Lights are
going out all over 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. He is a Dutch Member of Parliament
Dear
Friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me. 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 United States
as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the
ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in
Jerusalem.
The Europe you know is changing. You have
probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks
away from your tourist destination, there is another world. 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 corners. The
shops have signs you and I cannot read.
You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by
religious fanatics. These
building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of
Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
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, Marseilles 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. Mohammad 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
Swine, and that very thought 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 .
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 Jewish people or the
Holocaust can no longer be taught or made mention of because of Muslim
sensitivity.
In England sharia courts 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 Ale 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. Bernhardt 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 if
any 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.
Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general 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. I call the perpetrators settler's. 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. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to
be ignored.
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. Mohammad himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is very
bad.
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.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam
'the most retrograde force in the world',
and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has
wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the
aggressor. 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.
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, a paper tiger and doomed.
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.
So-called journalists volunteer to label any
and all critics of Islam as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. 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. Yet there is a 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.
We have to take the necessary action now to
stop this Islamic barbarism and stupidity from destroying the free world that
we know.
Please take the time to read and understand
what is written here, please send it to every free person that you know.
