Sometimes life sends along something to cheer us up. It did so for me, when I came across a stemwinder of a speech made in the Czech Parliament a few months ago by one of its members, Klara Samkova. Samkova is a left-of-center — not “far-right,” even if the Western press would like to label her as such — politician mainly known as a defender of minorities, especially the Roma. In the past, she was even prepared to collaborate with the Union of Czech Muslims, though after being mugged by Muslim reality, that collaboration has stopped. Her speech was part of a parliamentary hearing on the topic “Should We Be Afraid Of Islam?” (Imagine any Congressman in Washington daring to frame a debate in that way, given that in this country, whatever explanation we give for terrorist acts committed by Muslims, It Has Nothing To Do With Islam).
There are two alternative answers to that parliamentary question.
Either:
1) No, Islam is being maligned by Islamophobes using scare tactics, so don’t be worried.
2) Yes, Islam is definitely a danger wherever it spreads – be worried!
The first is what we keep being told by political and media elites all over Western Europe and North America, who are willing to mislead because they don’t know how, at this point, to handle the truth about the ideology of Islam. The second is what you are more likely find in countries whose recent history has taught their people, and governments, some tough lessons; in Europe, those countries were formerly under Communist rule.
After the Brussels attack, the head of Poland’s largest party announced that “after recent events connected with acts of terror, [Poland] will not accept refugees, because there is no mechanism that would ensure security.” Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, declared that “we do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see….” Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia, announced that “Islam has no place in Slovakia.” The Czech Republic, which had in the past taken in a few thousand Muslim migrants, regrets even that, to judge by the remark of its President, Milos Zeman, this January, that “it is practically impossible to integrate Islam into Europe,” and made clear that the Czechs will not be taking any more.
On the Eastern Front of the war of self-defense against Islam, experience has taught people to recognize Islam as what Klara Samkova describes, as not so much a religion as a “totalitarian ideology,” akin to Nazism and Fascism and Communism, that attempts to regulate every facet of a Muslim’s life through the Sharia, or Holy Law of Islam:
“The law [Sharia] is an intrinsic and inseparable part of the Islamic ideology. It constitutes the core of the content of Islam while the rules claimed to be religious or ethical are just secondary and marginal components of the ideology. From the viewpoint of Islam, the concept of religion as a private, intimate matter of an individual is absolutely unacceptable.”
Islam is a collectivist faith (Samkova: “the concept of religion as a private, intimate matter of an individual is absolutely unacceptable”). For those, like the Czechs, whose history includes enduring the collectivism of Nazism and Communism, this aspect of Islam must be particularly troubling. Muslims often pray together in very large numbers, in serried ranks of zebibah-thickening submission, and receive their understanding of Islam together in the madrasa and the mosque. They are taught to defend the Umma, the world-wide community of Believers, and as a community to spread the message of Islam, employing the many instruments of Jihad, from combat [qitaal] to demography.
As for the morality of Islam, Samkova says that this “is not a matter for individual judgment,” but consists in following the rules derived from what was set out long ago in Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira, and codified in the Sharia. Another source of Islamic morality – if it can be called that – is the behavior of Muhammad, as both the exemplary model of conduct, uswa hasana, and the Perfect Man, al-insan al-kamil. Few non-Muslims would agree that the Muslim Prophet’s life – including the murders of those who mocked him, his raid on the Khaybar Oasis, his marriage to little Aisha, the decapitation of bound prisoners – corresponds to their moral code.
According to Samkova, in Islam, the period of the Prophet Muhammad and of the earliest Muslims is that to which devout Muslims must always strive to return:
Islam doesn’t share the Enlightenment’s idea of the social progress associated with the future. According to Islam, the good times have already taken place – in the era of Prophet Mohammed. The best things that could have been done have already been done, the best thing that could have been written has already been written, namely the Quran.
Muslims such as the Wahhabis look not to some imagined future, but back to the Golden Age of Islam – and their mission as Believers is to bring back an Islam that resembles that of its earliest period, to strip Islam of its later, illegitimate excrescences. And for non-Muslims, that “pure” Islam of the early period is even more dangerous than the Islam that, in the centuries since, through accommodation with custom, had its hard edges softened. That belief in a Golden Age of Islam helps explain why, in a recent poll, fully a third of Muslims, though living comfortable and well-subsidized lives in today’s Germany, expressed a desire to live as they did in the earliest days of Islam, the time of the Prophet and the Companions.
Samkova keeps blasting away:
Unfortunately, Islam doesn’t want to be miserable on its own. It wants to take the rest of the world down with it.
Islam doesn’t respect development, progress, and humanity. In its despair, it is attempting to take the rest of the mankind with it because from the Islamic viewpoint, the rest of the world is futile, useless, and unclean.
Islam is a static faith; there is no “progress” in Islam. For the True Believer (and we should, to be fair, recognize that not all Muslims are such True Believers), the just society will attempt to conform to the earliest, truest Islam of Muhammad. Its “morality” is derived not from the workings of the individual conscience, but from taking the Qur’an literally, solving internal contradictions in that book by applying where necessary the interpretative doctrine of naskh (or “abrogation”) and, especially, following as closely as possible the moral example of the Prophet Muhammad as he is depicted, in word and deed, in the Hadith. As for the “rest of the world” – that is, all non-Muslims – they indeed lead “futile, useless, and unclean” lives, in the view of devout Muslims, unless and until they embrace Islam. According to the Qur’an, it is the Muslims who are the “best of peoples,” the non-Muslims who are the “vilest of creatures,” and it is the solemn duty of Muslims to spread Islam until it everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule everywhere. This has nothing to do with naive Western hopes placed on “coexistence” with Muslims; “coexistence” is what Muslims in the West will give lip service to, until such time as they are strong enough to drop even the pretense of wanting to continue that state of affairs.
