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		<title>Talking About ‘the Moroccan Issue’ Is Not a Crime</title>
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<p>Four years ago I was taken to court in the Netherlands on hate-crime charges. After a trial that lasted almost two years, I was finally acquitted. But the case cost me a lot of time and energy that, as an elected politician, I would rather have devoted to my parliamentary work.</p>
<p>Now, just as my Party for Freedom (PVV) is taking the lead in the polls and the Dutch government is facing serious political difficulties, the public prosecutor is again bringing me to court, this time for asking my party supporters, during a PVV electoral meeting in March, whether they want more or fewer Moroccans in the country.</p>
<p>This question needs to be understood in proper context.</p>
<p>In the Netherlands, as in many other Western European countries right now, problems arise when Muslim immigrants refuse to assimilate and integrate into the wider community. In our case I referred specifically to the Moroccans not because I have anything against them generally but because they are one of the largest immigrant groups here and are overrepresented in our crime and welfare statistics.</p>
<p>Moroccans are suspects in violent robberies 22 times as often as indigenous Dutch. Between 1996 and 2010, more than 60% of the Moroccan male youths born in 1984 had at least once been suspected of a crime, a rate three times as high as their indigenous counterparts. Meanwhile, 14% of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 64 is dependent on welfare, compared with 9% for the Turks and 3% for the indigenous Dutch. According to Dick Schoof, the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism and security, Moroccans also account for three-quarters of all Dutch Muslims who leave for Syria to wage jihad.</p>
<p>The Dutch often refer to this problem as the “Moroccan issue.” If instead the Americans were the largest group of immigrants refusing to assimilate in the Netherlands, we would no doubt be referring to it as “the American issue.”</p>
<p>For almost a decade, my party has proposed three measures to address this issue. First, we want an end to immigration from Mulslim countries. Second, we want to expel all criminals of foreign nationality and, for those offenders who have dual nationality, deprive them of their Dutch citizenship, sending them back to the country of their other nationality. Third, we want to encourage the voluntary repatriation of non-Western immigrants.</p>
<p>These three measures don’t target any particular ethnic group, but given the demographics in our country it would immediately entail the presence of fewer Moroccans. Hence my question: “Do you want more or fewer Moroccans?” I never advocated that all Moroccans should leave. Nor do I object to every Moroccan. The decision to prosecute me for insulting an ethnic group and inciting hatred and discrimination is preposterous.</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s decision can’t be seen as being anything but politically motivated, especially when he has refused to prosecute two leading politicians of the governing Labor Party, Diederik Samsom and Hans Spekman, for similar statements on Moroccans. Mr. Samsom said that Moroccans have an “ethnic monopoly” on street crime, while Mr. Spekman said that Moroccans who don’t abide by the law have to be “humiliated in front of their own people.”</p>
<p>Polls have indicated that more than 43% of Netherlanders agree with me. I was thus expressing the feelings of millions in my country. In a democracy, a public debate about important political issues, such as “the Moroccan issue,” shouldn’t be restricted by criminalizing the expression of certain problems and policy proposals.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, political debate is now being increasingly restricted, not just in the Netherlands but across many European countries. Laws limiting freedom of expression, including the freedom of political debate, are introduced to protect subjective rights such as the right of certain groups to not feel offended, preventing the open discussion of pressing problems like those that arise from large-scale immigration across Western Europe. The unwillingness to address such problems is leading to the growth of parties, similar to my own PVV, in many other Western countries.</p>
<p>And existing laws are being applied ever more vigorously. Earlier this month, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the existing Dutch penal laws not only criminalize incitement to hatred and discrimination but also “incitement to intolerance.”</p>
<p>I don’t believe in political self-censorship. During the past 10 years, I have drawn attention to the problems that Dutch citizens experience related to integration, immigration and the Islamization of our society. And I have paid, and continue to pay, a very high price for it. For more than a decade now I have lived under constant police protection because I am on the death list of several Islamist terror groups. However, I will never let anyone silence me, no matter the consequences. My voters have elected me to express their concerns, and that is what I will do.</p>
<p>Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won’t lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution. This prosecution, moreover, is also dangerous. People will begin to lose their trust in the democratic process. Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner. I wish the Dutch public prosecutor had been wise enough to see that.</p>
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<p><em>Don’t miss <strong>Geert Wilders</strong> on the <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">Glazov Gang</a></strong> discuss <strong>&#8220;The West&#8217;s Battle for Freedom&#8221;</strong>:</em></p>
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		<title>To Keep the Flame of Liberty Burning</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Picture-6.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244395" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Picture-6.gif" alt="Picture-6" width="313" height="207" /></a><em>Below is Geert Wilders&#8217; speech to the Danish Free Press Society in Copenhagen<wbr /> on Nov. 2, 2014.</em></p>
<p>Dear friends,</p>
<p>I am happy to be in Copenhagen again.</p>
<p>It is always a pleasure to return to this wonderful city – the home of my good friend and fellow freedom fighter, the Danish hero Lars Hedegaard.</p>
<p>It is always a privilege to be in the capital of the brave Danish people.</p>
<p>And it is always an honor to be a guest of your great organization.</p>
<p>The Danish Free Press Society is a beacon of light. For Denmark, for Scandinavia, for the whole of Europe, and for the entire West. Your staunch defense of civil liberties, such as freedom of speech, serves as an inspiration for many, including myself and my party.</p>
<p>On a moment like this, when the free world is in mortal danger, an organization such as the Danish Free Press Society is needed more than ever.</p>
<p>Exactly ten years ago, today, my fellow countryman Van Gogh fell as a martyr of free speech.</p>
<p>I remember that morning very well. The press came to my office to ask for a reaction, but hardly anyone could believe that what had happened was really true. We all realized that the Netherlands would never be the same again. Unfortunately few lessons have been learned since that horrible day in 2004.</p>
<p>Islam claims that Muhammad was a prophet. But Muhammad was not a  prophet; Theo van Gogh was a prophet.</p>
<p>Van Gogh saw what was coming. He spoke out forcefully against the danger of Islamization.</p>
