Jihad against Israel is Jihad against the West
2008 Dec, 2008
To be accurate, Jihad against Israel is Jihad against the world; if Jihad against Israel stops, so will against rest of the world. --- MA Khan
Geert Wilders speech in Jerusalem:
“Thank you very much.
It’s a privilege for me to be here in this beautiful city
Jerusalem, the capitol of the only democracy in the entire Middle
East. When I was a teenager I lived some years here in this city and
after that I visited Israel more times than I can count. Israel: the
only country in the region with a functioning parliament, a rule of
law and free elections. The only country in the region that shares
the values of our Western societies, in fact is one of the
foundations of our Judeo-Christian identity.
We are here to voice our concern over the growing Islamisation of
the West. We do this in this city, the city of David. The city that,
together with Rome and Athens, symbolizes our ancient heritage.
Perhaps a few of you may be new to Jerusalem, yet, Jerusalem is
not new to any of you. We all carry Jerusalem in our blood, in our
genes. We all live and breathe Jerusalem. We talk Jerusalem, we
dream Jerusalem. Simply because, the values of ancient Israel have
become the values of the West. We are all Israel, and Israel is in
all of us.
This city is the capital of a democracy under threat. Israel is
under siege, like the Jewish community in the Land of Israel is
under siege for over a century now. Israel with all its glory and
splendour is unique, and its history unparalleled. Yet, Israel’s
security situation is not unique, and neither is its enemy.
Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: “Islam has bloody borders.”
Israel is located precisely on that border. This tiny country is
situated on the fault line of Jihad, just like Kashmir, Kosovo, the
Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh
in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way of the Islamic advance.
Just like West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
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 places to release its energy and its desire for
conquest. Therefore, the war against Israel is not a war against
Israel. It is a war against the West. It is Jihad. Thanks to Israeli
parents who see their children go off to join the army and lie awake
at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and have
pleasant dreams, unaware of the dangers looming.
At present the front-line of Jihad runs not just through the
streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, but through the streets of London,
Madrid, and Amsterdam as well. Jihad is our common enemy, and we
better start facing Jihad before it is too late.
Therefore, if we voice our concern over the Islamisation of the
West, we have to do it here, where our civilization borders on
Islam. Where Jihadists fire Qassams into civilian homes in Sderot
and Ashkelon, and where a doctor like Aryeh Eldad is characteristic
of our civilization by treating terrorists the same way as he treats
the Israeli victims. I salute Professor Eldad for his work for
humanity, and for his patriotism. And I thank him for hosting this
conference in this great city. Aryeh, I am proud to be your friend.
I will say a few things about the Islamisation of Europe and my
film Fitna. I will use some examples from the Netherlands, because
they are indicative for the situation on the continent.
The mass migration to the Netherlands continues full-speed ahead.
Currently, a staggering number of new immigrants arrive every year,
many of them Muslim, often uneducated, if not illiterate, bringing
along with them the local customs of the mountains and deserts of
backward Islamic countries. Thousands and thousands of Muslims
arrive in the Netherlands every year, while already one million
Muslims are living in our tiny country.
There are many problems concerning this massive influx:
immigrants are overly represented in social benefits and crime
statistics and the overall costs are staggering. The financial costs
of mass immigration in the Netherlands exceeds 100 billion euro’s.
But what we have to fear most is the creeping Islamisation, the
stealth Jihad. Because every Islamic neighbourhood, every Islamic
shop, every mosque, every Islamic school, every burka, every veil is
regarded by many Muslims as building blocks towards a larger goal,
towards domination.
This is in fact the essence of the problem. Not crime, not even
the financial burden. The biggest problem is the demographic
development, and the way it influences our society at large.
Immigration from Muslim countries and the demographics will result
in the Eurabia that the brave Bat Ye’or is warning about. It will
become reality if we don’t act now.
A decade and a half ago, a then-unknown American politician used
the following slogan in his political campaign: “it’s the economy,
stupid.” From now on the motto of my party will be: “it’s
demographics, dumbo”.
More than 40 years ago a British politician gave a famous speech.
He stated that, looking into the future, he saw “rivers of blood” as
a result of the uncontrolled influx of immigrants. Enoch Powell’s
speech was the starting point of a debate on mass immigration in
Europe. As usual, the leftist establishment labelled him an
extremist and his career went down. But the British people loved
him, and supported Powell. London’s dock workers took him to their
hearts, marching by the thousands in support of Mr. Powell.
Looking back, I share Enoch Powell’s alarmist views on mass
immigration, but “rivers of blood” is not something I see happening.
