Wilders at House of Lords, March 5: "Freedom must prevail, and freedom will prevail"

Geert Wilders
Speech House of Lords, London

Friday the 5th of March 2010

Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport.

Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, this is a sacred place. This is, as Malcolm always says, the mother of all Parliaments, I am deeply humbled to have the opportunity to speak before you.

Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for your invitation and showing my film 'Fitna'. Thank you my friends for inviting me.

I first have great news. Last Wednesday city council elections were held in the Netherlands. And for the first time my party, the Freedom Party, took part in these local elections. We participated in two cities. In Almere, one of the largest Dutch cities. And in The Hague, the third largest city; home of the government, the parliament and the queen. And, we did great! In one fell swoop my party became the largest party in Almere and the second largest party in The Hague. Great news for the Freedom Party and even better news for the people of these two beautiful cities.

And I have more good news. Two weeks ago the Dutch government collapsed. In June we will have parliamentary elections. And the future for the Freedom Party looks great. According to some polls we will become the largest party in the Netherlands. I want to be modest, but who knows, I might even be Prime Minister in a few months time!

Ladies and gentlemen, not far from here stands a statue of the greatest Prime Minister your country ever had. And I would like to quote him here today: "Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step (...) the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome." These words are from none other than Winston Churchill wrote this in his book 'The River War' from 1899.

Churchill was right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.

Islam strives for world domination. The Quran commands Muslims to exercise jihad. The Quran commands Muslims to establish shariah law. The Quran commands Muslims to impose Islam on the entire world.

As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: "The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome". End of quote.

Libyan dictator Gaddafi said: "There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent". End of quote. Indeed, for once in his life, Gaddafi was telling the truth. Because, remember: mass immigration and demographics is destiny!

Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology. Islam wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave. Shariah law is a law that controls every detail of life in a Islamic society. From civic- and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.

I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of islamization. Ladies and gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. It are opposite values.

No wonder that Winston Churchill called Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' "the new Quran of faith and war, turgid, verbose, shapeless, bur pregnant with its message". As you know, Churchill made this comparison, between the Koran and Mein Kampf, in his book 'The Second World War', a master piece, for which, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill's comparison of the Quran and 'Mein Kampf' is absolutely spot on. The core of the Quran is the call to jihad. Jihad means a lot of things and is Arabic for battle. Kampf is German for battle. Jihad and kampf mean exactly the same.

Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That's a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage.

We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women's rights are being destroyed. Burqa's, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings. Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don't get a handshake. In many European cities there is already apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are leaving Europe.

As you undoubtedly all know, better then I do, also in your country the mass immigration and islamization has rapidly increased. This has put an enormous pressure on your British society. Look what is happening in for example Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford and here in London. British politicians who have forgotten about Winston Churchill have now taken the path of least resistance. They have given up. They have given in.

Last year, my party has requested the Dutch government to make a cost-benefit analysis of the mass immigration. But the government refused to give us an answer. Why? Because it is afraid of the truth. The signs are not good. A Dutch weekly magazine - Elsevier - calculated costs to exceed 200 billion Euros. Last year alone, they came with an amount of 13 billion Euros. More calculations have been made in Europe: According to the Danish national bank, every Danish immigrant from an Islamic country is costing the Danish state more than 300 thousand Euros. You see the same in Norway and France. The conclusion that can be drawn from this: Europe is getting more impoverished by the day. More impoverished thanks to mass immigration. More impoverished thanks to demographics. And the leftists are thrilled.

I don't know whether it is true, but in several British newspapers I read that Labour opened the door to mass immigration in a deliberate policy to change the social structures of the UK. Andrew Neather, a former government advisor and speech writer for Tony Blair and Jack Straw, said the aim of Labour's immigration strategy was, and I quote, to "rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date". If this is true, this is symptomatic of the Left.

Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The left is facilitating islamization. Leftists, liberals, are cheering for every new shariah bank being created, for every new shariah mortgage, for every new islamic school, for every new shariah court. Leftists consider Islam as being equal to our own culture. Shariah law or democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn't really matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire leftist elite is guilty of practising cultural relativism. Universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians. They are all betraying our hard-won liberties.

Why I ask myself, why have the Leftists and liberals stopped to fight for them? Once the Leftists stood on the barricades for women's rights. But where are they today? Where are they in 2010? They are looking the other way. Because they are addicted to cultural relativism and dependent on the Muslim vote. They are dependent on mass-immigration.

Thank heavens Jacqui Smith isn't in office anymore. It was a victory for free speech that a UK judge brushed aside her decision to refuse me entry to your country last year. I hope that the judges in my home country are at least as wise and will acquit me of all charges, later this year in the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, so far they have not done so well. For they do not want to hear the truth about Islam, nor are they interested to hear the opinion of top class legal experts in the field of freedom of expression. Last month in a preliminary session the Court refused fifteen of the eighteen expert-witnesses I had requested to be summoned.

Only three expert witnesses are allowed to be heard. Fortunately, my dear friend and heroic American psychiatrist dr. Wafa Sultan is one of them. But their testimony will be heard behind closed doors. Apparently the truth about Islam must not be told in public, the truth about Islam must remain secret.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm being prosecuted for my political beliefs. We know political prosecution to exist in countries in the Middle East, like Iran and Saudi-Arabia, but never in Europe, never in the Netherlands.

I'm being prosecuted for comparing the Quran to 'Mein Kampf'. Ridiculous. I wonder if Britain will ever put the beliefs of Winston Churchill on trial... Ladies and gentlemen, the political trial that is held against me has to stop.

But it is not all about me, not about Geert Wilders. Free speech is under attack. Let me give you a few other examples. As you perhaps know, one of my heroes, the Italian author Oriana Fallaci had to live in fear of extradition to Switzerland because of her anti-Islam book 'The Rage and the Pride'. The Dutch cartoonist Nekschot was arrested in his home in Amsterdam by 10 police men because of his anti-Islam drawings. Here in Britain, the American author Rachel Ehrenfeld was sued by a Saudi businessman for defamation. In the Netherlands Ayaan Hirsi Ali and in Australia two Christian pastors were sued. I could go on and on. Ladies and gentlemen, all throughout the West freedom loving people are facing this ongoing 'legal jihad'. This is Islamic 'lawfare'. And, ladies and gentlemen, not long ago the Danish cartoonist Westergaard was almost assassinated for his cartoons.

Ladies and gentlemen, we should defend the right to freedom of speech. With all our strength. With all our might. Free speech is the most important of our many liberties. Free speech is the cornerstone of our modern societies. Freedom of speech is the breath of our democracy, without freedom of speech our way of life our freedom will be gone.

I believe it is our obligation to preserve the inheritance of the brave young soldiers that stormed the beaches of Normandy. That liberated Europe from tyranny. These heroes cannot have died for nothing. It is our obligation to defend freedom of speech. As George Orwell said: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear".

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe in another policy, it is time for change. We must make haste. We can't wait any longer. Time is running out. If I may quote one of my favourite American presidents: Ronald Reagan once said: "We need to act today, to preserve tomorrow". That is why I propose the following measures, I only mention a few, in order to preserve our freedom:

First, we will have to defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our liberties. In Europe and certainly in the Netherlands, we need something like the American First Amendment.

