Britain: the cradle of freedom, now the land of thoughtcrime.
“Exclusive–Geert Wilders: Delusional Britain Would Rather Ban Donald Trump Than Confront Unpleasant Facts,” by Geert Wilders, Breitbart, January 19, 2016:
Deja-vu. It is not an English word, but French. However, the word immediately springs to mind when hearing about yet another Western politician or Islam critic, whom some British politicians want to ban from entering their country. Welcome, Donald Trump, in the company of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and myself.
Both Pamela, Robert and myself have been banned from entering the United Kingdom. In my case, it happened on February 12, 2009. Two highly respected members of the British House of Lords, Lady Caroline Cox and Lord Malcolm Pearson, had invited me to show my 2008 documentary Fitna to members of the House in a conference room of the parliament building in Westminster. Fitna is a movie, juxtaposing Koranic versed calling for violence with footage of terrorist attacks and other violent deeds these verses inspired.
Fitna, as well as my view that Islam, rather than a religion, is primarily a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination, has resulted in several death threats against my person. I am on the death list of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Pakistani Taliban. Since 2004, I have been living under round-the-clock police protection, but I have a mission: Speak the truth about Islam.
However, a Pakistani-born Islamic member of the House of Lords, one Nazir Ahmed, demanded that the then British Labour government ban me from entering the UK. He threatened that he would personally mobilize 10,000 Muslims to prevent me from entering the Upper House. The government complied and had me banned. Though a member of the Dutch parliament, invited by British colleagues, I was locked up in a detention room upon arrival at Heathrow Airport. Three hours later, I was put on the next flight to Amsterdam.
The British authorities said that my “presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society.” My statements as expressed in Fitna and elsewhere were said to “threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.” Lord Ahmed boasted of his victory in the Pakistani media. He termed the decision “a victory for the Muslim community.”
However, I challenged the ban before the British Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. On October 12, 2009, this tribunal overturned the ban. In March 2010, I returned to London and showed my movie to my colleagues in Westminster. There were no incidents and no disturbances of Britain’s “fundamental interests,” “community harmony,” or “public security.” The bans served but one goal: It was an attempt to shut me up for speaking the truth about Islam.
Yesterday, Pamela Geller wrote on this website that in June 2013, she and Robert Spencer, too, were banned from the UK because their presence was “not conductive to the public good” and a “threat to security of our society.” It sounded eerily familiar, as did the arguments of those who want Donald Trump to be banned from Britain for advocating a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration into the US. Fortunately, they did not succeed.
When the great Ronald Reagan visited the British Parliament in 1982, he told the British parliamentarians that “if history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.” This is an advice that politicians everywhere should take at heart.

JAS says
Seems the Brits want to wallow in stupidity by banning anyone who really understands islam and muslims. Oh, well, UK is pretty much finished anyway. When the muslims establish no-go areas in their country there really is no coming back for the English. The only good thing they have going for them is the EDL and the UK Govt is at war with the citizens on that.
gravenimage says
Geert Wilders hasn’t given up on his own often dhimmi government, nor has he given up on the UK. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, despite the ongoing ban, have not given up on them either.
Neither should any Anti-Jihadist. The stakes are too high.
ainu888 says
Well said.
mortimer says
Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.
We must defend our free speech and protest discriminatory, barbaric jihad.
blindersoffBrit says
Absolutely well said old chap!
Shane says
Yes, we have to make people all over the world aware that Islam is an existential threat to them and that we must fight Islamic jihad.
DP111 says
Don’t give up on us yet. As before WWII, we always want to go the extra mile just to be sure before we do what is necessary. Britain has always tried to avoid a war if at all possible.
Churchill
The red light of retribution played on the bayonets and lances, and civilization –
elsewhere sympathetic, merciful, tolerant, ready to discuss or to argue, eager to avoid violence, to submit to law, to effect a compromise – here advanced with an expression of inexorable sternness, and, rejecting all other courses, offered only the arbitration of the sword”.
Mark Swan says
Let’s Hear it for…the British Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
Let’s hear it for…Geert Wilders, Donald Trump, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer.
Well Done All.
