Posted on 03/27/2011 11:19:56 AM PDT by La Lydia
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...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.”
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....
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....
Exactly why I have always felt that the EU will eventually fail unless it goes strictly under a dictatorship. When they lose their culture, there will be nothing left.
Great post. Thanks. He’s one very brave man whom I admire very much.
cultures are NOT equal. duh! the internationalists hammered you were racist if you did not think alike wit them.
Wish I knew why Glenn Beck ignores it ?
Not only ignores it but calls it racist and fascist.
Shame on you Beck.
Geert Wilders - a very brave man.
Long live his Partij voor de Vrijheid.
I concur.
I liked his last line . . .
“Multiculturalism has made us so tolerant that we tolerate the intolerant....”
My tagline also applies
Islam - bringing you yesterday’s culture today.
“Islam - bringing you yesterday’s culture today.”
Pining for the “good old days” LOL!
The United States have made it a perfect place for illegals, In our grocery store most products have the labels in Spanish.. ( Cheerios for example are in spanish) a lot of commercials on tv are in spanish ( ford, Chevy, etc etc ) the music in most stores in spanish.. sometimes you forget that this is actually the United States and NOT Mexico. If you want a job you MUST speak spanish.
Interesting that Wilders uses Judeo-Christian instead of Christian to describe Europe’s culture.
The following is an excerpt, graphs and further info at link:
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2011/02/tracing-growth-of-baby-boomer-judeo.html
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Tracing the growth of “Judeo Christian”
Reacting to Lawrence Auster’s visceral reactions towards anyone on the right who is not viewed as sufficiently supportive of Israel, Dennis Mangan remarks that it was not so-called “Judeo-Christian” morality that shaped Western civilization, but simply Christian morality that did.
While Dennis’ assertion would have gone undisputed in the fifties when he was a toddling around, time has steadily chipped away at its veracity, and there is no sign of a slow down. The following graph created via Google’s Ngram viewer from books published in the US traces the ascension of the phrase over close to the last six decades. Prior to 1955, it was almost non-existent (click on the images for better resolution):
Unlike the hybridization that yokes Christianity to Judaism and American interests to those of Israel, plain old “Christian” is old hat, as it floats along sideways:
He's a die hard liberal who only opposes Islamization because it impedes his ideal march towards leftism.
He's too dumb to see that the leftism he has pushed his whole life is the reason that Europe is too weak to resist.
He sowed the wind and now he's whining about reaping the whirlwind.
Geert Wilders is one of the termites posing as pest control. No Conservative should be tricked into a destructive alliance with this charlatan.
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