Second, we will have to end and get rid of cultural relativism. To the cultural relativists, the shariah socialists, I proudly say: Our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture. Don't be affraid to say it. You are not a racist when you say that our own culture is better.

Third, we will have to stop mass immigration from Islamic countries. Because more Islam means less freedom.

Fourth, we will have to expel criminal immigrants and, following denaturalisation, we will have to expel criminals with a dual nationality. And there are many of them in my country.

Fifth, we will have to forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough Islam in Europe. Especially since Christians in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia are mistreated, there should be a mosque building-stop in the West.

And last but not least, we will have to get rid of all those so-called leaders. I said it before: Fewer Chamberlains, more Churchills. Let's elect real leaders.

Ladies and gentlemen. To the previous generation, that of my parents, the word 'London' is synonymous with hope and freedom. When my country was occupied by the national-socialists the BBC offered a daily glimpse of hope in my country, in the darkness of Nazi tyranny. Millions of my fellow country men listened to it, underground. The words 'This is London' were a symbol for a better world coming soon.

What will be broadcasted forty years from now? Will it still be "This is London"? Or will it be "This is Londonistan"? Will it bring us hope? Or will it signal the values of Mecca and Medina? Will Britain offer submission or perseverance? Freedom or slavery? The choice is yours. And in the Netherlands the choice is ours.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will never apologize for being free. We will and should never give in. And, indeed, as one of your former leaders said: We will never surrender.

Freedom must prevail, and freedom will prevail.

Thank you very much.

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Compare this speech with the bleatings of our Politically Correct politicians. This is a true Son of the West. God Bless, Geert Wilders.

Don't you just KNOW that Lord Nazr Ahmed was just DYING to scream: "ISLAMOPHOBE! RACIST!"

I would just love to have seen the expression on his face (whether he was present or chose to boycott).

Brave, articulate, relentless, indomitable.

This man is a hero for our time. For all time.

Don't ya just love this guy!

He's got a pair.

"Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That's a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage."

Hear! Hear! Bravo Geert!

"Ladies and gentlemen, we should defend the right to freedom of speech. With all our strength. With all our might. Free speech is the most important of our many liberties. Free speech is the cornerstone of our modern societies. Freedom of speech is the breath of our democracy, without freedom of speech our way of life our freedom will be gone."

Absolutely. End quote.

Geert, the new Winston. And once again this is Europe's darkest hour.

I don't have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do.

Based on this statement, especially the last one, I cannot share Wilders' optimism. He might wanna take a look into the history of Islam on his fantastic assumption that because the vast majority of Moslems are not Jihadis it's correct to conclude that they are separate from their activist column.

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Make that activist rail. As in third rail. Both groups of Moslems are riding on the same rail.

"we will never apologize for being free. We will and should never give in. And, indeed, as one of your former leaders said: We will never surrender."

Can't better that, so I follow it till I die.

Geert is a man among men...Bravo...The only question...was anyone really listening? I certainly hope so....

There is no question that Geert Wilders does his homework and he recognizes the growing responsibility that he is carrying the message and the flag of freedom in the EU Countries seemingly almost alone. The EU needs to see other speakers standing with Geert Wilders and locked in arms with this brave man.

Protecting and defending freedom from tyranny is every mans duty and responsibility. It is what freedom loving people have died for on the battlefronts of so many wars brought on by despots and demogogues and wanna be dictators for centuries.

The enemy of freedom is on our doorsteps,his retrograde ideology is invading our Univerity campuses,he is influencing our politicians,he is using our courts in efforts to suppress our rights of free speech and he is loud and demanding in the nature of his ideology in efforts to intimidate those who should be defending Western values on every front---Ask Wafa Sultan..

We are being led by politicians who think they can appease the adherents of Mohammedism and they are wrong in every respect.

Just as Chamberlain who for years tried to appease and make deals with Hitler. Sadly Chamberlain finally learned that lesson to late and in the last year of his life.

We cannot make deals with Islam because they are here to dominate , and subjigate all non Muslims to the will of allah no matter what.

GEERT: "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam."

In Hesperado's worldview, this statement makes someone like Wilders PC/MC.

Happy Dance! ...Bravo, Geert!

Patrick Henry centuries ago, Geert Wilders today.

Is the world listening?

"Courage" should be Geert's middle name.

Speaking the truth requires guts -- telling it as it is, without PC editing. Churchill would be proud of Wilders. We all should be proud of Wilders.

The threat of Islam has now been spelled out clearly in the British Parliament. This could be a turning point for the UK and for Europe. Are there more Churchills there, or more Chamberlains?

Fucking great speech! I can't help wondering how it was received? Did the Labor MP's storm out? Did they even attend in the first place? Was the chamber half empty? Three quarters empty? Was there a rousing ovation at the end? Was it broadcast on BBC television?

Was the chamber half empty? Three quarters empty? Was there a rousing ovation at the end? Was it broadcast on BBC television?

It was attended by about 60 people. See BBC's Dutch MP Geert Wilders shows anti-Islam film in UK

Strong showing by EDL, a rather weak response from UAR leftist group.

"Several hundred members of the English Defence League (EDL) marched past the Houses of Parliament in supported of the Dutch politician.
Flanked by mounted police, they chanted football songs and waved Cross of St George flags."

Interesting, but no live broadcast as of yet. How are other papers and media covering this very important historic speech?

If we survive the Islamic assault from Hell, Gert will always be pictured as the one leading the charge.

Pssssssssssssssssst all you who do not believe darkness is upon us ...

Open your eyes.

Hey Obambi, look and learn.

A brave and stirring speech. Thank you, Geert Wilders.

Geert Wilders - The Lion of Europe. That should be the title of a movie..............can't see it being produced in today's Hollywood. But, time wounds all heels........

Wonder how much muslims actually know about their own religion. Remember that in the islamic world non education is preferred, thus no learning, no understanding and know questioning.

Muhammed himself admitted that he was not a true prophet of GOD. Surah 29:27 states clearly that, as far as Allah and the Qur'an are concerned, the only true prophets are those related to Isaac (Ishaq) or Jacob (Yaqoub); yet Muhammad, according to Muslim tradition, is related to Ishmael and not Isaac or Jacob.

Ayatollah Khomeini, an Iranian "butcher" gives us a clear insight into what awaits countries who fall to Islam's satanic grasp:

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini explains what happens when these murderous mullah's take over:

According to Khomeini:

"Killing is a form of mercy because it rectifies the person. Sometimes a person cannot be reformed unless he is cut up and burned. You must kill, burn and lock up those in opposition."

The Qur'an teaches that the world is flat. This doctrine is believed by a great many Islamic scholars even today. The Jewish/Christian Bible revealed that the earth is round in Isaiah 40:22 and via Job (26:7). Speaking of God in Isaiah 40:22, the Jewish/Christian Bible says; "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Funny isn't it, that the Bible said the earth was a "circle", even when everyone believed the earth was flat". Job 26:7 says, "He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing".

