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Geert Wilders in Jerusalem "The Jihad against Israel is the Jihad
against the West."
Posted By Andrew Bostom On December 14, 2008
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[2] Video excerpt
<http://myrightword.blogspot.com/search/label/Geert%20Wilders>
December 14, 2008
Thank you very much.
It's a privilege for me to be here in this beautiful city Jerusalem,
the capitol of the only democracy in the entire Middle East. When I was a
teenager I lived some years here in this city and after that I visited
Israel more times than I can count. Israel: the only country in the region
with a functioning parliament, a rule of law and free elections. The only
country in the region that shares the values of our Western societies, in
fact is one of the foundations of our Judeo-Christian identity.
We are here to voice our concern over the growing Islamisation of
the West. We do this in this city, the city of David. The city that,
together with Rome and Athens, symbolizes our ancient heritage.
Perhaps a few of you may be new to Jerusalem, yet, Jerusalem is not
new to any of you. We all carry Jerusalem in our blood, in our genes. We all
live and breathe Jerusalem. We talk Jerusalem, we dream Jerusalem. Simply
because, the values of ancient Israel have become the values of the West. We
are all Israel, and Israel is in all of us.
This city is the capital of a democracy under threat. Israel is
under siege, like the Jewish community in the Land of Israel is under siege
for over a century now. Israel with all its glory and splendour is unique,
and its history unparalleled. Yet, Israel's security situation is not
unique, and neither is its enemy.
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, just like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines,
Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel
is simply in the way of the Islamic advance. Just like West-Berlin was
during the Cold War.
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 places to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Therefore,
the war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the
West. It is jihad. Thanks to Israeli parents who see their children go off
to join the army and lie awake at night, parents in Europe and America can
sleep well and have pleasant dreams, unaware of the dangers looming.
At present the front-line of jihad runs not just through the streets
of Tel Aviv and Haifa, but through the streets of London, Madrid, and
Amsterdam as well. Jihad is our common enemy, and we better start Facing
Jihad before it is too late.
Therefore, if we voice our concern over the Islamisation of the
West, we have to do it here, where our civilization borders on Islam. Where
jihadists fire Qassams into civilian homes in Sderot and Ashkelon, and where
a doctor like Aryeh Eldad is characteristic of our civilization by treating
terrorists the same way as he treats the Israeli victims. I salute Professor
Eldad for his work for humanity, and for his patriotism. And I thank him for
hosting this conference in this great city. Aryeh I am proud to be your
friend.
I will say a few things about the Islamisation of Europe and my film
Fitna. I will use some examples from the Netherlands, because they are
indicative for the situation on the continent.
The mass migration to the Netherlands continues full-speed ahead.
Currently, a staggering number of new immigrants arrive every year, many of
them Muslim, often uneducated, if not illiterate. Bringing along with them
the local customs of the mountains and deserts of backward Islamic
countries. Thousands and thousands of Muslims arrive in the Netherlands
every year, while already one million Muslims are living in our tiny
country.
There are many problems concerning this massive influx: immigrants
are overly represented in social benefits and crime statistics and the
overall costs are staggering. The financial costs of mass immigration in the
Netherlands exceeds 100 billion euro's.
But what we have to fear most is the creeping Islamisation, the
stealth jihad. Because every Islamic neighbourhood, every Islamic shop,
every mosque, every Islamic school, every burqa, every veil is regarded by
many Muslims as building blocks towards a larger goal, towards domination.
This is in fact the essence of the problem. Not crime, not even the
financial burden. The biggest problem is the demographic development, and
the way it influences our society at large. Immigration from Muslim
countries and the demographics will result in the Eurabia that the brave Bat
Ye'or is warning about. It will become reality if we don't act now.
A decade and a half ago, a then unknown American politician used the
following slogan in his political campaign: "it's the economy, stupid." From
now on the motto of my party will be: "it's demographics, dumbo".
More than forty years ago a British politician gave a famous speech.
He stated that, looking into the future, he saw 'rivers of blood' as a
result of the uncontrolled influx of immigrants. Enoch Powell's speech was
the starting point of a debate on mass immigration in Europe. As usual, the
leftist establishment labeled him an extremist and his career went down. But
the British people loved him, and supported Powell. London's dock workers
took him to their hearts, marching by the thousands in support of Mr.
Powell.
Looking back, I share Enoch Powell's alarmist views on mass
immigration, but 'rivers of blood' is not something I see happening. We
will not face civil war. Our political elite is trying to make us believe
that the influx of Muslim immigrants is similar to the waves of immigration
that took place centuries ago. Or they say that "Christianity developed
towards modernity, and therefore Islam will do the same".