<p>He had also just made a short movie, together with my then colleague Ayaan Hirsi Ali, about the plight of women in Islamic society. The movie was called “Submission.”</p>
<p>That is why he was murdered. His assassination should have been an alarm bell.</p>
<p>Van Gogh warned us in a strong language, as clear as the colors that his great-granduncle Vincent used when painting his landscapes.</p>
<p>He was a brave man. When he realized the danger of Islam, he did not run like a coward.</p>
<p>He would have hated to see how our freedom of speech has been restricted in the ten years since his death.</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, the more Islam we get, the less free our societies become. Not only because of the islamization but also because of the weak appeasers who call themselves politicians.</p>
<p>We are no longer allowed to crack jokes or draw cartoons if Islam feels insulted by it.</p>
<p>If you do so, your life is in danger, as Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks can testify. You might even get arrested, as happened a few years ago with the Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot.</p>
<p>Sure, the charges against Nekschot were later dropped. But if you value your life and if you prefer to avoid trouble, it is better not to do anything that might remotely insult Islam.</p>
<p>We are no longer allowed to tell statistical truths, as Lars Hedegaard experienced, when he referred to rape figures in Islamic families.</p>
<p>A murderer came to Lars’s door and the state authorities persecuted him for so-called hate speech. Sure, the Supreme Court eventually acquitted Lars. But if you value your life and if you prefer to avoid trouble, it is better to keep quiet.</p>
<p>We are no longer allowed to refer to scientific and historical research, as my friend, the brave Austrian human rights activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, experienced.</p>
<p>In a seminar on the historical figure of Muhammad, she mentioned that he had a crush on little girls and had sex with a 9-year old. That is the truth.</p>
<p>But Elisabeth was convicted, and her conviction was even upheld by the Appeals court. Once again, it is better to remain silent if you want to avoid trouble.</p>
<p>But Theo van Gogh did not remain silent. And neither did Kurt and Lars and Elisabeth and Robert and the Danish Free Press Society, and my party, the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and so many other freedom fighters in the West.</p>
<p>We speak out. We will never be silent. Because we love our country. Because we love our freedom. Because we refuse to live in slavery.</p>
<p>Because we believe that without liberty, life is not worth living.</p>
<p>Liberty and human dignity, that is what we stand for.</p>
<p>We are the torchbearers for freedom. We are the torchbearers for democracy.</p>
<p>We are the torchbearers for a civilization that is far superior than any other civilization on earth.</p>
<p>Last Summer, my home town, The Hague, witnessed scenes which brought back memories of the darkest period in our history, the Nazi era.</p>
<p>Sympathizers of the Islamic State paraded in our streets. They carried swastikas, they carried the black flags of ISIS. They shouted “Death to the Jews.”</p>
<p>Instead of rounding up these hatemongers, the authorities did nothing.</p>
<p>When <em>we</em> warn against Islam, the authorities call it hate speech and bring us to court. But when the grim forces of hatred march down our streets, the police look on and do not interfere. It is a disgrace. It is a scandal. It is intolerable.</p>
<p>Islam is waging a war against the free West.</p>
<p>Indeed, we are at war. Only fools can deny it. Islam has declared war on us.</p>
<p>America and its allies are currently bombing the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>Excellent.</p>
<p>My party supports this offensive. I am glad that Dutch and Danish F16s participate in it and that our two nations stand shoulder to shoulder in this endeavor. We should liquidate Abu Bakr Al-Bagdadi and the other criminals who are leading the Islamic State.</p>
<p>But we have to do more than that.</p>
<p>Far more important than fighting Islamic State abroad, is the fight to preserve our own security in our own countries, in the Netherlands, in Denmark, in all the other European and Western countries. It is our homes that we must defend.</p>
<p>It is just to bomb the Islamic State in the Middle East. But our first priority must be to protect our own nations, our own freedoms, our own people, our own children, here, at home.</p>
<p>Recently, the Dutch authorities prevented some forty jihadis to leave our country, when they attempted to go to Syria to fight in the ranks of ISIS. Their passports were seized and they were sent home instead of jailed. These criminals now walk our streets and make them unsafe.</p>
<p>You may have heard that the jihadis who recently murdered  soldiers in Canada were also people whom the authorities had previously prevented to leave for Syria and who were not arrested but allowed to go free on the street.</p>
<p>Blocking the exodus of those who want to wage Jihad elsewhere and not detain them is sheer stupidity.</p>
<p>Keeping them here as free people means that they will hit us here.</p>
<p>We must hasten their exit instead of preventing it. But we must never allow them to return. Therefore, we must reinstate national border controls.</p>
<p>Nothing is more important than first protect our own countries from the Jihadis.</p>
<p>Let us restore our liberties, such as freedom of speech.</p>
<p>Let us defend our culture. Let us protect our people.</p>
<p>Let us make our nations free and safe again.</p>
<p>Let us be brave.</p>
<p>That is what we must do; that is our duty.</p>
<p>Let me ask you: Do our authorities actually do this?</p>
<p>Unfortunately not.</p>
<p>They fail to do their duty.</p>
<p>They fail to act accordingly.</p>
<p>They even lie to us.</p>
<p>Everyday, we hear Western leaders repeat the sickening mantra that Islam is a religion of peace.</p>
<p>Whenever an atrocity is committed in the name of Islam, whenever someone is beheaded in Syria or Iraq, Barack Obama, David Cameron, my own Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and many of their colleagues rush to the television cameras to tell the world that it has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. How stupid can you be.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the eyes of ever more people are opening to this reality.</p>
<p>In my country, a poll last June, showed that 65% of the Dutch are convinced that the Islamic culture does not belong to the Netherlands.</p>
<p>In France, 74% find Islam incompatible with French society.</p>
<p>In Britain, fewer than one in four think that following Islam is compatible with a British way of life. In Germany, over two thirds of the population think negatively about Islam.</p>
<p>Even in the Czech Republic, a country with hardly any Islamic population, almost two-thirds consider Islam a threat to society and 90% are afraid of it. And in Denmark 92% of your citizens believe Muslim immigrants should adopt Danish customs.</p>
<p>With every new terrorist crime, with every new attack, with every new beheading, it becomes clear to ever more people what the true nature of Islam is.</p>
<p>With every Islamic assault on our values, more and more people realize that Islam wants to conquer the world, that it is prepared to kill or enslave anyone who refuses to submit. And that it is ready to commit the biggest atrocities to achieve this goal.</p>
<p>My friends, we are gathered here today, because we are neither prepared to collaborate with evil, nor to appease it.</p>