- In many places, the Qur'an alludes to the fact that the earth is flat and its mountains are like poles which create a balance so that the Earth does not tilt. See Qur'an, Suras 79:30 (And the Earth after that He(Allah) FLATTENED it.; and 18:47 (and you will see the earth a leveled plain

Muslim Doctrine of Taqiyya (or lying is ok): In the west very few people understand a very important doctrine of Islam called Taqiyya (Taqeya, Taqiya). Until we understand this in the west, we will never be able to deal with the Muslim world properly. Taqiyya roughly translates as lying for the faith. A Muslim may tell any lie when they are threatened. In short, a Muslim can lie as a holy duty to deceive and gain an advantage over the unbeliever. The non-prophet Muhammad sanctioned this when he said; “he who keeps secrets shall soon attain his objectives.” Can we imagine Jesus, Moses or Buddha saying “Hey lying is good!”? Is it any wonder that freemasons think the same way Muhammad does?

Muhammad's first wife - Khadija, died a few years before he fled to Medina. Later, he was encouraged to take another wife. At the age of 49 he was betrothed to Aisha, age six in 624 A.D. Aisha was his closest friend's, Abu Bakr's, daughter. Abu Bakr was Muhammad’s daily companion and one of his first believers and successor of Muhammad. We can rightfully imagine 6 year old Aisha picking up her toys and moving to Muhammad's house, where he demurely waited until she was nine to have sexual intercourse with her.

In the first year of Muhammad's residence at Yathrib (now Medina) the "Prophet" who never prophesized, celebrated his marriage to Ayisha. Ayisha was then only a young girl (jariyah) of 9-years old per Al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud and Tabari Aisha was 9 when they Muhammad sexually consummated his marriage with her. Muhammad 52.

Aisha herself testified to these facts:
“The messenger of God betrothed me when I was six years old and then married me when I was nine years old.”

Source: Sahih Muslim (by Imam al-Mawawy), vol. 3, p. 577.

Lying with a 9 year old girl in this century or in the 7th century is abominable. It was abominable then in Arabian society also. Particularly distasteful about Muhammad, is that after Muhammad deflowered this young 9 year old girl, he also taught that his followers were to follow his "sunnah" or lifestyle. And his followers do follow the example of this warrior "prophet", who made no prophecies. In the last century, the cruel Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini married a ten-year old girl, when he was 28 years old. This "mad Ayatollah" called marriage to a prepubescent girl a "divine blessing". He is quoted to have said to fellow Muslims; "Do your best to ensure your daughters do not see their first blood in your house".

Ayatollah Khomeini told the Muslim faithful that marrying a girl before she begins menstration was a "divine blessing." He then told Muslim fathers: "Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house."

It is estimated that about 10% of Muhammad's marauding troops were homosexuals. For these too, stolen booty was not enough. In order to keep these homosexuals in line, Muhammad had to make concessions to their dreams as well. Muhammad had to find more selling points besides big busted virgins and rivers of wine. He needed young boys to quench their thirst. The Qur'an fulfills homosexual dreams as well:

Sura: 52:24 - Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded. Sura: 56-17 - Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness). Surah 76:19 - And round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness): If thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered Pearls

Black Muslims

Say it loud. "I’m Black and I’m proud… not to be Muslim"

One of the most bizarre manifestations of African-American pride is its contemporary identification with Islam. The Nation of Islam (Black Muslim movement) plays on the racism against black people by white people hence you hear them use terms like "white devils", etc.

The Muslim Hadith says Muhammad was a white man, so Black Muslims actually serve Islamic whites, even though they speak against whites.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Hadith says the following about blacks:

Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin." (Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 89, Number 256)
Hadith; vol.9:162,163: Muhammad warned that dreams of black women meant disease was forthcoming. Black Muslims today are so uninformed that they don't even understand that Muhammad had many black slaves and called them raisin heads (Hadith vol.1:662, vol.9:256 )

Muslims are told that Africans “annoy the Prophet” (Ishaq 243), have hearts “grosser than a donkey” (Surah 9:61) and that blacks should be left to die if injured, and should be denied intercession and entrance to heaven (Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 137). Yet and still Louis Farrakan and his followers will tell us the lie that Christianity is the white man's religion. Jesus came for all regardless of color, but Black Islam is especially designed just to lead Black folks to hell! It was the peaceful Christian's in America who stopped all slavery here.

The story goes that in 1930 Allah appeared to the people of Detroit in the form of a mysterious man named “Fard.” Allah’s human form seemed to be of African and Arab descent and claimed to have been born in Mecca, a descendent of the prophet Muhammad. He preached a message of racial identity and claimed that Islam was the true religion of the black people of America before they were robbed of it by the White man.

In fact, Fard was really just a small-time conman named Wallace Dodd Ford, who served three years in San Quentin for drug-dealing. He drifted into Detroit at a time when many African-Americans were beginning to form racial identity groups around charismatic personalities such as Marcus Garvey. Of course, race consciousness was hardly just a “black thing” at the time, as the 1920’s were also when Ku Klux Klan influence peaked in America.

Interestingly, Ford was neither of African or Arab descent, as he claimed. He was a mix of European and Polynesian. But he did recognize an opportunity when he saw one, and the street preacher soon built up quite a following among those who could appreciate an overtly racist theology that persists to this day in spite of its zaniness.

According to Ford, and his Nation of Islam, Africans were the original and only people of the world (divine and uncorrupted) before whites were invented by an evil scientist named Yakub in a malicious experiment with tragic consequences. Islam is the true religion, and, at some point, a spaceship will be sent by Allah to eliminate the white people from the earth.

Another sad aspect of Black Muslims is that many African-Americans are drawn to Islam out of racial pride, thinking that there is some sort of association with Africa. Muslim evangelicals in the black communities and in prisons often play this up in an attempt to persuade the gullible into rejecting Christianity as the “white man’s religion.”

In the First place, Christianity in Africa predates Islam by almost 600 years. Christian missionaries were on the African continent within two decades of the Crucifixion. Secondly, unlike Christianity, Islam had no interest in missionary hospitals or the poor. Arab contact with Black Africa was for one purpose only, plain and simple. That same as it is now: slavery. The awful truth is that Arabs ravaged Africa for more than 1000 years before Europeans ever got their hands on black slaves. These black Muslim slaves died from over work and lived in squalor. By contrast, the four million slaves brought to America over the course of 200 years managed to leave the most prosperous group of African descendents on the planet.

Orthodox Islam does not want to be identified with the Black Muslim movement in America. It is seen as heretical and is not considered part of Islam.


These are just part of a greater reading. Folks read it and understand that islam is sent from satan not God.

Wonder how many of the black muslim understand what is said and felt about them

www.bibleprobe.com/muhammad.htm

Its long but well worth the read and totally expose islam for the fraud it is. Pass it on .

Geert, the real man.
How will the MSM report it tomorrow?
Can't wait to read what the muslims' favourite newspapers and the Left-leaning newspapers will write about this speech and the film.

A very useful speech, I don't know whether British people will understand Wilders' message.

Bravo, keep on going until we defeat Islam.

A very fine speech indeed -- but regrettably, the distinction between the ideology and its adherents is a false one, as Wilders' own proposal for a halt to mass Muslim immigration "because more Islam means less freedom" indicates. (Perhaps it was inserted pro forma, to avoid giving the appearance of calling for a pogrom.) Did we make such a distinction between Nazi ideology and its sieg-heiling, goose-stepping followers during WWII?

Withal, kudos to Wilders for his stand. One can only hope he is both exonerated and elected.

per Battle_of_Tours: truly an historic speech.

On par with the greatest speeches ever given in Parliament.

