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Reader comment on item: Hating Geert Wilders
Submitted by Vic (Netherlands), Mar 23, 2014 at 13:05
The accurate translation of 'geldschieter' is not 'money lender', but 'fundraiser'. The article and headline are correctly referring to money collected for Wilders legal defense fund.
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Daniel Pipes replies:
Not from what I understand. Here is one Dutch-speaker's message to me:
According to my Kraemers Woordenboek a geldschieter is a money lender. My English-to-Dutch dictionary says the same.
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