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		<title>Glazov Gang&#8217;s 2014 Episode of The Year: Geert Wilders</title>
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<p></strong></a>This year’s<strong> Glazov Gang 2014 Episode of the Year Award</strong> goes to two special episodes &#8212; each of them joined by a stellar titan who is on the front-lines of the culture and terror war courageously defending our civilization&#8217;s freedom.</p>
<p>One of the winning episodes was with<strong> Geert Wilders,</strong>  the founder and leader of the “Party for Freedom” — which is currently the fourth-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Mr. Wilders is best known for his brave stance against, and truth-telling about, Islam. He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960" target="_blank"><em>Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me</em></a>.</p>
<p>We are honored to present the episode,<strong> <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">“The West’s Battle For Freedom,” </span></span> </strong>below. We will run the other Glazov Gang 2014 episode award winner in our next issue.</p>
<p>The Glazov Gang team also extends special thanks to all of our guests, viewers and supporters and wishes all of them a happy, healthy and successful new year.</p>
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		<title>Geert Wilders: Islam&#8217;s War Against the Free West</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><strong>Below are the video and transcript to Geert Wilders&#8217; speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">It is always a pleasure to be in the United States. And it is an honor to be at Restoration Weekend again. Especially at this moment when a new Congress and a new majority in the Senate are preparing to lead this great country and change it for the better.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I am a politician from Europe. I am a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands and the leader of the Party for Freedom, the leading party in the Dutch opinion polls today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Before I continue, let me tell you something about my life as a European politician.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I am not a President, nor a Governor, nor even a member of Cabinet, just a member of Congress. For over ten years now, I have been living under 24/7 police protection. I lived with my wife in army barracks, prison cells and safe houses until this very day, just to be safe.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Wherever I go, armed policemen accompany me to protect me against Islamic jihadis. Al Qaida, the Taliban, ISIS and many others threatened to kill me because I tell the truth about Islam and speak out against the Islamization of our free Western societies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In Europe we have made a terrible mistake. During the past decades, our politicians foolishly allowed millions of Islamic immigrants to settle within our borders. Everywhere the Islamic culture was welcomed as an enrichment. Nowhere was the demand made that the immigrants assimilate.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not a single European leader had the guts to state the obvious and tell the truth: Our Western culture based on Christianity, Judaism and Humanism, is far superior to the Islamic culture and immigrants have to adopt our values.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And now, we in Europe are paying the price for this folly. Islam is eating away our Judeo-Christian and humanist civilization and replacing it with intolerance, hatred and violence. And our so-called leaders allow it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">25 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain was dismantled. Thanks to President Ronald Reagan, America’s greatest and best President ever, the totalitarian ideology of Communism was defeated in Europe and my continent was liberated. But now another totalitarianism has nestled itself in the heart of Europe.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last Summer, my home town, The Hague, witnessed scenes which brought back memories of the darkest period in our history, the Nazi era. Sympathizers of the Islamic State paraded in our streets. They carried swastikas, they carried the black flags of the Islamic State. They shouted “Death to the Jews&#8221; and &#8220;Oh Jews, the army of Mohammed is coming for you&#8221;. In the streets of The Hague in broad daylight. And instead of rounding up these hatemongers, the Dutch authorities did nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When we in Europa 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 style="color: #232323;">Islam is waging war against the free West. Only fools can deny it. The Islamic State has declared war on us. We have already had our share of beheadings in Europe. And it has started here, too.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">America and its allies are currently bombing the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Excellent. My party supports this offensive. I am glad that Dutch and American 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 style="color: #232323;">But we have to do more than that. Far more important than fighting Islamic State abroad, is the fight to preserve our own security in our own countries. In the Netherlands, in America, in Canada, in Australia, in all the other European and Western countries. It is our homes that we must protect first and foremost. And we are not doing that.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recently, the Dutch authorities prevented over 50 jihadis to leave our country, when they attempted to go to Syria to fight for the Islamic State. Their passports were seized. But they were sent home instead of jailed. Can you believe it? These criminals now freely walk our streets and make them unsafe.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The jihadis who last month murdered soldiers in Canada were also people whom the authorities had previously prevented to leave for Syria. What I suggest is that we either detain every jihadi or let them leave and never return. Once you’re out, you’re out!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">My friends, let us be brave. That is what we must do. That is our duty.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let me ask you: Do our leaders tell us the truth? Unfortunately not. They even lie to us.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Everyday, we hear them repeat the sickening mantra that Islam is a religion of peace. 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 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 do they think we are?!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Koran is full of verses such as sura 47 verse 4: “When ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks and cause a bloodbath among them.” How much more Islamic do you want it, Mr. Obama?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">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. With every Islamic assault on our values, more and more people realize that Islam wants to conquer the world, that it is prepared to terrorize, kill or enslave anyone who refuses to submit. And that it is ready to commit the biggest atrocities to achieve this goal.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">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. But even though there are many moderate Muslims, it is wrong to think that the moderates are a majority. They are not.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This week, a terrifying poll was published in my country. We already knew that three quarters of all the Muslims in The Netherlands say that Dutch Muslims who go and fight in Syria are heroes. Can you believe it? Heroes!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But now it appears that 80% of our Turkish youths do not consider it wrong to use violence against non-believers. And they also support the armed combat of Hamas against our ally Israel – the only democracy in the Middle East. My friends, we cannot tolerate within our borders extremists who not only want to destroy our nations but also the Jewish homeland.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We stand with Israel. We defend Israel. Israel is one of us. We are Israel. If Israel falls, the West falls.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">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.” And I still stand by this appeal. But this does not blind me to the terrible reality that we are facing today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The day before yesterday, there was a quarrel in our parliament in The Netherlands. That is nothing remarkable of course. As you know, Congressmen quarrel all the time. They do it here, they do it even in my country. They do it everywhere. But this time something extraordinary happened.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We had one Dutch Congressman, a Turk, threatening another – a Morrocan – shouting “May Allah punish you!” And that is not all. They also demanded special washing rooms for Muslims in Parliament and they do not accept being contradicted by female members of Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That is the parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands today. Politicians invoking Allah, threatening each other with Islamic curses, demanding special washing rooms, and treating women as inferior beings. Meanwhile the Dutch public prosecutor is going after me again.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">You may have heard that three years ago, I was taken to court on hate crime charges. A court case that lasted almost 2 years. Fortunately, I was acquitted on all charges. But now, they want to bring me to court again. They do not see Islam or jihadis as a problem; they see me as the problem.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">They try to silence the messenger. But they will never succeed. Because I will always speak out and tell the truth about Islam. We will never be silent or silenced.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because we love our country. Because we love our freedom. Because we believe that without liberty, life is not worth living.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We celebrate life; jihadis celebrate death.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">My friends, when politicians become appeasers of evil, the people must speak. This is why I have established the International Freedom Alliance IFA. It is an international organization to fight for freedom and oppose Islam. Here in America, in Europe, in Israel, in Canada, in Australia, everywhere in the free world. IFA aims to be a network of resistance in all the countries threatened by Islam.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our mission is to stop all immigration from Islamic countries, to stimulate voluntary remigration of Islamic people, and to expel criminals and jihadis. Our mission is to preserve and save our Judeo-Christian civilization and values.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because there is nothing more precious than liberty and freedom. There is a path we will never choose, and that is the path of submission. We are neither prepared to collaborate with evil, nor to appease it. We must shout this so loud that even President Obama and political leaders all over the West will hear it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let us cry a river for every innocent victim of the Islamic State, for every poor girl abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, for every Jew, Christian, Yezidi persecuted in the Islamic world. But let us make sure that no-one will ever have to cry for our children. No-one. Never!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">My friends, we have a duty. We are the torchbearers for freedom. We are the torchbearers for a civilization that is far superior to any other civilization on earth. We are the torchbearers for a better future – a future without Islamic intolerance and violence. As you sing so proudly in your beautiful national anthem, your country, the great America, it is “the land of the free, the home of the brave.” So, be brave, America, and keep your land free!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Avoid all the mistakes Europe made. Protect America against Islam. Stop the immigration from Islamic countries. Go forth with courage. Keep the light of liberty shining. Save freedom! Save America.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thank you.</p>
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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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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Geert Wilders</strong> discuss <strong>The West&#8217;s Battle for Freedom</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang</strong>:</em></p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special episode of <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Geert Wilders</strong>, the founder and leader of the &#8220;Party for Freedom&#8221; &#8212; which is currently the fourth-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Mr. Wilders is best known for his brave stance against, and truth-telling about, Islam. He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960"><em>Marked for Death: Islam&#8217;s War Against the West and Me</em></a>.</p>