How are we to remain a democracy if a large part of the growing
Muslim population is in favour of introducing sharia law? How is Amsterdam
to remain the gay capitol of Europe if gays are regularly beaten up by non
western immigrants, often Muslims? How are the Jewish communities of Europe
to survive with a growing presence of an ideology that is so blatantly
anti-Semitic? How are we to remain a centre of cultural and scientific
excellence if Islam opposes art, and academic exploration? How are we to
remain an open and tolerant society if we are faced with part of the Muslim
community favouring self-segregation and showing no desire for assimilation?
How can we look to the future with confidence, when a large part of the
population turns to a seventh century desert for answers?
These are the questions the multiculturalists don't want to answer.
Instead of providing leadership our political elite fooled us by
using our own principles against us. I will give you five examples.
First. Our tolerance is used as an argument to bring in more Islam,
to bring in more Muslims, and a way to tell us that we should not criticize
their Islamic culture, if you do you are labeled intolerant and racist.
Second. Democracy. A growing Muslim electorate is too hard for
politicians to resist, so they give in to their grievances and demands to
win their vote. Before long sharia law will be introduced, legally and
democratically, by means of majority vote. The former Dutch Minister of
Justice once said that sharia law could be part of the Dutch legal system if
a two third majority of the population would be in favour of it.
Third. Our religious freedom is utilized by an ideology that has no
plans whatsoever to play by our rules, yet demands the same rights our
traditional religions have had for centuries;
Fourth. Our welfare state that once was the envy of the world, now
functions as a magnet for a lot of non-Western immigrants, dreaming of a
cushy life in wealthy Europe.
Fifth. Our open borders came to symbolize our open mindset, an
example of our cosmopolitan hospitality. But now we have lost control of our
borders and we can't even keep track of who is entering our countries, let
alone prevent them from entering.
Our Western principles are hollow if they are not accompanied by a
desire to sustain our culture and our civilization, based upon knowing who
we are and where we come from. We are not from Saudi-Arabia. We are not from
Iran. We come from Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. That makes our civilization
special, and certainly worth preserving.
In spite of all that, the political elite are still madly in love
with their pet project, the multicultural society, as they call it
romantically. Apparently they don't live in the neighbourhoods that are
turning Islamic. They will tell you "they are nice people. I don't see the
problem?" The Muslim immigrant's demands sound reasonably to them, like:
"let us have an extra-large mosque".
It is very difficult to remain optimistic in the face of the growing
Islamisation of Europe. The tide is turning against us. We are losing on
every front. Regarding the demographics, Islam is gaining momentum. The
ruling elite is even proud of the Muslim immigration. After all, this way
they can show everyone that they are not racists. 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
and cultural relativism.
Cultural relativism is the biggest disease modern day Europe suffers
from. Not all cultures are equal. Our Western culture is better than the
Islamic culture. In the words of the brave Dr. Wafa Sultan: "It is a clash
between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the
primitive, between barbarity and rationality". Indeed also here in Israel
you are not fighting a territorial war, it's not about territory it's about
ideology. The Islamic ideology does not seek cooperation or assimilation
but aims for submission and dominance over non-Muslims. There is no moderate
Islam, there will never be a moderate Islam. There might be moderate people
who call themselves Muslim, but there is no moderate Islam.
Leftist journalists and leftist politicians hasten themselves to
label anyone critical of the Islamisation a 'right-wing extremist'. The
entire establishment has sided with Islam. Leftists, liberals, and
Christian-Democrats are now enslaved to Islam. They are Dhimmi's. Lenin once
labelled ignorant people that unknowingly aided his cause 'useful idiots'.
Well, the West is now full of these 'useful idiots', and they are even proud
of it.
Now some words about my film Fitna.
I felt I had the moral duty to educate people about Islam and the
Islamisation of Europe. The duty to make clear to everyone that the Koran
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.
I have warned against the dangers of the Koran and Islam in numerous
interviews, opinion articles, speeches and of course parliamentary debates,
but pictures often say more than words. That is why I made Fitna.
Fitna is a documentary that shows what is being done in the name of
Islam. Without placing all Muslims into the same category, I think I have
succeeded in showing that the Koran is not some dusty old book, but that it
is still used today as a source of inspiration for, and justification of
hatred, violence and terrorism across the world.
A few weeks ago the world has once again seen what Islam is capable
of. In Mumbai, jihadists separated Muslims from non-Muslims, according to a
witness in a Belgian newspaper. The non-Muslims, the Kaffirs, were
subsequently shot. The terrorists also went straight for the tiny Jewish
centre in Mumbai, where, according to reports made to an Indian news
website, they horribly tortured Jewish people before brutally murdering
them.