Samkova is not fooled by the “Muslim” version of the International Declaration of Human Rights — the so-called “Cairo Declaration” – which is presented by Muslims as almost the equivalent of the original, but in its 22nd Article severely limits the free speech rights to that speech which does not violate the principles of the Sharia, or otherwise “violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets”: “Islam and its Sharia law is incompatible with the principles of the European law, especially with the rights enumerated in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (and Freedoms) [or with the International Declaration of Human Rights]:
One has only to compare the International Declaration of Human Rights with its so-called “Islamic” version, the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, to see how widely they differ on freedom of expression: the latter is based firmly on the Sharia and does not protect freedom of speech and the press as we in the West define it:
“Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Sharia.” (Cairo Declaration, Art. 22.a)
“(Information) may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith.” (Cairo Declaration, Art. 22c)
Samkova observes that Muslims are well-versed at exploiting the much greater freedoms the West offers them than the countries they came from, to undo that very West:
Islam likes to hide behind the religious mask [for] its permanent, deliberate, and purposeful abuse of the Euro-American legal system and values that the civilizations built upon the Judeo-Christian foundations have converged to. There’s nothing better or more efficient than to abuse the value system of one’s enemy, especially when I don’t share that system. And that’s exactly how Islam behaves. It wants to be protected according to our [Western] tradition which it exploits in this way, while it is not willing to behave reciprocally. It relies on our traditions, it claims that the traditions are important, while behind the scenes, it is laughing at us and our system of values.
Muslims in Europe want to have their own relentless assault on Western religions protected by freedom of speech guarantees, but are determined to try to censor, as undeserving of such guarantees, any criticism of Islam, which they are quick to describe as “hate speech” directed at Muslims. The freedom of conscience they have in mind is aimed at non-Muslims only, and only for one thing: they should be “free” to revert to Islam; Muslims, on the other hand, have no freedom to leave Islam. That kind of apostasy is punishable by death. Thus, this “freedom” is distinctly one-sided.
And Samkova is keenly aware that Muslims present themselves as constant “victims” because, having been allowed to settle within the West, they are sometimes thwarted in their multifarious attempts to transform, steadily and systematically, that very West, so that it becomes, ultimately, part of Dar al-Islam. Samkova suggests that we need a lot more of such thwarting, but she believes that the West won’t muster the energy and courage to do what needs to be done, and that force will ultimately be necessary. In that respect, she’s a pessimist. But she thinks the West will in the end rise to the occasion, and ultimately “crush” Islam, the way it crushed, she says, Nazism and Communism. This, I suppose, is a kind of ultimate optimism.
Islam is, Samkova continues, a belief system based on a regressive view of the world. The idea of progress does not exist; in Islam, nothing supersedes the time of the Prophet.
Rather than working with the world – as Judaism and Christianity, or at least the civilizations that have arisen from them do – Islam is filled with hatred for it.
Judaism, Christianity, and the civilization that arose from them have surpassed this unjustifiable skepticism, this contempt of people for themselves. At the same moment, Islam remained a stillborn infant of gnosis, deformed into a monstrously mutated desire to blend with the Universe again, into a retarded obsessively psychopathic paranoiac vision about the exceptional nature of one’s own path towards the reunification of the essence of one’s devotee with God.
Samkova delivered much more in this relentless and ferociously anti-Islamic vein before the Czech Parliament. And it was not only her speech that gave me hope, but even more, the overwhelmingly positive reaction to it by her audience. Instead of denouncing her, as would have happened in Western Europe, and in the United States, too, virtually the entire Czech political establishment and the Czech media endorsed her views. One commentator noted: “The speech was generally applauded by almost all Czech commenters at Internet newspapers of all political colors. But she’s not really exceptional, if you get the logic. It’s a speech that she gave, it was tough …But the underlying ideas are absolutely generically accepted by the Czech society…. what she said simply isn’t taboo in our society.”
No doubt a history of having been betrayed at Munich has made Czechs acutely wary of entrusting their security to others (such as attempts by the E.U. to dictate policy on migrants), and having had to endure both the Nazi occupation and Communist rule has made Czechs aware that all-embracing ideologies must be taken seriously, whatever the post-Christian nullifidians of Western Europe may think. And when you do not take your freedoms for granted, as they do not in the Czech Republic, or in Hungary, or in Poland, or in Slovakia, with their defensive steel tempered in the fires of both Nazism and Communism, you become keenly aware of threats to them early on. And while in Western Europe there are such outstanding personages as Marine Le Pen in France, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and Thilo Sarrazin in Germany, and Magdi Allam in Italy, all of whom have been warning about Islam, these are still regarded as political figures out of the mainstream, who stand out precisely because they still are assumed to speak only for a minority. That is changing, of course, as every day brings fresh news of people becoming firmer in their opposition to Islam, with the general run of politicians far behind those in whose name they claim to govern.
In Western Europe, even as many of the politicians dither, the people seem to have had their fill of aggressive Islam. At the end of August, 67% of the British, and 80% of Germans declared themselves in favor of a burqa ban. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ party, the PVV, is now predicted to come out first in the next elections. In France, despite being struck down by the Conseil d’Etat, the burkini ban remains so popular that many of the mayors continue to flout the court’s finding. But despite these welcome developments, eastern Europe is still far ahead of western Europe in its grasp of the meaning and menace of Islam.
When Klara Samkova speaks in the Czech Parliament on Islam, she speaks for practically everybody in the Czech Republic (“her underlying ideas are absolutely generically accepted by the Czech society”). Almost no one in Eastern Europe is taken in by apologists for Islam, because they have within living memory experienced other enormous curtailments to their freedom. Right now, in Europe, the threat to human freedom comes not from Communists or Nazis, but from the Total Belief-System of Islam. Whatever one makes of Klara Samkova’s own prediction of unavoidable violence in Europe, followed by inevitable for the indigenous non-Muslims – her pessimism morphing into optimism — we should all be grateful to her for stating forthrightly about Islam home-truths that politicians, and not only in Prague, can’t restate often enough.

Bruno DORE says
finally a clear and powerful speech
Mark Swan says
Thank You Mr. Fitzgerald.
Pal says
Lands of Eastern Europe, that have been burned by Islam (Ottoman) and Communism are indeed “Mostly quiet”.
Keys says
Excellent article, Hugh Fitzgerald. Thank you.