<p>He came on the program to discuss: <strong>&#8220;Fighting the Islamization of Free Societies.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss it!</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong> discussing the Left&#8217;s Jihad-Denial and how it facilitates terror attacks against us: </em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A titan and courageous truth-teller crystallizes the only way the West will be able to preserve itself.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special episode of <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Geert Wilders</strong>, the founder and leader of the &#8220;Party for Freedom&#8221; &#8212; which is currently the fourth-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Mr. Wilders is best known for his brave stance against, and truth-telling about, Islam. He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960"><em>Marked for Death: Islam&#8217;s War Against the West and Me</em></a>.</p>
<p>He came on the program to crystallize the only way the West will be able to preserve itself.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss it!</p>
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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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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dutch continue to rage over Geert’s “fewer Moroccans” line. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/geert.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222308" alt="USA NETHERLANDS GEERT WILDERS" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/geert.jpg" width="322" height="202" /></a>On March 19, addressing supporters in The Hague after a local election, Geert Wilders, head of the Freedom Party (PVV), asked if they wanted more or less of the European Union. “Less!” they shouted. Did they want more or less of the Labor Party? “Less!” they repeated. Then he asked, “Do you want, in this city and in the Netherlands, more or fewer Moroccans?”</p>
<p>That last line caused a firestorm. Major politicians compared Wilders to Hitler. Prime Minister Mark Rutte demanded he apologize. The Freedom Party’s leader in the European Parliament, Laurence Stassen, quit the party, as did many local and regional officials. (Commentator Tom-Jan Meeus maintained in <i>NRC</i> <i>Handelsblad</i> that Wilders “has lost his closest allies, his best member of parliament and his European assembly member.”) The Labor Party announced that it wouldn’t support any Freedom Party motion in Parliament. Hundreds of police complaints were reportedly filed against Wilders, and police, according to Soeren Kern, made it easier to file them “by providing pre-filled ‘Wilders forms’ and offering to come to people’s homes if they intend to press criminal charges, rather than having them come to the police station, as is the normal procedure.” A Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ikdoeaangiftetegenwilders">page</a> for people filing police complaints against Wilders gathered nearly 100,000 “likes.” The new U.S. ambassador, Timothy Broas, stated that Wilders’s remarks were at odds with Dutch and American values. The Freedom Party fell in the polls from the largest to the third largest Dutch party. “Schools,” wrote Kern, “began to issue guidelines to instruct pupils on how to deal with Wilders.” In Amsterdam, 5,000 people demonstrated against Wilders and the mayor led a chant of “We are all Moroccans!” Dutch TV aired “a church service against Wilders.” An actor named Thijs Römer, in a reference to the murderer of Fortuyn, Volkert van der Graaf, <a href="http://nos.nl/artikel/625896-ophef-over-minder-marokkanen.html">tweeted</a>: “Volkert, where are you when your country needs you?”</p>
<p>Wilders refused to apologize. “I haven’t said anything wrong, only what most people think.” He hadn’t been calling, he insisted, for wholesale deportation: he’d been talking about restricting immigration, supporting voluntary repatriation, and sending criminals with dual nationality back to Morocco. Period.</p>
<p>There are a number of things to be said about Wilders’s comment. First of all, yes, it was unwise. He came off sounding like a bigot. I don’t think he’s a bigot. But that doesn’t matter. In the Netherlands, every single member of the political, media, and academic establishment is constantly waiting for Wilders to say something that they can seize upon and point to as purported evidence of his bigotry. He gave them fuel. That was unfortunate.</p>
<p>Then again, Pim Fortuyn and Ayaan Hirsi Ali were a lot more careful about how they expressed themselves in these matters – and, in the long run, it didn’t make much difference. Their enemies still found ways to demonize them – still found a word here, a word there, to grasp onto and wave in the air as examples of their vile intolerance. When you’ve got enemies who act like this, you’re sunk. Pim ended up dead. Ayaan ended up being driven out of the country (which, of course, turned out to be the best thing that happened to her).</p>
<p>At the other end of the spectrum, Theo van Gogh was deliberately outrageous, calling Muslims “goat fuckers” and the like. But then, he was a prominent writer and broadcaster and filmmaker, not a politician, and if such rhetoric didn’t get him frozen out of the public square, it was partly because he was irreverent about pretty much everybody and everything – that was his image, that was his shtick. He was a professional polemicist, able to get away with using language for which other media figures would lose their jobs, because most people understood that being over-the-top was part of his act – that, far from being a bigot, he was a guy who didn’t like seeing Western freedoms threatened, and the rights of women and Jews and gays and others trampled, by the bullying adherents of a totalitarian faith.</p>
<p>In any event, he ended up getting killed, too.</p>
<p>What about Wilders, then? As a politician, he can’t afford to express himself in the colorful way van Gogh did. But on March 19 he went over the line, in the view of many, and he paid for it. That’s politics. Especially in the age of Facebook and Twitter.</p>
<p>But let’s never forget this. As of this coming November, Wilders will have been living under constant armed protection, deprived of his freedom, for ten years – thanks to threats made on his life by the likes of Mohammed Bouyeri, the Moroccan murderer of Theo van Gogh. He’s been put on trial, in his own purportedly democratic country, for speaking his mind about Islam. Because of his views on Islam, he’s been banned from entering certain other Western countries, despite his position as an elected member of the Dutch parliament. He’s been sued for a large sum of money by a radical imam who claimed his feelings were hurt by Wilder’s film <i>Fitna, </i>about Islam’s systematic abuse of women. He’s even been the subject of an extradition request by the Kingdom of Jordan, which wanted to try him for the capital crime of blasphemy under sharia law.</p>
<p>Is it so difficult to understand that Wilders, who may be under more daily pressure than any man in Europe, can’t, at every moment, when speaking about people who have been seriously dedicated for years to bringing about his death, keep himself from slipping into rhetoric that’s less than perfectly sensitive?</p>
<p>As it happens, only a day or so before Wilders’s “fewer Moroccans” line made international headlines, a Dutch Muslim rapper named Hozny released a <a href="http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2014/03/lekker_nummertje_wel.html">music video</a> showing “a man representing Dutch politician Geert Wilders” being “abducted by armed men and brought to Hozny, who makes him kneel in front of an Islamic flag.” At the end of the song, which includes the line “You are only alive because Allah allows it,” Wilders is executed.</p>
<p>Unlike Wilders’s “fewer Moroccans” line, this video has not gained worldwide attention. Obviously it wasn’t as offensive.</p>
<p>Hard facts: not all that long ago, the Netherlands was a well-nigh idyllic little country. Now it’s a nightmare in the making. Almost everyone acknowledges this now. But why is it a nightmare in the making? Be careful answering that question, or you’ll be sorry. Yes, a majority of young Dutch Moroccans have police records – but if you speak this raw truth flat-out, without cloaking it in the usual euphemisms and qualifications and reassurances, you’ll be branded a bigot. Yes, many Dutch Muslims have gone to Syria to be jihadists, and a poll last year of Dutch Muslims showed that almost three-quarters of them regard such people as heroes – but, again, if you choose to communicate this fact to others, you’d damn well better be exceedingly careful how you go about doing it. Put your foot even slightly wrong, and suddenly you won’t be a good guy criticizing the bad guys – you’ll be a racist. And the second you misstep, the armies will be lining up to condemn you and to demonstrate their own virtue by dropping the relevant, important, and thoroughly grim facts about the subject at hand down the memory hole and proclaiming inanely: “We are all Moroccans!”</p>
<p>“We are all Moroccans!” This sort of nonsense is now commonplace. Recently, in Sweden, after some guy was accused of pulling off a Muslim woman’s head covering, non-Muslim women across the country expressed support for the alleged victim by tweeting pictures of themselves in veils: look at us, we love Islam! Three years ago, in Norway, after one lunatic slaughtered dozens of Labor Party youth members purportedly because he opposed Muslim immigration, politicians and royals rushed to mosques to declare their solidarity with Muslims: look, we’re not Islamophobes, like that mass murderer! Now, a Dutch politician makes a less than ideally formulated comment about Moroccans and thousands of his countrymen waste no time lining up to say: “We are all Moroccans!” It’s the ultimate multicultural compulsion: to prove that one isn’t racist – and assert that someone else is.  And thereby replace the real, tough, uncomfortable issue with a fake issue, a non-issue, a BS issue, that provides the multiculturalist with a delicious <i>frisson</i> of self-righteousness.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/03/to-the-last-gasp-i-will-always-let-my-voice-be-heard/%20'">speech</a> on March 22, Wilders explained in detail what he had meant by the “fewer Moroccans” line. His party platform calls for “a three-stage approach” to the Islamic immigration issue: “limiting immigration from Islamic countries, including Morocco”; “promoting re-emigration” to Muslim countries; and “deporting criminal Moroccans by revoking their Dutch passports, if they have dual nationality – and most have – and sending them back to the country of their other nationality.” In answer to the question “why did I refer to Moroccans in particular?”, Wilders said he’d done so “because Moroccans are at the top of the list of over-representation in crime and welfare dependence. Moroccan youths younger than 23, more than 60% of them are known to the police and the judicial system. Moroccans are 22 times more frequently guilty of violent crime such as mugging and robbery. They are seven times more likely to be on welfare. These are facts that I haven’t made up, but these are facts that I have to make known or I might just as well <i>not</i> have gone into politics. I went into politics to state things like this, and to propose solutions.”</p>
<p>And that’s the bottom line. Your typical high-level European politician – say, oh, Jens Stoltenberg, the recently dethroned prime minister of Norway who was just named head of NATO (an organization for whose founding values he has never shown particular enthusiasm) – plainly went into politics not to face up to hard truths or put his life on the line for freedom, but so that he could eventually end up as, well, head of NATO, or as a jet-setting big shot at the UN or EU or World Bank. Yes, Wilders stumbled with his line about “fewer Moroccans,” but on a European landscape crowded with empty-suit politicians who don’t really stand for anything except for their own careers, whose approach to Islam and immigration is to recite facile multicultural mantras, and whose only real qualification for anything is that they never, ever offend (precisely because they strenuously skirt the topics that matter the most), Wilders is the real thing: a brave, selfless man determined to steer the ship of state through turbulent waters safely into port. The Dutch would be fools to throw him overboard.</p>