Most of the Western media stick to naming the culprits as being
members of 'separatist movements'. In doing so, they are missing the main
point and are unjustly ignoring the Islamic nature of the terror attacks.
After all, if it is a conflict about borders, why are they killing Jews in
Mumbai? Why, in a city of tens of millions, find the jihadists the shortest
way to the only rabbi in town - in order to kill him and his wife? Why are
Israel's enemies always shouting "Allah hoe-Akbar" and "kill the Jews" if
all they want is peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding? Maybe, I'm
just guessing, is it because they have an ideology that tells them to kill
Jews, to kill unbelievers, and to advance Islam until there is world
domination. Islam, after all divides the world in a dar-al-Harb, and
dar-al-Islam. Islam is a totalitarian ideology full of hate, violence and
submission.
From the day the plan for my short film was made public it caused
quite a stir, in the Netherlands, in Europe and across the world. First
there was a political uproar, with government leaders across the continent
in sheer panic. The Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs called on me to
abandon my film project. The Minister of Justice let it be known that post
hoc criminal proceedings could be initiated if the movie was shown. The
Dutch government investigated the possibility of having Fitna banned in
advance. The Dutch branch of the Islamic organization 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 the Grand Mufti of
Syria stated that I would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the
screening of the film.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several
occasions. Dolls representing me were burned as well. The Indonesian
President announced that I will never be admitted into Indonesia again,
while the UN Secretary General and the European Union issued statements in
the same cowardly vein as those by the Dutch government. I could go on and
on. It was an absolute disgrace, a sell out. It was treason to our Western
principles, it was treason to freedom of speech, it was treason to liberty
itself. My own government was not defending me, but became my worst enemy in
the process.
Because of Fitna the State of Jordan is currently litigating against
me. Jordan wants to prosecute me for blasphemy, demeaning Islam and
slandering the Prophet Muhammad; violations of the Jordanian Penal Code,
even though the alleged violations did not even occur in Jordan. As you all
know, Jordan is a non-democratic country, without an independent or
impartial judicial system and without a strongly developed civil society.
According to a recent study by Human Rights Watch, torture is a routine and
widespread practice in Jordan.
Jordan's attempt to prosecute me is an infringement on the
sovereignty of my country, the Netherlands. It is an infringement on freedom
of speech. Jordan's attempt is in fact a hostile act towards freedom itself.
If Jordan succeeds in prosecuting a democratically elected member of
a Western parliament, what kind of precedent would that set? But its not
about me. The principle is not Geert Wilders. If you look at the press and
the rest of the political elite in the Netherlands, nobody cared. Nobody
gived a damn. This was the worst thing. A nondemocratic country like Jordan
cannot use the international or domestic legal system to silence anyone. If
this starts, if we allow this, we can get rid of all parliaments, and we
should close down every newspaper, and we should shut up and all pray to
Mecca five times a day.
But there is some hope. For instance there is some hope with the
middle class workers. Underneath the empty bravado of the elite, the middle
class worker, the average Joe, is starting to realise that there is
something terribly wrong with Islam. In the Netherlands, sixty percent of
the population considers mass immigration to be the worst mistake since the
second world war. And an equal sixty percent sees Islam as the number one
threat to our national identity. But the Freedom Party is the only political
party in the Dutch parliament that shares their view.
And there is hope that political parties critical about the
Islamisation of the West are gaining momentum all over Europe, are getting
stronger. And we will work together with common legislation, with common
initiatives, perhaps even with a common group in the European parliament as
defenders of the West, defenders of our culture, defenders of our identity,
defenders of our freedom.
We need a new way of thinking, a new paradigm, to defend our
liberties. Just reiterating our devotion to tolerance and democracy is not
good enough, as we are Facing Jihad. We need a new set of goals and ideas.
We need new leaders. And we should always remember where we come from. We
all come from Jerusalem.
Let me wind up. The essence of my short speech today is that Europe
is in the process of Islamisation, and that we need to fight it. Because if
we don't fight the Islamization we will lose everything; our cultural
identity, our democracy, our rule of law, our liberties, our freedom. We
have the duty to defend the ideas of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. The ancient
heritage of our forefathers is under attack; we have to stand up and defend
it.
A century and a half ago, on the other side of the world, a young
President said exactly what I mean. This is what Abraham Lincoln said in
1862, and I leave you with that:
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must
disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
(Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
It is five to twelve. Freedom must win, we have to win and we will
win.
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