We will not face civil war. Our political elite is trying to make us
believe that the influx of Muslim immigrants is similar to the waves
of immigration that took place centuries ago. Or they say that
“Christianity developed towards modernity, and therefore Islam will
do the same.”
How are we to remain a democracy if a large part of the growing
Muslim population is in favour of introducing sharia law? How is
Amsterdam to remain the gay capitol of Europe if gays are regularly
beaten up by non-Western immigrants, often Muslims? How are the
Jewish communities of Europe to survive with a growing presence of
an ideology that is so blatantly anti-Semitic? How are we to remain
a centre of cultural and scientific excellence if Islam opposes art,
and academic exploration? How are we to remain an open and tolerant
society if we are faced with part of the Muslim community favouring
self-segregation and showing no desire for assimilation? How can we
look to the future with confidence, when a large part of the
population turns to a 7th century desert for answers?
These are the questions the multiculturalists don’t want to
answer.
Instead of providing leadership our political elite fooled us by
using our own principles against us. I will give you five examples.
First. Our tolerance is used as an argument to bring in more
Islam, to bring in more Muslims, and a way to tell us that we should
not criticize their Islamic culture, if you do you are labelled
intolerant and racist.
Second. Democracy. A growing Muslim electorate is too hard for
politicians to resist, so they give in to their grievances and
demands to win their vote. Before long sharia law will be
introduced, legally and democratically, by means of majority vote.
The former Dutch Minister of Justice once said that sharia law could
be part of the Dutch legal system if a two third majority of the
population would be in favour of it.
Third. Our religious freedom is utilized by an ideology that has
no plans whatsoever to play by our rules, yet demands the same
rights our traditional religions have had for centuries;
Fourth. Our welfare state that once was the envy of the world,
now functions as a magnet for a lot of non-Western immigrants,
dreaming of a cushy life in wealthy Europe.
Fifth. Our open borders came to symbolize our open mindset, an
example of our cosmopolitan hospitality. But now we have lost
control of our borders and we can’t even keep track of who is
entering our countries, let alone prevent them from entering.
Our Western principles are hollow if they are not accompanied by
a desire to sustain our culture and our civilization, based upon
knowing who we are and where we come from. We are not from
Saudi-Arabia. We are not from Iran. We come from Rome, Athens and
Jerusalem. That makes our civilization special, and certainly worth
preserving.
In spite of all that, the political elite are still madly in love
with their pet project, the multicultural society, as they call it
romantically. Apparently they don’t live in the neighbourhoods that
are turning Islamic. They will tell you “they are nice people. I
don’t see the problem?” The Muslim immigrant’s demands sound
reasonable to them, like: “let us have an extra-large mosque.”
It is very difficult to remain optimistic in the face of the
growing Islamisation of Europe. The tide is turning against us. We
are losing on every front. Regarding the demographics, Islam is
gaining momentum. The ruling elite is even proud of the Muslim
immigration. After all, this way they can show everyone that they
are not racists. Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the
churches, the business world, the entire political establishment
have all converted to the suicidal theory of multiculturalism and
cultural relativism.
Cultural relativism is the biggest disease modern day Europe
suffers from. Not all cultures are equal. Our Western culture is
better than the Islamic culture. In the words of the brave Dr. Wafa
Sultan: “It is a clash between civilization and backwardness,
between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and
rationality.” Indeed also here in Israel you are not fighting a
territorial war, it’s not about territory it’s about ideology. The
Islamic ideology does not seek cooperation or assimilation but aims
for submission and dominance over non-Muslims. There is no moderate
Islam, there will never be a moderate Islam. There might be moderate
people who call themselves Muslim, but there is no moderate Islam.
Leftist journalists and leftist politicians hasten themselves to
label anyone critical of the Islamisation a “right-wing extremist.”
The entire establishment has sided with Islam. Leftists, liberals,
and Christian-Democrats are now enslaved to Islam. They are Dhimmis.
Lenin once labelled ignorant people that unknowingly aided his cause
“useful idiots.” Well, the West is now full of these “useful
idiots,” and they are even proud of it.
Now some words about my film, Fitna.
I felt I had the moral duty to educate people about Islam and the
Islamisation of Europe. The duty to make clear to everyone that the
Koran stands at the heart of what some people call terrorism but is
in reality Jihad. I wanted to show that the problems of Islam are at
the core of Islam, and do not belong to its fringes.
I have warned against the dangers of the Koran and Islam in
numerous interviews, opinion articles, speeches and of course
parliamentary debates, but pictures often say more than words. That
is why I made Fitna.
Fitna is a documentary that shows what is being done in the name
of Islam. Without placing all Muslims into the same category, I
think I have succeeded in showing that the Koran is not some dusty
old book, but that it is still used today as a source of inspiration
for, and justification of hatred, violence and terrorism across the
world.
