Geert Wilders will be speaking in New York on September 11 at a protest demonstration against the building of a mega mosque near Ground Zero.

The demonstration, organized by SIOA (Stop Islamization Of America), takes place at 2pm at Park Place between Church and West Broadway, near Ground Zero. Other speakers include Newt Gingrich, 9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters & WTC Victims. By accepting this invitation, Geert Wilders expresses his support for the people opposing the building of a mosque near the place where Islam committed the worse atrocity of the past decade. The attack on the WTC towers on 9/11, 2001, was an attack on the entire Western civilization.

After weeks of discussions among the leading Dutch political parties following the June 9th general elections, a minority conservative ruling coalition has been formed. This gives Geert Wilders' PVV Freedom party some important leverage. This is largely due to the significant seat tallies, 24 that the PVV garnered in the new Hague Parliament, as well as the significant continuing rise in Wilders' and the PVV popularity among voters in the Netherlands. That popularity, we believe, is based on voters concerns on the threat of Islamization to Holland, basic Dutch and Western Judeo-Christian values. That rise in anti-Islamization sentiments also reflects the importance of Wilders' recent launch of the Interrnational Freedom Alliance that we have posted on The Iconoclast. Perhaps it will embolden a rising number of American Congressional candidates who have adopted an anti-Islamization plank in their platforms to press ahead with this issue during their campaigns in the upcoming mid-term elections this fall. Perhaps we may even see Wilders coming to the US during the campaign season to meet meet with some of the prominent anti-Islamization Congressional contenders. Baron Bodissey at the Gates of Vienna (GoV) blog posted a translation of the announcement of the new ruling Dutch coalition, yesterday. Many thanks to RB for bringing this to our attention.

Source: GatesofVienna.net

Your Holiness,

In your recent exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (Paragraphs 247-248) you draw the world's attention to the indebtedness of Christianity to the Jews and their faith. The exhortation also contains a sharp condemnation of the terrible persecutions which the Jews have endured from Christians in the past.

Your words are words which might inspire many.

Unfortunately, they are in sharp contrast to the expressions of hatred which were voiced last October by the spiritual leader of Sunni Islam, Ahmad Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Institute in Cairo.