Geert Wilders to Launch Global Anti-Jihad Campaign

The AP story is so full of its own narrative (check out the adjectives), but the message is the same. We are on the offense, baby.

He distinguishes between us and those who on the fringe, like the BNP. His position mirrors mine on this. This is very exciting. They'll want to lock him up for sure, now.

APNewsBreak: Dutch lawmaker forms anti-Islam group AP

By MIKE CORDER (AP) – 5 hours ago

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An anti-Islam lawmaker in the Netherlands is forming an international alliance to spread his message across the West in a bid to ban immigration from Islamic countries, among other goals.

Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday he will launch the movement late this year, initially in five countries: the U.S., Canada, Britain, France and Germany.

"The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom,' is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world," Wilders said at the Dutch parliament.

Among the group's aims will be outlawing immigration from Islamic countries to the West and a ban on Islamic Sharia law. Starting as a grass-roots movement, he hopes it eventually will produce its own lawmakers or influence other legislators.

He said he hopes to position the alliance between traditional conservative parties and far-right wing groups, saying that in Britain there is "an enormous gap" between the ruling Conservative Party and the far-right British National Party.

"The BNP is a party that, whatever you think of it, it's not my party — I think it's a racist party," Wilders said.

Wilders, who calls Islam a "fascist" religion, has seen his support in the Netherlands soar in recent years, even while he has been subjected to round-the-clock protection because of death threats.

His Freedom Party won the biggest gains in a national election last month, coming third with 24 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, up from the nine before the election.

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But he is unrepentant and said he now wants to take his message outside the Netherlands.

"The fight for freedom and (against) Islamization as I see it is a worldwide phenomenon and problem to be solved," he said.

Wilders declined to name any of the other founders of the organization he is calling the Geert Wilders International Freedom Alliance. He said he would hold speeches in the five countries where the alliance will first launch in coming months to drum up support.

Atlas Shrugs [AP]