In every country, the right is right there on defending traditional culture, but when you can get the left to critique Islam for its misogyny , anti-homosexuality, intolerance and anti-modernity, you get an equally valid critique from a Western perspective and it may open the eyes of whiney leftists elsewhere.

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Time for backbone [30 words]	aramkr	Jan 9, 2009 10:24
Coming out swinging... [30 words]	Archimedes2	Jan 6, 2009 00:15
Sure hope this lady manages to stay away from the radical element [80 words]	kman	Jan 5, 2009 22:10
We're all in Dutch [137 words]	Peter Herz	Jan 5, 2009 14:15
Amazing and a breath of fresh air. [87 words]	Ames Tiedeman	Jan 5, 2009 09:24
Unholy Leftist Islamist Alliance-is not for members of any fath other than Islam [74 words]	David Goshen	Jan 5, 2009 06:31
Indian context [19 words]	S.N.hebbar	Jan 3, 2009 21:50
great, but... [244 words]	Euroskeptic	Jan 1, 2009 15:13
New Dutch; Old Dutch [307 words]	Fay Voshell	Jan 1, 2009 09:19
A small point of light among the darkness [115 words]	Duard Hamm	Dec 31, 2008 19:59
⇒ I must agree, that is an exciting development [50 words]	Charles Martel	Dec 31, 2008 10:28
left islamic alliance is far too deep and will withstand dutch exception [14 words]	Singha	Dec 31, 2008 02:22
↔ "voting" in this day and age is irrelevant ... [78 words]	kman	Jan 5, 2009 22:19
Excellent Article. [18 words]	Ynnatchkah	Dec 31, 2008 00:20

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