A personal message for Geert Wilders from Ashley Mote (MEP 2004-09)
Huge reaction from a West Coast audience of at least two hundred, plus
media.
Americans Sceptical about United Nations
Last weekend I spoke at a conference in California organised by Radio
Liberty. I was asked to speak about the threat to the world from the
burgeoning European Union.
One of the reactions I got was nothing directly to do with my speech.
But it seemed to me so important that I should record it here. Many
Americans have become increasingly cynical about the role,
effectiveness and direction of the United Nations. A distinct dislike
of the UN now exists in the USA.
They frequently doubt that the UN’s objectives are in the interests of
the USA, but nonetheless find themselves cast in the role of
enforcers. They see themselves as doing the world’s dirty work at
American expense in terms of lives and money.
“And where are the rest of you…?” was the way one man put it. He
spoke for many.
Yes, he acknowledged that the UK was often by their side, but who
else…? Good question.
A large and attentive audience listened even more closely to my talk
than I expected, especially when the second half was devoted to a
summary of Geert Wilders’ speech in New York a year ago. You may
recall it was about The Islamization of Europe.
After the conference, many people were so concerned at the issues
Wilders raised they asked if I would put the full text of the speech on
my website. It follows as a separate posting, and is on my website
www.ashleymote.co.uk under Topics. Then click Immigration.
The Islamization of Europe
Geert Wilders*(footnote 1) is a member of the Netherlands parliament
and chairman of the Dutch Party for Freedom. He was speaking at the
Four Seasons Hotel in New York on 25 September 2008. His speech was
sponsored by the Hudson Institute. He gave it the title America The
Last Man Standing
This is what he said:
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.
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 neighbourhoods
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
neighbourhoods, 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, neighbourhood by
neighbourhood, 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 [Netherlands], Marseille [France], Malmo in Sweden [and
Leicester in the UK]. In many cities the majority of the under-18
population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim
neighbourhoods. 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 [Islamic law]*
(footnote 2) courts are now officially part of the British legal
system. Many neighbourhoods 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 Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run from the worst
wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly
spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on
forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego
University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the
population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard
Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.*
(footnote 3)
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 favour of a worldwide caliphate
[world-wide official leader of Islam]. 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 behaviour, 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. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that
is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our society, 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
neighbourhoods, 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 behaviour 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 paedophile, 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 hereafter, 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 both
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 Israel 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 defence.
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 [holy 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 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 favour 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
behaviour, 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 '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 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.
*Footnotes by Ashley Mote
1. The British Home Secretary exceeded her powers last year when she
banned Mr Wilders from visiting the UK. He had been invited by Lord
Pearson of Rannoch, one of two UK Independence Party members in the
House of Lords. Jacqui Smith later left Gordon Brown’s government in
disgrace. Her original decision was then overturned and Mr Wilders was
free to visit the UK which, as a citizen of the EU (like it or not), he
had every right to do in the first place.
2. During the 1980s I was frequently in the Middle East, working as a
scriptwriter and presenter for a number of multinational companies in
the oil business. My task was the explain to newcomers from the US
and Europe what they might expect when they first arrived in Saudi
Arabia or the Gulf States, and the huge cultural jump they would have
to make immediately on arrival. Essentially I was providing a list of
do’s and don’ts to keep them out of trouble.
What I learned over those years never ceased to shock me. Initially I
had little idea how the Islamic states regarded and treated women, the
humbug they used to deplore alcohol in public and drink it in private,
and their deceitful attitude towards doing business with foreigners, or
engaging with them in any way. Trust and respect were never on the
agenda. Bribery and corruption were the norm (and where have you heard
that before?). The Islamic states wanted Western money and technology,
but nothing else.
The concept that religion and state law could be one and the same was
totally new to me, especially when their religious beliefs were so
primitive. The practical implications were constantly surprising and
sometimes truly horrifying.
Many years later I listened in the European Parliament to a group of
academics present evidence of the blood-curdling dogma taught routinely
to school-children in Iran. We saw their text-books for ourselves. We
read how Iranian teenager boys were being encouraged to blow themselves
up and take as many infidels (non-Muslims) with them, in exchange for a
short cut to paradise and access to 72 vestal virgins. Monstrous
rubbish, dangerous and an outrageous denial of life to children who
deserved better – much better.
So, directly from my personal experiences, I can vouch for and confirm
everything Geert Wilders said in his speech.
3. Geert Wilders did not spell out the alarming and accelerating
population swing in favour of Muslim dominance in Western Europe. Let
me add a few details now.
Not one of the EU’s 27 member states has an indigenous white Caucasian
population reproducing itself at the minimum 2.1 children per couple
needed for the population to remain stable into the future. Ireland
comes closest at 1.86. The UK is around 1.5. Spain and Italy are
around 1.29. Reproduction at these levels means the population halves
every 35 years.
Immigrant Muslim families reproduce themselves far more vigorously.
Families of five children are commonplace across Western Europe.
Colonel Gaddafi of Libya is on the record as saying “50 million Muslims
already in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few
decades”. Yet the EU continues to allow millions more to come, and
Turkey’s entry will turn the EU into a Muslim-dominated institution.
One leading demographer has forecast that Britain will have a Muslim
majority by mid-century, and a Muslim prime minister soon afterwards.
In that case, the introduction of sharia law will be inevitable. A
thousand years of English common law will disappear almost overnight.
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