File Photo: Geert Wilders speaking at our SIOA/AFDI Ground Zero mosque protest last year (photo courtesy El Marco)
Here is the historic speech which Geert Wilders gave last evening evening at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome.
One for the ages ......
The Failure of Multiculturalism and How to Turn the Tide
Speech Geert Wilders, Rome, 25 March 2011
Signore e signori, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends of the Magna Carta Foundation, molte grazie. Thank you for inviting me to Rome. It is great to be here in this beautiful city which for many centuries was the capital and the centre of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture.
Together with Jerusalem and Athens, Rome is the cradle of our Western civilization – the most advanced and superior civilization the world has ever known.
As Westerners, we share the same Judeo-Christian culture. I am from the Netherlands and you are from Italy. Our national cultures are branches of the same tree. We do not belong to multiple cultures, but to different branches of one single culture. This is why when we come to Rome, we all come home in a sense. We belong here, as we also belong in Athens and in Jerusalem.
It is important that we know where our roots are. If we lose them we become deracinated. We become men and women without a culture.
I am here today to talk about multiculturalism. This term has a number of different meanings. I use the term to refer to a specific political ideology. It advocates that all cultures are equal. If they are equal it follows that the state is not allowed to promote any specific cultural values as central and dominant. In other words: multiculturalism holds that the state should not promote a leitkultur, which immigrants have to accept if they want to live in our midst.
It is this ideology of cultural relativism which the German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred to when she said that multiculturalism has proved “an absolute failure.”
My friends, I dare say that we have known this all along. Indeed, the premise of the multiculturalist ideology is wrong. Cultures are not equal. They are different, because their roots are different. That is why the multiculturalists try to destroy our roots.
Rome is a very appropriate place to address these issues. There is an old saying which people of our Western culture are all familiar with. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” it says. This is an obvious truth: If you move somewhere, you must adapt to the laws and customs of the land.
The multicultural society has undermined this rule of common sense and decency. The multicultural society tells the newcomers who settle in our cities and villages: You are free to behave contrary to our norms and values. Because your norms and values are just as good, perhaps even better, than ours.
It is, indeed, appropriate to discuss these matters here in Rome, because the history of Rome also serves as a warning.
Will Durant, the famous 20th century American historian, wrote that “A great civilization cannot be destroyed from outside if it has not already destroyed itself from within.” This is exactly what happened here, in Rome, 16 centuries ago.
In the 5th century, the Roman Empire fell to the Germanic Barbarians. There is no doubt that the Roman civilization was far superior to that of the Barbarians. And yet, Rome fell. Rome fell because it had suffered a loss of belief in its own civilization. It had lost the will to stand up and fight for survival.
Rome did not fall overnight. Rome fell gradually. The Romans scarcely noticed what was happening. They did not perceive the immigration of the Barbarians as a threat until it was too late. For decades, Germanic Barbarians, attracted by the prosperity of the Empire, had been crossing the border.
At first, the attraction of the Empire on newcomers could be seen as a sign of the cultural, political and economic superiority of Rome. People came to find a better life which their own culture could not provide. But then, on December 31st in the year 406, the Rhine froze and tens of thousands of Germanic Barbarians, crossed the river, flooded the Empire and went on a rampage, destroying every city they passed. In 410, Rome was sacked.
The fall of Rome was a traumatic experience. Numerous books have been written about the cataclysmal event and Europeans were warned not to make the same mistake again. In 1899, in his book ‘The River War,’ Winston Churchill warned that Islam is threatening Europe in the same way as the Barbarians once threatened Rome. “Mohammedanism,” Churchill wrote – I quote – “is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. […] The civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” End of quote.
Churchill is right. However, if Europe falls, it will fall because, like ancient Rome, it no longer believes in the superiority of its own civilization. It will fall because it foolishly believes that all cultures are equal and that, consequently, there is no reason why we should fight for our own culture in order to preserve it.
This failure to defend our own culture has turned immigration into the most dangerous threat that can be used against the West. Multiculturalism has made us so tolerant that we tolerate the intolerant.
Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: Our opponents are keenly aware of our weakness. They realize that the pattern which led to the fall of Rome, is at play today in the West. They are keenly aware of the importance of Rome as a symbol of the West. Over and over again they hint at the fall of Rome. Rome is constantly on their minds.
- The former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said – I quote: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome”.
- Yunis al-Astal, a Hamas cleric and member of the Palestinian Parliament said – I quote: “Very soon Rome will be conquered.”
- Ali Al-Faqir, the former Jordanian Minister of Religion, stated that – I quote: “Islam will conquer Rome.”
- Sheikh Muhammad al-Arifi, imam of the mosque of the Saudi Defence Academy, said – I quote: “We will control Rome and introduce Islam in it.”
Our opponents are hoping for an event that is akin to the freezing of the Rhine in 406, when thousands of immigrants will be given an easy opportunity to cross massively into the West.
- In a 1974 speech to the UN, the Algerian President Houari Boumédienne, said – I quote: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” End of quote.
- Libyan dictator Kadhafi said, I quote: “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent.” End of quote.
Our opponents are aiming for a repetition of the fall of Rome in the 5th century and want to use exactly the same methods. “The strategy of exporting human beings and having them breed in abundance is the simplest way to take possession of a territory,” warned the famous Italian author Oriana Fallaci.
However, the situation today could be worse than it was when the Roman Empire fell. The Germanic Barbarians who overran Rome were not driven by an ideology. After having sacked Rome, they eventually adopted the Judeo-Christian civilization of Rome. They destroyed Rome because they wanted its riches, but they realized and recognized that Roman civilization was superior to their own Barbaric culture.