<p>We say No to Islamic censorship. And No to the politicians who fail us.</p>
<p>During the past ten years, I have been living under constant police protection.</p>
<p>As you know, I am not the only one who has to live through this ordeal. Several people in this room are in the same situation. Our friends Lars and Kurt even came to stand eye to eye with fanatics who tried to slaughter them.</p>
<p>Of course – I repeat it wherever I go – of course, there are many moderate Muslims. I believe in moderate people, but I do not believe in a moderate Islam. There is only one Islam – the Islam of the Koran, the Hadith and the life of Muhammad, who was a terrorist and a warlord.</p>
<p>But even though there are many moderate Muslims, it is wrong to think that the moderates are a majority. They are not. A poll in the Netherlands gave shocking results. It is hard to believe, but almost three quarters of the Muslims in my country say that Dutch Muslims who go and fight in Syria are heroes. Can you believe it? Heroes!</p>
<p>And over two thirds of the Islamic population in the Netherlands consider the religious rules of Islam to be more important than our own democratic laws.</p>
<p>Equally terrifying was an article yesterday in the Dutch press stating that Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh, is still considered a hero today by hundreds of Dutch Muslims.</p>
<p>A few years ago, I called on Muslims to liberate themselves from the yoke of Islam, to choose for freedom. I wholeheartedly support Muslims who love freedom. So, I told them “Free yourselves. Leave Islam.” I still stand by this appeal. But this does not blind me to the present reality.</p>
<p>You may have heard that I will probably be brought to court again soon.</p>
<p>Three years ago, I was taken to court on hate crime charges. The court case lasted almost two years. Fortunately, I was acquitted.</p>
<p>But now, the Dutch judiciary is going after me again because I asked Dutch voters whether they want more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Moroccans are the largest Islamic population group in the Netherlands. In The Netherlands the Moroccan problem is the problem of Islam.</p>
<p>I referred to Moroccans, not because I have anything against Moroccans but because they are overrepresented in the Dutch crime and welfare statistics. They also account for three quarters of all Dutch Muslims who leave for Syria to wage jihad. No-one in the Netherlands wants more Moroccans.</p>
<p>As I said, our leaders still refuse to defend our freedoms because they are either cowards or appeasers. This is why the task of defending freedom has now fallen on us. On you, on me, on ordinary citizens.</p>
<p>To this end, I have established the International Freedom Alliance IFA.</p>
<p>We want IFA to be the shield of all those who refuse to submit to Islamic tyranny.</p>
<p>The mission of IFA is to stop the Islamization of non-Islamic countries and to fight for the preservation of our freedom and democracy.</p>
<p>We want to stand firm. We want to preserve our civilization for our children and grandchildren. Because there is nothing more precious than liberty and freedom. But it has a price. And the price can be high. Sometimes a man must give all he can.</p>
<p>Our political leaders may fail us. But we, my friends, we will not fail.</p>
<p>There is a path we shall never choose, and that is the path of submission.</p>
<p>This is why we say: Yes to freedom! No to tyranny!</p>
<p>IFA aims to be a network of resistance fighters in all the countries threatened by Islam.</p>
<p>Friends,  I have good news from the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Today, the popularity of my party, the Party for Freedom, is at a high. An opinion poll published this morning shows that we have by far become the largest party in the Netherlands, with almost 20 per cent of the vote. 1 out of 5 Dutchmen would vote PVV today.</p>
<p>The policies that we stand for are also getting more popular than ever.</p>
<p>We want to stop all immigration from Islamic countries.</p>
<p>We want to stimulate voluntary re-emigration to Islamic countries.</p>
<p>We want to expel all criminals with dual citizenship and deprive them of their Dutch nationality.</p>
<p>We want to de-islamize our nation.</p>
<p>Dear Friends, there is a lot of work to do. We, the defenders of freedom and security, have an historic duty.</p>
<p>Our generation has been entrusted with a huge task: To oppose Islam and keep the flame of liberty burning.</p>
<p>I say it without exaggeration: the future of human civilization depends on us. Now is a time when everyone in the West must do his duty. We are writing history here.</p>
<p>So, let us do our duty.</p>
<p>Let us stand with a happy heart and a strong spirit.</p>
<p>Let us go forth with courage and save freedom!</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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		<title>How to Confront the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/islamic-state.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242474" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/islamic-state.jpg" alt="islamic-state" width="318" height="269" /></a><em><strong>Below is a speech delivered by Geert Wilders in the Dutch Parliament during the recent parliamentary debate about the military mission to fight ISIS in Iraq:</strong></em></p>
<p>Madam Speaker,</p>
<p>The Islamic State is an Islamic cancer. It is a poisonous snake based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad, a criminal who 14 centuries ago went, murdering and decapitating, from Medina to Mecca. His self-appointed successor Caliph Baghdadi is now at the gates of Baghdad and Damascus. He has followers all over the world, including in our country, our cities and streets. Again,people are beheaded according to the Koranic commands such as Sura 47 verse 4: “When ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks and when ye have caused a bloodbath among them bind a bond firmly on them.” Even moderate Muslims cannot escape violence because, according to the Koran and the Sharia, they are apostates.</p>
<p>All the gullible minds who say that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam are committing a serious politically-correct error, whether they are Obama, Cameron, Rutte or Samsom.</p>
<p>We are at war. War has been declared against the free West. Our freedom, our culture, the future of our country and our children are at stake. We must strike back hard,  in the Netherlands, in the rest of the West and also in Iraq and Syria. Hence, my party supports the Government’s decision to deploy Dutch F16s against the Islamic state. We say: Let us bomb them.</p>
<p>But we have no understanding for the fact that we are only going to bomb in Iraq and not in Syria. Is it OK for the Government that people are beheaded, women raped and genocide committed in Syria because a mandate under international law is missing? What a cowardice. The government says it understands the United States when they bomb the Islamic State in Syria, but it does not participate itself. Understanding, but no participation, What a cowardly halfheartedness.</p>
<p>Even more important than fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is fighting Islamic terrorism in the Netherlands. The security of the Netherlands should be priority number 1. Our citizens have to be safe on the train, in the streets, when walking their children to school and shopping. That is what truly matters.  In its letter to Parliament, the Government only devotes two paragraphs to national security. There is even more attention for issues of gender and the position of women in the Arab world. That is a travesty.</p>
