Geert Wilders Quotes
I have something against Islam.
Wilders, Geert. Interview. De Pers, 2007.
This sura has unfortunately been used by some Serbians and other Christians to justify ethnic cleansing against Muslims.
She was one of the few Germans who spoke out against the brutality of suppression of the Protestant Reformation. Arsacius Seehofer had studied with associates of Martin Luther and when he discussed some of these ideas the University authorities cracked down, In 1522 Arsacius was arrested, forced to renounce Luther's teachings and confined in the Ettal monastery.
In his version of Islamic logic, since non-Muslims are heretics they should be subjected to capital punishment anyway so there is no such thing as an “innocent” Christian, Hindu, Bahai or Jew. This is an extreme position held by very few of the English Muslims but unfortunately held by radical Islamic extremists in many counties.
What the historian did not know was how similarly the Protestants would behave against the Catholics when they had the power. Since the Catholics were the established church, and the Protestants the new “heretics” the Protestants were on the receiving end of most of the atrocities at the beginning. However, as if they had been scholled by their horrible experiences, they repeated them just exchanging the perpetrators and the victims.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch businessman and politician. He has been Leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid – PVV) since he founded it in 2006. Wilders is the parliamentary leader of his party in the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer). In the 2010 formation of the Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a "tolerance agreement" (gedoogakkoord) between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts. Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam and the EU; his views have made him a controversial figure in the Netherlands and abroad, and since 2004 he has been protected at all times by armed bodyguards.