Monday, June 29, 2009

He Must Be Doing Something Right

Geert WildersGeert Wilders is obviously onto something: half the Muslims in the Netherlands say he makes them want to leave the country.

The Dutch media are undoubtedly reporting this as a horror story, an example of racism and xenophobia and Islamophobia run wild. To them it’s a sign that all those suspicious-looking blond-haired yokels who comprise “persons of Dutch background” are neo-Nazis at heart and not to be trusted.

But what about the unintended consequences of reporting such information?

When the average Dutch citizen reads about this in the morning paper, what does he think? Does he say to himself: “Oh dear! I must mend my racist ways, so our Muslim guests will be only too happy to stay!”

Or does he think: “OMG! So all I have to do is vote for Wilders, and then we might finally be able to get rid of all this cultural enrichment! WOO-HOO!”

My money’s on the latter. Expect the PVV to go even higher in the opinion polls when the news of this gets out.

In any case, here’s the story as reported by the English-language version of Radio Netherlands:

Wilders Makes Half Dutch Muslims Want to Emigrate

More than half of the people with Turkish and Moroccan backgrounds in the Netherlands say they would consider leaving the country due to the growing popularity of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A third say they would definitely like to emigrate.

The figures emerge from a survey by research bureau Motivaction for public service broadcaster NCRV’s current affairs programme Network. The programme commissioned the survey in response to the success of Mr Wilders’ rightwing Freedom Party in the recent European parliamentary elections. Since March this year, leading pollster Maurice de Hond’s Peil.nl has measured support for the populist Freedom Party at more than 30 percent, which would theoretically make it the largest party in the Dutch parliament if there were an election.

Discrimination

Although three quarters of the Turkish and Moroccan Dutch people questioned in the Motivaction survey said they felt at home in the Netherlands, 57 percent said they now felt less comfortable in the country due to the growing popularity of the Freedom Party. Two out of five said they felt they were now discriminated against more often, and almost a quarter said they regularly experienced discrimination. Nearly three quarters said they thought Mr Wilders had intensified negative feelings towards Muslims among the Dutch public.

Nearly twenty percent said they agreed with Mr Wilders on some points and could appreciate why people would vote for him. However, half of the respondents said the growing support for Mr Wilders made them feel angry and disappointed, and 22 percent said he aroused feelings of fear and hatred. Ninety per cent said they thought a Wilders government would be a fiasco, and only 4 percent thought he would be able to offer any solutions to the country’s problems.
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The survey asked respondents what they saw as the best strategy to counter Mr Wilders. Forty percent thought the best policy was simply to ignore the Freedom Party. Thirty-five percent favoured entering into debate with Mr Wilders and his supporters. Twenty five percent saw vociferous protest as the answer, and 11 percent wanted to see a Muslim political party established to represent their interests.

Not accepted

The survey’s findings echo remarks by Turkish-born Rotterdam councillor Hamit Karakus in Monday’s de Volksrant newspaper. Mr Karakus says that although his children speak Dutch, understand Dutch culture and customs, and are well educated, they still feel they are not accepted in Dutch society. “They also wonder whether they have a future in this country,” he adds. The councillor says he believes the popularity of the Freedom Party is fuelling support for a small but growing minority of radical Muslims in the Netherlands.

Figures cited by the annual Emigration Fair, which provides information to would-be emigrants, put the findings of the Motivaction survey of Dutch Moroccans and Turks people in perspective. According to the fair’s organisation, around 30 percent of the entire Dutch population say they are considering emigrating, for a wide range of reasons. However, only a tiny proportion of them ever actually take the plunge and move to another country.

The focus of this news story is on how Dutch Muslims feel and what can be done about it. And chances are that if and when ethnic Dutch people are polled, they’ll be reluctant to express the full extent of their feelings, given the politically correct regime that punishes “racism” wherever it appears.

So who knows what they really think? But I’m willing to bet that they’re heartened by all this.

We’ll find out when the next parliamentary elections are held.


Hat tip: TB.

14 comments:

laine said...

Emigrate where? Dollars to donuts, it's not to some Muslim run cesspool but to another non-Muslim nation still in the throes of PC where dhimmis turn themselves into pretzels to accommodate Muslim colonists and welfare consumers.

Abu Abdullah said...

Well, laine, it will be an improvement over the present paralytic state of affairs when we actually get to that future whack-a-mole phase that you're fretting over.

EscapeVelocity said...

Go Gert!

I have a sneaking suspicion Baron, that you are absolutely correct, that the solid majority if not the vast majority of Dutch folks are afraid to voice their opinions, but not afraid to do so with the secret ballot.

I see a stampede to the PVV.

Its good to see that Europeans still have some life left in them. I thought for a second there that they were actually going to accept dhimmitude and culture and population replacement as they marched either solemnly or delusionally toward cultural oblivion.