<p>Madam Speaker, we must protect the Netherlands. That is why we were elected. To protect our citizens. Not only the citizens of Iraq and Syria, but also and especially our own people here in the Netherlands. Why is the army not deployed to protect our railways stations? And in their uniforms and heavily armed, of course.</p>
<p>And why do we try to stop jihadists when they want to leave our country? Last Sunday, the Minister of Security and Justice proudly said that the passports of 41 jihadists had been canceled so they could not leave to Syria or Iraq. What a stupid act. Now they walk around here, in our streets. People who want to wage jihad elsewhere, decapitate, commit attacks, walk our streets because of the decision of the Minister.</p>
<p>I have been saying it for ten years and I will repeat it once again:</p>
<p>Close the borders to immigrants from Islamic countries. Enough is enough. The Islamic culture of hatred does not belong in the Netherlands. 65 per cent of the Dutch agree with this.</p>
<p>Let jihadists leave the country, but let them never come back. Reintroduce border controls.</p>
<p>Evict everyone who expresses sympathy for the Islamic State, deprive them of their Dutch passports. Let everyone with a passport from an Islamic country to sign an anti-Sharia declaration.</p>
<p>Wake up, I say to the Government. Protect not only the Iraqi people against the Islamic State, protect the Dutch against the Islamic terrorist threat in our own country. That is your job, that is your responsibility. Take that responsibility. Do your duty.</p>
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		<title>Time to Unmask Muhammad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Below is an English translation of an op-ed piece that Geert Wilders published in the Dutch magazine “HP/De Tijd” </em><em>on March 30, 2011.</em></strong></p>
<p>To know why Islam is a mortal danger one must not only consider the  Koran but also the character of Muhammad, who conceived the Koran and  the entirety of Islam.</p>
<p>The Koran is not just a book. Muslims believe that Allah himself  wrote it and that it was dictated to Muhammad in the original version,  the Umm al-Kitab, which is kept on a table in heaven. Consequently one  cannot argue with the contents. Who would dare to disagree with what  Allah himself has written? This explains much of Muhammadan behaviour,  from the violence of jihad to the hatred and persecution of Jews,  Christians and other non-Muslims and apostates. What we in the West  regard as abnormal, is perfectly normal for Islam.</p>
<p>A second insuperable problem with Islam is the figure of Muhammad. He  is not just anyone. He is al-insan al-kamil, the perfect man. To become  a Muslim one must pronounce the Shahada (the Muslim creed). By  pronouncing the Shahada one testifies that there is no god that can be  worshipped except Allah, and one testifies that Muhammad is his servant  and messenger.</p>
<p>The Koran, and hence Allah, lays down that Muhammad’s life must be  imitated. The consequences of this are horrendous and can be witnessed  on a daily basis.</p>
<p>There has been much analysis of Muhammad’s mental sanity. In spite of  all the available research, it is rarely mentioned or debated. It is a  taboo to discuss the true nature of the man whom one and a half billion  Muslims around the world regard as a holy prophet and example to be  followed. That taboo must be breached in the West, and here in the  Netherlands.</p>
<p>Ali Sina is an Iranian ex-Muslim who established the organisation for  apostates of Islam Faith  Freedom International. In<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=104835"> his latest book </a>he  posits that Muhammad is a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer, a  terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman, a rapist, a  torturer, an assassin and a looter.  Sina has offered 50,000 dollars  for the one who can prove otherwise. Nobody has claimed the reward as  yet. And no wonder, as the description is based on the Islamic texts  themselves, such as the hadiths, the descriptions of Muhammad’s life  from testimonies of contemporaries.</p>
<p>The historical Muhammad was the savage leader of a gang of robbers  from Medina. Without scruples they looted, raped and murdered. The  sources describe orgies of savagery where hundreds of people’s throats  were cut, hands and feet chopped off, eyes cut out, entire tribes  massacred. An example is the extinction of the Jewish Kurayza tribe in  Medina in 627. One of those who chopped off their heads was Muhammad.  The women and children were sold as slaves. Confronted with the lunacy  of Islamic terrorists today, it is not hard to find out where the lunacy  comes from.</p>
<p>In Vienna the women’s rights activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was  recently sentenced to paying a fine for insulting a religion by calling  Muhammad a pedophile. However, that is the truth. Numerous hadiths  contain testimonies by Muhammad’s favorite wife, the child wife Aisha.  Aisha literally says: “The prophet married me when I was six years old,  and had intercourse with me when I was nine.”</p>
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		<title>The Failure of Multiculturalism and How to Turn the Tide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the dire lesson from the fall of Rome.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Below is Geert Wilders&#8217;s speech at the Annual Lecture at the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome on March 25.</strong></p>
<p>Signore e signori, ladies and gentlemen, dear  friends of the Magna Carta Foundation, molte grazie. Thank you for  inviting me to Rome. It is great to be here in this beautiful city which  for many centuries was the capital and the centre of Europe’s  Judeo-Christian culture.</p>
<p>Together with Jerusalem and Athens, Rome is the cradle of our Western  civilization – the most advanced and superior civilization the world  has ever known.</p>
<p>As Westerners, we share the same Judeo-Christian culture. I am from  the Netherlands and you are from Italy. Our national cultures are  branches of the same tree. We do not belong to multiple cultures, but to  different branches of one single culture. This is why when we come to  Rome, we all come home in a sense. We belong here, as we also belong in  Athens and in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>It is important that we know where our roots are. If we lose them we  become deracinated. We become men and women without a culture.</p>
<p>I am here today to talk about multiculturalism. This term has a  number of different meanings. I use the term to refer to a specific  political ideology. It advocates that all cultures are equal. If they  are equal it follows that the state is not allowed to promote any  specific cultural values as central and dominant. In other words:  multiculturalism holds that the state should not promote a leitkultur,  which immigrants have to accept if they want to live in our midst.</p>
<p>It is this ideology of cultural relativism which the German  Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to when she said that  multiculturalism has proved “an absolute failure.”</p>
<p>My friends, I dare say that we have known this all along. Indeed, the  premise of the multiculturalist ideology is wrong. Cultures are not  equal. They are different, because their roots are different. That is  why the multiculturalists try to destroy our roots.</p>
<p>Rome is a very appropriate place to address these issues. There is an  old saying which people of our Western culture are all familiar with.  “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” it says. This is an obvious truth:  If you move somewhere, you must adapt to the laws and customs of the  land.</p>
