Here we print a little known speech entitled ‘America as the last man standing’ in which a courageous Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, delivers a chilling warning of an Islamic Europe.
Mr Wilders is Chairman of the Party for
Freedom, the Netherlands, and his speech was made at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots. The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute on Sept 28, 2008.
Since few in the media would report this speech, we reprint it here.
America as the last man standing
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 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
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 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. 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, & amp; nbsp; 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 honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
*Mr Wilders is said to be receiving death threats and has been censored by the European Union for warning about Islam.
You may be able to watch his short documentary movie FITNA on the web.