{"id":682266,"date":"2010-03-04T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78300"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:11:10","slug":"a-far-right-victory-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682266","title":{"rendered":"A Far-Right Victory in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/39629\/civil-war-raging-in-right-wing-blogosphere\">written in the past<\/a> about the evolution of the &#8220;anti-jihadist&#8221; blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and writers like Pamela &#8220;Atlas Shrugs&#8221; Geller and Robert Spencer and supporters like Charles &#8220;Little Green Footballs&#8221; Johnson, with a sticking point being support for European far-right parties. In 2009, for example, the &#8220;anti-jihadists&#8221; courted controversy by bringing far-right Dutch leader <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/in-defense-of-geert-wilders\">Geert Wilders<\/a> to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>In Dutch elections yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8549155.stm\">Wilders scored<\/a> some major victories.<span id=\"more-78300\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A party that calls Islam a backward religion, wants a ban on headscarves in public life and has compared the Koran to Hitler&#8217;s Mein Kampf has made major gains in local elections in the Netherlands. Geert Wilders&#8217; Freedom Party (PVV) has become the biggest party in the medium-sized city of Almere, and the second biggest in the political capital of the Netherlands, The Hague.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And in British elections scheduled for May, the far-right British National Party is expected to perform strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written in the past about the evolution of the &#8220;anti-jihadist&#8221; blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and writers like Pamela &#8220;Atlas Shrugs&#8221; Geller and Robert Spencer and supporters like Charles &#8220;Little Green Footballs&#8221; Johnson, with a sticking point being support for European far-right parties. In 2009, for example, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783718,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682266\/revisions\/783718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}