<p>The multicultural society has undermined this rule of common sense  and decency. The multicultural society tells the newcomers who settle in  our cities and villages: You are free to behave contrary to our norms  and values. Because your norms and values are just as good, perhaps even  better, than ours.</p>
<p>It is, indeed, appropriate to discuss these matters here in Rome, because the history of Rome also serves as a warning.</p>
<p>Will Durant, the famous 20th century American historian, wrote that  “A great civilization cannot be destroyed from outside if it has not  already destroyed itself from within.” This is exactly what happened  here, in Rome, 16 centuries ago.</p>
<p>In the 5th century, the Roman Empire fell to the Germanic Barbarians.  There is no doubt that the Roman civilization was far superior to that  of the Barbarians. And yet, Rome fell. Rome fell because it had suffered  a loss of belief in its own civilization. It had lost the will to stand  up and fight for survival.</p>
<p>Rome did not fall overnight. Rome fell gradually. The Romans scarcely  noticed what was happening. They did not perceive the immigration of  the Barbarians as a threat until it was too late. For decades, Germanic  Barbarians, attracted by the prosperity of the Empire, had been crossing  the border.</p>
<p>At first, the attraction of the Empire on newcomers could be seen as a  sign of the cultural, political and economic superiority of Rome.  People came to find a better life which their own culture could not  provide. But then, on December 31st in the year 406, the Rhine froze and  tens of thousands of Germanic Barbarians, crossed the river, flooded  the Empire and went on a rampage, destroying every city they passed. In  410, Rome was sacked.</p>
<p>The fall of Rome was a traumatic experience. Numerous books have been  written about the cataclysmal event and Europeans were warned not to  make the same mistake again. In 1899, in his book ‘The River War,’  Winston Churchill warned that Islam is threatening Europe in the same  way as the Barbarians once threatened Rome. “Mohammedanism,” Churchill  wrote – I quote – “is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger  retrograde force exists in the World. […] The civilization of modern  Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” .</p>
<p>Churchill is right. However, if Europe falls, it will fall because,  like ancient Rome, it no longer believes in the superiority of its own  civilization. It will fall because it foolishly believes that all  cultures are equal and that, consequently, there is no reason why we  should fight for our own culture in order to preserve it.</p>
<p>This failure to defend our own culture has turned immigration into  the most dangerous threat that can be used against the West.  Multiculturalism has made us so tolerant that we tolerate the  intolerant.</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: Our opponents are keenly aware  of our weakness. They realize that the pattern which led to the fall of  Rome, is at play today in the West. They are keenly aware of the  importance of Rome as a symbol of the West. Over and over again they  hint at the fall of Rome. Rome is constantly on their minds.</p>
<p>•	The former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said – I quote: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome”.</p>
<p>•	Yunis al-Astal, a Hamas cleric and member of the Palestinian Parliament said – I quote: “Very soon Rome will be conquered.”</p>
<p>•	Ali Al-Faqir, the former Jordanian Minister of Religion,  stated that – I quote: “Islam will conquer Rome.”</p>
<p>•	Sheikh Muhammad al-Arifi, imam of the mosque of the Saudi Defence  Academy, said – I quote: “We will control Rome and introduce Islam in  it.”</p>
<p>Our opponents are hoping for an event that is akin to the freezing of  the Rhine in 406, when thousands of immigrants will be given an easy  opportunity to cross massively into the West.</p>
<p>•	In a 1974 speech to the UN, the Algerian President Houari Boumédienne,  said – I quote: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern  Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there  as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will  conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us  victory.”</p>
<p>•	Libyan dictator Kadhafi said, I quote: “There are tens of millions of  Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the  increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will  be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim  continent.”</p>
<p>Our opponents are aiming for a repetition of the fall of Rome in the  5th century and want to use exactly the same methods. “The strategy of  exporting human beings and having them breed in abundance is the  simplest way to take possession of a territory,” warned the famous  Italian author Oriana Fallaci.</p>
<p>However, the situation today could be worse than it was when the  Roman Empire fell. The Germanic Barbarians who overran Rome were not  driven by an ideology. After having sacked Rome, they eventually adopted  the Judeo-Christian civilization of Rome. They destroyed Rome because  they wanted its riches, but they realized and recognized that Roman  civilization was superior to their own Barbaric culture.</p>
<p>Having destroyed Rome, the Germanic tribes eventually tried to  rebuild it. In 800, the Frankish leader Charlemagne had himself crowned  Roman Emperor. Three hundred years later, the Franks and the other  Europeans  would go on the Crusades in defence of their Christian  culture. The Crusades were as Oriana Fallaci wrote – I quote – a  “counter-offensive designed to stem Islamic expansionism in Europe.”  Rome had fallen, but like a phoenix it had risen again.</p>
<p>Contrary to the Barbarians which confronted Rome, the followers of  Muhammad are driven by an ideology which they want to impose on us.</p>
<p>Islam is a totalitarian ideology. Islamic Shariah law supervises  every detail of life. Islam is not compatible with our Western way of  life. Islam is a threat to our values. Respect for people who think  otherwise, the equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals  and heterosexuals, respect for Christians, Jews, unbelievers and  apostates, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they  are all under pressure because of Islamization.</p>
<p>Europe is Islamizing at a rapid pace. Many European cities have large Islamic concentrations. In some neighbourhoods, Islamic regulations are  already being enforced. Women’s rights are being trampled. We are  confronted with headscarves and burqa’s, polygamy, female genital  mutilation, honor-killings. “In each one of our cities” says Oriana  Fallaci, “there is a second city, a state within the state, a government  within the government. A Muslim city, a city ruled by the Koran.”</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The multiculturalist Left is  facilitating Islamization. Leftist multiculturalists are cheering for  every new shariah bank, for every new Islamic school, for every new  mosque. Multiculturalists consider Islam as being equal to our own  culture. Shariah law or democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn’t really  matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire leftist elite is  guilty of practising cultural relativism. Universities, churches, trade  unions, the media, politicians. They are all betraying our hard-won  liberties.</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in Europe today has to some extent been deliberately planned.</p>