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		<title>Witch-Hunt Against Wilders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's vilification of a truth-telling Dutch politician escalates.   ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/unnamed1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221913" alt="unnamed" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/unnamed1.jpg" width="320" height="223" /></a>On March 19, 2014, local elections were held in the Netherlands. On the eve of the election, party leaders celebrated their victories (or losses, as it were, for most parties). During the festivities Dutch politician Geert Wilders appeared in the Hague, one of the two cities in which Wilders&#8217; party, the PVV (Party for Freedom), participated in this election. In a rousing speech before enthusiastic party supporters, Wilders asked the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGy-CYhZczo">audience</a> if they wanted a bit less local taxation and fewer Moroccans. The audience shouted, &#8220;Less! Less! Less!&#8221; This created a storm of protest from just about everyone in the country. Wilders&#8217; remark was taken out of context and is being used to vilify him once more.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The political climate in the Netherlands surrounding Wilders now resembles the demonization of Pym Fortuyn in the months leading up to his assassination almost twelve years ago. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last Sunday the IKON and EO TV stations broadcast a special interreligious Dutch Reformed service denouncing Wilders. The theme was based on Kennedy’s famous &#8220;Ich bin ein Berliner&#8221; speech. The Sunday service theme was a copycat variation: &#8220;We are all Moroccans.&#8221; Dutch people present literally embraced Moroccans to show their support for this poor, vilified minority. People wore T-shirts with the text &#8220;<em>Wij zijn Marokkanen</em>!&#8221; (&#8220;We are Moroccans!&#8221;). </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The message of the fanfare was: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">We abhor the outright racist remarks of Geert Wilders last Wednesday. We strive towards an all-inclusive society, in which people of all races, cultures, religions and sexual preferences live together in peace. We believe that God/Allah wants it to be that way.</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All political parties left, right and center denounced Wilders and demanded his apology. Wilders, nonetheless, is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/3587/POLITIEK-BINNENLAND/article/detail/3620830/2014/03/22/Wilders-geen-spijt-en-geen-excuses.dhtml">standing by</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> his words.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The VVD (conservative party) Prime Minister has joined the chorus of critics, which now includes all major parties. His party was the last to join.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The PvdA (Labor) party is going even further. They announced that no parliamentary motion presented by the PVV will be supported by the PvdA. No matter what, the PvdA say they will vote against any PVV measure. Once a motion fails, the PvdA will propose it again and this time support it as their own party motion.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The media on the left and center (Holland does not have a right media flank) published a tear-jerking article on Sunday about a poor 11-year-old Moroccan boy who was brought to tears when his classmates teased him by shouting the words “LESS! LESS! LESS!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22419245/__Klasgenootjes_riepen__minder___.html">story</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is from the <em>Telegraaf</em> newspaper, which is seen as a more conservative newspaper in the country. Normally an item like this would be replaced by newer items the same day. However it was still on the front page on long into Monday. Let’s call that a coincidence.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In contrast, another </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22416866/__15_jongeren_mishandelen_mannen__.html">news item</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in which fifteen “lightly tinted” juveniles (the politically correct term for Moroccan hoodlums) entered a house, seriously mistreated the three inhabitants, ransacked the premises and got away before the police arrived on Friday does not warrant any attention anymore. If only because it would firmly underline the words of Wilders.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Two Muslim parliamentarians now say they want </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22420187/___Scholen_moeten_in_gesprek_gaan___.html">schools</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to dedicate extra attention to Wilders’ alleged expression of racism. They offered to train teachers and set up education courses. (For a small fee, no doubt.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">PVV parliamentarians on various political levels are </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.apple.com/">walking out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in droves. This includes two members of the PVV faction in parliament, together with most members of the newly-elected city councils in the Hague and Almere.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What Wilders said was taken out of context and was blown out of all proportions, simply to divert attention. He didn’t say anything he hadn’t said before, or what Labor politicians said a couple of years ago themselves. He probably didn’t realize that his words would be given so much attention. But since they were, Wilders has taken the opportunity to make a defiant stand on principles he has long championed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There is a very good reason for Wilders’ opponents to gin up this controversy and distract the Dutch public. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the recent Dutch elections, apart from local municipal parties and D66 (liberal-democrat party), all parties lost. Massively. Except for Wilders’ PVV, whose losses were quite limited.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Masked by the controversy surrounding Wilders’ comments is any discussion of these huge losses, particularly those suffered by PvdA, VVD and CDA (Christian Democrats). It’s being mentioned in the news, but only casually. Yes, the PvdA lost quite a bit. The VVD lost somewhat. CDA didn’t lose the elections, they “won” — or so they say.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A landslide of political change in the Netherlands is being completely ignored, all because of Wilders’ single remark. The defeat was so embarrassing that a scapegoat was urgently needed. What better than to divert attention to something else?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, there is not a word about the consequences that must attend such an enormous political rout. If a political party loses on the level of what the PvdA lost, heads roll. The PvdA leader in Amsterdam, Pieter Hilhorst, has already resigned. It is almost certain the leader of the PvdA on a national level, Diederik Samson, will have to resign as well. Rumors were already widely circulating before the elections.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">However, all of a sudden not a peep. Of the coalition’s 79 seats, 49 seats would have been lost, had this been national elections. (A majority requires 76 seats.) In theory, because these elections were local and not national, the coalition believes it doesn’t have to worry about a thing. National elections are at least two years away. They have the indirect support from some opposition parties to keep the Titanic afloat. By focusing all attention on Wilders again they hope nobody will notice that all other politicians are wearing no clothes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">However, this political calculation may not be as sound as it may seem. Politicians may be leaving the PVV, but the electorate is not. 85% of present PVV voters will vote the same way again. They have full confidence in Wilders. And after all, it’s not the first time such an all-out attack has been made on the PVV leader. Every time he emerges stronger from it. Also, most people don’t like it very much if politicians change their opinions quicker than the weather. Or talk in vague, opaque terms. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Appleby">Sir Humphrey Appleby</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> was by far the funniest character in “Yes Minister”; in real life people don’t like politicians like him.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Wilders always looks for long-term solutions; he doesn’t go for short-term victories as all other politicians do. This is the second local election he basically ignored. The party doesn’t have enough qualified members to be able to govern effectively, so they prefer not to govern. The pragmatic maneuvering has seemed to have paid off politically. But now Wilders is finding, once again, that with a rising political star comes retribution.</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">H. Numan is the Dutch correspondent for the <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net">Gates of Vienna</a>.   </i></p>
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		<title>Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen May Join Forces</title>
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<p>Now that anti-EU parties are the rising stars, <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/2013/09/15/news-links-for-sept-15-2013-1/">there is talk of larger cooperation</a>. The European left benefits from being integrated to some degree. <a href="http://www.thelocal.fr/20130915/le-pen-moots-joint-campaign-with-wilders">And this is an interesting pairing</a>.</p>
<p>Both Wilders and Le Pen are popular and dynamic figures. Though Le Pen is careful to paint herself as &#8220;moderate&#8221; on Islam, which is not surprising considering some of the sources of support for her and her father&#8217;s party.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We could perhaps campaign together for the elections,&#8221; Le Pen told Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that the voter sees that we do not stand alone, that similar patriotic movements are active in every EU country,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Le Pen said earlier this year that she wants to begin a pan-European far-right parliamentary grouping, including her National Front (FN) party, after the May 2014 European elections.</p>
<p>Le Pen and Wilders have many similar policies, from immigration to protectionism, but Wilders reportedly wanted to keep his distance because of the anti-Semitism of Le Pen&#8217;s father and the founder of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen.</p>
<p>Marine Le Pen, currently an MEP, and Wilders had lunch in Paris in April, but a date wasn&#8217;t set for her to visit The Hague, the NRC newspaper paper said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The current system has a lot to lose if our movements work together,&#8221; Le Pen said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We must not fall into the trap of demonising each other, that&#8217;s just what the established parties want. I think Wilders is intelligent enough to understand that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget that Wilders and I have a different history and we work in different contexts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Le Pen said that she was &#8220;perhaps less radical&#8221; than Wilders concerning Islam.</p>
<p>While she fights against Islam&#8217;s presence in public life in France, &#8220;I have nothing against Islam in itself,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that Islam is by definition incompatible with democracy.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not exactly an embrace, but France still think it&#8217;s a great power and Le Pen benefits by being seen as a leader on regional and international issues. I&#8217;m not sure how much Wilders would benefit from the association.  Still Wilders has been pushing harder for such a project.</p>
<p>UKIP <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/502093/20130828/geert-wilders-rigth-wing-group-european-parliament.htm">firmly rejected Wilders and the proposal</a> for image reasons. Le Pen appears to be careful of the image issue, but somewhat more willing to consider the prospect.</p>
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<p>Polls don&#8217;t mean that much unless there are political parties and leaders willing to implement them. The Netherlands may represent the first time that the counterjihad stars have aligned in a single country. Wilders&#8217; popularity is rising and <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/wilders-on-islam-poll-the-netherlands-has-had-enough-of-islam/">tolerance for Islamic terror is declining</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>More than three quarters of the Dutch (77 percent) believe that Islam is no enrichment for our country. More than two-thirds – 68 percent – say that there is enough Islam in the Netherlands. It is striking that a majority of voters from all political parties (from PVV to VVD, CDA, D66, PvdA, SP and 50plus) share this view.</p></blockquote>
<p>PvdA is the Netherlands Labour Party. SP is the Socialist Party.</p>
<blockquote><p>A poll conducted by the research bureau of Maurice de Hond (the Dutch equivalent of Gallup), commissioned by the PVV, among a representative sample of over 1,900 people also shows other striking results:</p>
<p>A majority of 55 percent favors stopping immigration from Islamic countries.</p>
<p>63 percent say: no new mosques.</p>
<p>72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.</p>
<p>PVV leader Geert Wilders: “The results are very clear. The Netherlands has had enough of Islam. The majority do not want new immigrants from Islamic countries, nor any new mosques. They think that Islam is no enrichment for the Netherlands and say: Enough is enough. I will confront the Dutch government with these findings and demand that we finally stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. For a long time is has been claimed that anti-Islamic opinions are extremist. It is clear now that a majority of our people supports them!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe the new gates aren&#8217;t in Vienna after all.</p>
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		<title>Europe’s Last Stand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week The American Freedom Alliance hosts a major international conference in Los Angeles.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/st.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192279" alt="st" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/st.jpg" width="350" height="451" /></a>The American Freedom Alliance is hosting a major international conference on June 9-10 focused on the future of Europe to be held at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. The conference, which is titled <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank"><i>Europe’s Last Stand? Debt Demography and the Abandonment of National Sovereignty</i></a>, is designed to determine the course of Europe and the impact that this direction might have upon the United States.  It will feature Geert Wilders, George Gilder, Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer  among 20 other speakers from around the world. Details on the conference can be found <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
