America
as the last man standing ‘in a generation or two, the US will ask itself:
who lost Europe?'
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders,
Chairman, Party for Freedom, of 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
Milo 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 (Brussels).
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 public schools in Belgium and Denmark
only serve hall 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 Divert;
the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the
Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharpie 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 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 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 sharpie 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 bandies. 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 am 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 Handy 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 Bane Quays. 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
sharpie. 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 Qumran. 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, Defer in Sudan, Lebanon, and Ache 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. Israelis
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 ‘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 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.