Danish Affairs

Geert Wilders was interviewed by danish television yesterday about his movie ‘Fitna’.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen responded with a press release strongly opposing Wilders´anti-islamic views. Not all intellectual defenders of western values and freedom rights seem to be compatible with the agenda of wannabe-european-president Mr. Fogh.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has promoted freedom of speech on a number of occasions. And his party (Venstre) has honoured Ayaan Hirsi Ali with their freedom prize. But when it comes to the dutch MP Geert Wilders, AFR warns against “demonizing” groups of people.

Why?

The views of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders are similar. They both make a distinction between islam and muslims, between islam as a religion and islam as a political ideology.

The answer is, that to be acceptable for the political establishment you still need to be an ex-muslim or at least of non-european origin to point out the dangers of islam.

The press release from PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen (in danish)

The Prime Ministers Office (english site)

Wilders´movie will be released at fitnathemovie.co.uk March 23.

Update The interview on Youtube:

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