David says
I know you were only jesting about the “gun free zones”. But remember, the non gun owning or using public trys to lump us all togeather as GUN LOONS! And simple jesting is enough to set them off.
I myself have grown up with all sorts of firearms. To me they are just another TOOL. But, as with any potentialy dangerous tool, they must always be handled with care and forethought.
We in the USA have a sacred right written in our Constitution, that of gun ownership and SELF-DEFENSE. Many idiots in DC see the nullifying of this right as a priority. With the extreme danger we all face from radical islam. I for one do not want to give then any ammunition to use against us!
As always: My GOD Bless the United States of America!
Vlad says
My dear friend,
GOD has blessed America, because Donald Trump is contesting the Office of President.
May GOD further bless America and increase the IQ of the loony left, so that they become fully aware of the threat they are facing, if they would vote of the Democratic Party of Delusions.
Donald Trump President, Dr. Carson Vice President.
UNBEATABLE…………………
I wish I was living in the USA.
TH says
Muslims have low IQ due to inbreeding, so they are dumbing down the countries they immigrate to, besides promoting violence and rape.
Mike Proulx says
Last chance for US in my view,
If my people whom are called by my Name will humble themselves and seek my face, then will I hear and heal their land.
God will pour out His judgement upon all nations who reject His plan of Salvation in Jesus Christ. The Bible is clear on this all Nation whom forget God will be turned into Hell.
Donald Trump is a man sent by God and this is why he doesn’t need Teleprompter’s. He speaks from the heart.
It’s unfortunate for the UK citizens however, they have weak leaders ,spines like jelly fish afraid to take a stance and deport these murdering Jihads.
May the Good Lord help the innocent people of the UK, whom are presently under siege.
Any government who endorses a religion which teaches it’s followers to murder the innocent and rape women is ruled by Satan himself and they are all under the deception of the enemy.
I pray that God would raise up a Donald Trump type leader in the UK in this hour to stand up and tell the truth about what is really going on there.
God help the citizens of the UK
DP111 says
Mike Proulx says
January 20, 2016 at 10:56 am
I pray that God would raise up a Donald Trump type leader in the UK in this hour to stand up and tell the truth about what is really going on there.
God help the citizens of the UK
Amen, and Thank you.
Angemon says
Joke’s on them – I’ve been to the UK several times, and I hold views very similar to those of Mr. Wilders or Mr. Spencer. All part of the stealth counter-jihad 😉
Next time, I’ll try to remember to take a photo near a British tourist hot spot while holding something like a prohibition sign over an isis flag with the caption “the counter-jihad is here” 😀
Peggy says
Be very careful and wear a bullet proof vest. It should hopefully save you from being stabbed in the chest too.
TJFreedomjihad says
Peggy, they stop projectiles (bullets) mostly, some not so much. But beware the weaknesses, and the methods to avoid the weaknesses. There are ways and means. But better than nothing.
Jeremiah says
Perhaps the real enemy is ourselves. Political Correctness is self-imposed. It is encouraged by our real enemy, Islam. However, we are able to cut through Political Correctness by jailing those who would deceive us.
The academics can be confronted by parents who want their children taught history and philosophy that matches the truth rather than fiction. Demand a return to the books that they have banned. Fire the teachers that wish to indoctrinate rather than teach. Change the curriculum to one that is useful rather than one that supports riots for everything.
The media should be penalized for doctoring stories to fit their political agenda.
The politicians should stop running for election and serve their constituents during their terms. Furthermore, a politician lying outside of the confines of Congress should be jailed.
We need to value the truth before we can make progress. We cannot interpret free speech to include that which is false and subversive and will ultimately destroy free speech.
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Donald Trump and Geert Wilders. What great company. Such quality people! Each has a thirst for justice and truth. Think of who is on our side. Brigitte Gabriel and so many who have been passionately and tirelessly willing to sacrifice their own lives for us. These are the people who will be remembered in the end. None of them are Politically Correct. If they don’t know the truth then they will find it. I am so proud to be on that side today.
Islam is a 1400 year threat that now needs to be dealt with for good. Let us face that challenge with these great leaders.
ainu888 says
I welcome your introspective and self-critical tone. Islamofascism would not have made a home in our societies if we had not created a comfortable dwelling for it in the first place. We are partially to blame too.