John Stefan says
I also want to thank you Mr. Fitzgerald and especially since I have Slovak blood. God bless your work and God bless the leaders of our nations. People must wake up; they must and God help us to do that since our leaders insist on sleeping to the detriment of their people whom they are supposed to protect from our enemies.
overman says
She doesn’t mess about – a straight shooter.
ln the vid below they tried to shut her up, but it didn’t work lol. Nearly all her vids are in chech unfortunately, but this one has english subs.
Angemon says
Youtube has an automatic translation system. Far from being perfect, but it should suffice.
overman says
lf you mean the subtitle button at bottom right, it doesn’t appear to be there on most of her videos.
Martin says
Really? “chech”? What’s that? The language you obviously mean is called CZECH.
Dom107 says
Have you noticed that the best advocates against this monstrous ideology are women.
Either ex Muslim women, Middle East Christian women, and now this lady giving powerful speeches on You Tube.
Unfortunately Angela Merkel is not one but then she hardly says anything except to say something anti German ,unpatriotic and frankly naïve and stupid.
May the German people wake up to the danger and throw her and her complicit party out on the general election in 2017
billybob says
Wow – that was brilliant and deep! Outstanding! After I have had time to read all the comments and watch other videos linked to here, I will do some more research on this incredible woman and post my findings.
billybob says
I found a complete transcription of this on Breitbart…
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/21/czech-politician-islam-is-incompatible-with-western-civilization/
overman says
Thanks for the link Billybob. Even the Czech President, Milos Zeman has condemned lslam:
President Zeman of Czech Republic on islam & illegal migrants:
Peter Buckley says
Speech on youtube:
overman says
Peter, great mind’s think alike LOL
Emilie Green says
Hugh,
Write more about this brave lady. Make her a household name here in the USA.
Westman says
Klara Samkova, truly another fearless European peer of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, in a country that is listening.
She perceives the Islamic s–t storm descending on Europe and has no intention of letting her country stand in the rain.
Yes, bring her to the US, with an interpreter, to speak with Spencer, Wilders, and Geller.
billybob says
She is fluent in English. According to her bio…
In 1993 at the invitation of Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos participated in public hearings on the status of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe before the Joint Commission for human rights Congress and the US Senate.
In 1992 she participated in a three-month study in the US Congress in the office of Republican congressman Christopher Cox and the American association of lawyers – at the invitation of the National Forum Foundation / Freedom House’s
1991 Three months study stay in Canada at the invitation of the Canadian Association of lawyers in the Canadian Parliament and the Canadian human rights Commission in Ottawa
She has travelled extensively through the southern USA and wrote a book about her travels, ” in 1994 she published “My journey for Scarlett (plus a little extra). “Road, Prague.) (Travels across southern USA)”
http://www.zrcadleni.cz/zivotopis/
overman says
Calling a Spade a Spade.
Northern Virginiastan says
Or calling a spade a sh** shovel?
TheOldOligarch says
Makes me proud to be a Slav.
Mazo says
Then Bosnians and Pomaks should make you feel proud too.
LOL.
dumbledoresarmy says
Brilliant.
Let me speak as an Aussie: “Bl**dy brilliant!”
Send a full transcript of the speech to Trump.
linnte says
It was a wonderful video! BRAVA! Woohoo! Hahahahha! See sees it exactly like I do. They either need to give up their agenda, or they will ultimately be wiped off the face of the earth. I hope for the former!
mortimer says
Samkova: “the concept of religion as a private, intimate matter of an individual is absolutely unacceptable” (in Islam).
She is dead on and obviously understands that Islam is a political religion which through the perfect will of Allah must force it’s will on ‘others’ and women, even if they vote against it.
The Western élites are using our ‘niceness’ against us, whereas, ‘niceness’ is not part of the Islamic agenda: Koran 48.29 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar),
Compassionate amongst themselves.” (Richard Bell’s translation)
Rob says
mortimer says “…She is ‘dead on’…”
We can all agree with that statement.
But in the West, with the LoonyLeft Apologist Idiocy arguing for “tolerance”; and no philosophic realism to watch her back, she’d not be ‘dead-on’ – she’d be plain “dead”…
Having fought successfully for freedoms which we now take for granted, “The West” has become soft, tolerant and complacent; and we make what Michael Shermer describes as a ‘type2 error’.
We interpret that ‘rustle in the grass’ as the wind, whereas it IS a predator… We’re “LUNCH”.
Samkova writes: “It wants to be protected according to our [Western] tradition which it exploits in this way, while it is not willing to behave reciprocally…”
And she’s correct. This is their underlying tactic.
We have been gulled, by our Western Philosophy, to tolerate the intolerant. How stupid is that…?
They laugh at us, as we give in to their every “outraged” appeal for ‘tolerance’. We saw this clearly, as Zaif laughed – incredulous at his luck – as Obama’s dimwit, Kerry; and the whole of Europe caved in; and gave nuclear sanction to Iran…
The West needs a Wake-up Call; yet it doesn’t recognise the rape and murder of its boys and girls at the hands of religion-deranged ‘refugees’ as a sign that somethings grossly wrong; and that Merkel – whose legacy will be viewed by future philosophers as “insanely and criminally stupid”, has committed Shermer’s Type2 Error.
What better wake-up call than this lady’s realism and wise words, or those of Geert Wilders – a vilified visionary?
Better than a mushroom cloud, i’d suggest.
mortimer says
Cultural Marxism is the problem. Shallow Westerners have not read Marx or the history of Marxism, but preposterously present themselves as political experts based on the shallowest grasp of ‘victim theory’. They merely parrot what others say without examining the consequences. By making Muslims officially designated ‘victims’, nothing Islamic may be criticized on the grounds that that would be ‘racist’…even though Islam is an ideology.
Guest says
” and we should, to be fair, recognize that not all Muslims are such True Believers”
Time for those who aren’t to actively leave islam, support each other as apostates, atheists, christians whatever else they choose.
The Not-true-believers are currently hedging their bets and giving islam far too much strength in numbers.
