Geert Wilders spreekt bij het Hudson Institute te New York
Speech Geert Wilders in New York, 25 september 2008
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me. Great to be at the Four Seasons. I
come from a country that has one season only: a rainy season that starts
January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have three sunny days in a
row, the government declares a national emergency. So Four Seasons,
that's new to me.
It's great to be in New York. When I see the skyscrapers and office
buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: "The sky over New York and the
will of man made visible." Of course. Without the Dutch you would have
been nowhere, still figuring out how to buy this island from the
Indians. But we are glad we did it for you. And, frankly, you did a far
better job than we possibly could have done.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world.
There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be
optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of
Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of
Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the
West. The danger I see looming is the scenario of America as the last
man standing. The United States as the last bastion of Western
civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. In a generation or two, the US
will ask itself: who lost Europe? Patriots from around Europe risk their
lives every day to prevent precisely this scenario form becoming a
reality.
My short lecture consists of 4 parts.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I
will say a few things about Islam. Thirdly, if you are still here, I
will talk a little bit about the movie you just saw. To close I will
tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.
The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks.
The Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and Rome's ancient buildings and
maybe the canals of Amsterdam. They are still there. And they still look
very much the same as they did a hundred years ago.
But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your
tourist destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors
see - and one that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the
world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration. All
throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods
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
corner. 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 neighbourhoods, 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, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, 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 neighbourhoods. 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 in many cases no longer be
taught because of Muslim sensitivity. In England sharia courts are now
officially part of the British legal system. Many neighbourhoods 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 to
France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.
The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of
British Muslim students are in favour of a worldwide caliphate. A Dutch
study reported that half of Dutch Muslims admit they "understand" the
9/11 attacks.
Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them
respect. Our elites are willing to give in. To give up. In my own
country we have gone from calls by one cabinet member to turn Muslim
holidays into official state holidays, to statements by another cabinet
member, that Islam is part of Dutch culture, to an affirmation by the
Christian-Democratic attorney general that he is willing to accept
sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet
members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behaviour, ranging from petty
crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and
bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the
low-income suburbs, the banlieus. Some prefer to see these as isolated
incidents, but I call it a Muslim intifada. I call the perpetrators
"settlers". Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate
into our societies, they come to integrate our society into their
Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against
non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighbourhoods,
their cities, their countries.
Politicians shy away from taking a stand against this creeping sharia.
They believe in the equality of all cultures. Moreover, on a mundane
level, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
Our many problems with Islam cannot be explained by poverty, repression
or the European colonial past, as the Left claims. Nor does it have
anything to do with Palestinians or American troops in Iraq. The problem
is Islam itself.
Allow me to give you a brief Islam 101. The first thing you need to know
about Islam is the importance of the book of the Quran. The Quran is
Allah's personal word, revealed by an angel to Mohammed, the prophet.
This is where the trouble starts. Every word in the Quran is Allah's
word and therefore not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid
for every Muslim and for all times. Therefore, there is no such a thing
as moderate Islam. Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims. But a
moderate Islam is non-existent.
The Quran calls for hatred, violence, submission, murder, and terrorism.
The Quran calls for Muslims to kill non-Muslims, to terrorize
non-Muslims and to fulfil their duty to wage war: violent jihad. Jihad
is a duty for every Muslim, Islam is to rule the world - by the sword.
The Quran is clearly anti-Semitic, describing Jews as monkeys and pigs.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the
prophet. His behaviour 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. He advised on matters of slavery, but never advised to liberate
slaves. Islam has no other morality than the advancement of Islam. If it
is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad. There
is no gray area or other side.
Quran as Allah's own word and Mohammed as the perfect man are the two
most important facets of Islam. Let no one fool you about Islam being a
religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in
its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down
detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to
dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not
compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is
sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to
communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
This is what you need to know about Islam, in order to understand what
is going on in Europe. For millions of Muslims the Quran and the live of
Mohammed are not 14 centuries old, but are an everyday reality, an
ideal, that guide every aspect of their lives. Now you know why Winston
Churchill called Islam "the most retrograde force in the world", and why
he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.
Which brings me to my movie, Fitna.
I am a lawmaker, and not a movie maker. But I felt I had the moral duty
to educate about Islam. The duty to make clear that the Quran stands at
the heart of what some people call terrorism but is in reality jihad. I
wanted to show that the problems of Islam are at the core of Islam, and
do not belong to its fringes.
