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'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?'
> Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, chairman Party for Freedom,
> the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an
> Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference
> in Jerusalem .
> The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute on September 25.
> Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me. ?Great to be
> at the Four Seasons. ?I come from a country that has one season
> only: a rainy season that starts January 1st and ends December
> 31st. ?When we have three sunny days in a row, the government
> declares a national emergency.?? So Four Seasons, that's new to
> me.?? It's great to be in New York .? ?When I see the
> skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said:
> "The sky over New York and the will of man made visible." Of
> course.? ?Without the Dutch you would have been nowhere, still
> figuring out how to buy this island from the Indians.?? But we
> are glad we did it for you. And, frankly, you did a far better
> job than we possibly could have
> done.
> I come to America with a mission.? All is not well in the old
> world.? ?There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very
> difficult to be optimistic. ?We might be in the final stages of
> the Islamization of Europe .? ?This not only is a clear and
> present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to
> America and the sheer survival of the West.?? The danger I see
> looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing.?
> The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization,
> facing an Islamic Europe . ?In a generation or two, the US will
> ask itself: who lost Europe .?? Patriots from around Europe risk
> their lives every day to prevent precisely this scenario form
> becoming a reality.? My short lecture consists of 4
> parts.
> First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . ?
> Then, I will say a few things about Islam.? ?Thirdly, if you are
> still here, I will talk a little bit about the movie you just
> saw.?? To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
> The Europe you know is changing.?? You have probably seen the
> landmarks.? ?The Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and Rome 's
> ancient buildings and maybe the canals of Amsterdam . ?They are
> still there. ?And they still look very much the same as they did
> a hundred years ago.
> But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from
> your tourist destination, there is another world, a world very
> few visitors see and one that does not appear in your tourist
> guidebook.? ?It is the world of the parallel society created by
> Muslim mass-migration.? ?All throughout Europe a new reality is
> rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous
> people reside or are even seen.? ?And if they are, they might
> regret it.? ?This goes for the police as well.? ?It's the world
> of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents,
> with baby strollers and a group of children.? ?Their husbands,
> or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.? ?With
> mosques on many street corner.? ?The shops
> have sign s you and I cannot read.? ?You will be hard-pressed
> to find any economic activity.? ?These are Muslim ghettos
> controlled by religious fanatics.? ?These are Muslin
> neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across
> Europe .? ?These are the building-blocks for territorial control
> of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street,
> neighborhood by neighborhood, city by ci ty.
> There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe .? ?With
> larger congregations than there are in churches.?? And in every
> European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will
> dwarf every church in the region..? Clearly, the signal is: "we rule."
> Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take
> Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .?? In many cities the
> majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.? ?Paris is now
> surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods.?? Mohammed is the
> most popular name among boys in many cities.? ?In some
> elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be
> mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and
> that would be an insult to Muslims.? ?Many state schools in
> Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils.? ?In
> once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by
> Muslims. ?Non-Muslim women routinely hear "whore, whore".?
> ?Satellite dishes are not pointed to local
> TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin. ? In
> France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed
> offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same
> is increasingly true of Darwin .? ?The history of the Holocaust
> can in many cases no longer be taught because of Muslim
> sensitivity. ?In England sharia c ourts are now officially part
> of the British legal system.?? ?Many neighborhoods in France are
> no-go areas for women without head scarves.? ?Last week a man
> almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels ,
> because he was drinking during the Ramadan.? ?Jews are fleeing
> France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-
> Semitism since World War II.? ?French is now commonly spoken on
> the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel .? ?I could go on
> forever with stories like this. ?Stories about
> Islamization.
> A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe.?? San
> Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25
> percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years
> from now.?? ?Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by
> the end of this century.?? Now these are just numbers.? ?And the
> numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a
> strong desire to assimilate.? ?But there are few signs of
> that..? The Pew Research Center reported that half of French
> Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty
> to France .?? One-third of
> French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.? ?The British
> Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British
> Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate.? ?A Dutch
> study reported that half of Dutch Muslims admit they
> "understand" the 9/11 attacks.?? Muslims demand what they call
> 'respect'. ?And this is how we give them respect. ?Our elites
> are willing to give in.
>
> To give up.? ?In my own country we have gone from calls by one
> cabinet member to turn Muslim holidays into official state
> holidays, to statements by another cabinet member, that Islam is
> part of Dutch culture, to an affirmation by the Christian-Democratic
> attorney general that he is willing to accept sharia in the
> Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.? ?We have cabinet
> members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
> Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from
> petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance
> workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.? ?Paris has seen
> its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.? ?Some
> prefer to see these as isolated incidents, but I call it a
> Muslim intifada.? ?I call the perpetrators "settlers"..?
> ?Because that is what they are.? ?They do not come to integrate
> into our societies, they come to integrate our society into
> their Dar-al-Islam..? ?Therefore, they are settlers.
> Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively
> against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their
> neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.?? Politicians shy
> away from taking a stand against this creeping sharia. ?They
> believe in the equality of all cultures.?? Moreover, on a
> mundane level, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
> Our many problems with Islam cannot be explained by poverty,
> repression or the European colonial past, as the Left claims.?
> ?Nor does it have anything to do with Palestinians or American
> troops in Iraq .? ?The problem is Islam itself.? Allow me to
> give you a brief Islam 101.? ?The first thing you need to know
> about Islam is the imp ortance of the book of the Quran.
> ?The Quran is Allah's personal word, revealed by an angel to
> Mohammed, the prophet.?
> This is where the trouble starts.? ?Every word in the Quran is
> Allah's word and therefore not open to discussion or
> interpretation.? ?It is valid for every Muslim and for all
> times.? ?Therefore, there is no such a thing as moderate Islam.?
> ?Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims.? ?But a moderate
> Islam is non-existent.
> The Quran calls for hatred, violence, submission, murder, and
> terrorism.?? The Quran calls for Muslims to kill non-Muslims, to
> terrorize non-Muslims and to fulfill their duty to wage war:
> violent jihad.?? Jihad is a duty for every Muslim, Islam is to
> rule the world by the sword.? The Quran is clearly anti-Semitic,
> describing Jews as monkeys and pigs.
> The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed
> the prophet.?? His behavior is an example to all Muslims and
> cannot be criticized.? ?Now, if Mohammed had been a man of
> peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one,
> there would be no problem.?? But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass
> murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages at the same
> time.?? Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how
> he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war
> executed. ?Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu
> Qurayza.? ?He advised on matters of slavery, but never advised
> to liberate slaves.? ?Islam has no other morality than the
> advancement of Islam.? ?If it is good for Islam, it is
> good.? ?If it is bad for Islam, it is bad. There is no gray
> area or other side.
> Quran as Allah's own word and Mohammed as the perfect man are
> the two most important facets of Islam.? ?Let no one fool you
> about Islam being a religion.? ?Sure, it has a god, and a here-
> after, and 72 virgins.?? But in its essence Islam is a political
> ideology.? ?It is a system that lays down detailed rules for
> society and the life of every person.???Islam wants to dictate
> every aspect of life.? ?Islam means 'submission'.? ?Islam is not
> compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives
> for is sharia.? ?If you want to compare Islam to anything,
> compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all
> totalitarian ideologies.
> This is what you need to know about Islam, in order to
> understand what is going on in Europe .? For millions of Muslims
> the Quran and the live of Mohammed are not 14 centuries old, but
> are an everyday reality, an ideal, that guide every aspect of
> their lives.? ?Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam
> "the most retrograde force in the world", and why he compared
> Mein Kampf to the Quran.? Which brings me to my movie, Fitna.
> I am a lawmaker, and not a movie maker.? ?But I felt I had the
> moral duty to educate about Islam.? ?The duty to make clear that
> the Quran stands at the heart of what some people call terrorism
> but is in reality jihad. ?I wanted to show that the problems of
> Islam are at the core of Islam, and do not belong to its fringes.
> Now, from the day the plan for my movie was made public, it
> caused quite a stir, in the Netherlands and throughout Europe .?
> First, there was a political storm, with government leaders,
> across the continent in sheer panic.? The Netherlands was put
> under a heightened terror alert, because of possible attacks or
> a revolt by our Muslim population. ?The Dutch branch of the
> Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the
> Netherlands was due for an attack. ?Internationally, there was a
> series of incidents. ?The Taliban threatened to organize
> additional attacks against Dutch troo ps in Afghanistan, and a
> website linked to Al Qaeda published the message that I ought to
> be killed, while various muftis in the Middle East stated that I
> would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the
> screening of the movie.? ?In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch
> flag was burned on several occasions.? ?Dolls representing me
> were also burned. ?The Indonesian President announced that I
> will never be admitted into Indonesia again, while the UN
> Secretary General and the European Union issued cowardly
> statements in the same vein as those made by the Dutch
> Government.? I could go on and on.? ?It was an absolute
> disgrace, a sell-out.
> A plethora of legal troubles also followed, and have not ended
> yet.. ?Currently the state of Jordan is litigating against me.
> ?Only last week there were renewed security agency reports about
> a heightened terror alert for the Netherlands because of Fitna.?
> Now, I would like to say a few things about Israel . ?Because,
> very soon, we will get together in its capital.? ?The best way
> for a politician in Europe to lose votes is to say something
> positive about Israel.? The public has wholeheartedly accepted
> the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor.??
> I, however, will continue to speak up for Israel . ?I see
> defending Israel as a matter of principle. ?I have lived in this
> country and visited it dozens of times. ?I support Israel
> .? First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand
> years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it
> is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
> Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: "Islam has bloody
> borders". ? Israel is located precisely on that border. This
> tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating
> Islam's territorial advance. ?Israel is facing the front lines
> of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern
> Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia . ?
> Israel is simply in the way. ?The same way West-Berlin was
> during the Cold War.
