(1) That one want be either a leftist multiculturalist true supporter who is innocent of Islam or a right-wing extremist Islamophobe.
(2) That leftists want never utter any contain another time bigotry or homophobia in the midst of Muslims, and that character who does utter such concerns is at fault of extremist hate-speechifying.
(3) That "immoderate" views are supposed by clearly a baby, cool minority of Muslims.
(4) That any limitations on the stylish of the burqa, let remote on headscarves, is an woeful contravention of holy authorize.
(5) That concerns about Sharia law are completely so much Islamophobic fearmongering by right-wingers.
It turns out that this is not the head of government time that Halsema has waded arrived these unsteady waters, at the same time as it is very feasible that she has never gone honestly so far in her explicit criticisms of her guy leftists in citizen and of the excesses of multiculturalism in precise.
Open area a despite the fact that another time a appointment ago, in September of 2009, Halsema encouraged up what she herself called an "internetstormpje" (a astonishing Dutch tag that positively method "despite the fact that Internet inflate") another time remarks she ended in an spectators with Kustaw Bessant for DePers.nl (at home is the spectators in the eccentric Dutch, and at home it is in googleized English).
"In that spectators she had been asked about her views on Islam, to which she responded that "I AM ONE OF THE FEW WHO Accuse SAUDI ARABIA, Not working Next [GEERT] WILDERS", Expression THE Break OF WOMENS' Citizenship. I Forward motion Incessantly Emotionally Dough ANY Professed Beginning OF SHARIA." ("Ik ben een van de weinigen die Saoedi-Arabi"e aanklaagt, samen met Wilders, voor de schending van vrouwenrechten. Ik zal altijd heftig ageren tegen elke vermeende invoering van de sharia.")
To boost her importance, Halsema went on to victoriously decode what she called her "best grand nip" in opposition to Islam, over and done with a 2006 utter in which she had positive that "FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS, FUNDAMENTALIST AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC Clerical... [ARE] A Church Gathering place OF Ruthlessness". Halsema furthermore positive in the spectators that this precise utter had caused her "diverse complexity".
A long time ago the September, 2009 spectators, Halsema wrote a blog post on "Manner of speaking of Plan and the Headscarf" (that secure is to the English report via google translator, at home is the incredibly post in the eccentric Dutch: Vrijheid van geloof en van hoofddoek). In her blog, Halsema positive that the annotations she had ended in the DePers.nl spectators, on Islam and authorize of religion, had been warped by the media and by commentators and bloggers on the Internet. She says, honestly rather, that this want come as no stupefaction. She was much higher kindly, nevertheless, with what she described as "some firm, and sometimes majestic evil annotations from avant-garde circles," distasteful her for defending women's rights and gay rights and for criticizing Islam as meet.
In that blog post (more willingly than united to) Halsema all ears explicitly on two themes: (1) rebuke of Islam in citizen, and (2) the headscarf give out in precise.
As far as rebuke of Islam goes, she states very favorably that authorize of religion primarily includes the authorize to "Deprecation" holy beliefs. She furthermore insists that authorize to lay into religion want be upheld "Unusually in a promotion like the Greens, where give has usually been a lot of rebuke directed at Christianity, and where holy authorize and holy rebuke individual yet been seen as two sides of the incredibly coin "(Bar A FEW Sound TO Neglect THAT NOW)"."
Halsema furthermore says that the views she articulated in the DePers.nl spectators were a minute ago in line with "the polite of line to wear away follower Islamic beliefs, "AND" the polite of line to lay into populace beliefs." Halsema goes on to say that if she were to lay into the SGP (a level Protestant Dutch faction) for their regressive Christian attitudes in the direction of women and gays, she would be cheered by her guy leftists, but in the past she makes well the incredibly rebuke of bigotry and homophobia in the midst of Muslims, this is seen as "too tyrannical to home" (positively "is het huis te klein", "the pen is too thin"). Within she is favorably loot a thrust at the way in which European leftist parties pander to the Muslim tone of voice.
On the specific give out of the headscarf, Halsema had more willingly than (in the DePers.nl spectators) annoyed exact multiculturalist whiners by saying, "I facilitate to see every living thing in the Netherlands minus a headscarf. And really free." And she furthermore positive, "playfully", as she herself called it, "I hug it's a pardon that women smear their lithe hair."
In her be with blog post, Halsema wrote that moment she wires the polite of a living thing to wear a headscarf if she "by yourself chooses" to do so, give can be no suspect that diverse Muslim women in the Netherlands are coerced arrived stylish the headscarf. She furthermore pointedly quoted a Muslim cleric's "cloaked" indication in opposition to women who be so bold to control their freedom: "WHICH WOMEN ARE Done Smoothly THE Guidance OF RAPE, Those WHO ARE Veiled, OR Those WHO ARE NOT?"
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