Just when everyone thought the outrage over the Danish Muhammed caricatures had settled, Dutch politician Geert Wilders drops the next bomb. This time it's a 17-minute film, "Fitna," consisting of compiled footage of Muslim extremism, religious statements against the West, and accompanying quotes from the Koran. Whatever the stated intention is, this is one complete failure to address the real issues and a pathetic excuse to defend a corrupt modern civilization.

Geert Wilders has joined the secular humanist crusade that began with Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. Wilders and Van Gogh draw a line in the sand: the West, they reason, is tolerant; the Muslim world, they say, doesn't tolerate the kind of plurality of opinion that in their view defines the West. Defining Western values as tolerance, of course, makes little sense when campaigning against a religion. Wilders explains himself:

It's true, they don't carry the Koran under their arms. But it's at home. And their fathers go to the mosque. They don't tell their children that beating women or believers of other religions is not allowed. That's why we have to push harder for a kind of Leitkultur, a guiding culture. Not a monoculture but a culture that draws on our Christian, Jewish, humanistic traditions and that poses a challenge to the Islamic problem. This is patriotism, not nationalism, this is pride in our own culture.

- Interview with Geert Wilders about "Fitna"

Wilders' "Leitkultur" is no different than the statements made by the Muslims in his film; the belief that one system of values should apply to all people. What "freedom fighters" like Wilders and Von Gogh miss out on is that anything can become a dogmatic religion. Secular humanism is the most misinformed, ignorant and destructive dogma of all these new religions, because it blindly worships the individual and turns it into a superhero. So much for "progress."

The disease Wilders has caught, seemingly, is American-style patriotism of the post-WWII variety, summed up as "because we are tolerant, we are right and everyone else is wrong." This symbolic unity, based on political convenience, is responsible for the tolerance that allows not only Muslims but any other group with a conflicting idea into Europe. While condemning Muslims practicing their own culture, Wilders seems to want to destroy his own.

Fitna is supposed to be Arabic, meaning "disagreement and division among people." All pluralist societies eventually reach the point where they fall apart from within due to lack of consensus. This is convenient for those who make money, because it removes cultural barriers to massive profit. In blindness, the West is worshipping this disease and denies the truth of many Muslim arguments against the decadence and spiritless materialism they see here.

Islam has a right to exist, in the Middle East. It's not our business to decide whether it's "right" or not for other people, just as they shouldn't expect Europe to submit to Allah anytime soon. The current values of the West are rotten to the core and we don't wish to impose them on any people, including ourselves. It's time for a new world agreement, not to do with free trade or political alliances, but one that asserts the right for all people to create and maintain independence.