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THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE |
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Written by Geert Wilders
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
[You may have seen
news stories, such as on Fox News, about
the Dutch member of parliament, Geert Wilders, being prosecuted in Dutch courts
for "insulting Islam." Recently, Mr. Wilders delivered this speech in New York.
After reading it, you may watch his 15-minute film Fitna.
Geert Wilders is a hero of Western Civilization, and he may go to jail for it. ]
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.
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 Moslem mass-migration.
All
throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Moslem 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 Moslem ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Moslem
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 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.
Many
European cities are already one-quarter Moslem:
just take Amsterdam, Marseille, and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities over 50% of
the under-18 population is Moslem.
Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Moslem
neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities. Many
state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal (Moslem kosher) food to all
pupils.
In
once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost
exclusively by Moslems. Non-Moslem women routinely hear "whore,
whore." Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to
stations in their country of origin. In France school teachers are advised to
avoid authors deemed offensive to Moslems, 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 Moslem
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 Moslems
in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
I
could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A
total of fifty-four million Moslems now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a
staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Moslem just 12 years
from now. [Note: There are some 2.7
million Moslems in the US or less than 1%; the US and Western Europe - which is what Mr. Wilders is
talking about, not Eastern Europe - have a comparable population size of 300
million.]
Now
these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Moslem-immigrants
had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Moslems
see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Moslems
do not object to suicide attacks.
The
British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Moslem
students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. A Dutch study reported that
half of Dutch Moslems admit they "understand" the 9/11 attacks. Moslems
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 Moslem
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 Moslem majority.
We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.
Moslem
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 Moslem 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-Moslems,
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, Moslems 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 importance of the book of the Koran. The Koran is Allah's personal word,
revealed by an angel to Mohammed, the prophet.
This
is where the trouble starts. Every word in the Koran is Allah's word and
therefore not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid for every Moslem
and for all times. Therefore, there is no such a thing as moderate Islam.
Sure,
there are a lot of moderate Moslems. But a moderate Islam is non-existent. The Koran
calls for hatred, violence, submission, murder, and terrorism. The Koran calls
for Moslems to kill non-Moslems, to terrorize non-Moslems and to fulfill their
duty to wage war: violent jihad. Jihad is a duty for every Moslem, Islam is to rule the world - by
the sword. The Koran 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 Moslems 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, and a pedophile. 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.
[Note:
Doesn't this sound exactly like the morality of Communism? See Marx and Mohammed.]
Koran
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 hereafter, 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.
Now
you know why Winston
Churchill called Islam "the most retrograde force in the world,"
and why he compared Mein Kampf to the
Koran: Mein Kampf, he said, is
"the new Koran of faith and war."
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 Koran 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 Moslem population.
The
Dutch branch of the Islamic organization Hizbut-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 troops 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.
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. Moslem 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 our
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 Moslems 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 percent in the polls.
The
same is true of all similarly-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. It is
called the Alliance of European Patriots.
This Alliance will serve as the backbone for
all organizations and political parties that oppose Jihad and Islamization.
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 sharia.
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,
an 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
e 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 1941:
"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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