Westman says
I think the Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, deserves a round of applause and recognition for his efforts to save the Dutch Culture through education of the public, debates, publishing, and resistance to Islam-biased legislation.
This he has done for many years against the gale winds of leftlist populism, derision, and kumbaya delusions; much of it written into laws that have become millstones about the neck of freedom as Islamic ideology and its migration into The Netherlands grind forward to drown the nation.
The Cologne New Year changed everything. Finally, Mr. Wilders is recognized by the majority of his countrymen for his accurate prophecy. Congratulations, Mr. Wilders!
And thanks to Mr. Robert Spencer and Pamella Geller, as they too march forward as they have for many years.
Edwin1683 says
Well said. Bravo to the incomparable Geert Wilders, and to Pamela and to Robert.
gravenimage says
Geert Wilders: “Welcome, Donald Trump, in the company of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and myself”
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Bravo, Geert Wilders! And kudos to him for getting at least one of these shameful bans overturned.
And while it may be too much to hope for, it *is* possible that Donald Trump will rethink his cavalier dismissal of the importance of freedom of speech following this. Pamela Geller has certainly shown the larger character here.
More:
However, a Pakistani-born Islamic member of the House of Lords, one Nazir Ahmed, demanded that the then British Labour government ban me from entering the UK. He threatened that he would personally mobilize 10,000 Muslims to prevent me from entering the Upper House.
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Think about how grotesque *this* is–the specter of a mob of Muslim thugs physically attacking a parliamentarian from a neighboring democracy and preventing him from entering democratic Britain’s most august chamber–and having that body appease this barbarian by enforcing the ban.
*Shameful*.
ainu888 says
Taslima Nasreen was attacked in a similar fashion by thugs in India at a literary event. It was later revealed that one of the attackers, who was the chief instigators, was a member of the local parliament. He said, I am a Muslim first, and then a parliamentarian.
Taslima realized India was too soft for her and left.
Paul says
It will be left to the despised the betrayed and the expendable amongst us in the UK
to come to the rescue once things kick off properly and all pretence of law
and order has finally broken down. It looks like this will all come to a head much sooner
than anticipated the way things are going. Maybe it’s for the best while we are still in the majority.
No amount of appeasement and ostracism of truth tellers is going to stop it. The traitors amongst
us will not be forgiven.
Wellington says
First of all, just loved the quote by the Gipper, courtesy of Robert Spencer. America has produced only three moral geniuses who were President——George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan (Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman come close here). Hell, America sorely needs another moral genius as President right now, though I see none in sight. Some good folks out there but certainly no moral genius gunning (this word would probably offend so many on the Left who are so easily offended) for the top job
Second of all, I watched the British debate on C-Span last night respecting whether Trump should be barred from the UK because of his comment about Muslim immigration to the US. Now, I did not watch all of it but all that I did watch produced only two kinds of speakers: 1) Those who reviled Trump and thought he should be banned; and 2) Those who reviled Trump and yet didn’t think he should be banned.
This just tended to confirm for me that British elites have lost their collective mind and their collective balls. All Trump did was make the very sane suggestion that, until things get better sorted, there should be a TEMPORARY ban on Muslims entering the US. Now, I would like to see a permanent ban of Muslims entering my country on the basis that Islam is a totalitarian ideology, and just as America does not let in other committed totalitarians like Neo-Nazis, Marxists and anarchists (and yes, anarchists are totalitarian too because, like all totalitarians, they can’t abide any opposite point of view), America should not let in followers of the oldest totalitarian ideology in the world——-Islam.
But even just a temporary ban proposed by someone who stumbled into the truth and who really doesn’t know Islam well at all, and what to do about it in the final analysis, as evidenced by his criticism of Pamela Geller for holding the event she did in Garland, Texas last May, yes even this is beyond the Pale for British political elites. Risible. Stunning. Stupid beyond virtually all description. I’m with the British people but their leadership right now makes the in-fighting between Lancastrians and Yorkists back in the fifteenth century look like an exercise in enlightened statesmanship because even in the days of the War of the Roses no one upholding either the Red Rose or the White Rose wanted to sell all of England down the river.