Now, from the day the plan for my movie was made public, it caused quite
a stir, in the Netherlands and throughout Europe. First, there was a
political storm, with government leaders, across the continent in sheer
panic. The Netherlands was put under a heightened terror alert, because
of possible attacks or a revolt by our Muslim population. The Dutch
branch of the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the
Netherlands was due for an attack. Internationally, there was a series
of incidents. The Taliban threatened to organize additional attacks
against Dutch troops in Afghanistan, and a website linked to Al Qaeda
published the message that I ought to be killed, while various muftis in
the Middle East stated that I would be responsible for all the bloodshed
after the screening of the movie. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch
flag was burned on several occasions. Dolls representing me were also
burned. The Indonesian President announced that I will never be admitted
into Indonesia again, while the UN Secretary General and the European
Union issued cowardly statements in the same vein as those made by the
Dutch Government. I could go on and on. It was an absolute disgrace, a
sell-out.
A plethora of legal troubles also followed, and have not ended yet.
Currently the state of Jordan is litigating against me. Only last week
there were renewed security agency reports about a heightened terror
alert for the Netherlands because of Fitna.
Now, I would like to say a few things about Israel. Because, very soon,
we will get together in its capitol. The best way for a politician in
Europe to loose votes is to say something positive about Israel. The
public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees
Israel as the aggressor. I, however, will continue to speak up for
Israel. I see defending Israel as a matter of principle. 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.
Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: "Islam has bloody borders". Israel
is located precisely on that border. 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.
Therefore, it is not that the West has a stake in Israel. It is Israel.
It is very difficult to be an optimist in the face of the growing
Islamization of Europe. All the tides are against us. On all fronts we
are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam. Muslim
immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties.
Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business
world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the
suicidal theory of multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to
label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists'
or 'racists'. The entire establishment has sided with our enemy.
Leftists, liberals and Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with
Islam.
This is the most painful thing to see: the betrayal by our elites. At
this moment in Europe's history, our elites are supposed to lead us. To
stand up for centuries of civilization. To defend our heritage. To
honour our eternal Judeo-Christian values that made Europe what it is
today. But there are very few signs of hope to be seen at the
governmental level. Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they
probably know how grave the situation is. But when the little red light
goes on, they stare into the camera and tell us that Islam is a religion
of peace, and we should all try to get along nicely and sing Kumbaya.
They willingly participate in, what President Reagan so aptly called:
"the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom."
If there is hope in Europe, it comes from the people, not from the
elites. Change can only come from a grass-roots level. It has to come
from the citizens themselves. Yet these patriots will have to take on
the entire political, legal and media establishment.
Over the past years there have been some small, but encouraging, signs
of a rebirth of the original European spirit. Maybe the elites turn
their backs on freedom, the public does not. In my country, the
Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration
of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And
another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat to our national
identity. I don't think the public opinion in Holland is very different
from other European countries.
Patriotic parties that oppose jihad are growing, against all odds. My
own party debuted two years ago, with five percent of the vote. Now it
stands at ten percent in the polls. The same is true of all
smililary-minded parties in Europe. They are fighting the liberal
establishment, and are gaining footholds on the political arena, one
voter at the time.
Now, for the first time, these patriotic parties will come together and
exchange experiences. It may be the start of something big. Something
that might change the map of Europe for decades to come. It might also
be Europe's last chance.
This December a conference will take place in Jerusalem. Thanks to
Professor Aryeh Eldad, a member of Knesset, we will be able to watch
Fitna in the Knesset building and discuss the jihad. We are organizing
this event in Israel to emphasize the fact that we are all in the same
boat together, and that Israel is part of our common heritage. Those
attending will be a select audience. No racist organizations will be
allowed. And we will only admit parties that are solidly democratic.
This conference will be the start of an Alliance of European patriots.
This Alliance will serve as the backbone for all organizations and
political parties that oppose jihad and Islamization. For this Alliance
I seek your support.
This endeavor may be crucial to America and to the West. America may
hold fast to the dream that, thanks tot its location, it is safe from
jihad and shaira. But seven years ago to the day, there was still smoke
rising from ground zero, following the attacks that forever shattered
that dream. Yet there is a danger even greater danger than terrorist
attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights
may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe
means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an
intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as
its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an
Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage
of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never
had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter,
by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe
American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home,
and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we
are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty
to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We
cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would
never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not
have the right to do so.
This is not the first time our civilization is under threat. We have
seen dangers before. We have been betrayed by our elites before. They
have sided with our enemies before. And yet, then, freedom prevailed.
These are not times in which to take lessons from appeasement,
capitulation, giving away, giving up or giving in. These are not times
in which to draw lessons from Mr. Chamberlain. These are times calling
us to draw lessons from Mr. Churchill and the words he spoke in 1942:
"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good
sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming
might of the enemy".
Speech Geert Wilders in New York, 25 september 2008
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