Having destroyed Rome, the Germanic tribes eventually tried to rebuild it. In 800, the Frankish leader Charlemagne had himself crowned Roman Emperor. Three hundred years later, the Franks and the other Europeans would go on the Crusades in defence of their Christian culture. The Crusades were as Oriana Fallaci wrote – I quote – a “counter-offensive designed to stem Islamic expansionism in Europe.” Rome had fallen, but like a phoenix it had risen again.
Contrary to the Barbarians which confronted Rome, the followers of Muhammad are driven by an ideology which they want to impose on us.
Islam is a totalitarian ideology. Islamic Shariah law supervises every detail of life. Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to our values. Respect for people who think otherwise, the equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, respect for Christians, Jews, unbelievers and apostates, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of islamization.
Europe is islamizing at a rapid pace. Many European cities have large islamic concentrations. In some neighbourhoods, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women’s rights are being trampled. We are confronted with headscarves and burqa’s, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings. “In each one of our cities” says Oriana Fallaci, “there is a second city, a state within the state, a government within the government. A Muslim city, a city ruled by the Koran.” – End of quote.
Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The multiculturalist Left is facilitating islamization. Leftist multiculturalists are cheering for every new shariah bank, for every new islamic school, for every new mosque. Multiculturalists consider Islam as being equal to our own culture. Shariah law or democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn’t really matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire leftist elite is guilty of practising cultural relativism. Universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians. They are all betraying our hard-won liberties.
Ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in Europe today has to some extent been deliberately planned
In October 2009, Andrew Neather, the former advisor of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, confirmed that the British Government had deliberately organized mass immigration as part of a social engineering project. The Blair Government wanted to – I quote – “make the UK truly multicultural.” To achieve this end, 2.3 million foreigners were allowed to enter Britain between 2000 and 2009. Neather says this policy has “enriched” Britain.
Ordinary people, however, do not consider the decline of societal cohesion, the rise of crime, the transformation of their old neighborhoods into no-go zones, to be an “enrichment.”
Ordinary people are well aware that they are witnessing a population replacement phenomenon. Ordinary people feel attached to the civilization which their ancestors created. They do not want it to be replaced by a multicultural society where the values of the immigrants are considered as good as their own. It is not xenophobia or islamophobia to consider our Western culture as superior to other cultures – it is plain common sense.
Fortunately, we are still living in a democracy. The opinion of ordinary people still matters. I am the leader of the Dutch Party of Freedom which aims to halt the Islamization process and defend the traditional values and liberties in the Netherlands. The Party of Freedom is the fastest growing party in the Netherlands.
Because the message of my party is so important, I support initiatives to establish similar parties in other countries, such as Germany, France and the United Kingdom, where they do not yet exist. Last month, a poll in Britain showed that a staggering 48 percent of the British would consider supporting a non-fascist and non-violent party that vows to crack down on immigration and Islamic extremists and restrict the building of mosques. In October last year, I was in Berlin where I gave a keynote speech at a meeting of Die Freiheit, a newly established party led by René Stadtkewitz, a former Christian-Democrat. German polls indicate that such a party has a potential of 20 percent of the electorate.
My speech, in which I urged the Germans to stop feeling ashamed about their German identity drew a lot of media attention. Two weeks later, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that multiculturalism is “an absolute failure.” Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Bavarian Christian-Democrats, was even more outspoken. “Multiculturalism is dead,” he said.
Last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: “We have been too concerned about the identity of the immigrant and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.” – End of quote.
Five weeks ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron blamed multiculturalism for Islamic extremism. “We have allowed the weakening of our collective identity,” he said. “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live […] apart from the mainstream.” – End of quote.
In his speech, David Cameron still makes a distinction between the Islamist ideology, which he calls extremist and dangerous, and Islam, which he says is peaceful religion. I do not share this view, and neither did Cameron’s great predecessor Winston Churchill. Stating that Islam is peaceful is a multiculturalist dogma which is contrary to the truth.
Politicians such as Merkel. Sarkozy and Cameron still do not seem to have understood what the problem really is. Nevertheless, the fact that they feel compelled to distance themselves from multiculturalism is a clear indication that they realize they need to pay lip-service to what the majority of their populations have long understood. Namely that the massive influx of immigrants from Islamic countries is the most negative development that Europe has known in the past 50 years.
Yesterday, a prestigious poll in the Netherlands revealed that 50 percent of the Dutch are of the opinion that Islam and democracy are not compatible, while 42 percent think they are. Even two thirds of the voters of the Liberal Party and of the Christian-Democrat Party are convinced that Islam and democracy are not compatible.
This, then, is the political legacy of multiculturalism. While the parties of the Left have found themselves a new electorate, the establishment parties of the Right still harbour their belief that Islam is a religion of peace on a par with peaceful religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and others.
The problem with multiculturalism is a refusal to see reality. The reality that our civilization is superior, and the reality that Islam is a dangerous ideology.
Today, we are confronted with political unrest in the Arab countries. Autocratic regimes, such as that of Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Kadhafi in Libya, the Khalifa dynasty in Bahrain, and others, have been toppled or are under attack. The Arab peoples long for freedom. This is only natural. However, the ideology and culture of Islam is so deeply entrenched in these countries that real freedom is simply impossible. As long as Islam remains dominant there can be no real freedom.