Allan says
Stop. Stop. Stop. Maybe Islam isn’t so bad after all. Consider:
Fyi, “I am equally aware of the damage that can be wrought by uninformed, inaccurate or consciously provocative journalism.” (Preface, p.10)
Lawrence Pintak
Founding Dean
The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication
Washington State University
Frank Anderson says
If anyone believes the “story” you have repeated, they are lost and without value to spending effort to inform. Islam has been killing infidels for 1400 years. “If Islam is such a great deal, why were 4,000,000 Egyptians murdered in bringing it to Egypt?” [paraphrased] Mark Gabriel, PhD The Unfinished Battle,
“What did my country Egypt do to Muhammad that he came and ruined my country? Egypt never attacked Muslims, but the Islamic army came and killed more than four million Egyptians during their first century of Islam.” [exact quote] Battle, page 52. Muslims are still killing infidels in Egypt today. A mass grave containing approximately 2,000,000 human remains has been found recently. Were these some of the 4?
This from a man who taught Islamic History and memorized the Koran before he was 12 years old. His credentials are far better than mine. I wish you would see for yourself.
It would be generous and merciful to call your post sarcastic or ambiguous. I hope you will clarify your intent; because otherwise you look very foolish and uninformed of current and historical events. “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.”
Allan says
Notice that Koran 10:99, as quoted by Lawrence, gives the lie to the Islamist propaganda about there being no compulsion in religion. But compare that to the translation by Pickthall, who gave “Wouldst thou (Muhammad) compel men until they are believers?”.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/10/index.htm
Frank Anderson says
Recalling that the Koran is schizophrenic (has multiple personalities) and advocates lying to infidels whenever advantage can be obtained I must never consider a single passage by itself without a complete examination of all other Islamic writings and practice to determine what is really being taught. Your statement is to me nothing more or less than the lie spread since 9/11 that “Islam is a religion of Peace”. The only peace known, taught or practiced in Islam is the peace of the grave. Islam is a cult of death, slavery and murder.
Life is a gift from God. We are merely trustees, stewards and guardians of that gift. My life is not mine; It belongs to God and I am merely entrusted with it. If God wanted us to die, He would have never created us, nor taught us to be free from ALL forms of slavery, tyranny and bondage through the Exodus, Nor given us the hope of life, forgiveness and salvation in the present and for eternity through the Resurrection Many Jews agree with Christians that there will be a Resurrection for all of God’s Children to more LIFE. Hope for Muslims is for the “rewards” of the afterlife.
The teachings and 1400 years of the practice of Islam demonstrate that life is a punishment and death is the gift. You can almost certainly divine what I mean from my response. Go peddle your ____ to someone stupid enough to believe you.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Ye shall know it by its fruits. Islam has spread a trail of blood and tears across human history. The twenty worst nations for women are all muslim (except for one). Saudi Arabia prohibits the practice of all religions other than Islam. Christians and other non-believers are not allowed into Mecca. So the quote about freedom of religion and Saudi Arabia is demonstrably false.
Allah is the great deceiver, in other words, not God. YHWH, the one true God, has no deception, evil or lies within Him. Allah is pretending to be God and using human agents to carry out his war of hatred against all humanity, all beauty and all goodness. As a former muslim stated, “the only good thing about Islam is the muslim people.” In other words the only good you will find in Islam are those muslim people who have not fully accepted the lies of Allah and continue to have compassion and decency in their lives toward others.
lynn says
The whole object of dhimmitude is to make a class of subservient non muslims who will work for their overlords – ie muslims. Not to be some sort of ‘protected others’ Ever heard of the practise of taqqiya??.
What is being told to us westerners by the ‘useful idiots’ is far from the actuality.
Two question! If islam is such a good and viable system for living, why are most of the ME countries that have an islamic aspect, failed countries where war and mayhem is the rule? Also why are all their citizens fleeing in their millions to the west ‘for a better life’ as they claim??
Surely these two examples show that islam is a terrible ideaology we should not be importing..After all we don’t see millions of Europeans wanting to immigrate to Libya or Syria
Westman says
LOL!
“Riyadh Welcomes Journalist Carrying a Suitcase of Bibles” – a headline never seen in the Saudi Gazette.
hi moe says
Wow, absolutely riveting! What a great speech and even better is the fact that countries somewhere on this earth speak their minds freely. No doubt that the willingness to speak freely is made easier when you don’t have a high proportion of “islamists” within your country that will kill you. This reminds me that France has suffered greatly, and coincidentally they have the highest “islamist” population in Europe (as of last year).
I know, the two have very little to do with each other.
Rob says
“…I know, the two have very little to do with each other…”
As Mark Steyn explains, “Allah Akbar” means: “No Islam to see here…!”
jura says
Be careful. Czech social democrats (the strongest party in czech governmental coalition) has muliculturalism, antiracism and antiislamophobia written in its long term goals of partys programme.
Although its top leaders are not willing to declare it publicly, they are under pressure of partys fractions that are openly standing on those goals.
kilfincelt says
Good for her. I recently received a response from an e-mail that I had written to Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois where I live. Whoever wrote it included the same old mantra that Islam was a religion of peace and terrorists misunderstand it. Of course, I couldn’t let that go so I replied and told them to educate themselves which they probably won’t do.
Nabi says
Tsk! Tsk! Definitely a losing battle when you have to try so hard and so tirelessly to vainly try to convince numbskulls who make a virtue of refusing to open their eyes. They will perhaps learn when the mayhem explodes upon them and they find their local cops investigating them for complaining.
Dov Berrol says
Klara Samkova for Secretary of State of the USA!!!!!
Rob says
Rather, she could make history; and become the first female president.
Frank Anderson says
It is entirely possible that after BHO, the definition of “natural born” in the Constitution has been so confused or lost in the shuffle, that she could. If we look and listen hard enough there are bound to be others who more clearly pass one of the only two requirements, over 35 and natural born. “The Law of Large Numbers: Anything that is not prohibited is required [if the population is large enough].”
eduardo odraude says
Mr. Fitzgerald has done it yet again — given us a window into Europe, and moreover a view that raises hopes and morale. Jihad Watch has done indispensable and brilliant work in the past and present keeping us informed of the various depressing advances of the totalitarian enemy. Now Jihad Watch is doubling its power by adding the hopeful news and repeatedly introducing us to informed speakers and leaders of a sort who should make the totalitarians begin to tremble.
