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This Geert Wilders business, it really makes me wish it would snow again. In my opinion, people whining about the snow is roughly 15% less tedious than listening to people like this Dutch version of Boris Johnson carrying out what they believe to be a courageous crusade against tyranny, but which is in fact just tedious bollocks.

I watched his movie "Fitna," sixteen minutes it lasted. I could have had a wank and some soup in that time. It's not an important film. Anyone with reasonable reserves of intelligence will take it no more seriously than if some dude with a funny tash came over from Germany and started reading passages from Mein Kampf at Hyde Park corner because he felt Jews were directly responsible for the economic melt down.

It's difficult I think for this bloke to object to his exclusion from the UK, when his whole message centres around excluding people with similar messages to his from the Netherlands. The views of extremist Muslims may be on the opposite end of the spectrum to his, but in terms of just how much hooey and logic there is contained within their opinions, they're cut from the same cloth.

If they let him in and he gave a speech after showing his movie, then some Muslim kid from Bradford shot him in the face then his movie and message gains some validation and justification that it doesn't deserve. I agree with him that the Koran is nonsense, authoritarian and dangerous in the wrong hands. But so is the Bible, by definition Holy scriptures are authoritarian. One of Delia Smith's cook books read by anyone with the appropriate levels of delusion and lunacy can use one of her recipes for lemon meringue pie as validation for their desire to harm trifle eaters. Or something. The point is people see what they want to see.


The Koran/Bible are used to justify incredibly crappy behaviour, the Koran or Bible do not demand it. There are of course incredibly violent passages in these books, but anyone who thinks they ought to be taken literally in the 21st century is going to be a dangerous individual anyway, even if these books didn't exist. Political ideologies for example develop because so many people are so easily manipulated and are incapable of thinking for themselves.

Anyway, I'm not sure what the body count is between the three main monotheist religions, but I'm sure Christians and Jews have killed more people and tortured and maimed more people over the centuries in the name of their holy book than Islamic extremists. It's religion in general that's the problemo, not any particular version because it causes otherwise reasonable people to do incredibly unreasonable and irrational things. I haven't heard Wilders calling for Christians to be banned from entering the Netherlands. I assume the Pope is still welcome and he's pound for pound the most evil cunt on the planet at the moment.


Everyone of course should have the freedom to read and believe in whatever they choose in the privacy of their own home, but freedom of speech does not extend as far as the rights one has privately because imposing these beliefs on other people is unacceptable.

I'm a member of the National Secular Society and they are not happy this man has been denied entry to the country. But turfing this man out of the country is not a victory for those who want to see religion and the state intertwined and Islamic extremism in particular. Nor is it a black eye for democracy or freedom of speech.

Even if it causes more problems than it solves, it's the right thing to do because it is a victory for reasonable and intelligent people who don't want their time wasted by blonde twats spewing out biased and tedious self promoting propaganda movies any more than having their drive to IKEA interrupted at the weekend because some Muslim cleric is stood in the middle of the street demanding that non-Muslim westerners be engulfed in flames as soon as possible.

Silly world, I'm so glad I resigned from it some years ago.