<p>In October 2009, Andrew Neather, the former advisor of British Prime  Minister Tony Blair, confirmed that the British Government had  deliberately organized mass immigration as part of a social engineering  project. The Blair Government wanted to – I quote – “make the UK truly  multicultural.” To achieve this end, 2.3 million foreigners were allowed  to enter Britain between 2000 and 2009. Neather says this policy has  “enriched” Britain.</p>
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<p>Ordinary people, however, do  not consider the decline of societal cohesion, the rise of crime, the  transformation of their old neighborhoods into no-go zones, to be an  “enrichment.”</p>
<p>Ordinary people are well aware that they are witnessing a population  replacement phenomenon. Ordinary people feel attached to the  civilization which their ancestors created. They do not want it to be  replaced by a multicultural society where the values of the immigrants  are considered as good as their own. It is not xenophobia or Islamophobia to consider our Western culture as superior to other  cultures – it is plain common sense.</p>
<p>Fortunately, we are still living in a democracy. The opinion of ordinary  people still matters. I am the leader of the Dutch Party of Freedom  which aims to halt the Islamization process and defend the traditional  values and liberties in the Netherlands. The Party of Freedom is the  fastest growing party in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Because the message of my party is so important, I support  initiatives to establish similar parties in other countries, such as  Germany, France and the United Kingdom, where they do not yet exist.  Last month, a poll in Britain showed that a staggering 48 percent of the  British would consider supporting a non-fascist and non-violent party  that vows to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists and  restrict the building of mosques. In October last year, I was in Berlin  where I gave a keynote speech at a meeting of Die Freiheit, a newly  established party led by René Stadtkewitz, a former Christian-Democrat.  German polls indicate that such a party has a potential of 20 percent of  the electorate.</p>
<p>My speech, in which I urged the Germans to stop feeling ashamed about  their German identity drew a lot of media attention. Two weeks later,  German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that multiculturalism is “an  absolute failure.” Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Bavarian  Christian-Democrats, was even more outspoken. “Multiculturalism is  dead,” he said.</p>
<p>Last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: “We have been too  concerned about the identity of the immigrant and not enough about the  identity of the country that was receiving him.”</p>
<p>Five weeks ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron blamed  multiculturalism for Islamic extremism. “We have allowed the weakening  of our collective identity,” he said. “Under the doctrine of state  multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live […]  apart from the mainstream.”</p>
<p>In his speech, David Cameron still makes a distinction between the  Islamist ideology, which he calls extremist and dangerous, and Islam,  which he says is peaceful religion. I do not share this view, and  neither did Cameron’s great predecessor Winston Churchill. Stating that  Islam is peaceful is a multiculturalist dogma which is contrary to the  truth.<br />
Politicians such as Merkel. Sarkozy and Cameron still do not seem to  have understood what the problem really is. Nevertheless, the fact that  they feel compelled to distance themselves from multiculturalism is a  clear indication that they realize they need to pay lip-service to what  the majority of their populations have long understood. Namely that the  massive influx of immigrants from Islamic countries is the most negative  development that Europe has known in the past 50 years.</p>
<p>Yesterday, a prestigious poll in the Netherlands revealed that 50  percent of the Dutch are of the opinion that Islam and democracy are not  compatible, while 42 percent think they are. Even two thirds of the  voters of the Liberal Party and of the Christian-Democrat Party are  convinced that Islam and democracy are not compatible.</p>
<p>This, then, is the political legacy of multiculturalism. While the  parties of the Left have found themselves a new electorate, the  establishment parties of the Right still harbour their belief that Islam  is a religion of peace on a par with peaceful religions such as  Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and others.</p>
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		<title>The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe</title>
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<p><strong>[Editor's note: the following is a speech by Geert Wilders' delivered at the resumption of his trial on February 7th, 2011. Wilders is charged with inciting hatred and discrimination by speaking the truth about Islam.]</strong></p>
<p>The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. Everywhere the foundation of the West is under attack.</p>
<p>All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us since the fourteenth century. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. Surprisingly, the elites do not want to hear any criticism of this ideology.</p>
<p>My trial is not an isolated incident. Only fools believe it is. All over Europe multicultural elites are waging total war against their populations. Their goal is to continue the strategy of mass-immigration, which will ultimately result in an islamic Europe – a Europe without freedom: Eurabia.</p>
<p>The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger.</p>
<p>The lights are going out allover Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.</p>
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<p>[<em>Editor&#8217;s note: the following is a speech Geert Wilders gave in Berlin on October 2, 2010</em>.]</p>
<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>I am very happy to be here in Berlin today. As you know, the  invitation which my friend René Stadtkewitz extended to me, has cost him  his membership of the CDU group in the Berlin Parliament. René,  however, did not give in to the pressure. He did not betray his  convictions. His dismissal prompted René to start a new political party.  I wish him all the best. As you may have heard, the past weeks were  extremely busy for me. Earlier this week we succeeded in forging a  minority government of the Liberals and the Christian-Democrats which  will be supported by my party. This is an historic event for the  Netherlands. I am very proud of having helped to achieve this. At this  very moment the Christian-Democrat Party conference is deciding whether  or not to approves this coalition. If they do, we will be able to  rebuild our country, preserve our national identity and offer our  children a better future.</p>
<p>Despite my busy schedule at home, however, I insisted on coming to  Berlin, because Germany, too, needs a political movement to defend  German identity and to oppose the Islamization of Germany. Chancellor  Angela Merkel says that the Islamization of Germany is inevitable. She  conveys the message that citizens have to be prepared for more changes  as a result of immigration. She wants the Germans to adapt to this  situation. The Christian-Democrat leader said: &#8220;More than before mosques  will be an integral part of our cities.&#8221;</p>
<p>My friends, we should not accept the unacceptable as inevitable  without trying to turn the tide. It is our duty as politicians to  preserve our nations for our children. I hope that René&#8217;s movement will  be as successful as my own Partij voor de Vrijheid, as Oskar  Freysinger&#8217;s Schweizerische Volkspartei in Switzerland, as Pia  Kjaersgaard&#8217;s Dansk Folkeparti in Denmark, and similar movements  elsewhere.</p>