Mr. Fitzgerald’s above article gives reason to be optimistic that even if all of Western Europe should in a generation or two exchange freedom for Islam because of demographic and immigration trends, still, Eastern Europe is unlikely ever to fall, as it is apparently putting a stop to Muslim immigration. That could be the key to all of Europe’s ultimate survival. Eastern Europe will remain a bastion to which free people can escape if escape should ever become necessary. From Eastern Europe the recovery and rebirth of Western Europe, should it ever fall to Islam, could easily proceed. For the first time we here can confidently respond to the Islamic imams predicting the fall of Europe to Islam — “in a pig’s eye! It’s just a matter of time before Islam is reduced to nothing in Europe and beyond. It will go into the dustbin of history. Capisci? Kaputt! Va au diable! ¡Piérdase!”
Mark Swan says
Absolutely, eduardo odraude.
Frank Anderson says
Does that mean that everyone should sit back and celebrate that one person understands and let her do the work, or should everyone who understands join in and help? Why does it seem that from Biblical times we are always looking for a single person to save “us” when we can help, but are too lazy or afraid to get off the couch?
Mr. Farton says
I’m from Eastern Europe. She’s right. In Eastern Europe, Muslim fundamentalists will encounter unbreakable resistance. We’ve dealt with those devils before, and will deal with them again.
Mazo says
Its about race and culture really.
Polish Catholic nationalists support their local assimilated white Lipka Tatar Muslims who look white, speak Polish and practice Polish culture.
While they have been beating up non European looking people including Syrian Christians.
eduardo odraude says
Just because every nation in every part of the world has some racists, that’s no reason to smear other movements that are good in those nations. If you watched the video, she said not a single word about race. She spoke exclusively about the ideology of Islam.
eduardo odraude says
To see why people want to keep Islam as far away as possible, check out http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
The Quoting Islam site uses material exclusively from a university database and from the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad available for free online. The links are at the site, so you can check and know I am not making this stuff up. It’s really in the core Islamic texts themselves.
JUSTICEFORALL says
ALL ANYONE HAS TO DO TO KNOW THE ANSWER IS TO READ THEIR BIBLE: IN THE KORAN IT STATES IN 109 PLACES THAT TELLS THEM TO KILL FOR ONE REASON (THE OTHER PERSON IS “NOT OF THEIR RELIGION”). I READ ALL THE MAIN RELIGIONS BIBLES AND THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT TEACHES THEIR PEOPLE TO KILL OTHERS FOR THIS UNBELIEVABLE REASON! IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT CUTTING OFF HEADS, CUTTING NECKS, CUTTING OFF OTHER PARTS OF BODIES AND EVEN TELLS THEM THEY CAN MURDER THEIR WIFE AND CHILDREN IF ANY OF THE LATTER DISOBEY THEM! ALL THE OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE THINGS IN COMMON WITH THE JEWISH 10 COMMANDMENTS (THOU SHALL NOT KILL, NOT STEAL, NOT LIE, ETC.) BUT NOT THE KORAN.
Allan says
The 110th place orders Muslims to break keyboards on the hands of people who SHOUT too much.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Allan, the level of evil we are fighting in the false religion of peace deserves shouting. Your threat of violence is also ugly.
Dermot Ellard says
Would someone please tell me……what Western “Values” are we protecting?
Divorce, broken families, abortion, eugenics, euthanasia ………
eduardo odraude says
Do you really believe that with all our flaws, there is no difference between an open society and a closed one?
Perhaps you are just being bitter at the moment, and don’t really mean what you say.
Or are you an adherent of Islam, and really believe the spread of Islam is a good thing?
eduardo odraude says
By the way, when I say “open” society, I mean in the sense of Karl Popper, in other words a society open to self-criticism. I don’t mean borders so open that even people from an aggressively totalitarian expansionist culture should be allowed to enter. Those type of people, unless they are already citizens, should be kept out, precisely so the society can remain open in Karl Popper’s sense.
Louise M. says
Dear, we certainly have work to do to better our lives. But let’s do it with respect for our civilization’s greatest accomplishments.
Among these: freedom of thought, speech, equality of men and women, respect of children’s integrity…
We have outgrown many problems like slavery, revenge (an eye for an eye..), crude, barbaric violence as a punishment, or social rule
(lapidation, mutilation, female excision, ”honor crimes” etc)…
So much is done, currently to discredit Western civilization…Let us not be fooled by those who search to accomplish their own plans at our expense.
Let us truly reject intolerance and be proud of what has been accomplished here.
Let us work together toward future progress. In, and with love and respect as a common, revigorating project !
Hector Archytas says
Science and the idea that the universal programmer programmed everything at the bing band.
It is called deisme.
Frank Anderson says
I have a hard time limiting Western values to the negative. I have seen a lot of negative in my life and the lives of people I have to varying degrees been able to help. There is enough more in Western values that is good to balance those that obviously need to be improved.
In Masonic teaching, which is more a summary and condensation of knowledge than it is “secret” or “original”, we, our lives and our society’s “life” are a checkered pavement of good and bad, failure and success, accomplishment and disappointment. Reconciling that life must be accepted as a mixture adds to the chances of success at good health which will keep us living.
In Islam everything is perfect to the True Believer. He is ready, willing and able to kill anyone with whom he disagrees, especially other Muslims. More Muslims have been killed by other Muslims than by infidels. Because of my understanding and acceptance of the reality of the dual nature of life’s experience, I live and look forward with hope to a better day. It ain’t easy. . .
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Sorry but divorce, broken families, abortion, euthanasia etc are not Judeo-Christian values. These are anti-Christ values that have infiltrated the West in an effort to destroy it from within through secularism, marxism and atheism.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
I forgot to add that such evil anti-Christ values are also the byproducts of occult or satanic philosophies as well.
