re: #181 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

You really need to address more than just Wilders’ call to ban the Koran, because in his speech in Florida, he very explicitly said that he wanted to take away the freedom of religion from Muslims. The man wants to criminalize Islam, by redefining it so that it’s not considered a religion.

Will he set up death camps and use industrial methods to kill Muslims, no.

And yet, he does want to expel all Muslim “criminals” from the Netherlands — again, very explicitly. And at the same time, he wants to make Islam itself illegal, by taking away its status as a religion, and taking away the freedom of religion from Muslims. (Those are very close to his exact words, by the way.)

If you criminalize Islam itself, aren’t you then saying that all people who choose the religion of Islam would be considered criminals? The answer is yes, of course you are. And then the call for expelling Muslim “criminals” takes on a much darker meaning, because at that point all Muslims would be criminals.

And there is simply no way to carry out mass deportations on that kind of scale without mass violence. People will resist, and not just Muslims. Wilders may not be saying anything about death camps, but we’ve seen where this kind of rhetoric leads, and it’s dangerously naive to simply go along with it, and trust that nobody will be harmed.