Pres_ _ent Obama’s John Brennan:"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
Posted on 02/08/2011 9:05:36 AM PST by smoothsailing
Geert Wilders
February 8, 2011
[Editor's note: the following is a speech by Geert Wilders' delivered at the resumption of his trial on February 7th, 2011. Wilders is charged with inciting hatred and discrimination by speaking the truth about Islam.]
The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. Everywhere the foundation of the West is under attack.
All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us since the fourteenth century. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. Surprisingly, the elites do not want to hear any criticism of this ideology.
My trial is not an isolated incident. Only fools believe it is. All over Europe multicultural elites are waging total war against their populations. Their goal is to continue the strategy of mass-immigration, which will ultimately result in an islamic Europe – a Europe without freedom: Eurabia.
The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger.
The lights are going out allover Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.
This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of speech is not the property of those who happen to belong to the elites of a country. It is an inalienable right, the birthright of our people. For centuries battles have been fought for it, and now it is being sacrificed to please a totalitarian ideology.
Future generations will look back at this trial and wonder who was right. Who defended freedom and who wanted to get rid of it.
The lights are going out all over Europe. Our freedom is being restricted everywhere, so I repeat what I said here last year:
It is not only the privilege, but also the duty of free people – and hence also my duty as a member of the Dutch Parliament – to speak out against any ideology that threatens freedom. Hence it is a right and a duty to speak the truth about the evil ideology that is called islam. I hope that freedom of speech will emerge triumphant from this trial. I hope not only that I shall be acquitted, but especially that freedom of speech will continue to exist in the Netherlands and in Europe.
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Pres_ _ent Obama’s John Brennan:"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
Wow, thank you for posting this.
Truth is often the first sacrifice on the elitist/statist altar of multicultural P.C.
If we must have a foreigner as a president, can’t we have Geert Wilders?
Lord Grey of Fallodon says "Not this shiite again!"
Here is another clue for you.
The only bright spot for me is that the Mexicans and other Hispanics are at least Western.
Western culture will survive in part because of that. The US will not.
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Geert Wilders is a courageous man, we could use his sort in our own US and Canadian governments.
Here’s the another source and posting on this yesterday...
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/02/lights-are-going-out-all-over-europe.html
George, like Murphy, was an optimist. Remembering the past is not enough if you think you are different and superior enough that you can change immutable laws. Kind of like Obama saying, "We are the ones we've been waiting for".
And in other news Obama plans high speed rail system.
Geert Wilders ping.
Geert Wilders ping.
Is Geert Wilders the only one speaking out in Europe or is he the only one that the marxist press writes about?
I think Wilders has it wrong, here. It would be one thing if the multicultural elites were actually "waging total war." That's something you can get your hands around, and deal with.
I think what's really happening, among the non-Islamic Europeans at any rate, is much more insidious. I think it's more a matter of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
It's reminiscent of the bad old days of the mid- to late-1930s. Back then, the horrors of WWI weighed so heavily on the minds of the cultural leaders of Europe that they were willing to do anything to avoid a repeat ... and in so doing, they ushered in an even worse war.
This time, I expect that the horrors of Nazi genocide weigh so heavily on the minds of the cultural leaders, that they will do anything to avoid a perceived return to it. A policy of "dealing with Islam" can sound unnervingly close to religious persecuation.... and could very easily turn into persecution. Seeing the danger, Wilders' "multicultural elites" favor and promote an unthinking "inclusiveness" that allows toxic Islamic enclaves to fester and grow essentially outside the prevailing culture.
There's arrogance, too. There's that mindset of liberal paternalism that some people just know better than everybody else. And those folks are, unfortunately, blinded by their own assumptions. In the case of European Islam (as happened also with the Nazis), there is the unwarranted assumption that the Islamic communities are playing by the same rules as everybody else. On an individual basis that is probably true ... but there's those toxic enclaves, within which different rules apply. But the "multicultural leaders" cannot see, much less admit that their assumptions are wrong.
And of course, there's always that rush of power in being a "cultural leader," and the smug satisfaction of being able to prevail against public opinion -- and any good political agitator knows just how to feed and control those sorts of impulses.
So ... what do you do? Free the women. Seriously -- free the women, protect the women, and the rest of that cesspool culture will fall in line.
Thank you again! :)
we need more leaders like this in tne world NOW
email this to everyone you know -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8tMtbieDWo
He’s absolutely right. And the lights are dimming here in the USA too. Those who say the truth are harassed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8tMtbieDWo
No - enjoy this - and include this man in your protection prayers too email to everyone - WAKE UP, WORLD
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