Geert Wilders Slammed by Brit News as ‘Rabble Rouser,’ ‘Virulently Anti-Islam’

Geert Wilders, one of the world’s truth-tellers on Islam, was slammed in the Daily Mail as nothing but a “rabble rouser” and danger to the European Union.

Wilders, who was once banned from Britain as “persona non grata,” was just in the news again for trying to post “Stop Islam” signs on trains in Holland.

And the Muslim community doesn’t like him.

From the Daily Mail:

“He is in such danger from Left-wing activists and Islamic militants that he often wears a bullet-proof vest and is guarded at a safe house round the clock.

“He can only visit his wife Krisztina, a former Yugoslav diplomat, once a week at the family’s secret address because of security concerns. Nobody, he says with truth, would want his sort of life.”

In a few weeks, the Netherlands will be holding elections, and Wilder’s Freedom party is leading in the polls, projected to win at least 20 percent of the vote. Why? In part, because of the same fed-up view of politicians and status quo governance that fueled the rise of President Donald Trump.

And yet, the media in the United Kingdom, similarly to the press in the United States, just can’t grasp the new atmosphere.

From the Daily Mail again:

“One of his favourite mantras (confirmed, so he claims, by university studies in Holland and Berlin) is that 80 per cent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is heroic to travel to Syria as a fighter.

“He says Islam is not a religion but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism. And the Dutch, from the urban middle class to those out in the sticks, are lapping it up.

“Wilders’s meteoric rise means the Netherlands, long famed for its liberal outlook, could well provide the next shock to the European political elite.

“On his agenda is a Dutch exit from the European Union and possibly a return from the euro to the traditional Dutch currency, the guilder, too. …

“In a more florid pronouncement, [Wilders] said the Dutch have had enough of ‘burkas, headscarves, the ritual slaughter of animals, so-called honour revenge, blaring minarets, female circumcision, hymen restoration operations, abuse of homosexuals, halal meat at shops and the enormous over-representation of Muslims in the crime arena.’”

And the media’s response?

“[Wilders is a] rabble rouser who could be the next nail in EU’s coffin: Geert Wilders is the virulently anti-Islam Dutch politician on course to win the election in Europe’s cradle of liberalism, with even the respectable middle classes supporting him,” the Daily Mail wrote.

And yet, the common man and woman are latching on to Wilders’s message, same as the heartland American and tea party-type voter did in the United States for Donald Trump.

From the Daily Mail, these stories:

“[T]he indigenous Dutch (and even some migrants who have integrated well over time) are listening.

“One of them is Edwin Heij, 49, who is married to a Bulgarian woman, with a family of three boys aged eight, 11 and 18. They live in a four-bedroom house with a big garden in a village near Utrecht — a city full of Christian monuments dating back to the 14th century.

“Edwin is a builder who always voted for the Dutch liberal parties. ‘Now I distrust politicians because they don’t do what they promise. Wilders is too radical for me in many ways, but there’s no other party to halt what is going on.

“‘Really it will be a protest vote, but what else can I do?’ he asks, as we sit in a coffee bar not far from his home.

“‘I would love Holland to leave the EU, like Britain. The politicians say this is a rich country but I have worked for the Army and see that on the ranges the soldiers must pretend to fire rifles because they don’t have bullets.

“‘In the care homes, the old people have nothing. I have worked in them and watched when two 19-year-old Dutch girls tried to care for 30 elderly in their beds. They were on a shift from 7am to 1pm. They only finished cleaning the last person at lunchtime.

“‘That is unfair treatment of pensioners who have paid into the social system all their lives, especially when we see new migrants getting council homes, state money, and not working because they don’t speak Dutch and have no skills.’ …

“Edwin says it is only now that he dares speak his mind. On Monday night he appeared on a Dutch TV programme to debate the Freedom Party phenomenon. ‘Afterwards I received hundreds of messages on Twitter from people agreeing with me. Only three were rude.’ …

“Then there is Cindy Van Kruistum, 57, a mother of two girls aged 17 and 21, who lives in a smart house in Veenendaal, a city in the central part of the country. She is a finance manager and married to a businessman (who has little time for the Freedom Party).

“A pretty woman — and half Indonesian herself — she sits on a sumptuous grey sofa and says: ‘The election of Donald Trump has changed a lot here. What happened in America has freed Dutch people to voice their opinions, and they see the chance of change with the Freedom Party.’

“She explains: ‘At my office, I told my boss that I was voting for Wilders. He said Wilders is a racist and therefore I was, too. I said he was a hypocrite.’”