Let us face reality. On March 8, the International Women’s Day, 300 women demonstrated on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in post-Mubarak Egypt. Within minutes, the women were charged by a group of bearded men, who beat them up and dragged them away. Some were even sexually assaulted. The police did not interfere. This is the new Egypt: On Monday, people demonstrate for freedom; on Tuesday, the same people beat up women because they, too, demand freedom.
I fear that in Islamic countries, democracy will not lead to real freedom. A survey by the American Pew Center found that 59 percent of Egyptians prefer democracy to any other form of government. However, 85 percent say that Islam’s influence on politics is good, 82 percent believe that adulterers should be stoned, 84 percent want the death penalty for apostates, and 77 percent say that thieves should be flogged or have their hands cut off.
Ronald Reagan was right when he called Kadhafi a “mad dog.” However, we should not harbor the illusion that there can be real freedom and real democracy in a country where Islam is dominant. There is no doubt that the results of the Pew survey in Egypt apply in Libya, too. It is not in our interest to bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Tripoli and install a khalifate in Libya.
Of course, the world has to stop Kadhafi from killing his own people. However, as UN Resolution 1973 stated last week, this is primarily the responsibility of – I quote – “in particular [the] States of the region.” End of quote. Why does a country like the Netherlands have to contribute six F16 fighter jets to enforce the arms embargo in Libya, while Saudi Arabia does not contribute a single plane from its fleet of nearly 300 fighter jets? Arabs are dying, but the Arab countries are shirking their responsibilities.
And one of the major threats of the current crisis is not even addressed by our leaders: How are we going to prevent that thousands of economic fugitives and fortune seekers cross the Mediterranean and arrive at place like Lampedusa? Now that Tunisia is liberated, young Tunisians should help to rebuild their country instead of leaving for Lampedusa. Europe cannot afford another influx of thousands of refugees.
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is time to wake up. We need to confront reality and we need to speak the truth. The truth is that Islam is evil, and the reality is that Islam is a threat to us.
Before I continue I want to make clear, however, that I do not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.
Islam strives for world domination. The koran commands Muslims to exercise jihad and impose shariah law.
Telling the truth about immigration and warning that Islam might not be as benevolent as the ruling elite says, has been made a hate speech crime in several EU member states. As you probably know, I have been brought to court on charges of hate speech. That is the paradox of the multicultural society. It claims to be pluralistic, but allows only one point of view of world affairs, namely that all cultures are equal and that they are all good.
The fact that we are treated as criminals for telling the truth must not, however, deter us. The truth that Islam is evil has always been obvious to our ancestors. That is why they fought. It was very clear to them that our civilization was far superior to Islam.
It is not difficult to understand why our culture is far better than Islam. We Europeans, whether we be Christians, Jews, agnostics or atheists, believe in reason. We have always known that nothing good could be expected from Islam.
While our culture is rooted in Jerusalem, Athens and Rome, Islam’s roots are the desert and the brain of Muhammad. Our ancestors understood the consequences very well. The Koran, wrote the historian Theophanes, who lived in the second half of the 8th century, is based on hallucinations.
“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman,” the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II said in 1391, adding: “God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonable is contrary to God’s nature.”
For 1,400 years, Westerners have been criticizing Islam and its founder because they recognized evil when they saw it. But then, suddenly, in the last decades of the past century, especially from the 1970s onwards, Western intellectuals stopped doing so.
The moral and cultural relativism of Marxism led the West’s political and intellectual elites to adopt a utopian belief in a universal brotherhood of mankind.
Multiculturalism is a culture of repudiation of Europe’s heritage and freedoms. It weakens the West day by day. It leads to the self-censorship of the media and academia, the collapse of the education system, the emasculation of the churches, the subversion of the nation-state, the break-down of our free society.
While today – at last – our leaders seem to realize what a disastrous failure multiculturalism has been, multiculturalism is not dead yet. More is needed to defeat multiculturalism than the simple proclamations that it has been an “absolute failure.” What is needed is that we turn the tide of Islamization.
There are a few things which we can do in this regard.
One thing which we should do is to oppose the introduction of Sharia or Islamic law in our countries. In about a dozen states in the United States, legislation is currently being introduced to prevent the introduction of Sharia. In early May, I will be travelling to the U.S. to express my support to these initiatives. We should consider similar measures in Europe.
Another thing which we should do is support Muslims who want to leave Islam. An International Women’s Day is useless in the Arab world if there is no International Leave Islam Day. I propose the introduction of such a day in which we can honor the courageous men and women who want to leave Islam. Perhaps we can pick a symbolic date for such a day and establish an annual prize for an individual who has turned his back on Islam or an organization which helps people to liberate themselves from Islam. It is very easy to become a Muslim. All one has to do is to pronounce the Shahada, the Islamic creed, which says – I quote “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” It should be equally easy to leave Islam by pronouncing a counter-Shahada, which says “I leave Islam and join humankind.”
A third measure to turn the tide of Islamization is to reemphasize the sovereignty of the nation-state. The peoples of the free world will only be able to fight back against Islam if they can rally around a flag with which they can identify. This flag, symbolizing pre-political loyalty, can only be the flag of our nation. In the West, our freedoms are embodied in our nation-states. This is why the multiculturalists are hostile to the nation-state and aim to destroy it.
National identity is an inclusive identity: It welcomes everyone, whatever his religion or race, who is willing to assimilate into a nation by sharing the fate and future of a people. It ties the individual to an inheritance, a tradition, a loyalty, and a culture.