<p>We have with us today Avi Davis, the President of the <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org" target="_blank">American Freedom Alliance</a> and the man who conceived the conference and is its organizer.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Avi Davis, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Tell us about your conference. Who is joining and why were they invited?</p>
<p><b>Davis: </b>Geert Wilders, the prominent Dutch politician, who has been prosecuted for criticizing Islam,  George Gilder, the renowned economic thought leader, Daniel Pipes, Middle East commentator and Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch will all be with us, together with a roster of 20 other speakers drawn from around the world. All were invited because of their expertise one of three main issues of the conference:  the Euro Crisis, the  demographic and ethnic threats to mainstream European society and the seeming abandonment of national sovereignty by many European countries</p>
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<p><b>FP:</b> What motivated you to organize this conference at this time?</p>
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<div><b>Davis: </b>AFA had already held two conferences on the fate of Europe &#8211; <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/collapseofeurope/program.htm" target="_blank">in 2007 at Pepperdine University </a>and in<a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/identitycrisis/bios.htm" target="_blank"> 2008 at the University of Rome</a>. We focus on Europe because we believe  that of the two major arms of Western civilization it is the weaker, with far greater structural and systemic problems than the United States. In the past 18 months the Euro Crisis raised an entirely new view of Europe &#8211; that its monetary system has been established on a very narrow foundation and that its collapse could imperil the West. This, together with continuing evidence that Muslim immigrants in many European countries might never be integrated into mainstream European society and the continuing riots, terror and protests emerging from those communities contributed to our sense that it was time to revisit the issue of Europe&#8217;s longevity as a bastion of representative government and liberal democracy.<b></b></div>
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<div><b>FP:</b> What do you hope to achieve with this conference?</div>
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<div><b>Davis:  </b>Europe has always operated as a bellwether for the United States and many of  the political, social and cultural trends on the continent can often be seen developing here.  Certainly the Obama Administration&#8217;s policies in health care, immigration and taxation bear an unmistakable European stamp.  But as the European Union totters on its financial foundation and European countries seem helpless to stem the tide of Muslim separatism, it is time for us here in United States to recognize that we cannot repeat Europe&#8217;s mistakes &#8211; for without question they are threatening the future of liberal democracy.  The conference is designed to address the problems of Europe as they apply to the United States &#8211; a very valuable thing in a time of great instability.</div>
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<p><b>FP: </b>Can people attend? Where can they get some information and register?</p>
<p><b>Davis:  </b>Yes, its open to the public and tickets can be purchased at the <b><a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank">Conference website.<br />
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<p>People can come for one day or both days.   There are also two other great features of the weekend.</p>
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<p>The first is a premiere U.S. screening of a daring documentary by an Israeli investigative reporter who dares to enter into some of the most dangerous Muslim enclaves on the continent.  His reporting delivers a very grim picture of Muslim restiveness in Europe and the failures of European societies to address Muslim separatism.  That screening will take place at the InterContinental Hotel on Sunday, June 9 at 7: 30 pm. We hope to be joined by video link with the producers and director of the documentary.  Your readers can find information about the screening at <a href=" http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/cinemagateway-allahislam.jsp">AmericanFreedomAlliance.org</a>.</p>
<p>The second is the June installment of our Literary Cafe, which will feature two experts on the threats represented to Islam by the West: Robert Spencer and  Stephen Coughlin who will address the topic<i> The West&#8217;s Confrontation with Islam </i>at a private home in Westwood.  All  the details for that event can be found at <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/literarycafe-thewestsconfrontation.jsp">AmericanFreedomAlliance.org</a>.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Avi Davis, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. Good luck on your event!</p>
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<p>A year ago, Islamists and their useful idiots were writing off Wilders as finished. The political crisis appeared to have shaken his PVV party and Islamists were gleefully claiming that Wilders was done. The future might belong to the more mainstream VVD party willing to compromise on the &#8220;big&#8221; issues.</p>
<p>But Wilders&#8217; gamble has paid off and <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/wilders_party_now_netherlands_most_popular/">voters are turning his way once again.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The PVV would win the most seats in the House of Representatives if an election were held now&#8230;</p>
<p>With 24 seats, the party of Geert Wilders would have one more than the VVD, with 23. The PvdA would have 18 seats, according to the latest poll, giving the two ruling parties a total of 41 seats. That is the lowest total since the election in September 2012, when the parties of Diederik Samsom and [Prime Minister Mark] Rutte together won 79 seats</p>
<p>Europe’s bail-out of busted Cyprus, involving yet another transfer of money from the Dutch to the south, seems to have swung more votes behind the Euro-sceptic Wilders.</p></blockquote>
<p>Being in the populist opposition is a smart move when the economic times are bad and most leaders are making bad compromises to keep the whole disaster sailing along smoothly. And the same thing may be true in the UK.</p>
<p>A smart party primes voters for the realization that it was right all along. A stupid party &#8220;evolves&#8221; and tosses aside its positions and becomes discredited and indistinguishable from the ruling party.</p>
<p>Does that have some application to the United States? It just might.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a Dutchman sounded the alarm about Islam and left a lasting impression on the world. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/andrew-harrod/geert-wilders-courageous-journey/media_xll_1216952/" rel="attachment wp-att-171527"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-171527" title="media_xll_1216952" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/media_xll_1216952.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="172" /></a>Dutch parliamentarian <a href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/">Geert Wilders</a> has released in 2012 his autobiographical account of his internationally known condemnation of, and personal conflicts with, Islam, with a forward available <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299725/spirit-geert-wilders-mark-steyn">online</a> by his fellow comrade in letters vis-à-vis Islam, conservative columnist <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/">Mark Steyn</a>.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960"><em>Marked for Death: Islam&#8217;s War against the West and Me</em></a> recounts how an individual Dutchman became aware of an aggressive and authoritarian agenda in Islam as a faith-based political ideology.  Through personal travels to the Middle East and the example of Muslim migrants who sought not to assimilate to Holland&#8217;s world-renowned tolerant culture, but rather despised and sought to dominate it, Wilders recognized the incompatibility of Islam&#8217;s canonical core with a free Western civilization.  Wilders in turn personally experienced this incompatibility as his continuing condemnation of Islam brought him not the intellectual interchange due a debater in public forums, but rather personal and legal endangerment.  Yet Wilders persevered and prevailed, thereby giving an example of how the free world can once again overcome a totalitarian threat.</p>
<p>As Steyn writes in his <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299725/spirit-geert-wilders-mark-steyn?pg=4">forward</a>, the Wilders &#8220;who emerges in the following pages is not the grunting thug of media demonology but a well-read, well-traveled, elegant, and perceptive analyst.&#8221;  Wilders traveled and worked in Israel following his 1981 high school graduation, beginning a lifelong passion for this country that has led to at least annual visits throughout the years, over 50 trips in all.  During this initial stay in Israel, Wilders also made his first visit to a majoritarian-Muslim country, Egypt.</p>
<p>Wilders was &#8220;overwhelmed by the kindness, friendliness, and helpfulness of its people.&#8221;  Yet an &#8220;overwhelming sense of fear&#8221; under the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak also possessed these people.  Additionally, their capital &#8220;Cairo was poor and incredibly dirty,&#8221; making Wilders &#8220;amazed that such a place could be a neighbor of Israel, which was so clean.&#8221;  One &#8220;big mistake&#8221; by Wilders here was buying a glass of water from a public water collector, leading to several days of severe diarrhea spent lying on a hostel floor for two dollars a day &#8220;in a crowded, stinking room.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wilders&#8217; travels made him notice critical attitudinal differences between Muslim Arabs and Jews.  Understandably in the context of Israel&#8217;s fight for survival amongst surrounding Arabs, &#8220;Israelis often had negative political opinions about Arabs.&#8221;  Yet even Israelis who had lost loved ones to Arab terrorism &#8220;did not feel offended by the Arabs&#8217; mere existence.&#8221;  In Egypt, though, the &#8220;mention of Israel inevitably produced an outburst of vitriolic hatred.&#8221;  This &#8220;wrath was not confined to Israeli soldiers or politicians or to Israelis who had done them personal harm,&#8221; but rather &#8220;was hatred against all Jews, even children.&#8221;  It &#8220;was hard to find an Arab who spoke about Jews with anything but unconcealed contempt.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wilders&#8217; experience with Islam at home in Holland has been no less negative.  In his chapter &#8220;Conquest,&#8221; Wilders writes that mass Muslim migration is turning many Dutch neighborhoods into &#8220;cities of the prophet.&#8221;  This is in emulation of Islam&#8217;s prophet Muhammad and his original followers who sought refuge from Mecca in the largely Jewish settlement of Yathrib in the Arabian Peninsula in 622.  &#8220;By foolishly welcoming Muhammad and Meccan followers into their town,&#8221; Wilders writes, &#8220;the Yathribians guaranteed their own extinction and the transformation of their land into Medina, the &#8216;City of the Prophet&#8217;, which it has remained ever since.&#8221;  Wilders&#8217; writes elsewhere that Muhammad&#8217;s emigration or <em>hijra</em> from Mecca to Medina, the orientation point of the Islamic calendar, is an &#8220;intrinsic part of Islamic culture&#8221; such that for some Muslim immigrants &#8220;Islam is meant to dominate, not to assimilate&#8221; in the immigrants&#8217; new home.  Thus, with the open encouragement of Muslim leaders like Turkish prime minister <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/e/recep_tayyip_erdogan/index.html">Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</a>, &#8220;immigration is Islam&#8217;s Trojan horse, paving the way for jihad&#8221; in another Islamic attempt &#8220;to conquer Europe.&#8221;</p>
<p>The result is a &#8220;slippery slope toward full Islamization&#8221; of Europe under &#8220;creeping Shaira&#8221; as a &#8220;non-violent infiltration of our institutions, a stealth jihad.&#8221;  Among many examples cited by Wilders, municipal authorities in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam as well as the nearby Belgian port of Antwerp have begun registering polygamous marriages.  Pools and beaches in diverse European countries such as Finland and Italy have also accommodated Muslim demands for strict sexual segregation with separate bathing areas. In Britain, non-Muslim women have even had to wear the so-called <em>burkini</em> adaptation of Islamic female body covering.</p>
<p>Likewise, Europe faces the depredations of many Muslims who see the continent not as a new home to settle, but rather as a foreign society to be subjugated and plundered in accord with Islam&#8217;s history of raiding.  Holland, for instance, has 40 areas known as &#8220;Vogelaar neighborhoods&#8221; after a list published in 2007 by the Dutch Minister of Integration and Housing, Ella Vogelaar.  Here large Muslim communities exhibit high crime rates, particularly with respect to non-Muslim victims, vigilante enforcement of sharia norms such as those involving the &#8220;modesty&#8221; of females, and a susceptibility to riots provoked by any incident à la Rodney King.  Even state authorities such as the police only enter these areas with the greatest precaution.  France similarly has since 1996 751 internationally known <em>zones urbaines sensibles</em> (sensitive urban areas or ZUS), the scene of extensive rioting in 2005 with over 10,000 destroyed cars.  Wilders describes the same phenomenon of non-Muslim &#8220;no-go&#8221; areas in Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Muslim hostility extends beyond individual criminal acts to state social services.  Some imams in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have told their congregations to avoid work and paying taxes in order to drain their host societies through welfare payments.  Similarly, a Pakistani immigrant told a Norwegian newspaper that he and his boss avoided paying taxes.</p>
