Our Taliban

Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party is the Taliban of the Netherlands, writes John Feffer on the Huffington Post.


The Dutch government is the latest casualty of the Afghanistan War. Over the weekend, the Labor Party in the Netherlands walked out of the ruling coalition government to protest the extension of the Dutch deployment in Afghanistan.
The Taliban is rejoicing.
Oh, perhaps you thought I meant the Taliban in Afghanistan. No, I meant the Taliban in the Netherlands. You didn’t know there was a Dutch Taliban? It goes by a different name, you see. It’s the Freedom Party, and it’s poised to become a top vote-getter in the elections that will follow in the wake of the ruling coalition’s collapse.

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