I want to elaborate a bit on this since we are gathered here today in Rome. Again, it is appropriate that we are in Rome. In this city, in 1957, and – what an ironic coincidence – on this very day, the 25th of March, the Treaty of Rome was signed. This Treaty obliges the member states of the European Union to aim for “an ever closer union.”
Unfortunately, this union, like other multinational organizations, has become one of the vehicles for the promotion of multiculturalism. The EU has fallen in the hands of a multiculturalist elite who by undermining national sovereignty destroy the capacity of the peoples of Europe to democratically decide their own future.
The new government in my country, which is supported by my party, wants to restrict immigration. That is what our voters want. But we are confronted by the fact that our policies have to a large extent been outsourced to “Europe” and that our voters no longer have a direct say over their own future.
On account of international treaties, EU legislation prevails over national legislation and cannot be reversed by national parliaments. Indeed, in 2008, the European Court of Justice, the highest court in the EU, annulled both Irish and Danish immigration legislation. The Court stated that national law is subordinate to whatever is ruled on the European level. In March 2010, the European Court of Justice annulled Dutch legislation restricting family reunification for immigrants on welfare.
The ease with which Europe’s political elite conducts an immigration policy aimed at the deracination of Europe shows the insensitivity of this elite. It willingly sacrifices its own people to its political goal, without any consideration for the people involved.
Lower class blue-collar people have been driven from their neighborhoods. There is no respect for their democratic vote. On the contrary, people who do not agree with the multiculturalist schemes are considered to be racists and xenophobes, while the undefined offence of “racism and xenophobia” has been made central to all moral pronouncements by the European Union, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, and other supra-national organizations. This represents a systematic assault by the elite on the ordinary feelings of national loyalty.
In 2008, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated that the member-states must – I quote – “condemn and combat Islamophobia” and ensure “that school textbooks do not portray Islam as a hostile or threatening religion.” – end of quote.
In March 2010, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution criminalizing so-called “defamation of religions.” The resolution, authored by Pakistan, mentions only one religion by name: Islam. With its 57 member states the Organization of the Islamic Conference systematically uses its voting power in the UN to subvert the concept of freedom and human rights. In 1990, the OIC rejected the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and replaced it by the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which states in articles 24 that – I quote – “All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Sharia.” – end of quote.
This “human rights” charade has to stop if Western civilization wants to survive. Human rights exist for the protection of individuals, not religions and ideologies.
The EU’s aim, meanwhile, seems to be to destroy the old sovereign nations and replace them by new provincial identities, which are all clones of each other. Britanistan will not differ from Netherlandistan, nor Germanistan from Italiastan, or any other province of the European superstate in the making.
We must reclaim Europe. We can only do so by giving political power back to the nation-state. By defending the nation-states which we love, we defend our own identity. By defending our identity, we defend who we are and what we are against those who want to deracinate us. Against those who want to cut us from our roots, so that our culture withers away and dies.
My friends,
Twenty years after the ordinary people, Europe’s mainstream conservative leaders, such as Merkel, Sarkozy and Cameron, have finally – better late than never – come to the obvious conclusion, namely that multiculturalism is a failure. However, they do not have a plan to remedy the situation.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for change. We must make haste. Time is running out. Ronald Reagan said: “We need to act today, to preserve tomorrow”. That is why I propose the following measures in order to preserve our freedom:
First, we will have to defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our liberties. If we are free to speak, we will be able to tell people the truth and they will realize what is at stake.
Second, we will have to end cultural relativism. To the multiculturalists, we must proudly proclaim: Our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture. Only when we are convinced of that, we will be willing to fight for our own identity.
Third, we will have to stop Islamization. Because more Islam means less freedom. We must stop immigration from Islamic countries, we must expel criminal immigrants, we must forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough Islam in Europe already. Immigrants must assimilate and adapt to our values: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Fourth, we must restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state. Because we are citizens of these states, we can take pride in them. We love our nation because they are our home, because they are the legacy which our fathers bestowed on us and which we want to bestow on our children. We are not multiculturalists, we are patriots. And because we are patriots, we are willing to fight for freedom.
Let me end with a final – and a positive – remark: Though the situation is bad and multiculturalism is still predominant, we are in better shape than the Roman Empire was before its fall.
The Roman Empire was not a democracy. The Romans did not have freedom of speech. We are the free men of the West. We do not fight for an Empire, we fight for ourselves. We fight for our national republics. You fight for Italy, I fight for the Netherlands, others fight for France, Germany, Britain, Denmark or Spain. Together we stand. Together we represent the nations of Europe.
I am confident that if we can safeguard freedom of speech and democracy, our civilization will be able to survive. Europe will not fall. We, Europe’s patriots, will not allow it.
Thank you very much.
Pray for Europe.
Posted by: KimH | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM
What a great speach. He summed it REAL well. Hopefull, he will be our Churchill. Now, whether El Presidentee will let him travel to the US is another thing. It has become very clear why our Presidnet sent back the Churchill bust first thing upon entering the Oval office.
Posted by: Mac-101 | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Attention my fellow Americans: this is what real leadership sounds like. We do not have watchdogs in our "mainstream" media. We have supine lapdogs who perpetuate the big lie. We have a post American radical Liberal of unknown origin in the White House surrounded by a coterie of like minded people. The values and ideals that sustained our forefathers through the great depression and two world wars have been relativized almost out of existence and mocked into near irrelevance. There is a ceaseless effort to unmoor us from our history, our culture and from each other. A divided house cannot stand yet we continue to elect frauds, charlatans and liars. Despite everything we knew about Obama he was still elected. His election tells us everything we need to know about where we find ourselves at this moment in history. History is making some very specific demands of us right now and we have no leadership at the highest levels. Only the diffuse and relativistic "leadership" of a post American beta male. I'm not White. I'm an American of Latino descent but it's long past time that White people stop allowing themselves to be guilt tripped for things they didn't do while being cast as history's villains. Stand up and be proud of America! Be proud of Western Civilization and of Judeo-Christianity! Before it's too late.
