European Left martyrs Wilders, gives him big poll boost
Euro-Left creates martyr, boosts Wilders in polls
By Donald Hank
De Volkskrant was, to my knowledge, the first news outlet to report that Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was planning to make the anti-Koran movie Fitna and Laigle’s Forum was the first news site in the nation to present a translation of that news with comments, later following it up with the news that the movie had come out on YouTube.
At the time, and ever since then, de Volkskrant has allowed all news items on Wilders to be filtered through the highly biased viewpoints of politicians and dignitaries who opposed Wilders and marginalized him as an anti-immigrant rabble rouser.
Today de Volkskrant turned a corner, reporting on a poll by the market research company TNS NIPO showing that Geert Wilders has picked up in polls since his recent arrest for “hate” and his expulsion from Britain for “security” reasons. Not surprisingly, the new supporters of Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) tend to be higher educated than the previous average Wilders supporter.
The article states (my translation):
“In the Second Chamber elections in 2006, 9% of the PVV voters had higher educational degrees. That is now 13%, and among the newcomers, it was in fact 16%… The incomes of the average PVV voters also rose. By living standards, they are increasingly coming to resemble the average Dutch person. ‘The Wilders voter is becoming normalized,’ says Peter Kanne of TNS NIPO.
Volkskrant ascribes the uptick in Wilders’ popularity to his recent martyrdom. A Dutch court recently arraigned Wilders for a “hate” crime based on his showing of Fitna, which puts the Koran in a bad light. Britain also expelled him last week even though he had been invited by British lawmakers to discuss his film.
The Volkskrant also says that a poll by another pollster taken since the TNS NIPO poll show an even further uptick in Wilders’ popularity (my translation):
“The PVV rose in the TNS NIPO poll to 14 votes last week. According to Maurice de Hond, the PVV has grown to 25 votes, making the PVV in fact the no. 2 party in the Netherlands. TNS NIPO polled before Wilders was barred from entry to England, while De Hond polled after that. This explains the difference for the most part. Since 2006, freedom of speech is named as a new reason for voting for Wilders. Kanne: ‘the issue has been successfully co-opted.’ “
What De Volkskrant didn’t tell you is that TNS NIPO is a leftwing group that has tried in the past-like Volkskrant-to marginalize Wilders. Yet now both are forced to back off from that stance, proving once again that the media around the world are motivated mostly by politics, not by truth.
This story is not about Holland or Europe. It is about human beings and what motivates them universally, and hence it has major implications for America, where a black pastor is now facing a jail sentence for carrying a sign with the words “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help” outside an abortion clinic.
Pastor Hoye can take heart from this story about Wilders. As soon as the Left creates martyrs by denying people their God-given freedoms, it automatically pays the price in terms of human responses to their unconscionable actions, greatly advancing the cause of truth and justice.
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February 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
EXCELLENT!
I just heard a report on the radio last evening from Brigette Gabrielle on the growing threat that Islam poses to the West with its inexorable drive towards Sharia Law. The number of “honor killings” (murders of wives and children), many of these crimes including grisly beheadings, are on the increase already here in the USA. This accommodation of an entirely alien form of law cannot be tolerated here and must be stopped in its tracks. Having said that, we must awaken to the fact that aspects of our own laws are nothing less than barbaric; e.g., abortion, homosexual marriages, etc. Spiritually, one barbarity in jurisprudence seems to be fertile soil for a nation’s acquiescence in assimilating another–worse–one!
Michael Savage’s oft-voiced hope that the “rugby clubs” will arise and cast off all such alien nonsense is shallow at best. The rugby boys are co-opted by their nintendos and x-boxes by now. It will take a deep spiritual CHRISTIAN revival if we are to turn this back.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:52 pm
As many countries, Uk, Canada, the USA and many European countries; the leftists of all stripes and colors are using Muslims to fight their fight. The left is backing the Koran – not because they are believers – not because they believe in human rights – But because the leftists are too cowardly to fight themselves.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 am
I need to add a comment on this:
“In the Second Chamber elections in 2006, 9% of the PVV voters had higher educational degrees. That is now 13%, and among the newcomers, it was in fact 16%… The incomes of the average PVV voters also rose. By living standards, they are increasingly coming to resemble the average Dutch person. ‘The Wilders voter is becoming normalized,’ says Peter Kanne of TNS NIPO.”
The site of the British National Party (http://www.mogulus.com/bnp), boasts a membership that is remarkably higher educated than average, a phenomenon similar to that we have seen in Holland.
Suddenly, it is obviously the intellectuals who are drifting naturally toward third parties that cater to the little guy who is fed up with giving their jobs up to foreigners and bashing their own native culture in favor of a culture that hates them.
Conclusion: smart people EVERYWHERE want to protect themselves and their own.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:45 am
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