But that is exactly what so many British elites are attempting to do right now. In fact, some can’t seem to do it fast enough. Yep, once again is proven that truth is stranger than fiction, this time coming very possibly at the expense of all of Britannia.
Mitch says
What, no Silent Cal?
Good post, Wellington.
Wellington says
You’re right, Mitch. I did indeed forget America’s 30th President. He was quite sharp and possessed of a moral intelligence of a high order. Reagan knew this and that is why the Gipper had a portrait of Silent Cal put in a prominent place in the White House once he came into office in 1981.
Coolidge, arguably, remains to this day the single most underrated President. The great English historian, Paul Johnson, aids this take about Coolidge in his magisterial history of the twentieth century, Modern Times. Thanks for reminding me. I needed reminding.
Mitch says
Thanks for bringing up “Modern Times,” which had been out of my consciousness for some time, though it shouldn’t have been. Read it as a lad and it permanently corrected much of my thinking, especially regarding the Roaring Twenties.
Angemon says
For those who don’t know whom you’re talking about:
Wellington says
Thanks for that video, Angemon. Much appreciated.
TJFreedomjihad says
As usual, a learned proper observations, Graven, and Wellington. Superb reality actually.
Britannia is in great need of relearning the background of the St George’s Cross, and combine such effort with the strategy and successes of Martel, and Sobieski, and more, eventually. Bucking up, growing pants and a pair of very large ones is the only way. Period. History has so proven, always. So defined apparently by God, satan, and very existence itself (should reader not accept The Deity). Defend against the Evil Empire, as ever necessary. Study the enemy’s manuals which they use against us, learn or relearn the art of war, and stand up for Freedom, again, Become that bastion once that had been, or this……..Grovel England, at their feet! Or, if you can remember Churchill, Thatcher, Reagan, and other brave, true greats, take a knee, then stand up, and STAND TALL, AGAIN! You need not be royal, but at least be loyal to yourselves’ own nation, your priceless English family, and your heritage, to all forefathers and heroes before, make them truly proud, again and again, and yet again! Don’t forget your offspring.
http://www.steynonline.com/7428/it-still-the-demography-stupid
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/01/understanding-caliphate-curve.html
http://www.steynonline.com/section/14/steyn-on-britain-and-europe
http://www.steynonline.com/6929/st-george-and-a-new-dragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
The above, being for edification of Australia, England, Canada, as well, America, Scandinavia, EU, India, and the rest of the bloody world of dhimmis, and otherwise dim bulbs, yet, get your boots on, your outfits on, and start slogging.
Or you all will become the slaves, beaten, tortured and traded in the slave’s marketplace, and even become the violent criminals too, of and at your masters bidding, just like your new crime masters, that your sloth, lack of righteousness, discipline, and will, surely will bring upon you. Think I overstate reality, look to the ME now, and in Syria, and elsewhere, the new local slave markets, and even in the more settled of the 57 infamous islamic states. Islam is, by definition, infamous.
This is generational conflict, of 1400 hundred miserable years, for them, and every sane person must awaken, or perish by violent murder sure, sooner or later, easily or horribly, as over 280,000,000 have previously learned the hard way, for not paying attention. Past peoples can sometimes be less held to blame for their own fates, as people once upon a time lived more agrarian styles, widely spread apart, less per cent lived in cities, where knowledge had a limited chance to travel, a little more likely and quickly, by poster, criers and word of mouth, wherein nowadays, we can learn at the speed of the Internet, light speed, while being almost anywhere, even at the poles and space.
Learn the true evil of your enemy, open your browser, go to the library, (and still open your browser!). You can’t understand or learn anything thing that will save you, by staying overnight at your local Holiday Inn Express, especially with your latest girlfriend, or any other waste of time. I know, such a low sneer, my paean (sarc) to the current coarseness, crudeness, trashiness, and low goals and achievements, that are too much of this life, since somewhere in the 60’s! Invest the money, and time, you’ll save with loftier goals, instead, in new knowledge, of history, and current events, that will pay you back.