Posted by: Tony Figueroa | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Excellent speech, and equally relevant to the challenge we now face in America. First, Obama removes the bust of Churchill from the White House, which tells me it is because Obama is muslim and churchill recognized its dangers, and our president is advancing the goals of islamists on a daily basis. Our immigration policy and the possibility of a "north American union" will destroy our identity. Our country will, foolishly, start allowing the immigration of millions of "displaced" refugees from COUNTLESS war-zones now that the middle-east is on fire; they will "integrate" as poorly as the somalis and others which have infiltrated the heartland. America is at the same crossroads as Europe. Our leader is destroying our pride in who we are. America is a great nation and we must reclaim it from those who wish us harm.
Posted by: Bill E | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Right on Bro. We ALL benifit from Western Civilization. Especially from the American Experience as it has developed over the last 100 years. As in the Army, there is only one color of people, Green. In America we ALL need to be only a combination of three colors, Red, White and Blue. All these people who come from different countries and different cultures, why do you people beleive YOUR culture is superior to American culture. If it is so much better then get your butt back where it is better. LOL! Peace out and remember da MAN is doing ALL he can to devide us even more so that we, the sheeple can be more easily manipulated/controled.
Together we Stand, Devided we Fall!
Posted by: Mac-101 | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 12:05 PM
This illegal and legal immigration is purposefully designed to elliminate the middleclass so that the ElITES can establish their Global New World Order. After another year or two of risin prices coupled with stagnant and unfortunately many timies decreasin incomes they are well on their way to reduce America into a 3rd world nation.
Posted by: Mac-101 | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Great speech.. I wonder if the liberals of New York listened?
Posted by: JKeyes | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:06 PM
One of the few great leaders the West desperately needs if it is going to survive.
Posted by: Hainer | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:13 PM
Wow. It's such a privilege to read/hear Geert Wilders. He is so precise in his analyses and is such a trustworthy visionary.
And Mac-101 is right. The goal of the O Admin, with Soros in the background, is to establish a Global Order, a Police State. Sounds almost sci-fi, but it is happening now. I hope those who can be EFFECTIVE (key word) activists and leaders can put together all the pieces (healthcare, border security, military protocol and order, cultural deconstruction, introduction of Shariah, TSA actions, FBI overhaul, etc. etc.), and will indeed put it together and make an erudite an argument as our hero Geert Wilders. We the People need to rally. In fact, unless the PEOPLE put an end to it, the Globalists, the Elitists, will succeed. And faster than we think. To make matters worse, there are plenty of nations/leaders in the world wanting an end to US dominance--economically and militarily and culturally. The Globalists are readying themselves to gain control. Conservative leadership must rise to the challenge.
IMO Obama removing Churchill from the WH says everything. Another piece to this puzzle, but not at all puzzling. Obama's aim is to decimate the United States, and he knows he probably only has one term. But then, don't underestimate him. He grew up under a dictatorship where he was one of the elites, so he knows how to make it work. Count on Obama for a second term.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: MamaGrizzly | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:13 PM
"Our opponents are hoping for an event that is akin to the freezing of the Rhine in 406, when thousands of immigrants will be given an easy opportunity to cross massively into the West."
When the Fourth Reich/EU allow Turkey to join the EU.
Posted by: juniper | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:21 PM
Excellent observation.
Posted by: Mac-101 | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:30 PM
The UK Foreign Secretary Hague is in favour. Unbelievable. BTW a leave Islam day and prize - might be a good idea that.
Posted by: southwood | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:35 PM
It was a great speech. Lets hope enough Europeans wake up before it is too late.
I should also like to point out that the country currently on the front lines against muslim invasion is Israel.
Perhaps Europeans should spend less time looking for ways to throw that country away and more time supporting a fellow democracy who is dealing with the same threat.
Remember Europe. If Israel goes, you will not be far behind.
Posted by: Alyn Starkman | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 01:45 PM
At the risk of alientating you completely makin you think I'm totally crazy. Bush I, II Cinton and President Obama were Agency developed. Remember Soros funded Clinton, McCain and President Obama in the last presidential campaign. I knew Soros was financing McCain since 2000 since he hated Bush. Now this is really crazy. I stumpled upon this about 3 years ago. That oil company that Bush II went bankrupt with and the Saudi bought it up EXTREMELY overinflated somethime in the 1980s or 90s. That Saudi company was 51% owned by Soros. So Soros saved Bush II bacon in the past, alowin himn to become President. Many of President Clnton's early financiers were oil company and Agency connected that also gave to Bushs. So basically many BANKSTERS are in bed with oil companies and the Saudis and don't give a d@!rn about Israel or the US. So Momma, I beleive we're being played worse than a WWF restlin match by both parties, one puppetmaster.
Posted by: Mac-101 | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 02:02 PM
I am European, and I have been saying this SAME darn thing for years. Every time new talk about Turkey joining the EU arises or it is merely mentioned on the news. I cringe hard. It makes me angry to even THINK that Turkey has a shot in hell of joining. Not only its physical location not being in Europe in my opinion, but its people not European. I don't care what anyone says, Turkey should be COMPLETELY excluded from even the probability of joining. Talk about skating the Rhine indeed! The day they are known to be accepted to EU is the day Turkey empties out changing Europe's landscape forever.
