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In Tribute
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician and currently the leader of the Party for Freedom. Born of a German father and raised a Roman Catholic, the young Geert Wilders formed many of his political views in his travels to Israel and the neighboring Arab countries. In 1996, he moved to the city of Utrecht where he represented his pluralistic neighborhood in the city council and later in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands.
Citing irreconcilable differences regarding the People’s Party’s position on Turkish accession to the European Union, Wilders left in 2006 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom. Since then, he has been outspoken critic on the issues of immigration, Islamic extremism and freedom of speech. His provocative 2008 film about Islam in the Netherlands, Fitna received international attention. He was famously banned from entering the United Kingdom in February, 2009 because of his views and opinions on Islam. Polls indicate that if elections were held today, the Party for Freedom would win a plurality of votes in the Netherlands and Mr. Wilders would become the next Dutch prime minister.
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Alan Craig
Alan Craig was born in London, U.K. and awarded his MBA at Manchester Business School. At the age of 25, he was appointed CEO of an international manufacturing group, employing 2,500 people worldwide. He was first elected to public office in 2002 on behalf of the newly formed Christian Peoples Alliance party of which he is leader. Today Mr. Craig is an elected councillor in the inner city London borough of Newham - one of the UK’s most deprived and most ethnically diverse boroughs. Mr. Craig’s profile has been raised nationally and internationally recently in connection with his campaign of opposition to the ‘Olympics mega-mosque,’ which is proposed to be built close to the 2012 London Olympic site. If built, it will be the largest mosque in Europe and a global headquarters of the ambitious, secretive fundamentalist Islamic sect, Tablighi Jamaat. Mr. Craig is married to Sally, and they have four children ages 6 to 18.
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