Andrew Bolt: Hamas and its Muslim supporters’ catastrophic mistake

So what has Hamas really achieved? It’s shown the world the dead end of Islamist hate, and made Muslims pay by spreading fear of them throughout the West, says Andrew Bolt.

Last week – in Holland – came more evidence that Hamas and its Muslim supporters have made a catastrophic and historic mistake.

The Albanese government must read these signs, or God help it and our country.

The famously tolerant Dutch on Wednesday made Geert Wilders the biggest winner of their election with 37 seats, 12 more than the second-placed GreenLeft-Labour coalition.

Wilders’ secret? He promises to ban Muslim immigration.

Here’s one telling fact. Wilders’ PVV party was fourth in the polls two months ago – but on October 7, Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group which runs Gaza, slaughtered 1200 Jews in scenes of utter barbarity.

Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Party for Freedom Geert Wilders won the election after promising to ban Muslim immigration. Picture: Carl Court

Worse, Muslims in many cities of the West celebrated.

In Australia, for instance, Imam Ibrahim Dadoun screamed “this is a day of pride”.

Fireworks were let off, and a mob even chanted “gas the Jews” outside the Sydney Opera House.

Yes, I’m talking of a small minority of Muslims, yet not one Muslim organisation unambiguously condemned what Hamas did.

In Europe, the pro-Palestinian protests were more massive and threatening, but what did these protesters think they’d achieve with their genocidal chants of “from the river to the sea”?

Did they think the public would side with them out of fear, seeing so many angry Muslims outside their doors?

True, the Albanese government has indeed trembled. It’s trying not to offend the Muslim voters who dominate key Labor seats in northern Melbourne and western Sydney, and even did a reverse-Wilders, handing out 860 temporary visas to Palestinians in just six weeks.

But check the public’s hostile reaction. Whatever some might think of Israel, very few seem to think we should keep importing more Muslims in five years than there are Jews in this country.

Until October 7, few people would dare say that. But now the fear of seeming racist is less than the fear of what we’re seeing already in our streets.

In some parts of Europe, that fear now looks ugly.

In Ireland last week, mobs rioted in Dublin, burning and stealing and demanding an end to Muslim immigration, after reports that an Algerian man stabbed three children and a teacher’s assistant outside a school.

Irish Garda riot police in Dublin after riots broke out following stabbings. Picture: Peter Murphy

Then in France on the weekend, protesters in Roman-sur-Isere chanted “Islam out of Europe”, after immigrants reportedly knifed to death a 16-year-old called Thomas, after supposedly shouting they wanted to “kill whites”.

No wonder that after all the Islamist terror attacks and Muslim riots in France that the anti-immigration National Rally party of Marine Le Pen looks set to win the next election.

Around Europe, the calls are getting louder – end mass immigration of people from cultures that are so very different.

For instance, Italy, overwhelmed by illegal immigrants from North Africa, last year made Giorgia Meloni prime minister on her promise of an immigration crackdown and defence of Italian values.

Germany, which in 2015 recklessly took in more than a million immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, now has the reaction.

The anti-immigration Alternative For Germany had its most significant success yet on the day after the Hamas attack – 14.6 per cent of the vote in Bavaria’s election and 18.4 in Hesse.

Sweden’s government last week said it wanted to deport even immigrants who said things that threaten “Swedish values”.

Just whether voters will get what they wish for is another thing.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won last year’s election on her promise of an immigration crackdown. Picture: Filippo Monteforte

The media and government bureaucracy is just too marinated in pro-immigration and anti-Western ideology to allow it.

Take Wilders. Rival parties say they won’t join him to give the extra 39 seats he needs to form government.

Even if he does get partners, they’ll hobble him. He’s too “far Right”.

Yet his views on Islam come from living with the consequences of it. He formed his party just after an Islamist assassinated film director Theo van Gogh in 2004 for blasphemy, and Wilders has had to live since under tight police protection. When I interviewed him in Australia, five Dutch police guarded him.

Now many Europeans feel the threat he’s lived under, especially after Hamas – the world’s most barbaric terrorists – inspired hundreds of thousands of defenders to take to Western streets.

So what has Hamas really achieved?

It’s just shown the world the dead end of Islamist hate, and has made Muslims pay by spreading fear of them throughout the West. Even Muslim nations such as the United Arab Emirates disown it.

Hamas will ultimately be destroyed, and the West’s immigration intakes tightened. For all the suffering of the Jews today, in the end Hamas will be the losers.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Hamas and its Muslim supporters’ catastrophic mistake