Posted by: NOIslamNOWay | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 03:57 PM
So sad that so many Europeans are so complacent! Stop shrugging and saying 'Oh I can't do anything about it' and start paying attention and getting outraged when things are done against your will. Women, you really want to go BACK in history and be a doormat?
Posted by: NOIslamNOWay | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 04:01 PM
Obama, when he went to Turkey, advocated their joining the EU. What right has His Arrogance to meddle in EU internal politics ? None. Want the EU to advocate Mexico uniting with the US, President ? Uh, oh, nearly forgot - he has all but advocated that already with his lax immigration laws and criticism of bothering illegals for ID in Arizona.
Posted by: southwood | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 04:28 PM
Geert is coming back to America! Do we know yet where he will be speaking? We need to turn out in numbers to support him, get as many people as possible to listen to him. His speech was a highlight of the 9/11/10 Stop the Mosque event, and with this address to the Magna Carta Foundation he has established himself as the foremost political leader in the West against the incursions and predations of Islam.
We need someone of Wilders' caliber to front the ticket in the 2012 election. We can't survive another McCain-ish candidacy. Next time has to be the Real Thing -- because we must win. Another 4 years of drifting around throwing deck chairs off the USS Obamic Lame Duck will leave us sitting ducks. The next president must be able to identify and commit to tackling the the most critical threats before indulging in any pet social-issue agendas and waffling about "the Religion of Peace" and "moderate Muslims". Another charisma contest? Everybody saw how well the War Hero meme played out last time around.
We need a wartime consiglieri.
Posted by: lilredbird | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 06:07 PM
Geert Wilders is one of many more and more urgent needed "Bollwerks" against the islamic tsunami, which has dangerous flooded already Europe. Thanks to the masses of naive red-green-left goodies everywhere!
Posted by: Rolf Wittwer | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 07:02 PM
The prize for leaving Islam should be helf on Rifqa's birthday.
Posted by: gullah | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 07:14 PM
should have said "held" not helf.
Posted by: gullah | Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 07:15 PM
Geert Wilders gives specific actions to take to stop islamization:
1. One thing which we should do is to oppose the introduction of Sharia or Islamic law in our countries, and defend the freedom of speech.
2. "Another thing which we should do is support Muslims who want to leave Islam."
3. "A third measure to turn the tide of Islamization is to reemphasize the sovereignty of the nation-state... We must restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state. Because we are citizens of these states, we can take pride in them. We love our nation because they are our home, because they are the legacy which our fathers bestowed on us and which we want to bestow on our children. We are not multiculturalists, we are patriots. And because we are patriots, we are willing to fight for freedom."
We have the prescription; now what? What is the democratic way to implement the cure? Writing to our Congressmen and Senators, pushing for these measures?
I will start right away. I will also create a blog directed to Muslim women giving them names and telephone numbers of organizations they can contact when needing advice or protection.
Any other suggestions?
Posted by: Charles Martel | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM
American politicians, listen up... a WISE man is speaking to you!!!
Pamela, your efforts will bear fruit and America, from the White House, will one day call you Blessed, because you are truly a warrior for a righteous cause.
I have only one comment about the sparse comments about Geert Wilder's speech in Rome. As I write this, at 11pm, Las Cruces, New Mexico time, there are 22 comments since you posted this at 10:25 this morning, Friday. There should be at least 100 comments here.
Why at least 100 comments?
Have you seen TheBlaze.com and the 832 comments today, Friday, in three days, about the "Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell"?
On the first day there were over 400 comments.
>> http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pastor-fired-after-backing-new-rob-bell-book-questioning-hell/
The pit of hell is spewing evil in America with "honor killings for Allah," etc., and more people are exercised about defending a horrific view about torture after death for the "unsaved" than they are about the torture of "honor killings for Allah."
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Which current American elected politician speaks as clearly as Geert Wilders does about political and religious Islam?
Is there a wanna be politician, male or female, who has the fire in the belly to be an elected politician in 2012 who has taken the public square soap box to speak to American voters about the threat facing America, our U.S. Constitution and our 235 years of a "superior" way of life, compared to the 1400 years of Islamic tyranny everywhere it is tried... uh, I mean, imposed... by convert/re-vert or die?
Geert Wilder's speech in Rome should be sent to all POTUS aspirants, and they should be asked to publically comment, with full sentences, just like Congressman Allen West.
One quote from Wilder's speech in Rome -
"Another thing which we should do is support Muslims who want to leave Islam.
"An International Women’s Day is useless in the Arab world if there is no International Leave Islam Day.
"I propose the introduction of such a day ... ."
[...]
"It is very easy to become a Muslim.
"All one has to do is to pronounce the Shahada, the Islamic creed, which says – I quote
>>>>>>>>>>“There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”<<<<<<<<<<
"It should be equally easy to leave Islam by pronouncing a counter-Shahada, which says
>>>>>>>>>>“I leave Islam and join humankind.”<<<<<<<<<<
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My unique and original contribution as a possible "counter-Shahada" is from a biblical (NOT religious) standpoint. Think of this biblical debate point as simply another arrow in the quiver, to be used appropriately with the political debate points, the legal debate points and the current events debate points.
Since my Christian friends regularly acquiesce to our observant Jewish friends who are honorably inclined to use "Hashem" ("the name") and "Adonai" (LORD) instead of the Exodus 3: 14 and 15 name of the only eloihiym (mighty one) of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (renamed Israel) and Moses, I will use the biblical name for the single purpose of bringing the mighty one's omniscient wisdom and omnipotent strength into the incessant conversation about political and supremacist Islam.
