Geert Wilders not welcome in Monschau, Germany

The mayor of Monschau, Germany has decided that Geert Wilders is not welcome in her city. This is what the Mayor, Margareta Ritter had to say about Wilder's recent visit to Monschau; "People who, just like Mr Wilders, encumber the Dutch integration debate with right-wing populism and who want to ban the Qur'an, comparing it to Mein Kampf, are not welcome in Monschau." Diana West has a beautiful response to the Mayor. Ms. Ritter accuses Wilders of "right-wing populism" and that in itself is ridiculous. Geert Wilders fight is with Islam, the Koran and shariah law. I am a strong supporter of Wilders and I wish we had a bunch of politicians like him here in the States. It is obvious this Mayor does not understand Islam or the threats that it brings to all of us. Diana West got it exactly right is calling Islam totalitarian and relating it to the other totalitarian that Germany is so well known for, the Nazis and Hitler. Ignorance of Islam is why we are where we are today in stopping Islam's deadly march around the world.

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Dear Mayor of Monschau
 By Diana West

Brussels Journal, Dear Mayor Margareta Ritter,
I have had the pleasure of visiting your exquisitely beautiful German town, the second member of my family to do so. The first was my dad, who, as a member of the 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron in Gen. Bradley's Army, had, with time out to recuperate from wounds incurred at the Battle of St Lo, fought across nothern Europe from D-Day plus 2 until reaching Monschau by the end of 1944

I only bring this up because I read this morning that you have declared Geert Wilders, who recently weekended in your town, "not welcome" in Monschau. "People who, just like Mr Wilders, encumber the Dutch integration debate with right-wing populism and who want to ban the Qur'an, comparing it to Mein Kampf, are not welcome in Monschau," you are quoted as having said.

I protest. First of all, it is not "right-wing populism" with which Wilders "encumbers" the integration debate. It is with facts about sharia (Islamic law), a totalitarian and supremacist legal and religious system. He takes these facts to the public arena, a place where fears of Islamic retribution have to date silenced this essential, civilizational conversation. Another fact he brings, however discomforting to multicultists such as you appear to be, is the similarity between Mein Kampf and the Koran. You may declare Wilders -- and all of his thousands of Dutch supporters -- persona non grata in Monschau; that won't make sharia or those Koran-Kampf similarities go away.

But maybe you don't care. Maybe you have now found a new totalitarianism to submit to. But I protest your decision to make Monschau off limits to Wilders, a defender of liberty against totalitarianism -- the same liberty my dad was in and around Monschau to defend long ago against a similarly supremacist totalitarianism. I have a strong hunch he would say that, so long as you are in office, liberation wasn't worth the effort.

Sincerely,

Diana West, USA

If you wish to email mayor Ritter:
margareta.ritter@stadt.monschau.de