<p>My good friend Pia recently spoke in Sweden at the invitation of the  Sverigedemokraterna. She said: &#8220;I have not come to mingle in Swedish  domestic politics because that is for the Swedish people to be concerned  with. No, I have come because in spite of certain differences the  Swedish debate in many ways reminds me of the Danish debate 10-15 years  ago. And I have come to Sweden because it is also a concern to Denmark.  We cannot sit with our hands in our lap and be silent witnesses to the  political development in Sweden.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same applies for me as a Dutchman with respect to Germany. I am  here because Germany matters to the Netherlands and the rest of the  world, and because we cannot establish an International Freedom Alliance  without a strong German partner.</p>
<p>Dear friends, tomorrow is the Day of German Unity. Tomorrow exactly  twenty years ago, your great nation was reunified after the collapse of  the totalitarian Communist ideology. The Day of German Unity is an  important day for the whole of Europe. Germany is the largest democracy  in Europe. Germany is Europe&#8217;s economic powerhouse. The well-being and  prosperity of Germany is a benefit to all of us, because the well-being  and prosperity of Germany is a prerequisite for the well-being and  prosperity of Europe.</p>
<p>Today I am here, however, to warn you for looming disunity. Germany&#8217;s  national identity, its democracy and economic prosperity, is being  threatened by the political ideology of Islam. In 1848, Karl Marx began  his Communist Manifesto with the famous words: &#8220;A specter is haunting  Europe &#8211; the specter of communism.&#8221; Today, another specter is haunting  Europe. It is the specter of Islam. This danger, too, is political.  Islam is not merely a religion, as many people seem to think: Islam is  mainly a political ideology.</p>
<p>This insight is not new.</p>
<p>I quote from the bestselling book and BBC television series The  Triumph of the West which the renowned Oxford historian J.M. Roberts  wrote in 1985: &#8220;Although we carelessly speak of Islam as a &#8216;religion&#8217;;  that word carries many overtones of the special history of western  Europe. The Muslim is primarily a member of a community, the follower of  a certain way, an adherent to a system of law, rather than someone  holding particular theological views.&#8221; The Flemish Professor Urbain  Vermeulen, the former president of the European Union of Arabists and  Islamicists, too, points out that &#8220;Islam is primarily a legal system, a  law,&#8221; rather than a religion.</p>
<p>The American political scientist Mark Alexander writes that &#8220;One of  our greatest mistakes is to think of Islam as just another one of the  world&#8217;s great religions. We shouldn&#8217;t. Islam is politics or it is  nothing at all, but, of course, it is politics with a spiritual  dimension, &#8230; which will stop at nothing until the West is no more,  until the West has &#8230; been well and truly Islamized.&#8221;</p>
<p>These are not just statements by opponents of Islam. Islamic scholars  say the same thing. There cannot be any doubt about the nature of Islam  to those who have read the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith. Abul Ala  Maududi, the influential 20th century Pakistani Islamic thinker, wrote &#8211;  I quote, emphasizing that these are not my words but those of a leading  Islamic scholar &#8211; &#8220;Islam is not merely a religious creed [but] a  revolutionary ideology and jihad refers to that revolutionary struggle  &#8230; to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the  earth, which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ali Sina, an Iranian Islamic apostate who lives in Canada, points out  that there is one golden rule that lies at the heart of every religion &#8211;  that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. In Islam, this  rule only applies to fellow believers, but not to Infidels. Ali Sina  says &#8220;The reason I am against Islam is not because it is a religion, but  because it is a political ideology of imperialism and domination in the  guise of religion. Because Islam does not follow the Golden Rule, it  attracts violent people.&#8221;</p>
<p>A dispassionate study of the beginnings of Islamic history reveals  clearly that Muhammad&#8217;s objective was first to conquer his own people,  the Arabs, and to unify them under his rule, and then to conquer and  rule the world. That was the original cause; it was obviously political  and was backed by military force. &#8220;I was ordered to fight all men until  they say &#8216;There is no god but Allah,&#8217;&#8221; Muhammad said in his final  address. He did so in accordance with the Koranic command in sura 8:39:  &#8220;Fight them until there is no more dissension and the religion is  entirely Allah&#8217;s.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the mythology, Muhammad founded Islam in Mecca after the  Angel Gabriel visited him for the first time in the year 610. The first  twelve years of Islam, when Islam was religious rather than political,  were not a success. In 622, Muhammad emigrated to Yathrib, a  predominantly Jewish oasis, with his small band of 150 followers. There  he established the first mosque in history, took over political power,  gave Yathrib the name of Medina, which means the &#8220;City of the Prophet,&#8221;  and began his career as a military and a political leader who conquered  all of Arabia. Tellingly, the Islamic calendar starts with the hijra,  the migration to Medina &#8211; the moment when Islam became a political  movement.</p>
<p>After Muhammad&#8217;s death, based upon his words and deeds, Islam  developed Sharia, an elaborate legal system which justified the  repressive governance of the world by divine right &#8211; including rules for  jihad and for the absolute control of believers and non-believers.  Sharia is the law of Saudi Arabia and Iran, among other Islamic states.  It is also central to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which  in article 24 of its Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam,  proclaims that &#8220;all rights and freedoms are subject to the Islamic  Sharia.&#8221; The OIC is not a religious institution; it is a political body.  It constitutes the largest voting block in the United Nations and  writes reports on so-called &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in Western Countries which  accuse us of human rights violations. To speak in biblical terms: They  look for a speck in our eye, but deny the beam in their own.</p>
<p>Under Sharia law people in the conquered territories have no legal  rights, not even the right to life and to own property, unless they  convert to Islam.</p>
<p>Before I continue, and in order to avoid any misunderstandings, I  want to emphasize that I am talking about Islam, not about Muslims. I  always make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology,  between Muslims and Islam. There are many moderate Muslims, but the  political ideology of Islam is not moderate and has global ambitions. It  aims to impose Islamic law or Sharia upon the whole world. The way to  achieve this is through jihad. The good news is that millions of Muslims  around the world &#8211; including many in Germany and the Netherlands &#8211; do  not follow the directives of Sharia, let alone engage in jihad. The bad  news, however, is that those who do are prepared to use all available  means to achieve their ideological, revolutionary goal.</p>
