Geert Wilders Speech
in the House of Lords
QUOTE
Geert Wilders Speech, House of Lords,
London, Friday the 5th of March 2010:
Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I
got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at
Heathrow Airport.
Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, this is a sacred
place. This is, as Malcolm always says, the mother of all Parliaments, I am
deeply humbled to have the opportunity to speak before you.
Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for your invitation and showing my film ‘Fitna’.
Thank you my friends for inviting me.
I first have great news. Last Wednesday city council elections were held in the
Netherlands. And for the first time my party, the
Freedom Party [
formally
Party for Freedom ], took part in
these local elections. We participated in two cities. In Almere, one of the
largest Dutch cities. And in The Hague, the third largest city; home of the
government, the parliament and the queen. And, we did great! In one fell swoop
my party became the largest party in Almere and the second largest party in The
Hague. Great news for the Freedom Party and even better news for the people of
these two beautiful cities.
And I have more good news. Two weeks ago the Dutch government collapsed. In June
we will have parliamentary elections. And the future for the Freedom Party looks
great. According to some polls we will become the largest party in the
Netherlands. I want to be modest, but who knows, I might even be Prime Minister
in a few months time!
Ladies and gentlemen, not far from here stands a statue of the greatest Prime
Minister your country ever had. And I would like to quote him here today:
“Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde
force exists in the World. It has already spread throughout Central Africa,
raising fearless warriors at every step (…) the civilization of modern Europe
might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” These words are from none
other than Winston Churchill wrote this in his book 'The River War' from 1899.
Churchill was right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t have a problem and my party does not have a
problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of
Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I
do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the
people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many
moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.
Islam strives for world domination. The Quran commands Muslims to exercise
jihad. The Quran commands Muslims to establish Sharia law. The Quran commands
Muslims to impose Islam on the entire world.
As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: “The whole of Europe will become
Islamic. We will conquer Rome”. End of quote.
Libyan dictator Gaddafi said: “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the
European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear
indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will
one day soon be a Muslim continent”. End of quote. Indeed, for once in his life,
Gaddafi was telling the truth. Because, remember: mass immigration and
demographics is destiny!
Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology. Islam
wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave. Sharia law
is a law that controls every detail of life in a Islamic society. From civic-
and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress and even
use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.
I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a
threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of
homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of
speech, they are all under pressure because of Islamization. Ladies and
gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. It are
opposite values.
No wonder that Winston Churchill called Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein
Kampf’ “the new Quran of faith and war, turgid, verbose, shapeless, bur pregnant with its
message”. As you know, Churchill made this comparison, between the Koran and
Mein Kampf, in his book ‘The Second World War’, a master piece, for which, he
received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill’s comparison of the Quran and
‘Mein Kampf’ is absolutely spot on. The core of the Quran is the call to jihad.
Jihad means a lot of things and is Arabic for battle. Kampf is German for
battle. Jihad and Kampf mean exactly the same.
Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That’s a
given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your
glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage.
We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing
rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris,
Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these
cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women’s rights are being
destroyed. Burqa’s, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings.
Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don’t get a handshake. In many
European cities there is already apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are
leaving Europe.
As you undoubtedly all know, better then I do, also in your country the mass
immigration and Islamization has rapidly increased. This has put an enormous
pressure on your British society. Look what is happening in for example
Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford and here in London. British politicians who have
forgotten about Winston Churchill have now taken the path of least resistance.
They have given up. They have given in.
Last year, my party has requested
[ sic ] the Dutch government to make a cost-benefit
analysis of the mass immigration. But the government refused to give us an
answer. Why? Because it is afraid of the truth. The signs are not good. A Dutch
weekly magazine - Elsevier - calculated costs to exceed 200 billion Euros. Last
year alone, they came with an amount of 13 billion Euros. More calculations have
been made in Europe: According to the Danish national bank, every Danish
immigrant from an Islamic country is costing the Danish state more than 300
thousand Euros. You see the same in Norway and France. The conclusion that can
be drawn from this: Europe is getting more impoverished by the day. More
impoverished thanks to mass immigration. More impoverished thanks to
demographics. And the leftists are thrilled.
I don't know whether it is true, but in several British newspapers I read that
Labour opened the door to mass immigration in a deliberate policy to change the
social structures of the UK. Andrew Neather, a former government advisor and
speech writer for Tony Blair and Jack Straw, said the aim of Labour’s
immigration strategy was, and I quote, to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity and
render their arguments out of date”. If this is true, this is symptomatic of the
Left.
Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The left is facilitating
Islamization.
Leftists, liberals, are cheering for every new Sharia bank being created, for
every new Sharia mortgage, for every new Islamic school, for every new Sharia
court. Leftists consider Islam as being equal to our own culture. Sharia law or
democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn’t really matter to them. But it does
matter to us. The entire leftist elite is guilty of practising
Cultural Relativism. Universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians. They
are all betraying our hard-won liberties.
Why I ask myself, why have the Leftists and liberals stopped to fight for them?