The clear ringing sound of his message will not be stifled as the truth cannot be repressed. It may be distressing news for those who just don't want to hear it, but one way or the other, one time or the other, the truth will come out; better to heed the warning than to wait and be "surprised" when the veil of illusion is lifted.

Yet, only 60 attend the showing and the Home Office has regrets? Running from his message is not refutation, it is willful ignorance. The attempt is to de-legitimize Wilders rather to listen to his actual evidence and argue with facts and logic.

So, Churchill would be banned from Britain if the current government had it way? Hmmm, I'll stick with Churchill, and Wilders, thank you.

One of our jobs is clear, send this speech to every living soul you can. Copy it , mail it , frame it, set it in stone, someday it will be written in brass at the foot of the monument commemorating our emancipation from the islamic invasion. God bless Mr. Wilders, someone who finally has picked up the torch of freedom, while almost all other clueless and cowardly leaders have failed to do so and have already surrendered.

"Our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture." You gotta love this guy.

How about a British Freedom Party?

"More Churchills, fewer Chamberlains"

A tall order, in a Europe where one notices among the ruling classes si peu d'esprits, et tant de sots.

Interesting article from 2007..
http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/071228-dutch-queen-mc-redirected

Hope Geert's got an Ace (or two)up his sleeve..Poor guy. Battling forever against the odds {lefties,islam,courts,England,ie Jacquie Smith,Lord Achmed) with death threats and living in seclusion every day..Jesus Murphy,what a life.

So let's drop Her Majesty a wee note in support of Geert.I know I will. With any luck she'll come to her freakin' senses. He deserves it that's for sure. Here's her address.

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/Organisation/Addresses


The speech is groundbreaking but I don't feel immigration or Sharia law per se are the chief threats. The imposition and or teaching of Sharia law in as much as it conflicts with basic human freedoms and all forms of jihad need to be addressed in the law and criminalized. Those who impose elements of sharia contrary to individual rights should be subject to criminal and civil penalties. For example, any social or physical pressure put on a person who wishes to change their faith should be against the law and subject to civil and criminal penalties. If individuals such as an Imam and members of his mosque conspire to do so they should be subject to criminal conspiracy charges.

This straight from the Dutch Government site..

The Queen also plays a role in forming new governments. After general elections or if a government falls, she receives the presidents of the Senate and House of Representatives, the vice-president of the Council of State and the leaders of the parliamentary parties in the House of Representatives.
After receiving their advice, the Queen asks one or more senior political figures (informateurs) to investigate the chances of forming a government. If they succeed, she then follows their advice and instructs one or more politicians (formateurs) to form a government.
The Office arranges, through the Government Information Service, for the publication of her instructions to informateurs and formateurs. Political responsibility for the course of government formations is borne by the newly appointed Prime Minister, who is accountable in this respect to the States General.

I'm including photos of a pair of wooden shoes my father brought back from Holland in 1945,after he helped liberate her country.
If that doesn't turn her around she's hopeless.

Rock on Geert!

Well here's another address I found..Guess I'll be writin' two of 'em.

Letters to the Queen should be addressed to:
Her Majesty the Queen
c/o the Queen’s Office
Postbus 20016
2500 EA Den Haag
If the sender’s name is not clearly stated on a letter it will not be dealt with.

"I proudly say: Our Western culture is far superior to the Islamic culture. Don't be afraid to say it. You are not a racist when you say that our own culture is better."

GO GEERT! BRAVO!

It's so encouraging to see someone stand up!

Of course, the MSM won't mention or will quote out of context.

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Get that man a Hawaiian birth certificate!

Wilders for President 2012!
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Ironic. The call for an American style Constitution in Europe while our own Administration would love nothing better than to get rid of our own.

I love how he throws Churchill right in their faces.

"Third, we will have to stop mass immigration from Islamic countries. Because more Islam means less freedom.:"

Sir....I salute you...

Is America worth defending?

Your damn right it is!!

http://sagebrushpatriot.com/america.htm

Thank God, literally, that SOMEONE isn't too scared to stand up for common sense, for freedom and for democracy (as opposed to sharia, which is the exact opposite of democracy). I wish we were all a bit more like Geert Wilders in his fearlessness. I wish I was. Islam is a formidable force - but we must resist oppresion and take-over. We must resist out nation and its historic values being totally erradicatted by this totalitarian system. May WE ALL STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH. Thanks.

Thank God, literally, that SOMEONE isn't too scared to stand up for common sense, for freedom and for democracy (as opposed to sharia, which is the exact opposite of democracy). I wish we were all a bit more like Geert Wilders in his fearlessness. I wish I was. Islam is a formidable force - but we must resist oppresion and take-over. We must resist out nation and its historic values being totally erradicatted by this totalitarian system. May WE ALL STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH. Thanks.

There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. Bravo Geert, I know it too, I work with the people you describe.

Geert - "That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam".

Forgive me Geert but I don't agree with you on this, I am not sure (yet) whether there is moderate Islam or not, but I do know that without muslims there is no Islam, and without Islam there are no muslims.

Therefore Geert you are just trying to be clever, trying to make finer points which don't exist, trying to create fissures amongst already vunerable muslims, and trying to make yourself look idealistic and educated.

I have no doubt that Geert is an educated man and a considerable orator. I also believe that he must be allowed to speak as he does; but I cannot agree that he can speak on a platform where muslims are not allowed to refute his tall claims.

Take the muslim away and Islam cannot exist; and yet he says he has no problem with the muslim. That circular argument is just nuts. Because of his influence I believe that Geert will become as influential and as dangerous as Khomeni.

I can see lots of tensions being created when Geert is tring to extract muslims from Islam; it's just not possible.

I know that I will not be able to persuade anybody here of this, but you all know it's true.

More nutty offerings from the peanut gallery ....

Yes indeed, champ. Nuts aplenty. Particularly nutty is Barcode's assertion that Wilders is as dangerous as Khomeini. Here we have a champion of freedom in Wilders who recognizes all the pathologies in Islam and yet, PRECISELY because he is a decent and wise man as well as a brave and knowledgeable one, he knows that while all Muslims are confused (how can you not be if you think a brutal, sexually perverted psychopath like Mohammed is the last and greatest of the prophets), they are not all evil. By contrast, in Khomeini the world had a bitter old man who condoned sex with babies and authorized the killing of thousands simply because they weren't beholden to his Shiite ideology. Stunning to see such moronic moral equivalency but we are faced with the fact that with Barcode's comments that is exactly what we have.

Khomeini made life for Muslims more miserable the Geert would ever do....

Well, look who's here! It's our newfound pal, Mr. Barcode, friend of islam! On this thread to continue your "learning?" How do you have time to learn with all this posting? If folks didn't know better, they might think you were really here to TEACH!

Did I get this right--you're saying that Geert Wilders will become "as dangerous as Khomeni?' Are you an ignoramous? (just a rhetorical question there) Thanks for the belly-laugh! And, BTW, Geert WIlders doesn't have to TRY to look idealistic and educated...he is BOTH!

You're correct--nobody's buying your taqiyya drivel! You are making a fool of yourself--give it up!

Hope that helps!

G

quot from Barcode

. . . I am not sure (yet) whether there is moderate Islam or not, but I do know that without muslims there is no Islam, and without Islam there are no muslims.

I can see lots of tensions being created when Geert is tring to extract muslims from Islam; it's just not possible.