<p>In 1954, in his essay Communism and Islam, Professor Bernard Lewis  spoke of &#8220;the totalitarianism, of the Islamic political tradition.&#8221;  Professor Lewis said that &#8220;The traditional Islamic division of the world  into the House of Islam and the House of War, &#8230; has obvious parallels  in the Communist view of world affairs. &#8230; The aggressive fanaticism  of the believer is the same.&#8221;</p>
<p>The American political scientist Mark Alexander states that the  nature of Islam differs very little &#8211; and only in detail rather than  style &#8211; from despicable and totalitarian political ideologies such as  National-Socialism and Communism. He lists the following characteristics  for these three ideologies.</p>
<p>* They use political purges to &#8220;cleanse&#8221; society of what they considere undesirable;</p>
<p>* They tolerate only a single political party. Where Islam allows more parties, it insists that all parties be Islamic ones;</p>
<p>* They coerce the people along the road that it must follow;</p>
<p>* They obliterate the liberal distinction between areas of private judgment and of public control;</p>
<p>* They turn the educational system into an apparatus for the purpose of universal indoctrination;</p>
<p>* They lay down rules for art, for literature, for science and for religion;</p>
<p>* They subdue people who are given second class status;</p>
<p>* They induce a frame of mind akin to fanaticism. Adjustment takes place by struggle and dominance;</p>
<p>* They are abusive to their opponents and regard any concession on  their own part as a temporary expedient and on a rival&#8217;s part as a sign  of weakness;</p>
<p>* They regard politics as an expression of power;</p>
<p>* They are anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>There is one more striking parallel, but this is not a characteristic of  the three political ideologies, but one of the West. It is the apparent  inability of the West to see the danger. The prerequisite to  understanding political danger, is a willingness to see the truth, even  if it is unpleasant. Unfortunately, modern Western politicians seem to  have lost this capacity. Our inability leads us to reject the logical  and historical conclusions to be drawn from the facts, though we could,  and should know better. What is wrong with modern Western man that we  make the same mistake over and over again?</p>
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<p><strong>[Below is a speech Geert Wilders gave in front of the House of Lords in London on March 5, 2010]</strong></p>
<p>Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport.</p>
<p>Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, this is a sacred place. This is, as Malcolm always says, the mother of all Parliaments, I am deeply humbled to have the opportunity to speak before you.</p>
<p>Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for your invitation and showing my film ‘Fitna’. Thank you my friends for inviting me.</p>
<p>I first have great news. Last Wednesday city council elections were held in the Netherlands. And for the first time my party, the Freedom Party, took part in these local elections. We participated in two cities. In Almere, one of the largest Dutch cities. And in The Hague, the third largest city; home of the government, the parliament and the queen. And, we did great! In one fell swoop my party became the largest party in Almere and the second largest party in The Hague. Great news for the Freedom Party and even better news for the people of these two beautiful cities.</p>
<p>And I have more good news. Two weeks ago the Dutch government collapsed. In June we will have parliamentary elections. And the future for the Freedom Party looks great. According to some polls we will become the largest party in the Netherlands. I want to be modest, but who knows, I might even be Prime Minister in a few months time!</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, not far from here stands a statue of the greatest Prime Minister your country ever had. And I would like to quote him here today: “Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step (…) the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” These words are from none other than Winston Churchill wrote this in his book ‘The River War’ from 1899.</p>
<p>Churchill was right.</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.</p>
<p>Islam strives for world domination. The Quran commands Muslims to exercise jihad. The Quran commands Muslims to establish shariah law. The Quran commands Muslims to impose Islam on the entire world.</p>
<p>As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome”. End of quote.</p>
<p>Libyan dictator Gaddafi said: “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent”. End of quote. Indeed, for once in his life, Gaddafi was telling the truth. Because, remember: mass immigration and demographics is destiny!</p>
<p>Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology. Islam wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave. Shariah law is a law that controls every detail of life in a Islamic society. From civic- and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.</p>
<p>I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of Islamization. Ladies and gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. They are opposite values.</p>
<p>No wonder that Winston Churchill called Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ “the new Quran of faith and war, turgid, verbose, shapeless, bur pregnant with its message”. As you know, Churchill made this comparison, between the Koran and Mein Kampf, in his book ‘The Second World War’, a master piece, for which, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill’s comparison of the Quran and ‘Mein Kampf’ is absolutely spot on. The core of the Quran is the call to jihad. Jihad means a lot of things and is Arabic for battle. Kampf is German for battle. Jihad and kampf mean exactly the same.</p>
<p>Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That’s a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage.</p>
<p>We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women’s rights are being destroyed. Burqas, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honor-killings. Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don’t get a handshake. In many European cities there is already apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are leaving Europe.</p>
<p>As you undoubtedly all know, better then I do, also in your country the mass immigration and Islamization has rapidly increased. This has put an enormous pressure on your British society. Look what is happening in, for example, Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford and here in London. British politicians who have forgotten about Winston Churchill have now taken the path of least resistance. They have given up. They have given in.</p>
<p>Last year, my party has requested the Dutch government to make a cost-benefit analysis of the mass immigration. But the government refused to give us an answer. Why? Because it is afraid of the truth. The signs are not good. A Dutch weekly magazine &#8211; Elsevier &#8211; calculated costs to exceed 200 billion Euros. Last year alone, they came with an amount of 13 billion Euros. More calculations have been made in Europe: According to the Danish national bank, every Danish immigrant from an Islamic country is costing the Danish state more than 300 thousand Euros. You see the same in Norway and France. The conclusion that can be drawn from this: Europe is getting more impoverished by the day. More impoverished thanks to mass immigration. More impoverished thanks to demographics. And the leftists are thrilled.</p>
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