International Freedom Alliance [SEP] inception
International Freedom Alliance
The International Freedom Alliance (IFA) () was a proposed group announced in July 2010 by Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
History.
Wilders has stated that the IFA will be an umbrella organization for groups and individuals who "are fighting for freedom against Islam". His goal is an international alliance to end immigration of Islamic nationals to the West and a complete ban of Sharia law.
Wilders had planned to set up IFA branches in the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Germany
in common usage since after the turn of this millennium, the rights upon which the concept is based have been a necessary feature of every democratic society. Global civil society alliance CIVICUS began using the term regularly after the inception of the Civic Space Initiative in 2011, defining it as "the place, physical, virtual, and legal, where people exercise their rights to freedom of association, expression, and peaceful assembly. By forming associations, by speaking out on issues of public concern, by gathering together in online and offline