Pamela Geller, Human Events: Glenn Beck, Think Before You Preach

Something very disturbing happened last Monday on FOX. Glenn Beck, who has, for the most part, steered clear of jihad, sharia and Islamic supremacism, put his toe in the water, and for the first time since I started fighting the long war, I got nervous.

Beck called the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who produced the film Fitna about Islamic Koran-based violence, a fascist, and far-right.

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What is Beck doing?

Why would he stigmatize Wilders this way? Wilders is the embodiment of what our founding fathers extolled. Individual rights. Freedom of speech. Not sharia law.

In the House of Lords on March 5, Wilders said:

I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of islamization. Ladies and gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. They are opposite values.

Was Beck saying that standing up to defend the “equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state” and “freedom of speech” is fascist?

Was Beck saying that quisling British authorities, quaking before the Muslims in the U.K. and afraid of the truths Wilders was telling, were right last year to ban Wilders from entering the country in the interests of “community harmony?” It certainly seemed so. And Beck went on to imply that the fact that Wilders was allowed to enter Britain last week was a dire sign.

It isn’t just Wilders, either. Beck runs videos of the riots in Greece, but he never runs the Muslim rampages throughout Europe.

Beck should be championing Wilders’ cause, not smearing him. Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for telling the truth about Islam. He is on trial for inciting hatred against Muslims, and when he requested eighteen witnesses – Muslims and non-Muslim scholars — to prove that what he said about Islam was true and therefore couldn’t or shouldn’t be against the law, the Dutch kangaroo court disallowed all but three of them.

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