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Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.


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 in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and
announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem
.

"Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America
with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger
looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final
stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present
danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the
sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western
civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.


First, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe
.. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a
meeting in Jerusalem
..


The Europe you know is changing.


You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a
few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is
the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.


All throughout Europe a new reality is rising:
entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even
seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well.
It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents,
with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if
you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The
shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any
economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.
These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial
control of increasingly larger portions of Europe
, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.


There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe
. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European
city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the
region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.


Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam
, Marseille and 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.


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 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.


We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from
destroying the free world that we know."