Flashes in the neo-con pan!

Muslims living in Holland should tear the Koran in half, as half of the book advocates violence, thus maverick Dutch politician Geert Wilders recently suggested, subtly adding:“If Mohammed lived here today, I could imagine chasing him out of the country tarred and feathered as an extremist.” This was the latest in what has become an extensive repertoire of Wilders’ “wisdom” on immigration and Islam. He has also held forth on headscarves and mosque building, and it is this populist and provocative approach that has brought him headlines as well as friends and foes in equal measure. His nicknames include: bulldog, crusader, street fighter and, on account of his carefully waxed LouisXIV white locks, the Blond Dolly of The Hague. Having left the liberal party in 2004, which he thought“too left,” Wilders went on to establish his Freedom Party, with which he won 9 out of 150 parliamentary seats during the