Speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, Netherlands

Here is the speech of  Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the  Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York ,  introducing an Alliance of Patriots and  announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in  Jerusalem .

Dear  friends, 

Thank you  very much for inviting me.

I come to  America with a mission.  All is not well in  the old world.  There is a tremendous  danger looming, and it is very difficult to be  optimistic.  We might be in the final  stages of the Islamization of Europe .   This not only is a clear and present danger to  the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to  America and the sheer survival of the  West.  The United States as the last  bastion of Western civilization, facing an  Islamic Europe .

First I will describe  the situation on the ground in Europe .   Then, I will say a few things about Islam.   To close I will tell you about a meeting in  Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is  changing.

You have probably seen the  landmarks.  But in all of these cities,  sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist  destination, there is another world.  It is  the world of the parallel society created by  Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout  Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim  neighborhoods where very few indigenous people  reside or are even seen.  And if they are,  they might regret it.  This goes for the  police as well.  It's the world of head  scarves, where women walk around in figureless  tents, with baby strollers and a group of  children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders  if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.   With mosques on many street corners.  The  shops have signs you and I cannot read.   You will be hard-pressed to find any economic  activity.  These are Muslim ghettos  controlled by religious fanatics.  These  are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are  mushrooming in every city across Europe .   These are the building-blocks for territorial  control of increasingly larger portions of  Europe , street by street, neighborhood by  neighborhood, city by city.

There are now  thousands of mosques throughout Europe .   With larger congregations than there are in  churches.  And in every European city there  are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf  every church in the region.  Clearly, the  signal is: we rule.

Many European cities  are already one-quarter Muslim: just take  Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden  .  In many cities the majority of the  under-18 population is Muslim.  Paris is  now surrounded by a ring of Muslim  neighborhoods.  Mohammed is the most  popular name among boys in many  cities.

In some elementary schools in  Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned,  because that would also mean mentioning the pig,  and that would be an insult to  Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium  and Denmark only serve halal food to all  pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays  are beaten up almost exclusively by  Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear  'whore, whore'.  Satellite dishes are not  pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in  the country of origin.

In France school  teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed  offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and  Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin  .  The history of the Holocaust can no  longer be taught because of Muslim  sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are  now officially part of the British legal system.  Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for  women without head scarves.  Last week a  man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims  in Brussels , because he was drinking during the  Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in  record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of  anti-Semitism since World War II.  French  is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel  Aviv and Netanya, Israel .  I could go on  forever with stories like this.  Stories  about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four  million Muslims now live in Europe .  San  Diego University recently calculated that a  staggering 25 percent of the population in  Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from  now.  Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim  majority by the end of this century.

Now  these are just numbers.  And the numbers  would not be threatening if the  Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to  assimilate.  But there are few signs of  that.  The Pew Research Center reported  that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to  Islam as greater than their loyalty to France  .  One-third of French Muslims do not  object to suicide attacks.  The British  Centre for Social Cohesion reported that  one-third of British Muslim students are in  favor of a worldwide caliphate.  Muslims  demand what they call 'respect'.  And this  is how we give them respect.  We have  Muslim official state holidays.

The  Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing  to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is  a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet members  with passports from Morocco and Turkey  .

Muslim demands are supported by  unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and  random violence, for example against ambulance  workers and bus drivers, to small-scale  riots.  Paris has seen its uprising in the  low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call  the perpetrators 'settlers'.  Because that  is what they are.  They do not come to  integrate into our societies; they come to  integrate our society into their  Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are  settlers.

Much of this street violence I  mentioned is directed exclusively against  non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave  their neighborhoods, their cities, their  countries.  Moreover, Muslims are now a  swing vote not to be ignored.

The second  thing you need to know is the importance of  Mohammed the prophet.  His behavior is an  example to all Muslims and cannot be  criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a  man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother  Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no  problem.  But Mohammed was a warlord, a  mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several  marriages - at the same time.  Islamic  tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how  he had his enemies murdered and even had  prisoners of war executed.  Mohammed  himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu  Qurayza.  If it is good for Islam, it is  good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is  bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam  being a religion.  Sure, it has a god, and  a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its  essence Islam is a political ideology.  It  is a system that lays down detailed rules for  society and the life of every person  Islam  wants to dictate every aspect of life.   Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is not  compatible with freedom and democracy, because  what it strives for is sharia.  If you want  to compare Islam to anything, compare it to  communism or national-socialism, these are all  totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why  Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most  retrograde force in the world', and why he  compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The  public has wholeheartedly accepted the  Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the  aggressor.  I have lived in this country  and visited it dozens of times.  I support  Israel .  First, because it is the Jewish  homeland after two thousand years of exile up to  and including Auschwitz, second because it is a  democracy, and third because Israel is our first  line of defense.

This tiny country is  situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating  Islam's territorial advance.  Israel is  facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir,  Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand,  Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia    Israel is simply in the way.  The  same way West-Berlin was during the Cold  War.

The war against Israel is not a war  against Israel .  It is a war against the  West.  It is jihad.  Israel is simply  receiving the blows that are meant for all of  us.  If there would have been no Israel ,  Islamic imperialism would have found other  venues to release its energy and its desire for  conquest.  Thanks to Israeli parents who  send their children to the army and lay awake at  night, parents in Europe and America can sleep  well and dream, unaware of the dangers  looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of  abandoning Israel in order to address the  grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But  if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would  not bring any solace to the West It would not  mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden  change their behavior, and accept our  values.  On the contrary, the end of Israel  would give enormous encouragement to the forces  of Islam.  They would, and rightly so, see  the demise of Israel as proof that the West is  weak, and doomed.  The end of Israel would  not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but  only the beginning.  It would mean the  start of the final battle for world  domination.  If they can get Israel , they  can get everything.  So-called journalists  volunteer to label any and all critics of  Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or  'racists'.  In my country, the Netherlands  , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass  immigration of Muslims as the number one policy  mistake since World War II.  And another 60  percent sees Islam as the biggest threat.   Yet there is a danger greater danger than  terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as  the last man standing.  The lights may go  out in Europe faster than you can imagine.   An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom  and democracy, an economic wasteland, an  intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military  might for America - as its allies will turn into  enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With  an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America  alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens  and Jerusalem 

Dear  friends, liberty is the most precious of  gifts.  My generation never had to fight  for this freedom, it was offered to us on a  silver platter, by people who fought for it with  their lives.  All throughout Europe ,  American cemeteries remind us of the young boys  who never made it home, and whose memory we  cherish.  My generation does not own this  freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We  can only hand over this hard won liberty to  Europe 's children in the same state in which it  was offered to us.  We cannot strike a deal  with mullahs and imams.  Future generations  would never forgive us.  We cannot squander  our liberties.  We simply do not have the  right to do so.

We  have to take the necessary action now to stop  this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free  world that we know.