Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Has Wilders' movie been broadcast on any Dutch televison channel yet, Fragony? Or are they still censoring the works of their own politicians? Are the Dutch still reduced to the level of Birmese and Zimbabweans - that is, relying on the internet to find out the political program of their government's opposition?
Parliament offered Wilders the most prestigious media venue of The Hague for a public showing of his movie, but he declined. He is both too vain and too sensationalist to engage in any sort of debate of his views. He is neither a good debater like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, nor a brilliant jester and artist like Van Gogh. The outcast image of him which you apparently swallowed hook, line and sinker is about Wilders' only asset and he loves to cultivate it.

These things are never as simple as they seem to the ideologically blinded. If you want to see in Mr Wilders a cause célèbre at all costs, feel free. Invite him to France, cuddle him, keep him forever. No one will miss him here, no one will take him seriously in your country either.

The real teagedy is that smart, authentic voices, both Dutch and immigrant, are smothered by this Wilders circus.