I know that I will not be able to persuade anybody here of this, but you all know it's true.

This word moderate gets used a lot. I see Geert using this argument to identify the source of the problem, Islam doctrine. It is true that you can't take Islam out of a muslim. That is the crust of the problem. It is there ideology and there problem. It has to change.

The tension is there because of Islamic pride and self worth. Just to be clear pride is not a virtue. It is the reaction that happens when they are unwilling to admit they have a problem. They are blinded by there pride.

I look at the vast majority of (moderate) muslims as either muslims who thinly practice there faith that they were born into and that is the only reason they are what they are. Or they are practicing taqiyya and will come out when it is to there advantage. Trying to tell one from the other is the problem.

I have a question Barcode. Do you agree with Churchill's POV?

Ladies and gentlemen

by all means pop over to New English Review.

The redoubtable Esmerelda Weatherwax, or Granny Weatherwax (that was the first nom de plume she adopted here) was present in person to see the rally on behalf of Wilders, and the UAF rally against him.

Her account, with many pictures, is well worth reading, slowly and carefully.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/26312

Among other things, she observes that the pro-Wilders rally, made up of the EDL, the March for England, and people from the general public, including elderly men and women (just look at the pictures and see the grey heads), was addressed by a young Sikh speaker, and that the proceedings included (I quote her account, verbatim):

"a minute's silence for the latest British casualties in Afghanistan

"and [for] *the two Sikhs beheaded in Pakistan last week for refusing to convert to Islam* {my emphasis - dda}.

This was followed by the National Anthem."

Shoutout to all non-Muslim Indians on the frontline against Jihad who may be reading this, especially Sikhs: your sacrifice and bravery in resisting Islam even unto the point of death, have just been placed alongside those of British soldiers, and remembered and honoured by ordinary British non-Muslim citizens, there outside the Tate Gallery in the heart of London.

Very revealing.Your comment on Fard Muhammad and NOI are
factual.

Seems you've made peanut butter spread out of ole Mr Barcode there, Wellington, lol ....

Thanks for the link, OT, I wonder how long the guy with the light green leotard suit would last inside of a mosque say in iran, or saudi arabia dressed with that outfit. I'm afraid he would be quartered and skinned just before his beheading would take place.

Mr Barcode, what you say is NOT true!

You cannot hold a person accountable for his race, but you can for his holding on to an exposed totalitarian belief-system. As far as the parts of it that are problematic concerned. And countless, irrevocable proof of both texts and acts is given. Also in comparison to other causes. that we can discuss of course, but not totally ignore, like you can't ignore evidence in a court of law, saying I know the accused must be innocent and I refuse to consider all contrary evidence.

You are supposed not to be a Muslim, so you do not accept that Islam was Divinely dictated and ordained. You are critical of many man-made beliefs and attitudes, including that of Mr. Wilders, yet you continue to obey the Muslims when they stubbornly want their manmade beliefsystem treated differently on account that it is sacred.

That is the fault and the responsibility of the Muslims. If Geert Wilders would have said the same as Khomeiny, that his beliefsystem came from God, therefore was superior and sacrosanct, you would rightly have considered him nuts. Even if you would have worked with him for many years and found him very nice, law-abiding etc as you find your Muslim-co-workers.

So because of Islams incredibly shielded sacrosanct position people like Wilders in practice are not allowed, or at least not without strong condemnation, to refute ISLAM's tall claims. (MUCH taller than Wilders'claims).

Are you not familiar with the Christian axioma:
We hate the sin, but not the sinner? Likewise, we disprove of Islam, for love of Democracy and Freedom, but for the rest the Muslim is OK.

Mr Barcode, you say that Wilders could become as dangerous as Khomeiny. Who was dangerous and detrimental indeed.

Now compare: I. There is Islam, which you will not touch, which you assume with total confidence has no detrimental influence, without you knowing what it precisely and in total says, without you knowing how the total of Muslims interpret and use it. As you are no expert, we know much more than you about this. And Muslim-experts are very divided and confused.

II. then why don't you trust Geert Wilders, no matter what he says, to not have any detrimental influence too?

I think you can't have it both ways;
I. either Wilders has bad influence than at least consider the possibility that Islam has bad influence too or
II. Geert Wilders also does not have any bad influence. Because if you take away the PVV-party-members there is no PVV-ideology! I am of course now referring to you saying: If you take away the Muslim, there is no Islam.

Islam and Muslims are inextricably linked. There is not one without the other. To say Islam's not OK but Muslims are, is like saying Nazism is not OK but Nazis are. Ridiculous.

So, I can't agree with Geert on his "Islam no/Muslims yes" platform, but I suppose his disingenuousness has to do with political reasons.

I can't agree with Geert on his "Islam no/Muslims yes" platform.

Wilders is a profound disappointment. His half-assed protest is baked in fear of what the consequences would be for Infidels if he or some other public figure would dare to tell the whole truth, which is the real truth.

*** 33:21 ***

He does not represent hope; he represents only a somewhat slower slide into the Hell that has been sucking us down for 1,399 years now.

Well, I don't think Geert is a disappointment, not at all.

However, how can he be advocating the stopping of all Muslim immigration to the Netherlands and other countries in Europe, and not be against Muslims, as he says? That doesn't make sense.

Anyway, I'm dealing with a bunch of idiotic Political Correctness on the other Geert thread (the one with the video) - now THAT'S disappointing! Oh, I quoted your comment above on that thread, btw.

As I said before...

You live under a bridge. You eat passing goats.

You are a Troll.

For someone who is brand new to islam, for someone who claims to know very little about it, not even the definition of the word "dhimmi", you sure are a strong defender of it.

Seems to me that you are full of feces. Geert as dangerous as Khomeini? You sir, are a Jackass, a dumbass and a sheizkpof all wrapped up in one.

Here to learn? Bullshit.

I think what Geert is trying to is. "Radical" Islam is the disease, which will destroy our society, and Muslims are the vector.

In Hesperado's worldview, this statement makes someone like Wilders PC/MC. -- Cornelius

...how can [Wilders] be advocating the stopping of all Muslim immigration to the Netherlands and other countries in Europe, and not be against Muslims, as he says? That doesn't make sense. -- darcy

I'm an 'all Muslims' kind of guy

In January of this year, Diana West wrote on her blog about a conversation she had had with Geert Wilders in the summer of 2009:

"Do you believe in 'radical Islam'?" the famous Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders once asked me.

The occasion was a banquet last summer at the Reagan Library outside of Los Angeles where later that evening Wilders would receive a Hero of Conscience award from the American Freedom Alliance...

"Me, I'm an 'only Islam' kind of gal," as I told him. Who am I to argue with Muslims ranging from terror-cleric Abu Qatada to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan?...

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1234/Fort-Hood-Report-Says-Nothing-Wilders-Says-It-All.aspx

To Cornelius's imputation: No, I don't consider Wilders to be PC MC. It is precisely the anti-Islam stance of Wilders (and of Spencer, and Pipes, and quite a few others in the still inchoate Anti-Islam Movement), with its fundamental incoherence as noted by darcy and a couple of others above, that have forced the analysis to flexibly account for the anomaly of an Anti- that is not quite Anti- (or even not Anti- at all, as Spencer once asseverated; though perhaps, incredibly, Spencer might have actually changed his mind since then).

