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inanna

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Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:05 PM Mar 2017

An anti-Islam Dutch leader is barred from power. His supporters say: Just wait.

March 17 at 6:41 PM

ALMERE, the Netherlands — If the Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders were any other politician, his robust election showing this week would warrant a shot at joining a political coalition.

But the bleached-blond agitator says Moroccans are “scum,” mosques are havens of terrorism and the Koran is a blueprint for destruction, positions no mainstream Dutch leader will endorse.

The anxious conventional leaders of Europe, fearful that an anti-establishment surge was unstoppable, breathed with relief after Dutch voters in Wednesday’s election failed to make Wilders the biggest politician in the Netherlands. They hope for a repeat in France and Germany later this year. But for those who think that the Netherlands is now as placid as its canals, Wilders’s followers have a message: They are furious that they have been locked out of power. And they say their ranks will continue to grow.

“This is a very big shame. It’s unacceptable. There are so many people who are just being put aside,” said Katherine ter Weide, an elegantly dressed 72-year-old in the Wilders stronghold of Almere who said Friday that she feared “how the world for our children and grandchildren is being destroyed.”

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An anti-Islam Dutch leader is barred from power. His supporters say: Just wait. (Original Post) inanna Mar 2017 OP
Isn't Geert Wilders mixed race? Manly_Scream Mar 2017 #1

Manly_Scream

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1. Isn't Geert Wilders mixed race?
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 11:45 PM
Mar 2017

Or "someone else's baby" as Steve King put it?

According to wikipedia his mother is half-Dutch, half Indonesian....But he and his supporters are bemoaning the fate of whites, of having to interact with brown folks...

I just...can't, sometimes.

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