I hope my use of "THE Name" is accepted in the respectful spirit it is used. And since I am not asking others, Christians or Jews, to use his biblical name instead of "Hashem" or "Adonai," I hope I am not asked to never return unless I use "Hashem" or "Adonai" instead his name that he originally gave to Moses when Moses asked what he should tell the Israelites in Egypt if they were to ask Moses what the name of his elohiym is.
Here goes, it's brief...
If we do not name the enemy correctly, why not?
I agree with the umbrella point of the "Son of Hamas" author Mosab Yousef.
The name of the enemy of ALL liberty is not terrorism... or Koran... or Hadith... or Muslim... or Islam.
The name of the enemy of political, legal and religious liberty is Allah.
If we do not use the name of our "strong right arm" and "our rock and our salvation," why not?
The name of our elohiym of ALL liberty (think liberty from Mitsrayim (Egypt)) is not Hashem... or Adonai.
The name of our elohiym of ALL liberty is "eh’yeh asher eh’yeh" ... “I Am That (which) I Am”-verse 13
The name of our elohiym of ALL liberty is YHWH ... YaHWeH/yahweh ... "He Is" (some spell YeHWeH)-verse 14
"This is my remembrance to all generations." - verse 14
And "all generations" includes us today, in 2011.
Instead of the descriptive word God (G-d... elohiym... mighty one), why do we not use his name Yahweh, the one "who is" vs. Allah, the one who is not... was not... and never will be the elohiym of Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Paul and Peter and John and me and etc., maybe someday even you, whoever you are, reading this right now?
Well, that is my simple and biblical contribution to Geert Wilder's "counter-Shahada" against Islam... and biblically speaking, ultimately Allah.
"It should be equally easy to leave Islam by pronouncing a counter-Shahada, which says
>>>>>>>>>>“I leave Islam and join humankind.”<<<<<<<<<<
And...
It should be equally easy to name the "rock of our salvation" and our "strong right arm" who is the ONLY elohiym of Abraham and Moses
>>>>>>>>>> whose ONLY name is YHWH (YaHWeH)... NOT Allah.<<<<<<<<<<
Since this "counter-Shahada" contribution was about the name of the elohiym of Abraham and Moses and not about the name of his son, his son's name, Yahshua ben (son of) Yahweh (Jesus son of Yahweh) will be adduced and commented on appropriately at another time, if the occasion ever arises.
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Two sources for those inclined to look into "THE Name"
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The first source is a short, 25 page article by Michael McHugh titled, "What is the pronunciation of the name "YHWH" (the LORD)?" The article is available in PDF and HTML format from Ancient Hebrew . org - http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/
PDF -
>> http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/docs/1_faqs_michaelmchugh.pdf
HTML -
>> http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/docs/1_faqs_michaelmchugh.html
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The second sources is a much longer 296 page pdf from Yahweh.org. -
>> http://yahweh.org/yahweh1.html
and a PDF download page of individual chapters -
>> http://yahweh.org/PDF_index1.html
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Only the name of YHWH (YaHWeH) can counter the name of Allah to ... STOP! Islamization Of America ... with our informed biblical free speech and political action
Posted by: STOP! Islamization Of America | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 01:21 AM
A reasonable man in a bedlam of irrationalistic, dream-riddled, suicidal, p.c. imbeciles.
As refreshing a drink of pure water after an ocean of bitter brine.
May Wilders' challenge to defend Liberty and defeat Islamic tyranny be taken up and fulfilled by all who rally to his cry for preserving the hardwon gains of decent humanity.
GO GEERT!
Posted by: profitsbeard | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 01:44 AM
Wilders is a great man and we need more like him.
Posted by: Daryl M | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 02:26 AM
Geert Wilders has more guts and determination than all our UK and US mainstream politicians combined. We need more like him and we need the message to get out to the masses: immigration per se is destructive to our identity and a serious threat to our freedoms, those that remain to us. But we must beware that we do not concentrate too much on Islam, like the EDL, WDL, SDL and others do. Whilst Islam is the greatest threat, mass immigration from whatever source and involving whatever peoples, is not good for the indigenous populations of our Western countries. That is a fact that is demonstrated every day in our lands.
Posted by: The Dragon | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 07:29 AM
Yes, Geert Wilders is certainly an outstanding person in this time of spineless "leaders" and perverted societies who think they owe Islamics the shirt of their backs and give up their own rights, to say nothing of their dignity, to keep Muslims from being "offended". The crazy thing is, there are a lot of government officials yet and citizens too, who are SO worried about offending Muslims also.
The time will come when they will develope a new respect for Wilders, but sadly enough, he doesn't get near enough of that in Europe now. It is so disgusting that even his own country, Holland, gives him a bad time- it's a wonder he got any votes at all in that last election ( March 2 ) . That's because the media darn near demonizes him and the people are so bogged down in Dutch hypertolerance they rebel against anyone who steps out of the circle of political correctness and exposes Islam for the backward , depraved system and infestation it realy is . Stupid people- they don't know what they are doing. I actually hurts me to know they don't much like him in Holland. There will come a time when they will look back and be sorry . And the United States ? They are a smug bunch who have called him a "fasict" and "Islamaphobe" and etc-you know the rest. I'm sometimes ashamed of American.
Posted by: Denise Ward | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 03:28 PM
Multicukturakism assumes that all cuktures are equal.