This anomaly resembles another one that forced my analysis to modify its terminology in order to respond to reality not fitting previous molds -- namely, the increasing realization, based on increasing assimilation of data, that the phenomenon of Western whitewashing of Islam is not merely a Leftist phenomenon: after continuing to notice one Conservative after another more or less parrot certain tenets of that whitewashing paradigm, I had to conclude that this paradigm is broader, and deeper, than Leftism. Thus a new category had to be generated, to describe a more comprehensive worldview that embraced the ostensible majority of Leftists, Centrists and Conservatives combined in their shared concern to defend Islam and Muslims from "bigotry". This new category was PC MC.

Similarly, over time I kept noticing that those who should be considered not PC MC -- i.e., those who take various stands against Islam -- were not all alike: some were softer than others, in a variety of ways that needed to be analyzed and clarified.

One of those ways of being soft is the distinction between Islam and Muslims -- as though there could exist such an animal as a Muslim without Islam. It remains an incoherent distinction, based largely upon an erroneous superimposition of the modern Western secular relaxation of religiosity and tribalism -- an astoundingly profound sociopolitico-cultural phenomenon that has transformed the West uniquely among all cultures now and throughout history -- upon Muslims and Muslim culture. And this superimposition reflects a rather curious, or ignorant, lack of appreciation for just how profoundly religiosity and religious tribalism structures and nourishes the societies and psychology of Muslims. Of course, the distinction (between Islam and Muslims) also seems motivated by an anxious concern to retain some liberal sensibility -- either sincerely, because the one making that distinction still thinks his liberalish worldview depends upon "not being bigoted" to an ostensibly ethnic people (i.e., Muslims); or in terms of a strategy calculated to try to dodge the powerful limitations in our Western societies presented by the mainstream domination of PC MC -- by trying to assure that PC MC mainstream that one is "not bigoted" against Muslims, even as one wants to promote strong criticism and measures against Islam.

At any rate, my analysis of the complexities of both PC MC and of those who swim against the mainstream tide of PC MC in their construction of an Anti-Islam paradigm, and the difficulty of being able to avoid noticing the data of different degrees and styles of that Anti-Islam stance (some more substantive than others), forced the analysis to a suppler categorization scheme, which I tentatively formulate in terms of a gradation or spectrum ranging from soft to hard stances against Islam -- asymptotic being relatively soft, holistic being hard. Asymptotic, in turn, is not simple, but has degrees too. Therefore, there are "low-end" asymptotic analysts (Daniel Pipes, Jamie Glazov) closer to the darker waters of PC MC below them, then those a little stronger (Pam Geller, Robert Spencer), then those even stronger (Bill Warner, Hugh Fitzgerald, Lawrence Auster), and so forth; and finally those who have broken free of the asymptotic spell altogether and have reached the epiphany that nothing short of the formulation --

Islam is the problem, and all Muslims concretize that problem

-- adequately expresses the reality of our situation, given

1) our inability to distinguish harmless Muslims from dangerous Muslims

and

2) the unique quality and quantity that constitutes the danger in question.

So, even though Diana West is considerably stronger than Geert Wilders, she still hasn't graduated to the logical conclusion of the learning curve. I would therefore see her "Me, I'm an 'only Islam' kind of gal," , and raise her a Me, I'm an 'all Muslims' kind of guy.

All that said, am I not glad Wilders is doing what he's doing? No, I think it's an enormously encouraging shot in the arm for the Anti-Islam Movement. It's just a shame that it continues to reflect the apparent necessity of couching the Movement's rationale and goals in terms that are ultimately incoherent -- and that, in turn, primarily because of the continuing necessity to have to grapple with the irrationality of PC MC.

"I think what Geert is trying to [say] is. "Radical" Islam is the disease, which will destroy our society, and Muslims are the vector."

Actually, you have it backwards: Geert is in fact trying not to say that -- even though the logic of all his other formulations goes against his effort to avoid coming out and saying that and thus in effect damning Muslims qua Muslims (which, perforce, means Muslims qua enabling the Islam that undermines and endangers our societies).

(See my long comment above in reply to Cornelius for an articulation of an argument for my claim.)

Hespardo:

Thanks for pushing the analysis to more precision.

My thought is that the Wilders position is intended to allow individuals and the religion to reform, however remote the possibility.

Either islamic doctrine must change from dominance and imperialism (reformation) or its followers must refute and repudiate those fundamentalist aspects and develop a modern and respectful system. Can the religion survive being civilized is a different question. The likelihood of a civil war would be high.

At the end, the distinction between muslins and islam may be a game of semantics, but the formulation allows the possibility that the individuals involved can make their own decision to reject religious hegemony. The idea is to be generous to the possibility of human and humane development. There are many example of people leaving cults that have been de-brainwashed and returned to reality; it is a different question if a domineering cult can be reformed into a civilized religion. The distinction between the religion and the people seems a valid and useful one.

Exactly, AlaskanInfidel ...mrbscode isn't fooling anyone here.

Thank you Sashland,

Now that I am in a deep thinking period about whether it is a good idea to distinquish between Islam and Muslim or not you gave some very good arguments, as did Traeh and Battle-of-Tours. Before and after me reading Hesperado's very good reasoning against it.

There is little I can say to refute Hesperado, but he says that it is strange to think that there is such an animal as a Muslim without Islam. Indeed these don't exist.

But there are many Muslims in name only and these can be very complex beings with many aspects and we can hope that by making it clear to them that we are only against Islam in them and not against the rest of their personality that we are no racists and do not intend to treat them unfairly.

My first argument for the distinction is that already the real political correct people are accusing Wilders of discrimination now, and they would be vindicated with an attitude by Wilders of being against both Islam and all Muslims. He would give them their ammunition, I am afraid.

Moreover the fact that our real opponents, both Muslims and Political Correct People, totally reject the idea should give us pause to think.

My other argument for the distinction between Islam and Muslims is this; Both us and real political correct people on principle must agree that Islam is manmade, therefore fallible and not imperfect.

We can make it clear to Muslims that they may see Islam as of Divine-origine, but they have no right to force us to treat it as of Divine-origine. Thereby excluding it from criticism and ridicule whereas nothing manmade is excluded from that. If then in discussion and debate it is sought that Islam is excluded from criticism but people like Wilders are not we can point out these double standards.

We've got to hammer the point that it is really the Muslims who are highly unreasonable in considering and declaring that Islam is Divine and sacrosanct and that it of necessity must be shielded from criticism and exonerated from all accusations.

That is what is grossly unfair, unjust, unacceptable along with the fact that so many so-called fair-minded, loving respecting people, mindlessly accept this grave injustice.

Sashland (and Demsci),

My thought is that the Wilders position is intended to allow individuals and the religion to reform, however remote the possibility.

Forgive me for sounding blunt, and I only intend the bluntness to refer to the idea and not to you personally for raising this valid point. My response to that valid point is a grievously weary and jaded "Been there done that." We -- have been there done that. Muslims aren't reforming. They are getting worse (and when they aren't getting worse, they seem to be -- at best -- just passively continuing to enable the problem their brothers and sisters around the world are fomenting).

Either islamic doctrine must change from dominance and imperialism (reformation) or its followers must refute and repudiate those fundamentalist aspects and develop a modern and respectful system.