<p>Wilders&#8217; ongoing exposure to Islam has prompted his extensive study of the same.  Wilders is a &#8220;fervent reader of the Koran,&#8221; often compared by Wilders to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s <em>Mein Kampf</em>, banned in many countries like Wilders&#8217; Holland.  Reading the Koran for the first time, Wilders expected &#8220;to find injunctions to &#8216;love thy neighbor&#8217;…similar to those in the Bible, but instead…found the spite of a god who hates.&#8221;</p>
<p>Drawing upon the analysis of many other scholars of Islam, Wilders discerns that &#8220;Islam is primarily a political ideology, not a religion.&#8221;  In particular, unlike &#8220;authentic religions&#8221; Islam &#8220;does not teach the golden rule&#8221; but rather &#8220;institutionalizes inequality.&#8221;  Wilders has come to the conclusion that while &#8220;many moderate Muslims&#8221; exist, the &#8220;political ideology of Islam is not moderate&#8211;it is a totalitarian cult with global ambitions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like others, Wilders has determined that oft-criticized &#8220;inhuman aspects form the core of Islam,&#8221; thereby marginalizing any attempt to formulate a benign understanding of Islam as esoteric and largely unviable. Therefore &#8220;there is no such thing as &#8216;Islam with a human face,&#8217; just as there was no real &#8216;socialism with a human face&#8217; or &#8216;national-socialism with a human face.&#8217;&#8221;  &#8220;People who reject Islam&#8217;s violent, intolerant, and misogynistic commandments may be moderates,&#8221; Wilders analyzes, &#8220;but they are not practicing &#8216;moderate Islam&#8217;&#8211;they are not practicing Islam at all.&#8221;  Having traveled to Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey, Wilders recognizes the great &#8220;potential&#8221; of Muslim individuals.  Yet Wilders concludes, &#8220;Islam is the problem&#8211;and we should not be afraid to say so,&#8221; thereby rejecting any attempt to &#8220;sugarcoat Islam…out of a misguided fear of offending its adherents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wilders has paid a price for his condemnation of Islam.  Since November 4, 2004, two days after the Amsterdam murder of filmmaker <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-679609.html">Theo van Gogh</a> by a Muslim, Wilders has lived under constant police protection &#8220;like a prisoner&#8221; due to similar death threats.  &#8220;Providing permanent protection for critics of Islam,&#8221; Wilders observes, &#8220;is one of the many costs a society has to pay once it allows Islam inside its borders.&#8221;  Wilders also endured a prosecution in Holland for his anti-Islam statements before obtaining a critical legal victory for free speech on June 23, 2011.</p>
<p>Yet Wilders has ultimately obtained results.  Following the strong showing (15.5% of the vote) of Wilders&#8217; Party for Freedom (<a href="http://www.pvv.nl/">PVV</a>) in the June 9, 2010, Dutch general elections, Wilders was able to demand in return for PVV support for a minority government changes in Dutch immigration policy.  Dutch policies now restrict the extent of immigrant family unification to spouses and young children, emphasize integration into Dutch life as opposed to cultural relativism, and expel residents convicted of crime.  The Dutch government, meanwhile, denounced the 57-member state (including Palestine) <a href="http://www.oic-oci.org/home.asp">Organization of Islamic Cooperation</a> (OIC) for its calls to suppress Wilders following his legal victory.  The Dutch government has also strengthened its support for Israel, cutting support for &#8220;humanitarian organizations&#8221; supporting anti-Israel sanctions and questioning Israel&#8217;s right to exist.  Along with Israel and the United States, Holland also boycotted the shamelessly anti-Israel United Nations anti-racism conference (Durban III) in September 2011.  Wilders&#8217; defiant example shows that free nations need hardly submit to Islamic threats often seen as insurmountable.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam critic and his supporters face down left-wing mob.]]></description>
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<p>I paid a visit to southern Sweden on October 27, 2012. The occasion was a visit to Malmö by a fellow notorious Islamophobe, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. He had been invited there to speak by Ingrid Carlqvist, the leader of the newly established Swedish Free Press Society. This is a brave but difficult initiative in a semi-totalitarian society, where the mass media are infamous for their crushing left-wing, multicultural and pro-Islamic consensus.</p>
<p>Malmö was historically one of the first Christian cities in what is today Sweden. It is currently set to become the first Muslim-majority city or town in the Nordic countries, but perhaps not the last. What once was a safe Scandinavian city has in recent years been plagued by a wave of armed robberies, rapes and bombs.</p>
<p>The performance of the Swedish police was a mixed bag. From my personal experience, they did a reasonably good job, but they apparently let through a few things that I <a href="http://snaphanen.dk/2012/10/29/modeintimidering/">didn’t see</a>. <a href="http://www.sappho.dk/ag-i-haret-slag-i-ryggen-mode-med-svensk-forsamlingsfrihed.htm">Katrine Winkel Holm</a> of the Danish Free Press Society reported about physical assaults on some of those who simply came peacefully to listen to Wilders’ speech. Holm criticized the police for giving violent left-wing thugs too much leeway to intimidate and attack people in the streets, trying to block them from entering, or bombarding them with eggs while calling them “Nazis.”</p>
<p>Upon arrival we noticed there was already a heavy police presence. To invite perhaps the most famous Islam-critical politician in Europe to speak in the most heavily Islamized city in Scandinavia was a slap in the face, not just to Muslims, but at least as much to their enablers on the far Left. Predictably, those leftists showed up in force. Not just from Sweden; they even imported violent left-wing thugs from neighboring Denmark to assault people.</p>
<p>They may unfortunately have managed to scare away a few potential listeners. For the most part, however, the heavy presence of the Swedish police, complete with horses, helicopters and armored vehicles, managed to keep the totalitarian thugs at bay. They were shouting slogans and carrying banners, as usual.  Most people paid little attention to them, since everyone already knew what they were going to say. These people haven’t substantially changed their slogans for the past 80 years, since the time of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. Everybody who disagrees with them is a “Fascist.”</p>
<p>They can be very violent when they want to, and for years have physically attacked critics of Islam or mass immigration in Sweden while the authorities looked the other way. The AFA, or “Anti-fascists,” are remarkably similar to actual fascists, although that irony would be totally lost on them. They are what they claim to fight. These left-wing thugs seem to believe that we would be living in a socialist, multicultural paradise had it not been for the stubborn resistance of evil racists and Islamophobes, who must be stamped out at all costs. Sweden is expected to receive 50,000 <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/44112/">asylum seekers</a> in 2013, a very substantial number for a small Scandinavian nation, but for left-wing thugs, the natives cannot be turned into a minority in their own country fast enough.</p>
<p>All things considered, however, they were tamer this time around than might have been feared. The main reason for this lackluster performance was no doubt the heavy police presence, but partly also because it was a bit cold. These are revolutionaries of the PlayStation 3 era. Yes, they want to smash the capitalist system and beat up the fascists pigs who uphold it, but not today. It&#8217;s too cold, and mummy has some warm meatballs for them at home.</p>
<p>Once inside, I sat down in a room packed with TV cameras and journalists, and not just from Sweden. Norwegian TV2 and others have accused me of “hiding” from the press. They’ve wanted to interview me for more than a year. Well, this time I was sitting openly in a major Scandinavian city smack in the middle of a crowd full of members of the press. Even though my photo has been widely circulated in Norway, a team from Norwegian TV2 passed me by just a few meters away on multiple occasions and never noticed my presence.</p>
<p>Not too bright, these journalists.</p>
<p>To my great joy, I was allowed to meet Geert Wilders before he gave his speech. His security apparatus was very elaborate, as it should be for a person living with a constant threat of having his throat cut, but I’ve been told that it has been even more extensive in the past. Perhaps it varies according to specific credible threats. I knew that Wilders had heard of me even before the Breivik case, but we had never actually met before. I was delighted and honored that he wanted to meet me, and of course accepted immediately. Geert Wilders is a symbol of resistance, not just for the Dutch but for the whole of Europe and for Western Civilization.</p>
<p>Wilders found it very odd that I was forced to flee Norway, despite having never done anything criminal and never having met the perpetrator. We also talked a little bit about the losses suffered by his Party for Freedom (PVV) at the Dutch elections in September. He hoped that this setback would be temporary. In just a few years they had gone from zero to being the third-largest political party in the Netherlands, and had to train many inexperienced MPs. Wilders had also been personally harassed with a ridiculous show trial for racism and Islamophobia. Even so, he judged that the long-term prospects for the Party for Freedom were still very good, what with the problem of Islamization increasing year by year.</p>
<p>Geert Wilders is a forceful man, and one strongly feels his presence, not just because of the security guards who are always nearby, but also because of his personal character. He has real charisma, which is necessary for a successful politician. I noticed that some of the female members of the audience seemed quite enthralled by him. Yet he is also a powerful public speaker who addresses real and profound political issues.</p>
<p>He gave an eloquent and <a href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php/in-english-mainmenu-98/in-the-press-mainmenu-101/77-in-the-press/1809-speech-geert-wilders-swedish-free-press-society-malmoe-october-27-2012">impassioned speech</a> in Malmö about the threat of Islamization and the ongoing loss of freedom of speech in Europe. Wilders extended his focus beyond Islam alone and talked about limiting mass immigration in general, confronting cultural relativism and restoring a healthy pride in our civilization and our national cultures. He also emphasized that all of this is exceedingly difficult to achieve as long as the European Union, and not its member states, controls policies. The EU is thus at the heart of many of Europe’s problems.</p>
<p>Overall, it was a good meeting and a good speech. The event was met by the predictable outcry from hostile Swedish mass media, which refused to talk about the actual problems mentioned by Wilders, and merely focused on his alleged “hate.” Symptomatic of the response was an op-ed by the columnist Oisín Cantwell, who was present at the speech, in the newspaper <a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/oisincantwell/article15682340.ab"><em>Aftonbladet</em></a>. He attempted to mock Geert Wilders and his audience without actually addressing any of the issues raised by Mr. Wilders. Mr. Cantwell apparently also thought it was funny that writer Ingrid Carlqvist no longer feels safe in her own home, in Sweden.</p>
<p>However, Wilders’ otherwise good speech repeated the claim that the Benghazi attacks in September 2012 on the US diplomatic mission to Libya were triggered by an anti-Islamic movie. It has now been well-established that this was merely a cover story. The CIA indicate that this was a regular and carefully planned Islamic terror attack, possibly by groups tied to al-Qaida, carried out on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks in the USA in 2001. It was not a spontaneous riot in response to some obscure movie. This claim <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/023659.html">is false</a>.</p>
<p>It was later revealed that the administration of President Obama misinformed the public about this, and that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/">Mr. Obama</a> refused requests for more support and back-up to the US ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was murdered by Jihadist Muslims. This claim should not be repeated by Wilders or his staff in the future.</p>
<p>The “turbulent blond” Geert Wilders is the leader of the third-largest political party in the Netherlands, was once denied entry to Britain, and had his visit to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/australia-welcomes-jihadist-blocks-geert-wilders/">Australia</a> sabotaged by authorities who are more than willing to let militant Islamic preachers enter the country. He has to live with constant death threats due to his criticism of Islamic culture and around-the-clock police protection in Western Europe, possibly for the rest of his life. Wilders and others like him show great personal courage and integrity in standing up for what they believe in and confronting the forces of violent totalitarianism head-on. That stands to their credit.</p>
