Anti-Islamic political leader Geert Wilders comes to Canada

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http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/05/anti-islamic-political-leader-geert-wilders-comes-to-canada/

Geert Wilders has made his name as one of the world’s most outspoken opponents of Islam. The controversial Dutch parliamentarian does not hate Muslims, he’s famously said, but he does hate Islam. His colourful political career has been driven by a belief that the Koran encourages violence, that moderate Islam is an impossibility, that the Netherlands is in the process of being Islamicized, and that immigrants from Muslim countries must be stopped.

Next week, Mr. Wilders will bring his message to Canada, a country he says faces the same prospects of being Islamicized as his own. On Monday, Mr. Wilders is the marquee speaker at an invitation-only event hosted by the International Free Press Society and the Canada Christian College.

“Geert Wilders has a warning for Canada, and his warning is about a lack of free speech here and the threat of demographic jihad,” said Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College. “We’re all for freedom of religion, but when its mission is a hostile takeover, well that’s a different story. Islam is not just a religion, it’s a political and cultural system as well and we know that Christians, Jews and Hindus don’t have the same mandate for a hostile takeover. Here in Canada there is a real, clear and present danger. And we’re not even allowed to say anything about it. That’s what Geert Wilders is going to talk about.”

Members of the Toronto Muslim community say they were unaware of any planned hostile takeover and dismiss Mr. Wilders as racist and ill-informed. Dr Liyakat Takim, Sharjah Chair in Global Islam at McMaster University, said if discussions over radical Islam and multiculturalism in Canada are worth having, a closed presentation by Mr. Wilders is not the way to go about that.

Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies is an evangelical Christian college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In 1982, the Ontario Ministry of Education revoked the right of Canada Christian College to grant degrees. The College issued degrees under the authority of their Manitoba charter until 1999. Charles McVety took over leadership of the college in 1993. In 1998, the Ontario government ordered the College to cease and desist operations. McVety claimed that his response was to " them to take a long walk on a short pier and get lost." In 1999, Frank Klees introduced a successful motion in the Ontario legislature granting degree granting authority to the college.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Christian_College

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1. I'm unclear about three things (well, at least three.)

I still don't get how opposition to Islam is racist. Muslims include all races of people.

If Wilders is against Islam, but not Muslims, why is he against Muslim immigration? Shouldn't such people be treated as the victims of Islam and be allowed asylum? I understand that Holland is not a big place and there are population control reasons for limiting immigration, but I do not think that is what Wilder is talking about.

How is it that Islam has a mandate for a hostile takeover of the world, but Christianity does not? Whatever theological or scriptural differences that might exist to justify this distinction, the fact remains that both religions have been extremely violent and grasping.