Once the Leftists stood on the barricades for women’s rights. But where are they
today? Where are they in 2010? They are looking the other way. Because they are
addicted to cultural relativism and dependent on the Muslim vote. They are
dependent on mass-immigration.
Thank heavens Jacqui Smith isn’t in office anymore. It was a victory for free
speech that a UK judge brushed aside her decision to refuse me entry to your
country last year. I hope that the judges in my home country are at least as
wise and will acquit me of all charges, later this year in the Netherlands.
Unfortunately, so far they have not done so well. For they do not want to hear
the truth about Islam, nor are they interested to hear the opinion of top class
legal experts in the field of freedom of expression. Last month in a preliminary
session the Court refused fifteen of the eighteen expert-witnesses I had
requested to be summoned.
Only three expert witnesses are allowed to be heard. Fortunately, my dear friend
and heroic American psychiatrist Dr. Wafa Sultan is one of them. But their
testimony will be heard behind closed doors. Apparently the truth about Islam
must not be told in public, the truth about Islam must remain secret.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m being prosecuted for my political beliefs. We know
political prosecution to exist in countries in the Middle East, like Iran and
Saudi-Arabia, but never in Europe, never in the Netherlands.
I’m being prosecuted for comparing the Quran to ‘Mein Kampf’. Ridiculous. I
wonder if Britain will ever put the beliefs of Winston Churchill on trial…
Ladies and gentlemen, the political trial that is held against me has to stop.
But it is not all about me, not about Geert Wilders.
Free Speech is under
attack. Let me give you a few other examples. As you perhaps know, one of my
heroes, the Italian author Oriana Fallaci had to live in fear of extradition to
Switzerland because of her anti-Islam book 'The Rage and the Pride'. The Dutch
cartoonist Nekschot was arrested in his home in Amsterdam by 10 police men
because of his anti-Islam drawings. Here in Britain, the American author Rachel
Ehrenfeld was sued by a Saudi businessman for defamation. In the Netherlands
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and in Australia two Christian pastors were sued. I could go on
and on. Ladies and gentlemen, all throughout the West freedom loving people are
facing this ongoing ‘legal jihad’. This is Islamic ‘lawfare’. And, ladies and
gentlemen, not long ago the Danish cartoonist Westergaard was almost
assassinated for his cartoons.
Ladies and gentlemen, we should defend the right to freedom of speech. With all
our strength. With all our might. Free speech is the most important of our many
liberties. Free speech is the cornerstone of our modern societies. Freedom of
speech is the breath of our democracy, without freedom of speech our way of life
our freedom will be gone.
I believe it is our obligation to preserve the inheritance of the brave young
soldiers that stormed the beaches of Normandy. That liberated Europe from
tyranny. These heroes cannot have died for nothing. It is our obligation to
defend freedom of speech. As George Orwell said: “If liberty means anything at
all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe in another policy, it is time for change. We
must make haste. We can’t wait any longer. Time is running out. If I may quote
one of my favourite American presidents: Ronald Reagan once said: “We need to
act today, to preserve tomorrow”. That is why I propose the following measures,
I only mention a few, in order to preserve our freedom:
First, we will have to defend freedom of speech. It is the most important of our
liberties. In Europe and certainly in the Netherlands, we need something like
the American First Amendment.
Second, we will have to end and get rid of cultural relativism. To the cultural
relativists, the Sharia socialists, I proudly say: Our Western culture is far
superior to the Islamic culture. Don't be afraid to say it. You are not a
racist when you say that our own culture is better.
Third, we will have to stop mass immigration from Islamic countries. Because
more Islam means less freedom.
Fourth, we will have to expel criminal immigrants and, following
denaturalisation, we will have to expel criminals with a dual nationality. And
there are many of them in my country.
Fifth, we will have to forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough
Islam in Europe. Especially since Christians in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran,
Pakistan and Indonesia are mistreated, there should be a mosque building-stop in
the West.
And last but not least, we will have to get rid of all those so-called leaders.
I said it before: Fewer Chamberlains, more Churchills. Let's elect real leaders.
Ladies and gentlemen. To the previous generation, that of my parents, the word
‘London’ is synonymous with hope and freedom. When my country was occupied by
the national-socialists the BBC offered a daily glimpse of hope in my country,
in the darkness of Nazi tyranny. Millions of my fellow country men listened to
it, underground. The words ‘This is London’ were a symbol for a better world
coming soon.
What will be broadcasted [ sic ] forty years from now? Will it still be “This is
London”? Or will it be “This is Londonistan”? Will it bring us hope? Or will it
signal the values of Mecca and Medina? Will Britain offer submission or
perseverance? Freedom or slavery? The choice is yours. And in the Netherlands
the choice is ours.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will never apologize for being free. We will and should
never give in. And, indeed, as one of your former leaders said: We will never
surrender.
Freedom must prevail, and freedom will prevail.
Thank you very much.
UNQUOTE
Geert speaks well.
Geert wrote
"Marked for Death: Islam's War against the West and Me".
He is sound on Islam but panders to
Zionist crazies big time. He still gets abused by the
Zionist media though.
