I find it interesting how Wilders is criticised here as being "racist", even though he has much travelling experience in the mideast, and is not wholly hateful of Muslims. 'Der Spiegel' has said that he will "wax poetic" about their magnificence, and he remarks "It's a real shame that these places are so chaotic."

How is that at all racist?

Islam is NOT a race, rather, it is an ideology. Ideologies are NOT the same as the people who follow them. Wilders recognises this, stating "I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam." Explain to me how this is "racist".

What Wilders is trying to do is preserve his country's rich cultural heritage. In other words, he is DEFENDING diversity.

For you members, of the "fashionable left", perhaps the prospect of a native culture being slowly strangled does not bother you, IF the strangling culture can be labeled as a "victim". But let's think about this logically for a moment. Mass immigration of a radically different culture has been horribly destructive to native cultures, historically speaking. Don't believe me? Read up on the histories of Native Americans and Australian Aboriginals!!

Furthermore, European and Islamic cultures have long been historical antagonists. See: Crusades, Battle of Tours, the Ottoman Empire in of Europe, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, etc.

This relationship finally faded into temporary obscurity after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, when Europeans came into nominal control of most of the Islamic world by way of colonies and protectorates. But the Europeans never migrated in droves to these lands. The lands remained overwhelmingly Muslim. European culture never really threatened Islamic culture to any extent. And in the rare events when it did, who opposed it? Muslim NATIONALISTS.

In modern Western Europe, however, Islam DOES pose a cultural threat to Europe in ways that European culture never did to the Muslim world. Muslim immigration rates are alarmingly high, and Muslim birthrates greatly outpace native European ones. Germany is now offering incentives for German couples to have children. Islamic culture is fundamentally at odds with European culture. Need proof? Just compare Islamic Sharia codes with, say, modern Dutch or French law. The differences are striking. Women are subjugated in ways repulsive to most Western women, and punishments for crimes are often barbaric and medieval. In the west Honor beheading went out of fashion with crucifixion and 'the rack'.

Who opposed European colonisation of the Muslim world? Muslim NATIONALISTS. You do not seem to decry these people as "racist" and "bigoted".

Who opposes Muslim colonisation of the European world? European NATIONALISTS. They do essentially the same things as the Islamists of the past. Yet somehow, they are all "racist" and "bigoted".

That is a double standard.

I enjoy Döner and couscous as much as the next guy. But does that mean I need to mindlessly sit back and watch as European lands slowly slip out of European control and into the grip of an alien culture? I think not.

These is no physical equivalent of "white man's firewater" here to make westerners complacent. There are only these anti-diversity "multi-culti" views which pervade certain sections of the Western populace that threaten us with loss of our culture.

Such views are the TRUE threats to "diversity", not the views of Geert Wilders and like-minded individuals.

Your comments, please.