Well we all know what happens when you you assume!
Posted by: karl anglin | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 07:06 PM
Multiculturalism assumes that all cultures are equal.
Well we all know what happens when you assume!
Posted by: karl anglin | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 07:07 PM
The missing element in every human 'solution' is an accurate definition of the creature. The Islamics don't have a human definition.
In the Bible, God's Word has accurately defined the human being as 'the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.' His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans - everywhere in the world - possess.
Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of choice, selection, election, and consent.
Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise, including jealous Islam.
Further, God's gift of criteria for choosing between alternatives supplies us with superior standards for successful visionary choice-making. Humans cannot invent (or replace) criteria greater than self, ACLU to the contrary.
Defining 'human' accurately is the first step in establishing accurate and successful environments, institutions, and creative relationships for earth's Choicemaker. Middle East governments, and all leaders, would do well to pay attention: nature and nature's Creator speak with an authoritative voice. Psalms 25:12 119:30, 173 Joel 3:14 Selah
No one is smarter than their criteria. Add: The Islamcs don't have any...
Jim Baxter Sgt. USMC WWII & Korean War semper fidelis http://www.choicemaker.net/
Posted by: Jim Baxter | Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 09:41 PM
Well, like McCain or not, he was the best candidate against Obama with a chance of winning the election. And a leader with all the experience you could want, and a spine.
But if you prefer someone more like Wilders (and harder to accuse of "racism"!), there is the new congressman Allen West...
Posted by: Green Infidel | Monday, March 28, 2011 at 04:05 AM
It isn't just the quality of the words that make his speeches so good, it's the fact that he actually stands up and says them. I'm sure he shocks some people- I'm surprised there aren't more cries of protest. Blunt-unadorned hounest-simple, and commonsensible . There are some who have grown bolder and become somewhat close to talking like him, but so far nobody has quite made it . Either he's naive or he has more guts than Rambo.But he's what we need now. There are some who hate him; too bad there's a lot of them in his own country. I wonder why he doesn't do more talking there ? He should get them excited again about the next trial hearing , which is this coming Wednesday. That man may have his faults, but he has so much to give, and what a fighter ! After all the insults,verbal abuse,and restriction he's had to live with it's a wonder he hasn't given up. I keep wondering what I can do to help .
Posted by: Prophet | Monday, March 28, 2011 at 04:07 AM
I do. My ancestors came to Australia from Scotland (1880s and 1911), England (1854), Ireland, via England (1864), Germany (1866/ 67 - prior to the Suez Canal opening, so they had to sail round the Cape of Good Hope) and Denmark (1872).
And so I pray for Britain - for England, Scotland and Wales, for Ireland, for Germany and Denmark, the lands of my ancestors. And I *refuse* to give up hope for them.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 03:16 AM
The more I see and hear of this man the more I like him. I pray for his physical and spiritual protection, and for a divine hand of protection over his family and friends as well.
My prayer is that his party will gather momentum, gain more members - and votes - and that he will one day, not too far off, become Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
Two things I'd like to see.
First, I'd like to see Benedict XVI invite him to a private audience at the Vatican. Like Oriana Fallaci was invited. Wilders is, like Fallaci (whom he admires, and whose books he has read) a 'Catholic atheist', or more properly, an agnostic. (Agnostic is the term he has used of himself). I think it would be very significant if Benedict were to do this.
Second: I know Geert is married. His wife's name is Christina and I understand she's from Hungary. What I don't know is how old she is. And I don't think they have any kids. Which is a great pity. Ever since he stepped out into the front line, after Pym Fortuyn's assassination, and began speaking up about Islam, their opportunity for any sort of a private life together has been - shall we say - minimal. But I wish they could find the courage (if she isn't past childbearing, and if there are no medical problems that we don't know about that have stopped them from having kids) to defy the jihadists and have a 'battlefield baby' anyway: a pledge of hope and faith toward a future beyond the Jihad. Let Geert and Christina take a leaf out of Israel's book. If Israeli Jewish couples had decided that their environment was just too dangerous to bring kids into, Israel would have ceased to exist years ago.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 03:33 AM
This is one definition of insanity. You have governments give up sovereignty to an international body, and that body makes "hate speech" a crime, but only in regards to ONE group who represents ONE ideolog, Islam. Muslims can speak hatred of Jews and Christians without consequence. Only a delusional demonic insanity of mind cannot see that this is evil, surreal, 1984 George Orwell. I think we are in the times prophesied in the Bible. When the nations of the world rise up to fight Israel and are defeated by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ. Makes sense how this is unfolding before our very eyes. Islam hates Israel and Islam will take over the world except for Israel. Poor Muslims are nothing more than a pawn in the hands of the Christian God. They are so blinded by evil and Satan. Satan is using liberals to bring about what God said would happen in the end, and that was spoken thousands of years ago. Think about it, the Muslims cannot defeat a little country like Israel, but they can overtake entire continents and wreak havoc. That is because the Lord God of Israel keeps his covenants and His word. God said that he would gather the children of Israel from the nations where they were scattered and bring them back to the promised land. He did that in 1948? The world is aligning itself for the last great battle of the ages and the coming of the Lord. Israel will rebuild the temple on it's orginal site in the coming years also and the Dome of the Rock Mosque must be torn down for that to happen. Jesus said when asked about the signs of the last days that, there would be earthquakes (more than normal and more devastating) in divers places, floods, nations would rise against nations and kingdom against kingdom. I am an American Christian, not a Jew.
Posted by: Sonia | Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 07:48 AM