Islam in terms of its doctrinal blueprint and structure cannot allow for such a mutation. All other religions seem to be able to, but not Islam. There is no Iron Law of the Universe that mandates that Islam must be similar to other religions in their capacity for change, modification, and decaffeination. From all my reading to date, the grim conclusion seems the most plausible: Islam is unique in its resistance to change -- and, of course, in the degree and quality of danger it presents to all non-Muslims.

Can the religion survive being civilized is a different question. The likelihood of a civil war would be high.

If I am correct, and Islam in terms of its doctrinal blueprint and structure cannot allow for such a mutation, then it would be a mistake for us to expect it, and to expect Islam to conform more or less to the model of other religions as they navigate and adapt to modernity. With Islam, there is no middle region of a process of change and adaptation, with varying degrees and stages of secularization: there are only three kinds of Muslim:

1) the faithful supporters of Islam (not all of these are planning to blow up buildings or killing anyone, but their active fidelity to full-blooded (i.e., normative) Islam automatically makes them our enemy)

2) the apostates who have left Islam

3) the Muslims who seem to be occupying various places along a spectrum of a middle region between 1 and 2, but who really are living a lie of incoherence, simultaneously enabling Islam while in certain varying ways not being faithful to this, that and the other thing Islam mandates.

With other religions, there are viable ways to make that middle region coherent. Not with Islam. Those Muslims who are trying to have their falafel and eat it too, then, have no coherent way to make sense of their choice and the way they live their lives. They in fact often exhibit signs that resemble schizophrenia and illogicality, defensiveness, torturous gymnastics to try to save Mohammed from the moral damnation he deserves, etc. Such Muslims would be a a weak foundation upon which we would build our great hope to solve the problem their own Islam is causing us.

At the end, the distinction between muslins and islam may be a game of semantics, but the formulation allows the possibility that the individuals involved can make their own decision to reject religious hegemony.

If I am correct, the only valid, viable and meaningful form of this decision would be apostasy. I.e., modifying Islam so that it no longer is a problem for the rest of Mankind is, in effect, to nullify Islam. And the result for the Muslim who opts for this is nothing else than ceasing to be a Muslim.

There are many example of people leaving cults that have been de-brainwashed and returned to reality...

All cults we have experience with are bargain-basement little movements cobbled together by some guy a few decades prior (if not just a few years prior). None of them has the historical depth and richness of Islam; none of them has a proud history of having won major wars and conquered vast swaths of land; none of them has the complexity of doctrine Islam has; none of them enjoys the geographical extent Islam has; none of them has the astronomical numbers Islam has. In addition, none of them enjoys such widespread mainstream acceptance and deference and protection from criticism throughout the West.

Furthermore, I would maintain none of them has the ability to inculcate fanaticism as strongly, nor on such a mass scale as Islam has. There is no cult in history that is able to galvanize the spectacle of the Hajj will millions of members in deadly-serious lock-step behavior, which in other Islamic-related contexts around the world also has spilled over into deadly riots and mass demonstrations of hatred and supremacism.

Demsci,

Aside from some of your points which, in effect, I already responded to in my reply to Sashland above (who articulated similar points), you raise others:

My first argument for the distinction is that already the real political correct people are accusing Wilders of discrimination now, and they would be vindicated with an attitude by Wilders of being against both Islam and all Muslims. He would give them their ammunition, I am afraid.

Considering how Wilders has been treated thus far, I'm not sure his strategy is softening up the PC MCs to predispose them to receive him with significantly more respect than they would had he maintained more coherence (and therefore more pungency ). I'm not saying Wilders should stand on a rooftop with a bullhorn and scream "I hate all Muslims!" But I think there is plenty of room for him to integrate more anti-Islamic (and therefore anti-Muslim) coherence into his message in an intelligent way that would not make his position any more difficult. While on the other hand it may not appreciably help his position in the eyes of the mainstream PC MCs, at least he would be more coherent and faithful to reason which ultimately, in the long run, will be the very heart of how, and why, the West will win.

"Moreover the fact that our real opponents, both Muslims and Political Correct People, totally reject the idea should give us pause to think."

The PC MCs only reject it because it's negative against Islam. It's not the distinction per se that bothers them; they just recoil from anything critical about anything under the broad Islam umbrella. Wilders may think he is making his condemnation more palatable by slicing it in half ("I only reject Islam, not Muslims") -- and making the negative half only about ideas and not human beings (and worse yet in the eyes of the PC MCs, ethnic human beings) -- but the people he is trying to sell this to who matter in terms of sociopoligical influence treat the half he has sliced, put on a plate and slid over across the table for their consideration to be no different from the whole pie. Wilders might as well be condemning all Muslims, from their viewpoint. And I'm afraid they have logic on their side for their suspicion.

"My other argument for the distinction between Islam and Muslims is this; Both us and real political correct people on principle must agree that Islam is manmade, therefore fallible and not imperfect.
"We can make it clear to Muslims that they may see Islam as of Divine-origine, but they have no right to force us to treat it as of Divine-origine."

That's a nice idea, to human beings who are already used to accomodation and secular flexibility and open-mindedness, as the vast majority of Westerners are, and as are millions of non-Westerners around the world who have adapted to, and adopted, modern Western mores quite readily without any major existential "crisis" of a culture shock to their worldviews. But that idea is utterly alien to Muslims and to Islam. It would be reckless for us to consider such a ploy to be feasible, and to then take various actions on the basis of such a reckless consideration.

"We've got to hammer the point that it is really the Muslims who are highly unreasonable in considering and declaring that Islam is Divine and sacrosanct and that it of necessity must be shielded from criticism and exonerated from all accusations."

We only need to hammer our own PC MC dolts with this point. Muslims are beyond hope, and our efforts and energy need to be productively spent not on dialoguing with them and trying to persuade or entice them to change, but rather on protecting ourselves from them because we reasonably assume they will never -- at least not in numbers sufficient to solve our alarmingly deadly and metastasizing problem with Islam -- accept a "human Islam".

If you care to, Hesperado, you might want to read two posts of mine on different threads which would dispute your contention that Wilders is not acting optimally and that all Muslims are beyond hope. See, if you are so inclined, my comment on the March 6th thread, which begins with the words "Jordanian Newspapers," posted by Robert Spencer at 8:22 A.M., and my second comment which I posted today at 4:19 P.M. (my first comment is the first one) on the thread for March 5th which starts with "55 seconds of truth," posted by Mr. Spencer at 5:54 P.M yesterday. Excuse my not repeating what I wrote on these two threads. I'm just feeling a little lazy right now. Hope you're well.

That's "Jordanian Newspaper" and not the plural. My fault.

Hello Hesperado, I am learning from you so much and this topic is so near to my hart, that I am very grateful you help me to develop it in my mind ever further.

You:
"But I think there is plenty of room for him to integrate more anti-Islamic (and therefore anti-Muslim) coherence into his message in an intelligent way that would not make his position any more difficult. While on the other hand it may not appreciably help his position in the eyes of the mainstream PC MCs, at least he would be more coherent and faithful to reason which ultimately, in the long run, will be the very heart of how, and why, the West will win."

Agreed on the coherence and faithful to reason-part. But since we can never achieve perfection, is it acceptable to you if we proceed from our own goals, with our own values and rules, which we protect and yes, want to expand at the cost of Islam? That we then only start with the attack on Islam, the ideology, not yet with the attack on all Muslims?