> The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . ?It is a
> war against the West. ?It is jihad. ? Israel is simply receiving
> the blows that are meant for all of us. ?If there would have
> been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other
> venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.
> ?Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army
> and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep
> well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
> Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to
> address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel
> were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to
> the West. ?It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of
> a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. ?On the
> contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to
> the forces of Islam.?? They would, and rightly so, see the
> demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doome d.?
> The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with
> Islam, but only the beginning.? ?It would mean the start of the
> final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they
> can get everything. ?Therefore, it is not that the West has a
> stake in
> Israel . ?It is Israel .? It is very difficult to be an
> optimist in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe .?
> ?All the tides are against us.
> On all fronts we are losing.? Demographically the momentum is
> with Islam. ?Muslim immigration is even a source of pride within
> ruling liberal parties. ?Academia, the arts, the media, trade
> unions, the churches, the business world, the entire political
> establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of
> multiculturalism. ?So-called journalists volunteer to label any
> and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or
> 'racists'. ?The entire establishment has sided with our enemy.
> ?Leftists, liberals and Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with
> Islam.
> This is the most painful thing to see: the betrayal by our
> elites.?? At this moment in Europe 's history, our elites are
> supposed to lead us.? To stand up for centuries of civilization.
> ?To defend our heritage. ?To honor our eternal Judeo-Christian
> values that made Europe what it is today. ?But there are very
> few signs of hope to be seen at the governmental level.
> ?Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they probably
> know how grave the situation is. ?But when the little red light
> goes on, they stare into the camera and tell us that Islam is a
> religion of peace, and we should all try to get along nicely and
> sing Kumbaya. ?They willingly participate in, what President
> Reagan so aptly called: "the betrayal of our past, the
> squandering of o ur freedom." ?If
> there is hope in Europe , it comes from the people, not from
> the elites. ?Change can only come from a grass-roots level.? ?It
> has to come from the citizens themselves.. ?Yet these patriots
> will have to take on the entire political, legal and media
> establishment.
> Over the past years there have been some small, but encouraging,
> signs of a rebirth of the original European spirit. ?Maybe the
> elites turn their backs on freedom, the public does not. ?In my
> country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees
> the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake
> since World War II. ?And another 60 percent sees Islam as the
> biggest threat to our national identity. ?I don't think the
> public opinion in Holland is very different from other European
> countries.
> Patriotic parties that oppose jihad are growing, against all
> odds. ?My own party debuted two years ago, with five percent of
> the vote. Now it stands at ten percen t in the polls. ?The same
> is true of all military-minded parties in Europe . ?They are
> fighting the liberal establishment, and are gaining footholds on
> the political arena, one voter at the time.
> Now, for the first time, these patriotic parties will come
> together and exchange experiences. ?It may be the start of
> something big. Something that might change the map of Europe for
> decades to come. ?It might also be Europe 's last chance.
> This December a conference will take place in Jerusalem .
> ?Thanks to Professor Aryeh Eldad, a member of Knesset, we will
> be able to watch Fitna in the Knesset building and discuss the
> jihad. ?We are organizing this event in Israel to emphasize the
> fact that we are all in the same boat together, and that Israel
> is part of our common heritage. Those attending will be a select
> audience. ?No racist organizations will be allowed. ?And we will
> only admit parties that are solidly democratic. This conference
> will be the start of an Alliance of European patriots. ?This
> Alliance will serve as the backbone for all organizations and
> political parties that oppose jihad and Islamization.? For this
> Alliance I seek your support.
> This endeavor may be crucial to America and to the West.
> ?America may hold fast to the dream that, thanks to its
> location, it is safe from jihad and shaira. ?But seven years ago
> to the day, there was still smoke rising from ground zero,
> following the attacks that forever shattered that dream. ?Yet
> there is a danger even greater danger than terrorist attacks,
> the scenario of America as the last man standing. ?The lights
> may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. ?An Islamic
> Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic
> wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military
> might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies,
> enemies with atomic bombs.? ?With an Islamic Europe, it would be
> up to America alone to preserve the heritage of
> Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .
> Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. ?My
> generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered
> to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with
> their lives. ?All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind
> us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we
> cherish.? My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely
> its custodians.? We can only hand over this hard won liberty to
> Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to
> us.?? We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.? Future
> generations would never forgive us.?? We cannot squander our
> liberties. ?We simply do not have the right to do
> so.
> This is not the first time our civilization is under threat. ?We
> have seen dangers before. ?We have been betrayed by our elites
> before. They have sided with our enemies before.? And yet, then,
> freedom prevailed.? These are not times in which to take lessons
> from appeasement, capitulation, giving away, giving up or giving
> in. ?These are not times in which to draw lessons from Mr.
> Chamberlain.
>
> These are times calling us to draw lessons from Mr.?Churchill
> and the words he spoke in 1942:?? "Never give in, never, never,
> never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never
> give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.?? Never
> yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
> of the enemy.
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