America as the last man standing
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman,
Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York.
Introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad
Conference in Jerusalem.
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I
come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world.
There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be
optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of
Europe . This not only is a clear and present danger to the future
of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival
of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western
civilization, facing an Islamic Europe .
First I will describe the situation on the ground
in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I
will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all
of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist
destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel
society created by? Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising:
entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside
or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes
for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women
walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of
children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three
steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have
signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any
economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious
fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming
in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for
territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe ,
street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout
Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And
in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that
will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we
rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter
Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many
cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is
now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the
most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm
can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning
the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only
serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are
beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely
hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV
stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid
authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot;
the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the
Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part
of the British legal system..Many neighborhoods in France are no-go
areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died
after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was
drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the
run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French
is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya,
Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about
Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in
Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering
25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years
from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end
of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would
not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to
assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center
reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as
greater than their loyalty toFrance . One-third of French Muslims do
not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social
Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in
favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call
'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim
official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is
willing to accept sharia law in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim
majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and
Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful
behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example
against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.
Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.
I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are.
They do not come to integrate into our societies, they come to
integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are
settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is
directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people
to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.
Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.?
The second thing you need to know is the
importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to
all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a
man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in
one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass
murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time.
Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his
enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed
himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good
for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.
Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its
essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down
detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants
to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is
not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives
for is sharia law. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare
it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian
ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam
'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein
Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the
Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have
lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support
Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand
years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a
democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line
of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing
the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines,
Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia .
Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the
Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against
Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad.. Israel is
simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there
would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found
other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest..
Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and
lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and
dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning
Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.
But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any
solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all
of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the
contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the
forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of
Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel
would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the
beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world
domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything.
So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of
Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my
country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the
mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since
World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest
threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks,
the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go
out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a
Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an
intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America -
as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.
With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve
the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of
gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was
offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with
their lives. All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind us of
the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish..
My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its
custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's
children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot
strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never
forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have
the right to do so.