Even by the standards of the U.S. Congress, this has been quite a week for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim prejudice.

First, Senator Joe Lieberman meets his namesake in Israel: Avigdor Liebermen. A. Lieberman is a fascist whose party - Israel Is Our Home - recently p;aced third in the Knesset. A. Lieberman’s chief policy is to force Arabs in “Israel” [1948 Occupied Palestine] to sign loyalty oaths to Jewish supremacy or face explosion. J. Lieberman praised and stated “because he will play an important role in the next government, so it’s important that we in the US get to know him well.” This is akin to a U.S. Senator saying in 1932 that it is important to get to know Hitler because he will play an important role in the next German government. After their meeting, the two Lieberman’s went into a private room where they had sex with one another and included Ariel Sharon’s comatose body in a threesome Herzl could be proud of.

... And now AP reports that Arizona Senator Jon Kyl will be hosting radical anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders and his bigoted film “Fitna” [By the way, Wilders and the U.S. media always translate “Fitna” as “sedition,” but the word has another, more interesting and powerful meaning. I bet those ignorant assholes couldn’t figure it out if they spent a year trying]. Wilders has called for the Qu’ran to be banned and for Islam to be made illegal in the European Union. It is because he is such a demagogue desperately seeking attention that the British government recently denied him entry into the country and in the Netherlands he has just been convicted - and will be arrested if apprehended - for his extreme anti-Islam views. Wilders is so hateful and his efforts to portray himself as a free speech martyr so hollow that even this writer for the right-wing blog Little Green Footballs is against him. And mind you that LGF is one of the most anti-Islam sites around, don’t take me word for it, just search their archives:

Anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been barred from entering Britain, after a protest was lodged by Muslim House of Lords member Nazir Ahmed.

Yes, it’s a disgrace. Geert Wilders has the same right to free speech as anyone else, and the government of Britain is demonstrating once again that they’ve completely lost their way in a maze of multicultural contradictions.

However, Wilders himself does not deserve to be called an icon of free speech, since he explicitly wants to ban the Koran and make Islam illegal in Europe; in other words, he wants to take away other people’s freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and that is simply wrong. Book banning is what totalitarians do, not believers in free speech.

Also note that Wilders has recently announced he plans to form an alliance with the neofascist Belgian party Vlaams Belang.

So while I denounce Britain’s decision, I can’t support Wilders either while he maintains these positions and associations. Britain is wrong, and Wilders is also wrong. It’s a bad situation all around.

On principle, Wilders is a bigot, but he should not be arrested and he should be allowed to travel where he wants. The proper way to deal with persons like Wilders is to peacefully protest against them and to shun them. With his film “Fitna,” Wilders wanted to provoke Dutch Muslims into violent protests, because then, viola, they will “prove” his point about Islam being atavistic. But Dutch Muslims simply ignored Wilders and this ostensible free speech advocate actually refused the offer of a Dutch Muslim television station to air his documentary. Their offer was the only one in the Netherlands because all other stations refused to air Nazi-throwback propaganda.

[Famed Douchebag Geert Wilders will find plenty kin in Thursday’s night screening/hatefest.]

Now, if a U.S. senator wants to meet with Wilders and implicitly - if not explicitly - endorse his film that is despicable, but that is one thing. It is another thing to use taxpayers dollars - which, of course, include Muslim taxpayers - to host a fascist and his propaganda film in the halls of Congress. If Kyl wants to polish Wilders feet - and then some - he can do so in some redneck back alley, he should not be allowed to do so in Congress. Free speech isn’t absolute in every arena. Everything may be said - short of inciting violence - on private property, but there are to be limits on public property, especially something as important as the United States Congress. I worked in the U.S. Congress this past summer and I am a loyal American, this is so offensive that such an event will be hosted in that small building. I could give a shit less if Kyl did it anywhere else, but to do so in Congress is beyond the pale. It is a testament to the hardcore bigotry of Republicans that Kyl is doing this and to the soft bigotry of Democrats that they are allowing this to happen without a word of protest. This is a new low even for the political discourse in the United States.