Frank Anderson says
Lion, may I please ask you if you would want your mother to remain in an outrageously abusive marriage for over 30 years, where your brother has to remain at home to keep his father from beating your mother? Or being unfaithful to her?
The absolute prohibition of divorce is a permanent sentence to slavery. Consider the primary lesson of the Exodus: Things change; God does not want His Children, us, to live under any form of tyranny or slavery.
Barry says
In reply to Dermot Ellard; you have hit the nail on the head: what values? Certainly not Christian values, which the morally corrupt West, long ago turned its back on, to go its own self indulgent, promiscuous way. Islam is the commited foe against Christianity. Nature abhors a vacum. Christianity has been under attack from secularism for generations and is but a pale shadow of its real self in what used to be its home turf. As Christian culture fades, Islam has rushed in to fill the vacum.
Our problems are not due to Islam, which is only doing what it has always done; our problem is our flacid, weak post Christian culture. The Islamists rabbit on about the Crusader nations, because it was the Christian Crusaders which bloodied their nose the last time it tried to overcome us. What’s needed is a Crusader revival and that needs a revival of the Christian morality within society. I wont hold my breath, waiting for that. If we really want to see the problem, we should collectively look in the mirror.
eduardo odraude says
You underrate the good side of Western culture. You underrate its current potential, its progress, and those within it who are faithful to the higher humanistic and religious values. You give short shrift to those who are remain faithful to Socrates and the Judeo-Christian inspiration. You by far overrate the European past and see it through a golden nostalgic haze. They had more cultural self-confidence than we do, and in some respects a deeper spiritual life, but they also were often more closed-minded, ignorant, and barbaric than we are. We have our problems, no doubt, but we have much of great value — societies that remain free and open to criticism. Economic life, cultural life and political life in the West are slowly evolving in ways that give hope of bringing us closer to that which is best in our cultural roots, without returning us to that which is worst. The West, unlike the Islamic world, permits reform. Reform is the goose that lays the spiritual egg, and you are throwing it away. Don’t throw it away.
eduardo odraude says
And yes, I know that parts of the Islamic world permit reforms within certain limits. But on the whole, the Islamic world extremely constrains reform, as anyone can see who looks at the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the Islamic nations. There one reads that the only speech permitted is that which does not offend against Islamic law. One can also see the impossibility of reform simply by reading human rights reports on the Islamic nations. Of course some are not as bad as others, but all constrain rights in ways that would be generally unacceptable in the West and in many other parts of the world. Human rights reports show that the core Islamic region — the Middle East and North Africa — compared with other major regions — has the worst human rights situation in the world.
Dermot Ellard says
Thank you Barry
Lukasz Poland says
I live in Poland and there is anti-Islam climate here, which I really, really feel good about, because there is simply common sense. People are laughing at delusional Western Europe. Generally, the argument in discussions that we should be like the great West no longer catches.
John Marst says
Being opposed to Islam is merely rational behavior, based on the evidence of 1,400 years. Most rational thinkers would try to prevent the spread of cancer. But Merkel and other delusional dhimmis are bent on implanting it wherever possible. The superior course is obvious and borne out every day. France, Sweden, and Germany are facing a grim future because of a fairy dust in their leaders’ eyes that makes them see a happy-face Islam that never existed and never will exist.
citycat says
“expressed a desire to live as they did in the earliest days of Islam”
when they all were still animals yet to evolve further.
This is the first human life for a large section of Muslims, the forcibly converted being more evolved.
All those cruelly killed halal cows will become Muslims, so stop killing animals and we won’t have this problem.
TH says
IN Western Europe, the oridnary folk, the man on the street, as the saying goes, are well aware of the problem of Islam, but the political class is totally disconnected from the population. Maybe if Wilder and Le Pen are elected, the other countries will wake up. In Italy there is also a big rejection of Islam as well as the UE.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Unfortunately, Islam doesn’t want to be miserable on its own. It wants to take the rest of the world down with it … Islam doesn’t respect development, progress, and humanity. In its despair, it is attempting to take the rest of the mankind with it because from the Islamic viewpoint, the rest of the world is futile, useless, and unclean…”
Central Europe has politicians of this calibre because their communities have not suffered from two generations being indoctrinated by the ‘anything goes’ cultural relativism that has stifled the consciences and thought processes of societies resident in Western Europe and elsewhere in the Developed World.
Klara Samkova is a breath of fresh air for our readers, but it’s even more uplifting to realise that there are millions in Central Europe who are as well informed and as clear thinking regarding the place of Islam in today’s Europe. Her comments, quoted above, ring true with the observations of expatriates working in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Muslim World; that the attitudes of the faithful show a marked fatalistic outlook. The yearning for a return to the values of the early days of Islam also reveals a Year Zero mentality that clearly puts it in company with other totalitarian ideologies that have engaged in mass murder, in their attempt to reach puritanical ends.
RJ says
DEMOCRATS IN AMERICA are on the Islamic Fast Track swallowing their LIES hook line and sinker…
Democrats hate CHRIST-ians, Patriots and Republicans, but LOVE their Muslims.
SATAN has blinded the eyes of these atheist democrats in America, which was established on Christians Principles which they HATE.
Honza says
Hello, Czech here.
Although the absolute majority of decent people are opposed to islam, there is a very vocal minority of collaborators, which often control the media along with a lot of mainstream politicians – our prime minister is a prime example of such a silent collaborator. On the one hand, he will say “he doesn’t want a strong muslim community” and reject the quota system, but then, when nobody’s looking, he signed up the Czech Republic to accept 3000 migrants.The Czech government’s minister for human rights, Mr Dienstbier, has a project called HateFree (more appropriately called BrainFree), which is basically a propaganda portal (aimed at young people) whose sole role is to convince everyone that those who oppose mass immigration are inhuman and backward, ugly people. All from the taxes of ordinary people, of course.
