The results on the poll on Geert Wilders (Do you agree with the English decision of declaring Wilders “persona non grata”?) are:

• A total and absolute error: freedom of speech must be preserved 94% (15 votes).
• While I think that freedom of speech is important, I believe that religious sensitivities must be respected 6% (1 votes)
• Who is Geert Wilders? 0% (0 votes)

This week poll is about the agreement between the Talibans and the Pakistani Government in Swat’s valley. Fareed Zakaria discusses it and says that while the Talibans are “bad guys”, we don’t have to worry about them as they don’t want to achieve the Global Caliphate:

The groups that advocate these policies are ugly, reactionary forces that will stunt their countries and bring dishonor to their religion. But not all these Islamists advocate global jihad, host terrorists, or launch operations against the outside world — in fact, most do not. Consider, for example, the most difficult example, the Taliban. The Taliban have done all kinds of terrible things in Afghanistan. But so far, no Afghan Taliban has participated at any significant level in a global terrorist attack over the last ten years–including 9/11. There are certainly elements of the Taliban that are closely associated with Al Qaeda. But the Taliban is large and many factions have little connection to Osama bin Laden. Most Taliban want Islamic rule locally, not violent jihad globally.

Of course, the help they can give the Global Caliphate’s supporters or the pledge of alliegance to Bin Laden are for me significant.

These two videos can also be of help (2nd one seen on Incognito’s blog):

So what do you think?

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Each fortnight I will be posting a poll on a very important subject. I am interested in knowing what the results are. And I believe all of you are going to be interested too.

This fortnight’s poll will be on Geert Wilders’ declaration of persona non grata in the UK:

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I will add a link in the right sidebar for you to vote on it. Thanks.

Last news on the subject are that he is still travelling to UK tomorrow (with some people thinking he won’t be jailed but that he will be denied entry) and that there are Dutch MPs who have supported his banning:

The film has nothing to do with freedom of expression. This freedom does not give the right to offend,” Maria Martens said.

OK, you’re offending me, Maria Martens, with this kind of nonsense (and I guess I am not the only one…). Set up the punishment for the offense.