Jordan Sekulow: WaPo Blogger “Proud” to Have Shared Stage with Geert Wilders
18 December 2010
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An interesting blogpost by Sarah Posner of Religion Dispatches.
WaPo Blogger Jordan Sekulow is proud to stand with Geert Wilders, if Washington Post has any self-respect they will fire him.
Washington Post Blogger “Proud” To Have Shared Stage With Geert Wilders
by Sarah Posner (Religion Dispatches)
After Matt Duss called out new Washington Post blogger Jordan Sekulow at Think Progress and on Twitter for saying at a demonstration against the Park51 project, “Imam Rauf, America rejects you,” Sekulow responded by tweeting: “Enjoyed that speech!”
And in response to Duss pointing out that Sekulow shared the stage with far-right nationalist, anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Sekulow tweeted, “proud to.”
In one of the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks, a U.S. embassy official in the Netherlands summed up Wilders for President Obama as “no friend of the U.S.”:
The Wilders Factor: Golden-pompadoured, maverick parliamentarian Geert Wilders, anti-Islam, nationalist Freedom Party remains a thorn in the coalition’s side, capitalizing on the social stresses resulting from the failure to fully integrate almost a million Dutch Muslims, mostly of Moroccan or Turkish descent. In existence only since 2006, the Freedom Party, tightly controlled by Wilders, has grown to be the Netherlands second largest, and fastest growing, party. Recent polls suggest it could even replace Balkenende,s Christian Democrats as the top party in 2011 parliamentary elections. Wilders is no friend of the U.S.: he opposes Dutch military involvement in Afghanistan; he believes development assistance is money wasted; he opposes NATO missions outside “allied” territory; he is against most EU initiatives; and, most troubling, he forments fear and hatred of immigrants.
Let’s sum up: the Post’s On Faith, which has a stated mission to promote “intelligent, informed, eclectic, respectful conversation,” has hired a blogger who describes himself as a “human rights attorney” yet is proud to share a stage with someone who “calls Islam ‘the ideology of a retarded culture’ and likens the Quran to ‘Mein Kampf.’”
Original post: Jordan Sekulow: WaPo Blogger “Proud” to Have Shared Stage with Geert Wilders
How is it that a person hired to post blogs on the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section of their paper could possibly have any pride at sharing the stage with an anti-Islamic/Islamophobic bigot? Did Jordan Sekulow agree with the bigotry spewed by Wilders? On what topics did he agree and disagree that were promoted by Wilders?
Did he know that Geert Wilders is a world-renown Islamophobe…supported by other such Islamophobes who promote similar lies against Islam, such as the ilk of Robert Spencer and Pam Geller, to name a few….?
18 December 2010 at 5:45 pm