And open your mind to new truths, the ones you were not taught or deceived against, since that troubled time, the 60’s, for probably 90% or so. Did you learn well and truthfully, a demanding and comprehensive course or more, in the “History of Western Civ.”, called by such as we, ‘Western Civ.’? There actually is a vital to your very life and soul, necessity and reason for it, to be learned truthfully, if you don’t plan on degeneration, along with the rest! And English Lit., (you know, Keats, Shelley, Shakespeare) History of? Not too likely, I bet, especially taught by non-revisionist socialist radical so called teachers, increasingly common, when they even are educated, aka propagandists, likes of Bill, Bernadine, and the hordes. Don’t believe? You’ll find out.
Read your enemies manuals, (all three) most evil, as some of your enemy have done, and your most active enemies are stupid enough to believe it. You had better learn what they have learned, as you ‘overnight rocket scientists’, are the target of the worst criminals ever created upon earth. They supersede the Romans and Pilates, (and mafia’s, mao’s, (other communists), adolf’s (remember? nazi=national socialist party?), socialists, and other totalitarians) crimes, especially as Rome decayed (the destiny of all monarchies and democracies, and learn how it can be avoided, with a Republic), which were many, along with the ‘grandeur that was Rome’, it’s upside, once upon a time!
What others say:
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” — Thomas Sowell (learned American economist)
“WHEN A NATION FORGETS HER SKILL IN WAR, WHEN HER RELIGION BECOMES A MOCKERY, WHEN THE WHOLE NATION BECOMES A NATION OF MONEY-GRABBERS, THEN THE WILD TRIBES, THE BARBARIANS DRIVE IN. Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come? — Robert E. Howard, IN A LETTER DATED JULY 1923.
sidney penny says
Nothing stopping Muslims converting to Christianity for the purpose of entering USA.
You have to ban all from Islamist countries but for example there are millions of Christians in Egypt.
Maybe Trump spoke without thinking.
Hope says
I hope that the British government, once civil war has broken out or the country has fallen to the IslamoNazis, does not find itself in need of aid from the United States. Perhaps President Trump will tell them to go sh– in a hat.
mortimer says
George Orwell must be turning in his grave!
Perhaps, as well, Donald Trump will at last understand the value of free speech…something he has thought was theoretical nonsense promoted by soft-headed academics and considered by Trump to be inessential for HIM PERSONALLY.
Trump is unaware that the American republic was founded on the basis of freedom of expression.
von says
I agree with your optimism, I hope this attitude catches on in Canada, as you know our closet moslem PM can’t get the moslem savages into the country fast enough.
Diane Sori says
Geert…please do NOT but narcissistic blowhard Donald Trump in the same category as yourself, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer. Trump does NOT hold a candle to what the three of you do. Stay strong and above all else stay safe.
Mark A says
But the UK government will allow all varieties of Islamist propagandists, jihad preachers and infidel haters to come to the UK and stay there.
Interesting.
Wakeup says
I think Americans are wonderful, we should have never split up we should be one nation. Google Maddingley Cemetery that is what it is about. One nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
Christian says
I feel sad that now the heads of states in the Western countries are cowards. The are afraid of the muslims. This I do not understand. The European countries are doomed. Maybe it is the fault of the people because they are the ones who voted them in!!
Hary says
“I feel sad that the heads of states……..”
Indeed this saddens most clear-thinking people within many nations, and indeed the west in its blindness is doomed….UNTIL. Regardless of what the NON-christian believes about The Bible,Christ, and The Gospel of Christ and His Apostles, It still remains true as to how this evil is going to pan out and eventually be defeated entirely. There are many good books written by people who have come out of this evil regime that is sweeping the globe. One of these books as many others are is written with experience and honesty…..”The Devil We Don’t Know” by Nonie Darwish. Hope a lot more people with common sense read it.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…I challenged the ban before the British Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. On October 12, 2009, this tribunal overturned the ban. In March 2010, I returned to London and showed my movie to my colleagues in Westminster. There were no incidents and no disturbances of Britain’s “fundamental interests,” “community harmony,” or “public security.” The bans served but one goal: It was an attempt to shut me up for speaking the truth about Islam…”
This tenacity and tempered political skill make Geert Wilders unmatched and undisputed as Europe’s foremost leader of the anti Jihad movement. The Dutch can be very proud to have raised this man who will lead us out of the wilderness.