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Letters: Response from Geert B. Wilders
Tue, 05/19/2009 3:10 PM | Reader's Forum
This is a comment on an article titled "A friendly chat with Geert Wilders," (The Jakarta Post, May 15).
Thank you very much for your very kind article. I certainly don't mind speaking to you directly. We Dutch like all kinds of intimacies. I am very happy to hear that you like our football, our tulips and maybe even our well-known modesty. I also want to make it clear that I don't have anything against you Muslims.
In fact I often eat in your Indonesian restaurants and order rijsttafel with sate, babi panggang, bakmi, nasi, those crunchy things and of course a glass of Heineken to wash it all down with.
And some of my best friends are Muslims and are very good people, although, sadly, they are all dead.
I also like Muslim tourists visiting our lovely Holland to see the canals of Amsterdam and world famous red-light district, where a lot of your compatriots are employed. It's even better if the Muslim tourists are rich and spend a lot of money on miniature clogs or other useless things.
But last time I was in Bukittinggi I had an odd experience. There was a very friendly guide (so friendly I even thought that he fancied me, being such an attractive guy of course) who showed me the clock tower and the nice fort and torture chamber etc. But the next time I met him he was a little less friendly, so I asked him "what's the matter mas (brother)?" He said that he noticed that I speak Indonesian - yes it is so easy, full of Dutch words like sate and nasi etc.
It must be that we invented that language. He said that my skill made him worried that I might want to stay longer and take away his job as a guide. I was surprised and said that we the Dutch stayed in that country before and everything was much better then. The islanders could even beat the Galapagos islands for the world cup qualification thanks to the famous Dutch coach. So I thought he would be happy if we wanted to come back. He apologized and said that he thought that the Dutch were extremely nice people, always ready for a practical joke, but that they had tried to force their will on the islanders and didn't adapt well to eating sambal and the other funny customs that you guys have.
So, after years of reflection over this experience, I eventually came to the conclusion that I think you should also adapt to Holland when living there and be able to gulp down a raw herring.
In your country you can forbid those ugly British tourists from wearing bikinis and shorts when they visit those Muslim temples north of the Sanur Hyatt, as far as I am concerned. We gladly gave you your independence after all. So isn't that a good deal? We all decide who can stay and under which conditions. Like that we can all be good friends and I would be happy to meet you face to face next time you come to Schiphol and tell you more about the great things we achieved here like the invention of the windmill and speculation on the price of tulip bulbs.
Geert B. Wilders
Schiphol, the Netherlands
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Gary R Green (not verified) — Fri, 06/05/2009 - 9:01am
Is this guy for real? Get your head out of the sand.So, he thinks that things were better under the Dutch. The Dutch bled the country dry for nigh on 400 years with little or nothing going to the locals, they even suppressed education for the native Indonesians. I have a Dutch friend who was extolling all the good that they did for the country. One point he made was that the Dutch were responsible for setting up the railways infrastructure. That is certainly true, but it was not done for the benefit of the local population! It was mainly for moving goods to the ports for export to Europe for which the local population recieved little or nothing. Of course the Dutch were not alone in this: The British in Malaya, the French in Indochina, in fact this occurred wherever colonialism flourished.
As for his comment about the Dutch freely granting independence to Indonesia, what a load of crock! Has he never heard of the war for independence? Seems he thinks that my father in law must have fought in a phantom war.
Get your facts right before coming up with such rot!
Without Prejudice,
Gary R Green.
Majabali (not verified) — Sun, 05/24/2009 - 1:58pm
Sad JP has to come to publishing fake letters by sad foreign expats in Bali whose contribution to humour ranks alongside schoolboys farting in the playground.
"Geert"
At least the brothels in Amsterdam are legal and afford protection from the police, not illegal and operated by the police.
Never Surrender (not verified) — Wed, 05/20/2009 - 2:59am
Geert Wilders will be president very soon.
Freedom will prevail and we will never surrender and give up our freedom.
Instead of the tulips and windmills, think about the electric car, the windmobile, Compact Disk and other inventions of the Netherlands.
What has Indonesia invented the last 10 years?