That we get expert on both ideologies, as good as, and better than any Muslim-scholar? That we then compare the 2 competing beliefsystems very accurately? And that is happening already at lightning speed now, thanks to sites like Jihad-Watch.

That we present our goals, honourability, expert knowledge of both Democratic and Islamic beliefsystems to the world, both to Muslims and Political Corrects? Together with our insistence of treating Islam as a manmade, not divine beliefsystem, and therefore our insistence that it is treated in that way, just as the Freedom-party-ideology is?

That we also insist that Islam (and the Democratic beliefsystem) not only belongs to the Divine-Origine-believers of it, but every bit as much to us, the Human-Origine-believers of it? That both sides can be as honorable and knowledgeable and both sides should be equally respected and listened to? This point we then hammer to the Political-Corrects out there.

And finally, can we not boldly state that there are 2 competing beliefsystems that are at stake here, that both vie for ultimate supremacy; the Democratic beliefsystem and the Islamic one? And that the first wants to let the second one be for a substantial part but the second one does not want the first one to survive?

Meaning that the ultimately first and foremost loyalty we seek from people everywhere, in their vast majority, in both Western Countries AND Islamic countries, is loyalty to the Democratic belief-system? That supreme loyalty, in vast numbers, to the enemy of that (Islam), yes, that that ultimately can/ will lead to war?

Of course that would mean leaving alone China, Russia and other non-democratic, non-Islamic countries. Of course it would not yet engage in declaring all Muslims enemies, which IS a logical step to take. But would it not be a great beginning?

You rightly say that the vast majority of Muslims are beyond hope, and basing our strategy on baseless assumptions could be reckless. No, no Muslims should ever be trusted. But if we would do the above, would that not be a good enough start of our defense?

And although I already learned from Ali Sina, you, many others, that, in contrast to what Daniel Pipes hopes, reform of Islam is well-nigh impossible. I know it has to win or break, not bend.

But still, illogically as it is, but at least it is a beginning; maybe we can leave the many "quiet, neutral Muslims-in-name-only" alone for now and focus on the 2 ideologies?

I for one am still amazed that the democratic system is not yet collapsing in Iraq, since they have elections today. reasonably fair and well attended and defended ones, too. Apparently Muslims are themselves very fuzzy about Democracy and Islam.

Great speech to the House of Lords, I hope they listen! I hope the rest of Europe listens as well, and can somehow drop the political correctness, maybe grow a couple and stand up for something. Hooray for Geert Wilders!

Demsci,

"But still, illogically as it is, but at least it is a beginning; maybe we can leave the many "quiet, neutral Muslims-in-name-only" alone for now and focus on the 2 ideologies?"

At best, I would agree, I guess, that as a strategy given the severe limitations presented by PC MC, focusing on the ideology and ignoring the human carriers & agents of that ideology (at least ignoring the vast majority of them while only concentrating on the tiny minority who are actually blowing up buildings or saying dangerously extremist things) with the expectation that eventually that relatively exclusive focus will unfold its logical implications into an unavoidable wider focus on Muslims in general, the Wilders method may well be helpful.

That said, however, those logical implications will have a more difficult time unfolding in the future -- or they may never unfold or may likely unfold in less effective ways -- if their rationale is not kept alive in the minds of Westerners now and into the foreseeable future during the time that we are agreeing to try to support and implement the Wilders strategy. I.e., the seed or core idea of the more holistic point of view nneeds to be thought by a certain number of us in the anti-Islam movement now, or it may never be thought. The holistic logic is not automatically inexorable: it needs human beings to think it, articulate it, and hope for its practicability. It's not going to just sprout up spontaneously, independently of humans.

So at the very least, I say some of us need to keep that logical vector alive now, and into the foreseeable future, in order to facilitate the future transition from this incoherent Wilders strategy to a more coherent paradigm and plan of action.

For readers who haven't read my previous comments above that clarify some of my terms, see:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/wilders-at-house-of-lords-march-5-freedom-must-prevail-and-freedom-will-prevail.html#comment-647574

and

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/wilders-at-house-of-lords-march-5-freedom-must-prevail-and-freedom-will-prevail.html#comment-647623

There is the closely related additional problem that many (perhaps most?) of analysts and/or activists in the anti-Islam movement really sincerely do not agree with the holistic paradigm, and unless they rather radically change their mind in the foreseeable future, they never will agree with it. So such disagreers will provide additional impediments to that process of unfolding from the Wilders strategy to a more holistic, coherent strategy.

Finally, I would add that this isn't merely a battle of ideas where one idea is distasteful and the other is palatable. This is a deadly struggle where innumerable multitudes of people from a world-wide organization are possessed by an extreme fanaticism that leads them to want to attack and kill us, and to undermine, destroy and conquer our societies to replace our societies with societies based on their ideology. And they are not sitting around waiting politely for ideas to "unfold": they are planning deadly infiltration and attacks now, as they have been for decades, so far most of which have been thwarted often by sheer luck, but enough of them have been intolerably successful. Western societies (and those societies relatively civilized by the West, such as India) should not be expected to tolerate successful attacks like 911, London, Madrid, or Mumbai -- and the intolerable nature of this is only augmented by the many plots to attack us that have been luckily thwarted. It is reasonable to suppose that far deadlier mayhem is in the offing while we pursue our incoherently piece-meal strategy, and while that incoherently piece-meal strategy will, if successful within its logical parameters of what "success" means, have some good effects -- such as slowing down the construction of new mosques and Islamic centers, cracking down on the visible extremists, curtailing certain Islamic behaviors that facilitate ongoing stealth invasion (such as limited bannings of hijab, etc.) -- the actual danger from innumerable Muslim fanatics will continue to escalate, because we will be doing nothing about the millions of Muslims already within our Western societies and continuing to multiply fruitfully.

OK, I yield and admit that I am still much groping in the dark and anyway totally powerless. It's a fine thought for me to take the lead from analytical people like you.

Perhaps then, we are steering towards some kind of loyalty-demand-situation in future, when it is no longer acceptable for any inhabitant of a Western country to be more loyal to Islam than to the democratic governing system, the very overthrow of which Islam seeks. And yes, war if necessary to protect the democratic governing system.

I mean of course follow your lead.

Oh, Hesperado, you rightly said that the PC's will have logic on their side when they still see and say that Wilders IS in effect targeting Muslims although he says he is only targeting the Islamic ideology.

Because, yes, in the end, the loyalty-question is going to have to be asked of the Muslims and there will have to be consequences of loyalty to an enemy that aims to overthrow Democracy while Islam CAN survive in Democracy.

But other than that they have only black-and-white simple logic in this matter. In the past racists would view non-whites as inferior (in a way the "black" choice) and now the PC's are doing the opposite in trying to exonerate Muslims of wrong thinking and doing or the consequences of that as best they can (in a way the "white" choice).

but it should be clear that Muslims should be held accountable, because sometimes saying, wanting and doing bad things, and that is the "grey choice".

By being critical of Islam Wilders is being described by PC's as racist, by being totally unaccepting and totally contemptuous. But that reaction is overdone, stark black.
The PC-reaction is stark-White, they now exonerate Muslims of all bad thoughts and actions and shield them from their responsibilities of following Islam.

Our reaction could be to relentlessly criticize Islams teachings and practice where it has power. And our right to do so.

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