{"id":12996,"date":"2011-05-09T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2011-05-09T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:26:03","slug":"islam-a-threat-to-western-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/islam-a-threat-to-western-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam: a threat to Western freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/05\/09\/islam-a-threat-to-western-freedom-wilders\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12998\" title=\"geert\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The presence of Muslims in Canada threatens the country\u2019s freedoms and democracy, and only if immigration from Islamic countries is suspended can the cultural deterioration of the country be stopped, controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders told a packed house Monday night in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Western culture is far superior to Islamic culture,\u201d Mr. Wilders said. \u201cAnd only once we are convinced of this will we be able to defend our civilization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a protest populated by 10 people who called Wilders a racist \u2013 an epithet derived, presumably, from the misunderstanding that being a Muslim is an involuntary racial condition.<\/p>\n<p>I have little doubt that Western culture is superior to Islamic culture and I hope that Canadian Muslims also have little doubt of that. Geert Wilders would probably say of them that they are not real Muslims and he may well be right \u2013 that is not such a bad thing. For those Muslims who remain unconvinced, Wilders also may be right: if they prefer an Islamic culture, they should opt to live in one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The presence of Muslims in Canada threatens the country\u2019s freedoms and democracy, and only if immigration from Islamic countries is suspended can the cultural deterioration of the country be stopped, controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders told a packed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/islam-a-threat-to-western-freedom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[792,2178],"class_list":["post-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-geert-wilders","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}