[StBernard] Islam's gains in Europe

[Westley Annis]

'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?'

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the
Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of
Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute on September 25. 2008.


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, Isra el . 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 , 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. 




 



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