<p>The big question, however, is: <em>Why should they have to?</em></p>
<p>Why should increasing numbers of politicians, artists and writers in Western Europe and elsewhere in the Western world have to live as virtual prisoners in their own homes, surviving only because of constant police protection, while we continue to import en masse members of the hostile tribes and backward cultures who are behind such threats?</p>
<p>It is criminal negligence by Western so-called “leaders” to promote open-border policies and continued mass immigration, including Muslim immigration, as sections of our cities sink increasingly into anarchy, our freedom of speech gradually vanishes and our cultural heritage is erased from our school curricula.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Wilders Mob Goes Mad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new face of old-fashioned European violence and totalitarianism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-bawer/anti-wilders-mob-goes-mad/afa_upplopp/" rel="attachment wp-att-163080"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163080" title="afa_upplopp" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/afa_upplopp.gif" alt="" width="315" height="241" /></a>The other day I <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-bawer/a-new-attack-on-islams-critics/" target="_blank">wrote</a> here about a Norwegian TV documentary – to use the term very loosely – in which Robert Spencer, the consummate Islam critic and expert, was expertly demonized.  The program showed him in Stockholm last summer, addressing an outdoor audience from a platform.  While he stood there in suit and tie, his demeanor entirely calm and reasonable, and delivered his talk – or tried to – a violent mob a few feet away spewed out its venom: “Fucking racists! No racists in our streets!”</p>
<p>Meanwhile a small army of riot police struggled to hold them back. It was not easy.</p>
<p>To look at those faces twisted with hatred – those human beings transformed into ferocious beasts, filled with savage indignation and, by all indications, prepared to tear their fellowman limb from limb – was to stare into the very heart of contemporary Europe&#8217;s darkness.  It&#8217;s one thing to read about the history of Europe from the storming of the Bastille to the present day; it&#8217;s another thing to see the most cataclysmic, psychopathic turning points of the last couple of centuries vividly mirrored, as it were, before one&#8217;s eyes.</p>
<p>How different were those faces in Stockholm, after all, from the faces one might have seen in the streets of Paris during the Reign of Terror?  This mob rage didn&#8217;t come from nowhere: it&#8217;s the product of history.  Those rioters in Stockholm were the descendants of Robespierre and the enragés, the heirs to their unquenchable bloodthirstiness; and the rage in their eyes was testimony to the enduring destructive power of pure fanatical ideology, which, time and again since 1789, has turned Europe into a madhouse.</p>
<p>Looking into the eyes of those protesters, one could scarcely doubt that if they could push their way past those cops and get their hands on Spencer, they&#8217;d do as much harm to him as they could.  And yet, remarkably, while Frode Nielsen, the “journalist” who made this “documentary,” didn&#8217;t try to hide these people&#8217;s violence from us, he didn&#8217;t breathe so much as a word in condemnation of it.  On the contrary: if silence betokens approval, he approved.  Indeed, even as we watched those rioters raging rabidly at Spencer, Nielsen took pains to spell out for us who the real extremist was – Spencer, naturally.</p>
<p>Needless to say, if Nielsen had paused for just two or three minutes to provide an honest overview of Spencer&#8217;s work, the whole premise of his documentary would&#8217;ve come crashing down; it would&#8217;ve become clear to every viewer that Spencer is the very opposite of what Nielsen, and those rioters, would have us believe.  Yet that wasn&#8217;t what Nielsen wanted; he wanted his viewers to see Spencer as a force for evil.  And he apparently wanted them to understand, too, that those barbaric demonstrators were the Good Guys – decent, delicate souls who&#8217;d been driven to extreme conduct by a vile American provocateur.  If they were capable of violence, it was violence in the name of virtue.</p>
<p>Spencer&#8217;s Stockholm visit took place last summer.  Last Saturday, another one of the men who are routinely characterized by the likes of Nielsen as a contemporary force for evil, Geert Wilders, gave a talk in another Swedish city, Malmö.  On Sunday, a website posted an <a href="http://www.uriasposten.net/%20" target="_blank">account</a> by the Danish politician and jurist Aia Fog of what happened when she and three other women arrived at the sports complex where Wilders was scheduled to speak.  They came in a taxi, Fog wrote, but because of police barricades were obliged to walk 200 yards to the entrance.  The cops were out in force; and, as it happened, the protesters were shouting the exact same slogan that greeted Spencer in Stockholm: “No racists in our streets!”</p>
<p>One difference between that demo and this one, however, was that this time around the police weren&#8217;t holding the protesters back.  The cops were over here, the demonstrators over there – which meant that Fog and her friends had to make their way through the mob in order to get into the venue.  As they were doing so, some of the protesters apparently recognized one of Fog&#8217;s companions, the high-profile journalist Katrine Winkel Holm – who is a columnist for Jyllands-Posten, a founder of the Danish Free Press Society, and a director of Danish state TV and radio.  “Racist!” they shouted.  “Go home, we have border controls for you!” And they screamed at Fog: “Fat fascist pig!”</p>
<p>“Katrine starts to argue with them,” recalled Fog,</p>
<blockquote><p>but it&#8217;s completely futile, and soon I pull her arm and tell her to drop it, so we can get through the crowd and go in.  And then it happens very quickly: Katrine and I are suddenly isolated from Kit and Trine, and I&#8217;m surrounded by AFA.</p></blockquote>
<p>AFA is Antifascistisk Aktion – one of those European groups that call themselves anti-fascists but that, in everything they do and say, are textbook totalitarians.  Fog wasn&#8217;t sure that these guys were members of AFA, but they sure looked the part:</p>
<blockquote><p>Danish men in their twenties, with black hoodies and small ugly tattoos&#8230;.extremely threatening – not just in their attitude (which is furious, hateful &#8211; and just waiting to be permitted to strike), but also physically: I&#8217;m completely surrounded by 4-5 of them who not only block my way, but who push me hard with their shoulders, knocking me off balance. Then I feel a blow to the back of my head, and then another – this time not so hard, which in the end turns out to be an egg hurled at my neck.</p></blockquote>
<p>Though the Swedish police were nearby, they were too far away to see any of this, and so didn&#8217;t come to anybody&#8217;s aid.  In any case, the four women made it safely into the venue – and when, moments later, concerned about the safety of other attendees, they stepped outside to see whether the police had managed to create a secure “corridor” through which people could pass through the mob unmolested, the cops told them to go back inside, “because we were &#8216;provoking&#8217; [the protesters] by our presence.” Ah, that word – provoked.  (Indeed, after Wilders&#8217;s speech was over, a Swedish journalist asked Fog if she had “provoked” anybody before the egg was thrown at her.)</p>
<p>So much fury!  So many men bullying women in the name of human sensitivity!  It&#8217;s all supposed to be about “Islamophobia,” of course – about defending innocent, put-upon Muslims from their racist oppressors.  But scratch these self-styled friends of Islam and what you&#8217;ll find is the heirs to Europe&#8217;s most poisonous, dehumanizing dreams – men and women who are the sworn enemies of that messy, imperfect thing, human freedom, and who&#8217;ll never shake off their dangerous, blind faith in the utopian promise of authoritarian ideology.  So it stands, alas, in much of Europe in the year 2012.  To know anything about the history of the last few generations on this beleaguered continent is to realize that none of this insanity is new – and that every bit of it is, shall we say, profoundly inauspicious.</p>
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		<title>Australia Welcomes Jihadist, Blocks Geert Wilders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Is it any wonder that the Sydney Mohammed riots happened when <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3358/australia-geert-wilders">a disgrace like this </a>is the order of the day?</p>
<blockquote><p>Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who frequently <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3041/geert-wilders-marked-for-death">warns about the dangers of Islamic radicalism</a>, has applied for a visa to visit and give speeches in Australia, but the application has stalled. The official reason for the delay is that Wilders is on the Movement Alert List, a database of people of security concern to the Australian government. It means that his application is being held up at the Department of Immigration headquarters in Canberra while more thorough security checks are done.</p>
<p>As if to underscore the politically correct calculations delaying Wilders&#8217; visa application, the governing Australian Labour Party <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/islamists_may_enter_their_opponents_maybe_not/">swiftly approved a visa for Taji Mustafa</a>, the British head of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group notorious for religious intolerance, disdain for Western values and sympathy for jihad. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she would not be revoking Mustafa&#8217;s visa and that Hizb ut-Tahrir was not on the government&#8217;s list of proscribed terrorist groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>But you see Geert Wilders&#8217; visit would upset Muslims who might riot, while Taji Mustafa&#8217;s visit might also get Muslims to riot, but on the other hand it might also finally convince them how much Australia loves them.</p>
<p>When appeasers rule, they instinctively appease and if appeasement doesn&#8217;t work, then they appease harder. After Sydney, Gillard has <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-defends-nations-diversity-20120919-267d7.html">ladled on some faux tough talk</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8221;It is the meeting place of rights and responsibilities where the right to maintain one&#8217;s customs, language and religion is balanced by an equal responsibility to learn English, find work, respect our culture and heritage, and accept women as full equals,&#8221; Ms Gillard said. &#8221;Where there is non-negotiable respect for our foundational values of democracy and the rule of law, and any differences we hold are expressed peacefully.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But as the bull said to the turkey, &#8220;That&#8217;s all well good, but what are you going to do about it?&#8221;</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve heard this same empty tough talk from Sarkozy and it cost him the election. We heard some of the same tough talk from Cameron and it went nowhere. Tough talk doesn&#8217;t matter, tough actions do. And <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/labors-double-standard-on-whos-refused-entry/story-e6frgd0x-1226478403848">welcoming in Geert Wilders</a> while giving Mustafa the boot would at least count for something.</p>
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		<title>A Setback for Geert Wilders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/wilders-2_1927939c.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144368" title="wilders-2_1927939c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/wilders-2_1927939c.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>Last week, even as the Islamic world was erupting in yet another bout of Koran-fueled fury that put the 2006 explosion over the Danish cartoons in the shade, the Dutch electorate, apparently having decided that the clash of civilizations was yesterday&#8217;s news, handed Geert Wilders&#8217;s <em>Partij voor de Vrijheid </em>(PVV) , or Freedom Party – the only one of the Netherlands&#8217;s several major parties that is seriously critical of Islam and of the country&#8217;s current immigration and integration policies – its first setback ever. While the two top parties received about twenty-five percent of the vote apiece, up about five percent from the last election, the PVV got ten percent, down from fifteen.  It remains the third largest party, but just barely, with fifteen out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, while the fourth, fifth, and sixth largest parties will have fifteen, thirteen, and twelve seats respectively.</p>
<p>“For the first time since he founded the PVV in 2004,” reported <a href="http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/10637/VK-Dossier-Verkiezingen-van-2012/article/detail/3316453/2012/09/14/Waarom-heeft-Wilders-voor-het-eerst-sinds-2006-verloren.dhtml%20"><em>De Volkskrant</em></a><em> </em>on Friday, “Geert Wilders lost an election, and substantially so.  How can that be?”  The newspaper <a href="http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/11364/Verkiezingen-2012/article/detail/3316377/2012/09/14/De-stad-is-rood-het-platteland-blauw-en-groen-is-verdwenen.dhtml"><em>Trouw</em></a><em> </em>claimed to have the answer: “The Netherlands of 2012 is radically changed&#8230;.the protest vote for the PVV has disappeared.”</p>