Czech media (notably private ones Lidovky.cz, idnes.cz, Respekt, and most importantly Czech state TV (Česká televize)) are running a massive brainwashing campaign to convince everyone that we need muslims – although, in recent times (as more and more culturally enriching events unfold across Europe), they watered down their rhetoric to still have some aura of credibility. Almost all large media outlets took the chance to denounce Samkova’s speech as “wayseest” or as a diplomatic incident. (There was also a Lebanese ambassador representing the other side of the argument at the “Should we be afraid of islam” event, who walked out of the room because he was so offended by what Samkova said.)
So although most people are on the right side, there are parties in the background pushing for islamisation/collaboration, and, unfortunately, they consist not only of naive leftist idiots, but also of powerful bussinessmen and politicians. However, I’m an optimist like Samkova, who is a very brave woman. So I think, before the situation becomes dire in the Czech Republic, there will be civil war in Germany.
P.S. If you’re looking for something to read, I recommend you pick up War with the Newts by Karel Čapek, one of the best authors of the inter-war Czechoslovakian republic – the book is very related to what’s unfolding in Europe right now.
Richard Paulsen says
Christians and Jews being oppressed in muslim majority countries. Still Christian and democratic countries now letting in muslims steadily growing into a majority. It is absurd.
Islam is not democratic. European politicians and citizens ought to know and take seriously.
What can you do as a common citizen experiencing Europe being changed in the same way as Iran in 1979 or Nazi-Germany before the WW2? Europe not having learned from history.
It is despicable indeed. Majority of citizens in EU just accepting.
Hoping the countries still not that affected will not do the same as the rest of Europe and will not listen to warnings from the EU, Juncker, Merkel, Sweden and others to be fined if not accepting muslims into their countries.
Juncker, Merkel, Sweden and the EU now attacking Europe as Junkers-Stukas once.
Richard Paulsen says
Africa, Middle-East, Cantral-Asia and Far East being muslim. Remaining Europe, Russia, U.S.A. Latin-and South America to be colonized.
Good future for a muslim world.
Johan Elzinga says
Thank you very much mr. Fitzgerald for this excellent enlightening article. If only our politicians would take the trouble to actually READ the koran instead of constantly trying to nullify any criticism on muslims. A word of warning, though: although it is to be expected that mr. Wilders here in the next election will have the biggest party of all in the elections in may 2017 in the Netherlands, there is a very effective cordon sanitaire that stops any of the other political parties to even talk with him. The sta-owned television channels never bother to invite him for an interview, and the newspapers refuse to write any sensible news about his party. So although he is assumed to get 30 percent of the votes, he stands alone and his warnings are not being taken seriously. Instead, he is still threatened to be persecuted because of some of the things he said in public, this time about asking the public he had on an occasion if they would like to have more moroccan migrants in this country or rather have less.
Glen says
Well said Ms Samkova, saying what needs to be said…the truth about nazislam. If only the cowards who run Germany, the UK and the patheitic under siege France would say the same, only they can’t betray the cult of multi culti, the warped liberal ideology of paedophilia, lawlessness and appeasement.
What Samkova is saying is echoed by millions of people Europe wide whose voices have been silenced for far too long but now that is changing at long last…the AfD in Germany, Wilders in the Netherlands, Le Pen in France, BREXIT in the UK, the Eastern European countries making an anti immigrant stance, Austria’s re run of their elections due to voting corruption by the liberal scum, the rise of the anti muslim Swedish groups and there are many more.
The fight back has begun, the silent majority have found their voices and it is growing by the day, people have had enough of seeing the homes, the towns and the countries they helped build being turned into 3rd world ghettos by immigrants who don’t give a shit about our way of life, our laws and in many cases our children.
I agree with Samkova that force will eventually be required to properly sort the issue, but I’d go further. The muzzers aren’t the only problem, they have been facilitated by the real culprits namely the liberal left wing scum we see light candles and give out free hugs after every muzzer atrocity, who cause mayhem and protest after the occasional occurrence of an immigrant attack by ‘right wing’ thugs, after every vote that has gone against their ideology such as with BREXIT, after any politician who doesn’t support what they want dares to speak out etc,etc, it is they who are the head of the snake and until that head is removed there will be no change with the islamic problem.
billybob says
Klára Samková: “The Full Unravelling of the Rule of Law”
Posted on August 31, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
Earlier this year we featured a talk by the Czech lawyer and activist Klára Samková. In the following video from Czech TV you’ll see Ms. Samková engage in a spirited discussion with a mealy-mouthed “sunshiner” (a leftist or progressive) about the European migration crisis.
The situation they’re debating is the 21st century’s actualization of The Camp of the Saints (see Fjordman’s discussion of Jean Raspail’s writings). From the sunshiner’s viewpoint, the boats are coming, the boats cannot be stopped, and the wave of invading “refugees” cannot be opposed. Like France in Mr. Raspail’s imagined apocalyptic scenario, Europe is totally helpless in the face of the immigrant wave.
Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling
Czech lawyer debates a sunshiner on TV
https://youtu.be/iQHw1Gf9Exc
dumbledoresarmy says
She isn’t the first Czech poltician to call out Islam for what it is.
Here’s a story from 2011 about a former Czech PM, Milos Zeman.
NOTE: The link is now probably broken/ inactive – though one might try googling ‘Milos Zeman’, “Islam”, but at the time I made a complete copy of the article.
http://praguemonitor.com/2011/07/08/former-czech-pm-sued-over-statements-islam
“Retired politician Milos Zeman, Czech prime minister in 1998-2002, faces a criminal complaint over the statements on Islam he made in June at an international conference on Europe.
“The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales,” Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.
(True dat. In the olden days it was also financed by daylight robbery, piracy , extortion – the dhimma system, but also the use of piracy to extort ‘protection money’, as done by the ‘Barbary states’ – and massive engagement in the slave trade – dda).
“Zeman said Thursday Muslims believe in the Koran like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat.
(Again, true dat. – dda)
“He said Islam is far more aggressive and intolerant than present Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and other world religions.
(Nothing but the truth. And this was quantified by a Danish academic working on comparative religion at the Sorbonne – Tina Magaard. – dda)
“He added that the Koran includes passages calling for the subjugation, enslavement and even elimination of non-believers.
