The announced headliners for this year’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver:
You’re Invited to the Third Annual Rally in the Rockies
Three Big Days of Real Hope and ChangeWestern Conservative Summit 2012
June 29 – July 1
Hyatt Regency, Denver, Colorado
“Calling All Citizens: It’s a Decisive Year”
Love America? Attend This Inspiring WeekendOpening Night: Glenn Beck on “No Time for Cowards”
Glenn Beck
Author & BroadcasterSen. Tom Coburn
(R-OK)Gov. Jan
Brewer
(R-AZ)Geert Wilders
Dutch ParliamentarianAnd 15 Other Star Speakers
$2500 – Table of 10
$250 – Individuals
$50 – Attendees Under age 30
You’ve heard of Sen. Tom Coburn, Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer, and of course right wing media “personality” Glenn Beck. But you might not have heard of Geert Wilders, a hotly controversial far-right member of the Dutch Parliament–in many ways the most noteworthy of this bunch. We found this Wikileaked State Department briefing on Wilders to be informative:
Geert Wilders, anti-Islam, nationalist Freedom Party [capitalizes] on the social stresses resulting from the failure to fully integrate almost a million Dutch Muslims, mostly of Moroccan or Turkish descent. In existence only since 2006, the Freedom Party, tightly controlled by Wilders, has grown to be the Netherlands second largest, and fastest growing, party…Wilders is no friend of the U.S.: he opposes Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan; he believes development assistance is money wasted; he opposes NATO missions outside “allied” territory; he is against most EU initiatives; and, most troubling, he forments fear and hatred of immigrants.
Mr. Wilders has very specific recommendations for dealing with Dutch Muslim immigrants:
“I have been saying this for years: there is no such thing as a moderate Islam,” Wilders wrote, [Pols emphasis] adding that there were several chapters in the Koran “that call on Muslims to oppress, persecute or kill Christians, Jews, dissidents and non-believers, to beat and rape women and to establish an Islamic state by force.”
“I am fed up with Islam in the Netherlands: no more Muslim immigrants allowed. I am fed up with the worship of Allah and Mohammed in the Netherlands: no more mosques,” he finished his letter. [Pols emphasis]
Of course, organizers of the Western Conservative Summit are not going to lead off with the extreme views of Geert Wilders: his more recent international fame resulted from his being prosecuted, but acquitted for inciting hatred under Dutch law. Mr. Wilders was also barred from the UK for a brief period, a ban that was overturned on appeal. It’s quite true that the protections we take for granted in the United States on free speech mean he would not have been prosecuted for these words here. That’s the way most Americans would want it.
But would you invite David Duke to headline your event just because you can?
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Are we all carpooling?
let’s rent a bus.
if I were bound, gagged and knocked unconscious. Looks to me more like a good weekend to visit my in-laws . . . in Missouri.
You live in cave?
That statement was insulting.
Grand Junction…same as a cave …in many ways.
against caves?
But he sounds interesting
Except don’t ever talk to me about ‘religious freedom’ again, ok?
And often, particularly when I was in Holland in 2010.
“Interesting” is not the right adjective that you are searching for to describe this guy, Libertad. He’s an extremist in ways that harken back to the 1930s’.
For the WSC to spotlight Wilders at their venue speaks volumes about their agenda as well as their feelings on races and religions outside of white, mainstream Americans. They really couldn’t be any clearer if they just wrote up a mission statement.
His comment record (and subsequent temporary banishments) betrayed an attitude in line with this man’s positions.
WTF Libjut, aren’t our patriotic Murican’ racists, bigots, and xenophobes good enough for you guys anymore??
I read several news sites oriented toward the Muslim community daily. Religious freedom–and by this I mean the freedom to practice ANY religion or no religion at all, not just the Christian faith of your choice as the “religious freedom” activists at the Capitol the other day would have it–is a key civil rights challenge of our times. I somehow missed this ignorant asshat’s remarks despite paying very careful attention to related stories.
These four peddle fear.
Good thing they’ve got the Denver Post to sanitize this!
Feeding the nativist instincts of frightened people is dangerous. The GOP is starting to frighten me in ways I cannot properly describe.
I look forward to your sage comments.
Think they’d let me in? If you see a news story about someone in a pink cowgirl hat being thrown out for heckling, wave at the TV…
I have no idea how I got on their mailing list but I have recieved their “invitation” 3 years in a row, 3 invitations so far this year for this right wing bat party. I think I forgot to write about it because I use the flyer to start a fire.
Also coming: Wayne LaPierre (NRA), Hugh Hewitr (right wing radio), Dick Morris (right wing dick). 18 in all plus a VP straw poll, 2013 Inagural preview and the Lone Tree Declaration III. Hope it will attract a demonstration at the Denver Hyatt.
who got Charles Johnson of the formerly-notorious Little Green Footballs to turn into a lefty? It started a big fight in the righty blogosphere.
http://littlegreenfootballs.co…
1:20:00 into the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Of course Maher doesn’t have the most trusting take on Islam, himself. The segment starting at 1:22:54 highlights that.
Silverman’s BFF John Andrews was on the show touting the conference. Silverman said that Andrews helped him decide to register as a Republican.
Attention: Jason. The reason that Silverman seems to be getting so more conservative is because he is.
So if both silverman and caplis are both republicans, where is the “fair and balanced?”