<p>On Saturday, I met Wilders&#8217;s right-hand man and fellow Member of Parliament, Martin Bosma (48), at a café in Amsterdam, to discuss the election results.</p>
<p>“Rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated,” he said with a tired grin.  It had been a long week and he hadn&#8217;t had much sleep.</p>
<p>Bosma rejected the idea that the election had been a referendum on immigration – in fact, he pointed out, “immigration was not a subject during the campaign.”  The PVV didn&#8217;t bring it up, and “if the PVV doesn&#8217;t bring up immigration, nobody does.”  This time around, with the Euro in what seem like its death throes, the PVV decided to focus its campaign on the EU.  Should the Dutch should continue to slavishly follow directives from Brussels which, among other things, compel it to cough up 56 billion euros a year to subsidize Greece and other countries?  The PVV said no.</p>
<p>Alas, the Dutch have always been temperamentally conservative, and, as Bosma put it, “leaving the EU feels like an adventure” – a leap into the unknown.  (Of course, the EU itself was an “adventure” that was foisted on them, step by step, without their approval; but now it&#8217;s the status quo, and Dutch voters are reluctant to reverse it.)  And so, on Election Day, the PVV took a dive.</p>
<p>Still, Wilders and Bosma are in it for the long haul.  “Ten years from now, everybody will agree with us,” Bosma told me.  “At least about the EU.  About mass immigration, I don&#8217;t know.  Maybe they&#8217;ll still be in denial.”</p>
<p>This I frankly don&#8217;t get.  How can so many Dutchmen, at this late date, still be in denial about the reality of Islamic immigration?  How – especially – can they be in denial about it at a time when violent mobs are attacking Western embassies in one Muslim capital after another?</p>
<p>Bosma shrugged.  “It&#8217;s far away,” he said about all the Middle Eastern mayhem.  He gestured toward our fellow customers, most of them elite Amsterdam types sipping lattes.  “Ask anybody here what they think of Islam.  They&#8217;ll say that, well, there are rotten apples everywhere.”</p>
<p>“Even after everything that has happened?”</p>
<p>“Yes.  They&#8217;re deluding themselves.  They don&#8217;t want to face the truth.  Because if you face it, you have to do something about it.”</p>
<p>But how can they not feel any responsibility to keep their country from going down the drain?  Bosma suggested that many Dutch people simply don&#8217;t think about their country that way: “The Dutch form of nationalism is internationalism.”  Besides, bending over backwards to accept the unacceptable “proves that we&#8217;re good human beings.  And as soon as you start asking questions, you&#8217;re a right-wing extremist.”  Still, he insisted, the bloom is at least somewhat off the multicultural rose.  “Multiculturalism has lost its self-confidence and its glory.  People don&#8217;t wear it on their sleeve anymore.”</p>
<p>He emphasized, moreover, the well-known fact that when it comes to multiculturalism there&#8217;s a big difference between the Dutch elites and the rest of the population.  “Every morning at 8:30,” he said, elite multiculturalists in the Netherlands drop their kids off at the “white schools” in which they&#8217;ve enrolled them so as to avoid contact with Muslims – “and then, at 9:00, they&#8217;re behind their desks, calling Geert Wilders a racist.”</p>
<p>Bosma recently published a candid and illuminating <a href="http://www.bol.com/nl/p/schijn-elite-van-de-valsemunters/1001004011185188/">memoir</a> in which he discusses the modern history of Dutch immigration politics and recounts his own political migration.  Born into a social democratic family, he began as a journalist, working first at a small-town Dutch newspaper and later, in New York, at CNN, ABC, and the <em>New York Times; </em>he also studied sociology at the New School, where he encountered, and found nourishment in, the works of Friedrich Hayek, William F. Buckley, Allan Bloom, and Leo Strauss (none of whom, he points out, was ever discussed at the University of Amsterdam).</p>
<p>After Theo van Gogh was slaughtered by a Dutch-born jihadist in 2004, Bosma quit his high-level executive job in Dutch radio and went to work with Geert Wilders, performing a wide variety of tasks – writing speeches, strategizing, creating a website – for their fledgling anti-immigration party.</p>
<p>Not all Dutchmen reacted to van Gogh&#8217;s death in the way Bosma did.  Many ran for cover.  Wilders&#8217;s  blunt talk about Islam scared them.  Even some of those who were eager to help Wilders&#8217;s cause insisted on doing so anonymously.  “We had to function,” writes Bosma, “as a kind of half-underground resistance organization.”</p>
<p>One irony Bosma notes in his book is that opposition to mass immigration in the Netherlands was once a left-wing – and thus acceptably mainstream – cause.  The first party to explicitly criticize the large-scale admission of Muslims into the country was the leftist DS &#8217;70.  But “what once was accepted as mainstream,” writes Bosma, “would later be seen as extreme.”</p>
<p>Since the nineties, polls have shown consistently that most Dutchmen oppose mass immigration.  Yet during the same period, the political and cultural elite was forming a pro-immigration consensus. Ignoring the will of the people, the ruling parties oversaw a huge influx of Muslims that transformed the country forever.  Wilders&#8217;s motive for founding the PVV was to return power to the people.  Yet over the years the people&#8217;s very powerlessness had bred a widespread fatalism about immigration.  “Mass immigration has always been treated as weather or climate,” Bosma told me.  “It&#8217;s there and we can&#8217;t do anything about it.”</p>
<p>Sooner or later, however, something&#8217;s got to give.  “Your Ph.D.s leave and your illiterates come in,” he sighed, summing up the Netherlands&#8217; current situation.  “You can&#8217;t do that forever.”</p>
<p>On his <a href="http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerleden/alle_kamerleden/bosma_martin/index.jsp">website</a>, Bosma features a quotation from Ayn Rand&#8217;s <em>The Fountainhead</em>: “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline&#8230;.The sky over New York and the will of man made visible.”  Bosma doesn&#8217;t include the next few sentences, but they&#8217;re worth quoting too, and have a special poignancy in the post-9/11 era: “What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window – no, I don&#8217;t feel how small I am – but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.”</p>
<p>Reading these words from Ayn Rand, I find myself wondering for the thousandth time: why don&#8217;t the Dutch feel this way about the Netherlands?  No other country I know, after all, is a more magnificent example of the will of man made visible.  Much of it was reclaimed from the sea, and protected from it for centuries thereafter, through the use of technology that even today remains awe-inspiring in its ingenuity.  Amsterdam, this glorious jewel, used to be nothing but swamp.  To travel around the Netherlands is to marvel at the pristine beauty of its cities and villages; to read its history is to be stirred by its longtime role as a beacon of freedom, a refuge for people whose religious beliefs or lack thereof made them anathema in their own lands.  In short, it&#8217;s a country whose people, one would imagine, would feel a deep obligation to protect and preserve for their posterity this extraordinary inheritance that their forebears worked so diligently and brilliantly to create.  It&#8217;s a mystery to me, and a cause for lamentation, that so many of them don&#8217;t feel this way.</p>
<p>Yet – well – at least ten percent of them do.  That&#8217;s something.  And Geert Wilders and Martin Bosma are hanging in there – persevering valiantly, in the face of non-stop vilification and demonization at home and abroad, in their effort to keep this small land free.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of a man hunted for the beliefs he holds and truth he speaks.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Picture-6.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131757" title="Picture-6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Picture-6.gif" alt="" width="375" height="248" /></a>The courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders released his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960/"><em>Marked for Death</em></a><em>: Islam’s War Against the West and Me</em> in May 2012. The foreword to this title was written by the eloquent Canadian-born political commentator and cultural critic <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/">Mark Steyn</a>, who has a special talent for writing about serious topics in a humorous way. He has published several books and written essays for publications ranging from the <em>Jerusalem Post </em>and the <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> to the <em>National Review</em>, <em>The Australian</em> and Canada’s <em>National Post</em>.</p>
<p>Steyn is honest enough to admit that when he was first asked to contribute to Wilders’ new book, his initial reaction was to say no. The main reason for this is the potentially high cost of being associated with a man who lives with constant death threats.</p>
<p>Yet, after taking a stroll in the woods, Mark Steyn felt ashamed at the ease with which he was caving in to the enemies of freedom, and decided to accept the offer after all. He recalled how the Canadian Islamic Congress boasted that their attempts by legal aggression to silence Steyn’s critical writings about Islam had cost his magazine substantial sums, and thereby attained their “strategic objective” of increasing the cost of publishing anti-Islamic material.</p>
<p>In the case of Geert Wilders, that cost is not merely limited to money. Despite being an elected Member of Parliament in what used to be one of Europe’s freest and most tolerant countries, he is regularly vilified by Western mass media. When trying to enter Britain, a nation that once was a champion of liberty, he was detained by plainclothes border guards on arrival at London’s Heathrow airport in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/4603182/Dutch-anti-Muslim-politician-turned-away-from-Britain-at-Heathrow.html">February 2009</a> and deported from the country.</p>
<p>The democratic Dutch MP had been invited to the House of Lords, where Baroness Cox and Lord Pearson wanted to show his 17-minute Islam-critical film <em>Fitna</em>. The Home Office refused him entry on the grounds he “would threaten community security and therefore public security,” not because he threatened to use violence, but because Muslims might use it.</p>
<p>Lord Ahmed from the Labour Party, Britain’s first Muslim member of the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament, pledged to bring a 10,000 strong force of angry Muslims to lay siege to Parliament. A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain claimed that Wilders has been an open and relentless preacher of “hate.” At the same time, London has become a notorious intentional center for Islamic militants, who spew hate on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Geert Wilders accused the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown of being “the biggest bunch of cowards in Europe.” He was later allowed entry to the UK, however. He was also put on trial in the Netherlands accused of criminally insulting religious and ethnic groups. Wilders was eventually found not guilty in 2011, but the entire process took several years.</p>
<p>As Mark Steyn puts it, “He is under round-the-clock guard because of explicit threats to murder him by Muslim extremists. Yet he’s the one who gets put on trial for incitement. In twenty-first century Amsterdam, you’re free to smoke marijuana and pick out a half-naked sex partner from the front window of her shop. But you can be put on trial for holding the wrong opinion about a bloke who died in the seventh century. And, although Mr. Wilders was eventually acquitted by his kangaroo court, the determination to place him beyond the pale is unceasing: ‘The far-right anti-immigration party of Geert Wilders’ (the <em>Financial Times</em>)… ‘Far-right leader Geert Wilders’ (the <em>Guardian</em>)… ‘Extreme right anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders’ (AFP) is ‘at the fringes of mainstream politics’ (<em>Time</em>). Mr. Wilders is so far out on the far-right extreme fringe that his party is the third biggest in parliament.”</p>
<p>Maybe those who are out on the fringe are the ones who think that disliking Islam is “far-right.”</p>
<p>Yet it’s not just Wilders himself who is being attacked in this fashion. Those who dare to meet him or support some of his views could find themselves attacked by the mass media and the political elites in a comparable manner. Cory Bernardi, born and raised in Adelaide and currently representing the state of South Australia for the Liberal Party in the Australian Senate, in 2011 came under fire not only from members of other parties but also from his own — allegedly conservative — party when he wanted to facilitate a trip to Australia by Wilders.</p>
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<p>In a new <a href="http://www.pvv.nl/index.php/component/content/article/36-geert-wilders/4817-interview-met-geert-wilders-in-panorama-.html">interview</a> in the Dutch magazine <em>Panorama, </em>Geert Wilders talks about a variety of things, including his forthcoming book about Islam, which will be published in the U.S. in April.  In it, he says, he&#8217;ll document the fact that “Islam is a dangerous ideology” and that “Muhammed really is one of the big bad guys” of history, whose negative influence continues to be felt today.  Yes, Wilders acknowledges, there are genuinely moderate people who call themselves Muslims, and if they want to call themselves Muslims that&#8217;s fine with him – but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.</p>
