpose and funded by the California-based David Horowitz Freedom Center, a foundation that promotes conservative scholarship.
His remarks were met by a mixture of applause and boos, and occasionally gasps — particularly when he stated that “our Western culture is far better than the Islamic culture and we should defend it.”
There is NO muslim country which is free. Every one of them is repressive. Wilders is simply stating a fact when saying “Where Islam sets roots, freedom dies,”. And of course we in the west have the freest societies, the most equality and human rights. That makes our culture superior. So why would such an obvious statement of fact elicit boos and gasps? It does when you are speaking before an audience of left wing lunatics who hate freedom and support tyranny.
He decried as a “disgrace” a resolution co-sponsored by the U.S. and Egypt, and backed by the U.N. Human Rights Council earlier this month, deploring attacks on religions while insisting that freedom of expression remains a basic right. Wilders also criticized President Barack Obama for his efforts to extend a hand to the Islamic world, saying that such appeasement marks “the beginning of the end.”
If the spread of Islam continues unabated in the Western world, “you might at the end of the day lose your Constitution, ” he told the assembly. “Wake up, defend your freedom.”
He also touched on common themes in his speeches, including calling for an end to Muslim immigrationand referring to the Muslim holy book, the Quran, as “an evil book” that promotes violence and intolerance.
A question-and- answer session was cut short after the tone of the event began to turn nasty, when some in the crowd of several hundred students began shouting jeers. Wilders’ security detail quickly ushered him from the room.
“In order to improve our understanding of others, we need to learn,” said Alvaro Watson of Purpose, the student group. “We can’t fight for something if we only know one side.”
Before his remarks at Temple, a public university serving about 34,000 students, Wilders showed his 15-minute anti-Islam film, “Fitna,” which juxtaposes passages from the suras, or chapters, of the Quran with images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, beheadings, shootings and speeches from clerics advocating violence against non-Muslims.
“I think it’s completely wrong that someone who promotes racism and intolerance should be given a platform at this university,” said Temple student Josh Rosenthal. “It’s hate speech disguised as free speech.”
Another pathetic Jewish liberal who sides with those who would behead him if given the opportunity. In the first place how does criticism of islam amount to “racism” since islam is not a race, but an ideology? Secondly what is hateful about simply stating the TRUTH about the horrors being inflicted in the name of islam around the world? And also I would bet that Josh Rosenthal and the other critics of Wilder would not object to muslims speaking on campus who preach hatred and violence against non-muslims. Freedom of speech is a one-way street with the left. While the left claims to be tolerant, in reality they are closer to being fascists who want to shut-down truth-tellers like Geert Wilders. Read the rest.
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