Netherlands: KSA may curb trade ties over Wilders' anti-Islam slogans

[Yzd Khalifa]

I don't think if $5bn could really make Dutch to fall on their knees.

Not even tens of billions, It is all about principle.

Look at Iran as a prime example.

 

[Irajgholi]

Not even tens of billions, It is all about principle.

Look at Iran as a prime example.

Wilder is an idiot don't get me wrong, but Netherlands has a pretty big economy. Dutch people themselves are not really fond of middle-easterners either. Something that could really put them under pressure is a unanimous decion by all countries in the region to ban Dutch products.

 

[waz]

Not to worry about Mr Wilders. The dutch have abandoned him as well.....

European election upset for Geert Wilders as Dutch turn cold on anti-EU party - Telegraph

Geert Wilders came fourth in European elections in the Netherlands on Thursday night, confounding predictions that he would lead a populist and far-Right backlash against the European Union across the continent.

Dutch exit polls put the far-Right and anti-Islam leader on 12.2 per cent of the vote, putting him behind all the pro-EU mainstream political parties.

 

[-SINAN-]

I remembered this man.

This idiot tried to give our minister a cartoon which makes fun of Islam and Our minister said "Put it in your appropriate place"

 

[Al Bhatti]

Also interesting to see how little publicity this grave insult got. If some low-ranking cleric in KSA had done something similar the Western media would have behaved like monkeys on steroids and if a thread was made about that on PDF it would have had 500 replies by now and not 29.

Yet the negative track record of "Islam" is not even amounting to 1/10 of the crimes that were committed in the name of "Christianity".

Sad but true.

When was the last time a non-muslim was announced as a "terrorist" or even an "extremist" and when did any Media use the term "terrorist" or even "extremist" for the person?

BBC News - Elliot Rodger is Isla Vista drive-by killer - US police

Weekend Myrtle Beach shootings leave 3 dead, 4 injured

 

[Al Bhatti]

I don't think if $5bn could really make Dutch to fall on their knees.

Wilder is an idiot don't get me wrong, but Netherlands has a pretty big economy. Dutch people themselves are not really fond of middle-easterners either. Something that could really put them under pressure is a unanimous decion by all countries in the region to ban Dutch products.

May 27, 2014

Geert Wilders

Dutch minister plans Saudi trip to avert trade sanctions

Foreign minister will make clear that Wilders’ views are his own and do not represent the Dutch government

The Dutch foreign minister will visit Saudi Arabia to try to prevent trade sanctions against the Netherlands in response to anti-Islamic stickers by populist Geert Wilders, an official said.

Frans Timmermans will travel to Riyadh to make clear that Wilders’ views are his own and do not represent the position of the Dutch government, spokesman Ahmad Dadou said on Tuesday.

The Saudi authorities have not announced any official sanctions on the Netherlands, one of the Gulf Arab kingdom’s largest investors. But Saudi media reported last week that measures had already been imposed on Dutch companies.

The decision to send a key member of the Dutch government came just days after a top Dutch diplomat travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet officials in Riyadh.

Wilders, the leader of the opposition, anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party, known by its Dutch acronym PVV, came in second place in Dutch elections for the European Parliament last week.

Wilders, who wants to halt immigration from Islamic countries to the Netherlands and exit the European Union, printed stickers in the colours of the Saudi flag in December bearing slogans derogatory to Islam.

Bilateral trade between the countries came to nearly $5 billion (Dh18.36 billion) in 2010 and the Netherlands accounted for nearly 4 per cent of foreign direct investment in Saudi Arabia that year, the Dutch government said.

Dutch minister plans Saudi trip to avert trade sanctions | GulfNews.com