<p>What, asks the interviewer, is his great fear?  Answer: that “if we don&#8217;t put an end to Islamization, it will slowly but surely insinuate itself into our society, at the cost of our freedom.  And bit by bit things will go the wrong way.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m extending this warning.  Otherwise someday our children and grandchildren won&#8217;t have freedom any more.”  To which the interviewer replies: “And if people say: come on, Geert, it&#8217;s not really so bad, is it?&#8230;What do you say then?”  “I say: it&#8217;s worse than you think.”</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that in the year 2011 there exist Dutchmen – outside of the perennially clueless cultural elite, that is – who are still able to believe that things aren&#8217;t “really so bad.”  But, alas, there are.  There are.</p>
<p>To be sure, thanks largely to pressure from Wilders and his Freedom Party, the last few years have seen reforms in Dutch immigration and integration policies.  But has it been too little, too late?   For the unfortunate fact is that one set of indicators after another continues to head south.  Take a new <a href="http://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/openbare-orde-en-veiligheid/nieuws/nieuws/marokkaanse-meisjes-groeiend-probleem.2561474.lynkx">report</a> commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and produced by Risbo, a research institute at Erasmus University.  It shows that of males in the Netherlands&#8217; “Moroccan community” between the ages of 12 and 24, no fewer than 38.7 percent have come to the attention of the police at least once during the last five years in connection with some offense – mostly violent crimes and thefts.</p>
<p>The winner in this dubious sweepstakes is the historic city of Den Bosch, about fifty miles south of Amsterdam.  In Den Bosch, just under half of young Moroccan males between 12 and 24 – 47.7 percent, to be exact – have police records.  (That&#8217;s up from 45 percent last year.)  In a long list of other cities – Zeist, Gouda, Veenendaal, Amersfoort, Maassluis, Oosterhout, Schiedam, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Ede, Leiden, and The Hague – the figure also topped 40 percent.  In every municipality that was studied, incidentally, the scores for Moroccan youths far outstripped those for ethnic Dutch kids, among whom an average of 13 percent of boys in the same age cohort had come in for similar police attention during the same period.</p>
<p>One person who knows a good deal about the Dutch Moroccan youth milieu is filmmaker Roy Dames, who spent eight years – imagine! – working on <em>Mocros, </em>a documentary about young Moroccans in Rotterdam.  (The film opened on November 10 in Amsterdam and Nijmegen, and will be aired on Dutch TV early next year.)  In an interview with the Dutch edition of <a href="http://www.metronieuws.nl/rotterdam/marokkaanse-jeugd-kan-niet-over-problemen-praten/SrZkkg%219s4WrJh8yTCAc/">Metro</a><em>, </em>Dames, whose <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1990812/">previous work</a> includes documentaries about criminals, prostitutes, alcoholics, and homeless people, says that he “wanted to make a documentary about the Moroccan boys in the street, the street kids that you see everywhere.  In 2002, when I started <em>Mocros</em>, Moroccan boys had a poor image. They still do.  Many Moroccan boys are kicked out of school, cause trouble in the streets, and are in danger of leading a life of crime.”</p>
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<p>The threat from Islam seems to be growing. For example, the last twelve months saw the largest number ever of attempted and successful terrorist attacks on American soil. Meanwhile, books such as Paul Sperry’s <em>Infiltration,</em> and Sperry and David Gaubatz’s <em>Muslim Mafia </em>warn that Muslim Brotherhood agents have penetrated deep into the corridors of power and influence.</p>
<p>Yet official America is still in denial. The words “jihad,” “Islam,” “Islamic terrorism” and just plain “terrorism” are off-limits in polite government and military circles. Attorney General Eric Holder couldn’t even bring himself to use the term “radical Islam” when questioned on the subject the other day. At the same time, the mainstream media continue to deny that Islamic beliefs are the main factor in terrorist attacks. Thus, several reporters portrayed Faisal Shazhad, the Times  Square bomber, as just another case of mortgage meltdown. Meanwhile, Comedy Central prudently decided that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Depicted will not be depicted. And amazingly, the people who point to the increasing threat from Islam are still written-off as “alarmists.” Sometimes, as in the cases of Mark Steyn, Geert Wilders, and others, the “alarmists” are hauled before courts and tribunals to answer for their alarmism.</p>
<p>Every once in a while, for sanity’s sake, you need to take a break from such grim reports. So today I’m recommending you pull yourself away from the bad news on the blog sites, and escape into the world of fantasy. Take a breather. Ease up on yourself. For example, you could immerse yourself for a few days in one of the “Harry Potter” series. Forget about the jihad. Instead, transport yourself to the magical world of Hogwarts.</p>
<p>You could, for instance, pick up book five of the series, <em>Harry Potter and the Order of the </em><em>Phoenix</em><em>. </em>It’s almost as long as <em>War and Peace</em>, so it will provide many hours of diversion. Moreover, it’s a well-written, cleverly plotted book with plenty of mystery, humor, sharply drawn characters, and inventive gadgets. As with the other books in the series, the plot revolves around the struggle between Harry and his nemesis, Voldemort—who is referred to throughout as “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” Hah, hah! Clever literary device, that. You know we’re safely in the realm of fantasy when people can’t even bring themselves to name the threat which faces them.</p>
<p>The story starts out with Harry being summoned before a court hearing at the Ministry of Magic. The charge?—unauthorized use of his wand in Muggle territory. Harry used his wand to repel an attack by creatures now in the employ of Voldemort—in effect, a terrorist attack. But since no one at the Ministry of Magic will believe that Voldemort has returned, they insist that Harry has made up the story. The Ministry, in short, is in denial about the threat from Voldemort. It’s also in denial about the extent of the infiltration of the Ministry by Voldemort’s agents.</p>
<p>Harry is (just barely) acquitted of the charge against him, but he remains the target of a media smear campaign that portrays him as an alarmist. <em>The Daily Prophet,</em> the most influential of the Wizarding community’s newspapers, never misses a chance to discredit Harry for warning about non-existent dangers. At the same time, its editors repeatedly ignore or deny rumors about Voldemort’s re-emergence.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a climate of political correctness has settled over the school. The new headmistress, Professor Umbridge (in reality, a Ministry plant), teaches a course in “Defense against the Dark Arts” which effectively leaves her students defenseless. The newly revised course is purely theoretical and provides no actual practice of defensive spells. From now on, Professor Umbridge informs them, the class will learn about defensive skills “in a secure, risk-free way.” When Harry and Hermione complain that they will be left unprepared to deal with the dark forces, Professor Umbridge counters that they have nothing to fear: “…you have been informed that a certain Dark wizard is at large again. This is a lie…the Ministry of Magic guarantees that you are not in danger from any Dark wizard.”</p>
<p>Alas, as you can see, <em>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix </em>isn’t going to provide much relief from jihad anxiety. Substitute Muhammad or Islam for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, the Obama administration for the Ministry of Magic, Geert Wilders or Mark Steyn for Harry, and you’ve got the main story of our times—one that also involves re-emergent dark forces, stealth infiltrations, denial, and neutered school curriculums. For <em>The Daily Prophet</em> you could substitute <em>The New York Times</em> or the <em>Times</em> of London, and for Professor Umbridge you could substitute all those teachers and professors who, by whitewashing Islam, leave their students unprepared for the reality they will one day face.</p>
<p>Is J.K. Rowling’s fifth book actually a roman-a-clef?—that is, a novel describing real life under the cover of fiction. Is she sending us a hidden message in the style of <em>The Da Vinci Code</em>? Rowling lives in England, after all, and she must surely have noticed that cultural jihad is far advanced there. One report says that the Muslim population of England is growing at a ten times faster rate than the native population. And the growing population is becoming more aggressive. When Geert Wilders visited England after initially being banned by the UK government, some of the Muslim protesters called for his head—literally. In reply to this kind of belligerence, official England has responded more or less like Chamberlain at Munich. “Jihad” and “Islamic terrorism” were long ago dropped from the Establishment lexicon. The schools have deleted the Holocaust and the Crusades from the curriculum out of deference to Muslims. And the Archbishop of Canterbury (who, fittingly, looks like a wizard out of central casting) has resigned himself to the establishment of some forms of Sharia law.</p>
<p>Was Rowling making a veiled comment on the surrender of her society to Islam by a craven elite? It’s difficult to say, of course. Maybe she had something more conventional in mind—perhaps, the failure of the Establishment to warn sufficiently about the dangers of global warming. Or maybe the scene with Professor Umbridge was meant to allude to the failure of British schools to provide the kind of practical sex education that would prepare students to defend against sinister strains of STD’s.</p>
<p>But if she was alluding to the threat from Islam, you can see why it had to be veiled. <em>Wikipedia</em> informs us that the reasons an author might choose a roman-a-clef format include:</p>
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<li>Writing      about controversial topics and/or reporting inside information on scandals      without giving rise to charges of libel.</li>
<li>Avoiding      self-incrimination or incrimination of others that could be used as      evidence in civil, criminal or disciplinary proceedings.</li>
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<p>Good reasons to be careful what you say—especially in England where it is quite difficult to defend against libel charges, and where “hate crime” laws are often interpreted so as to make criticism of Islam a criminal matter.</p>
<p>Imagine if Ms. Rowling had written a short opinion piece expressing her fears about the stealth Islamization of England. You can bet that before you could say “Expecto Patronum” she’d be brought up, like Harry, before some court on charges of defamation or hate speech. Or better make that “unauthorized hate speech.” If you want to write something hateful about Jews or Christians or Geert Wilders, no one will bother you. But in today’s England, just as in Harry Potter’s parallel England, you really can be arrested for warning about a danger that no one wants to admit.</p>
<p>Young people, they say, are the hope of the future. But not if they don’t wake up and begin to understand the present. When the Potter books first appeared years ago, it was reported that librarians and teachers were delighted. Young people were reading again! Ah, yes, the joy of reading. But part of the enjoyment in reading certain stories lies in making the connections to real life. What if there is never any moment of recognition—never any point where one sees the connection between what one reads and the world one lives in?</p>
<p>Young people may delve into imaginative fiction, but they live in a very unimaginative world—one that more or less forbids them to make any connections other than the officially approved ones. You can read <em>The Crucible</em> and have class discussions about McCarthyism, just don’t talk about contemporary witch hunts conducted by the politically correct. You can read <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>, but just remember that it’s an allegory about the threat of atomic weapons, and the destruction of the environment. Professor Tolkien never meant to say that certain traditions and cultures were superior to other traditions and cultures.</p>
<p>There are some important lessons to be learned from <em>Harry Potter and</em> <em>the Order of the Phoenix</em>. And it would be nice to think that legions of young people are taking them to heart. But today’s youngsters (as well as the not so young) have been conditioned to believe what the Wizarding community has been conditioned to believe: that there is no danger, no dark forces mustering, no need to worry about deception and infiltration. And, although our leaders and teachers talk incessantly about “change,” they have somehow managed to convince us that nothing momentous or world changing could ever really happen in our times. Very few seem prepared to even imagine the kind of epic change that Islamization would bring. And very few are prepared for the kind of epic struggle that may be needed to halt it. So thanks to J.K. Rowling, whether she intended it or not, for reminding us that epic struggles sometime occur in real life as well as in fantasies.</p>
<p><strong>William Kilpatrick’s articles have appeared in <em>FrontPage Magazine, First Things, Catholic World Report, National Catholic Register, Jihad Watch, World</em>, and <em>Investor’s Business Daily.</em></strong></p>
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