During
a talk to students, Van der Bellen said that whilst be believes a woman
should wear “whatever she wants”, should Austria’s “rampant
Islamophobia continue, there will come a day when we must ask all women
to wear a headscarf – all of them! – out of solidarity towards those
who do it for religious reasons”.
Van der Bellen, who was sworn in as president in January after
defeating anti-mass migration Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer in
last December’s presidential re-run, has spoken of his support for
abolishing national borders and creating a federal Europe, describing
it as a “project of peace”.
Whilst running on an
election
platform in 2007 for the Austrian Greens, Van der Bellen presided over
a poster that declared: “Anyone who loves Austria must be shit.” (FULL)
I'm not convinced "islamophobia" is a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteIf you avoid poisonous snakes due to their deadly bite, are you Herpetophobic?
ReplyDeleteOr simply exercising good common sense?
What would the left do without their labels?
The issue I have with the word "Islamophobia", concerns the "phobia" Part. A phobia is "a persistent, irrational fear of...". There is nothing irrational about avoiding the results of Islam taking over a country. The only thing irrational here is the politicians... suicidal for sure.
ReplyDeletegonna make the little gals hack off their girly-bits, too, VanDerBellow?
ReplyDeleteRodger/Linda SoG - and anyone else interested, I did a test blog using the Powr Comment Widget/Gadget to produce blog comments directly under each blog post on the main page.. It works but formatting and such needs a woman's touch.
ReplyDeleteGo here:
http://gadflyuntested.blogspot.com/2017/04/test.html
Thanks gadfly ... we're investigating
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