(Exactly. It does. – dda)
“Zeman has been known for his strong statements.”
dumbledoresarmy says
And Zeman spoke up again after an allahu-akbar murder of Jews in the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014.
http://www.praguepost.com/eu-news/39288-zeman-islam-is-to-blame-for-attack-on-jewish-museum-in-brussels
Zeman: Islam is to blame for attack on Jewish Museum in Brussels
Category: EU News
Published: 27 May 2014
Written by Czech News Agency
“Islamic ideology rather than individual groups of religious fundamentalists is behind violent actions similar to the gun attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that killed four people, Czech President Miloš Zeman said Monday at the Israeli Embassy in Prague.
“Two Israeli tourists and a member of the museum staff were killed by an unknown shooter Saturday, and another staff member died of his injuries Sunday.
“”I will not be calmed down by statements that it is only small marginal groups. I believe, on the contrary, that this xenophobia and this racism or anti-Semitism stem from the very nature of the ideology on which these fanatical groups rely,” Zeman said.
He said one of the sacred texts of Islam calls for the killing of Jews.
Zeman said he would also sharply criticize fanatics who planned to kill the Arabs.
“However, I have heard of no movement calling for the massive murder of Arabs, but I know about an anti-civilization movement that calls for the massive murdering of Jews,” he said.”…”.
dumbledoresarmy says
And in *June* 2014 Mr Zeman, retired Czech politician, openly and resolutely defied the OIC.
As reported at the ‘New English Review’.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/54482
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Czech President Zeman Tells OIC to “Go Jump in A Lake”
Introducing an account of this memorable event, NER contributor Jerry Gordon wrote – “On the occasion of Israel’s Independence Day, the Czech Republic President, Milos Zeman, gave a speech at the Israel Embassy in Prague.
It was stunning in its clarity regarding Islamic hateful doctrine towards Jews and by inference Christians and virtually all unbelievers and apostates…”.
The OIC demanded that he apologise. He refused, in no uncertain terms. He did not retract one word of what he had said.
And… that was that. Like all bullies, the Ummah backs down if it encounters sufficientlly strong resistance.
And Zeman hasn’t stopped, either. Here he is in 2015, on the subject of Mohammedan ‘migrants”.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/18/left-wing-czech-president-warns-migrants-will-follow-sharia-chop-off-hands/
And in 2016.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/17/czech-president-its-impossible-to-integrate-muslims-into-western-europe/
by SIMON KENT17 Jan 2016
“…As Breitbart London reported, last December the 71-year-old issued Europe with a call-to-arms to tackle the forces of Islamic state.
“I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees,” Mr. Zeman said in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic…”.
“…Mr. Zeman has waded into the immigration debate again by questioning the suitability of Muslims to fit into the free, democratic west.
“The experience of Western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is practically impossible,” Mr. Zeman said in a televised interview Sunday.
“Let them have their culture in their countries and not take it to Europe, otherwise it will end up like Cologne,” he added, referring to the mass New Year’s Eve assaults on women in Germany and elsewhere across Europe….”.
epistemology says
What a wonderful people the Czechs are. I’ve been twice to their country and it was a recreation from Western Europe. Prague is an international city but we didn’t see any diaper heads which you see at every corner in Western Europe. The Czechs are realistic, they can rumble Islam, coexistence is impossible. That reminds me of an old joke during the cold war: In a Russian zoo they proudly present a lion lying peacefully beside a lamb to Western visitors who are very surprised and inquire how this is possible. It’s simple say the Russians we replace the lamb every day. I know from experience that coexistence with communism is possible, but with Islam never ever. I’ve never met a dedicated communist who said “I’ve five children and I’d give them all to fight for communism and when they’re dead I’ll make five new ones.” That’s the Muslim way. They want to impose sharia everywhere.
I cordially invite Miss Samková to travel and teach our politicians, she is urgently needed, crazy Merkel who wants to ruin all of Europe has to learn a lot.
Douglas Saballos says
Ms. Semkova sounds like a true leader for the times, but there is always a problem in Europe of antisemitism. Why do they reject an ally such as Israel? I agree that we are all headed into a wide world war against Islam, but we must have Israel as a valuable ally.
Frank Anderson says
In many cases, but, thankfully, not all, from Israel’s viewpoint, “With friends like these who needs enemies?” Those who speak and act against Israel at every excuse or opportunity far outnumber those who speak and act for it, quite like those who attack Donald Trump.
There is a great scene in the movie Blazing Saddles, where the new sheriff rides up to a stage and crowd gathered to welcome him. When they see that Sheriff Bart is black they are “greatly disappointed”. When the town preacher raises the Bible and prays for peace and calm, the Bible is shot by enough people in the crowd to pretty well be destroyed. Then the preacher looks at Sheriff Bart and says, “Son, you’re on your own.”
Israel is very close to being on its own now. It may be both the first and the last line of defense to freedom and liberty. Because every physically fit Israeli, male and female over the age of 18, has military training and has served in the military, they have made their own chance. Which is far more and far better than any of lying appeasing collaborators around the world are doing for us. Israel knows why it has to be prepared to fight. In general not enough people in the West know or care. It’s somebody else’s problem. But for how long before it becomes “my” problem?
Mark A says
Interesting article Hugh Fitzgerald.
Please keep us posted on future developments in eastern Europe.
Aussirick says
Great to see there are still some politicians not scared to tell the truth, not being censored by that great untruth of ISLAMAFAUXBIA. Shame people like Allen can’t see that for themselves, sad to see he’s not alone in his ill founded beliefs that islam is NOT trying to convert us all, however the main point Alan and his comrades miss is this, moslems and islam dont care weather you are of a particular faith other than islam their main objective is to destroy our culture first and foremost, then obviously islam will by that time takeover all aspects of our lives including all religious practices.
Mahendra Singh says
This analysis of Islam must be a “must read” for every proponent of
the self-inflicted slow suicide that is going on in western European countris
which are inviting “refugees”. These “refugees” are human cockroaches,
that will be difficult to eradicate.