EscapeVelocity said...

OT,

Has anyone else been banned at Harrys Place? Ive been banned twice, maybe 3 times.

Typical of Leftwingers, there proud banner proclaiming the sacredness of free speech and its true meaning, is an Orwellian excercise in newspeak.

Jedilson Bonfim said...

Are they only considering leaving the Netherlands? That's still nothing, it doesn't mean squat to me. This poll might just be a foolish PR stunt to earn those misogynistic, racist, bigoted, ignorant, backward, illiterate, supremacist, inbred, mahound-worshiping, Seventh-Century barbarians some sympathy from those most easily duped by the mainstream-media politically-correct lies.

I'll start celebrating once they pack up their copies of Mein Qurampf, their portable tents, the satellite dishes and the flat-screen TVs they buy with their fat welfare checks, load it all up on the back of their camels and half-men (those human beings known in the civilized West as women) and get on a ferry from Marseilles to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco or Turkey.

Jedilson Bonfim said...

The proposed ban on burkas in France might make the option of settling in a Banlieue on the way from the Netherlands to the ferry in Marseilles a little less attractive to those mahoundians, I must admit.

On the other hand, in the light of recent news about 85 sharia courts operating on British soil, if those mahoundians ever do leave, I suspect they might actually want to take a ferry to the UK instead.

PatriotUSA said...

I'll start celebrating once they pack up their copies of Mein Qurampf, their portable tents, the satellite dishes and the flat-screen TVs they buy with their fat welfare checks, load it all up on the back of their camels and half-men (those human beings known in the civilized West as women) and get on a ferry from Marseilles to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco or Turkey.

I would go even farther with this above, the ferrys have some accidents and they make it anywhere. No apologies and the less of these people, the better. Geert Wilders has it going on strong and agree with baron's assesment about the voting and a secret ballot. Half of the mussiess wanting to leave
is better than none or
25%. 75 or 100%
would be even better.

Of course the left is calling horrors and shame. It shouold be shame on them for pushing and shoving their agenda of mulitculturalism and politcal correctness down the
throats of the citizens.
At some point, the
people of Netherlands
may come to their senses
and say enough is enough to these mussies that are over running most of Europe.

Henrik Ræder said...

Emigrate where?

Anywhere.

Now, I don't trust opinion polls of this kind very much, for they're probably just words. Muslims take the poll as an opportunity to talk against Wilders, but I don't think they're seriously thinking of leaving. Might deter further immigration, though, which is good.

Afonso Henriques said...

"The survey’s findings echo remarks by Turkish-born Rotterdam councillor Hamit Karakus in Monday’s de Volksrant newspaper. Mr Karakus says that although his children speak Dutch, understand Dutch culture and customs, and are well educated, they still feel they are not accepted in Dutch society. “They also wonder whether they have a future in this country,” he adds."

Wanna stay? Then SUCK IT!

Wanna go? Then, what are you waiting for?

It's not the wellcoming Nation that has to bend over for you. It's you that have to accomodate to where you're at.

Thinking that an entire Nation should be remodeled just because an immigrant would feel better is such an arrogant thought that blows my mind away.

thll said...

20% whined this, 35% protested thus, 47% victims wept so, 56% threatened that, and 95% felt sorry for themselves.

0% recognised the Dutch may have a point.

EscapeVelocity said...

Actually, A third think it's logical that some of the Dutch vote for him.

If even the Muslims see the problem, what is wrong with the Dutch government and polies and Leftwingers? Are they mentally retarded or something, do they hate indigenous Europeans so much that they just dont care about their concerns, culture, or civilization?

Watching Eagle said...

I'll believe it when I see it. Probably they are a little scared, but their "community leaders" will keep them staying put, and more "migrants" will keep coming. Then again, maybe the Islamist's cutting edge Cultural Technology told them that the best strategy is to say this to fan paranoia among leftists in order to get them to increase the number of migrants they welcome.

Escape velocity: Leftists are PARANOID about racism because they FEAR THEY will have another Auswitcz on their hands (whites harming non-western 'misunderstood minorities'[Whites are innately genocidal, but non-western people ARE NOT]). Remember that Leftist dogma decrees that Western culture is invincible. (I will expand on this in another post).

LEFTISTS ARE NOT FIT TO RULE A HUNTER-GATHERER SOCIETY, MUCH LESS WESTERN SOCIETY!!!

One_of_the_last_few_Patriots_left said...

Christ. I pray that Geert Wilders has
good security around him. He is now a prime target for asassination. Remember what happened to Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn.

Czechmade said...

The honour of islam gets officially desacrated if dhimmis vote en mass Wilders. A new world - without dhimmis? Unbearable.