A few weeks ago the world has once again seen what Islam is
capable of. In Mumbai, Jihadists separated Muslims from non-Muslims,
according to a witness in a Belgian newspaper. The non-Muslims, the
Kaffirs, were subsequently shot. The terrorists also went straight
for the tiny Jewish centre in Mumbai, where, according to reports
made to an Indian news website, they horribly tortured Jewish people
before brutally murdering them.
Most of the Western media stick to naming the culprits as being
members of “separatist movements.” In doing so, they are missing the
main point and are unjustly ignoring the Islamic nature of the
terror attacks. After all, if it is a conflict about borders, why
are they killing Jews in Mumbai? Why, in a city of tens of millions,
find the Jihadists the shortest way to the only rabbi in town – in
order to kill him and his wife? Why are Israel’s enemies always
shouting “Allah hoe-Akbar” and “kill the Jews” if all they want is
peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding? Maybe, I’m just
guessing, is it because they have an ideology that tells them to
kill Jews, to kill unbelievers, and to advance Islam until there is
world domination. Islam, after all divides the world in a
dar-al-Harb, and dar-al-Islam. Islam is a totalitarian ideology full
of hate, violence and submission.
From the day the plan for my short film was made public it caused
quite a stir, in the Netherlands, in Europe and across the world.
First there was a political uproar, with government leaders across
the continent in sheer panic. The Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs
called on me to abandon my film project. The Minister of Justice let
it be known that post hoc criminal proceedings could be initiated if
the movie was shown. The Dutch government investigated the
possibility of having Fitna banned in advance. The Dutch branch of
the Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the
Netherlands was due for an attack. Internationally there was a
series of incidents. The Taliban threatened to organize additional
attacks against Dutch troops in Afghanistan and a website linked to
al Qaeda published the message that I ought to be killed, while the
Grand Mufti of Syria stated that I would be responsible for all the
bloodshed after the screening of the film.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several
occasions. Dolls representing me were burned as well. The Indonesian
President announced that I will never be admitted into Indonesia
again, while the UN Secretary General and the European Union issued
statements in the same cowardly vein as those by the Dutch
government. I could go on and on. It was an absolute disgrace, a
sell out. It was treason to our Western principles, it was treason
to freedom of speech, it was treason to liberty itself. My own
government was not defending me, but became my worst enemy in the
process.
Because of Fitna, the State of Jordan is currently litigating
against me. Jordan wants to prosecute me for blasphemy, demeaning
Islam and slandering the Prophet Muhammad; violations of the
Jordanian Penal Code, even though the alleged violations did not
even occur in Jordan. As you all know, Jordan is a non-democratic
country, without an independent or impartial judicial system and
without a strongly developed civil society. According to a recent
study by Human Rights Watch, torture is a routine and widespread
practice in Jordan.
Jordan’s attempt to prosecute me is an infringement on the
sovereignty of my country, the Netherlands. It is an infringement on
freedom of speech. Jordan’s attempt is in fact a hostile act towards
freedom itself.
If Jordan succeeds in prosecuting a democratically elected member
of a Western parliament, what kind of precedent would that set? But
it’s not about me. The principle is not Geert Wilders. If you look
at the press and the rest of the political elite in the Netherlands,
nobody cared. Nobody gave a damn. This was the worst thing. A
non-democratic country like Jordan cannot use the international or
domestic legal system to silence anyone. If this starts, if we allow
this, we can get rid of all parliaments, and we should close down
every newspaper, and we should shut up and all pray to Mecca five
times a day.
But there is some hope. For instance, there is some hope with the
middle class workers. Underneath the empty bravado of the elite, the
middle class worker, the average Joe, is starting to realise that
there is something terribly wrong with Islam. In the Netherlands,
60% of the population considers mass immigration to be the worst
mistake since the Second World War. And an equal 60% sees Islam as
the number one threat to our national identity. But the Freedom
Party is the only political party in the Dutch parliament that
shares their view.
And there is hope that political parties critical about the
Islamisation of the West are gaining momentum all over Europe, are
getting stronger. And we will work together with common legislation,
with common initiatives, perhaps even with a common group in the
European parliament as defenders of the West, defenders of our
culture, defenders of our identity, defenders of our freedom.
We need a new way of thinking, a new paradigm, to defend our
liberties. Just reiterating our devotion to tolerance and democracy
is not good enough, as we are facing Jihad. We need a new set of
goals and ideas. We need new leaders. And we should always remember
where we come from. We all come from Jerusalem.
Let me wind up. The essence of my short speech today is that
Europe is in the process of Islamisation, and that we need to fight
it. Because if we don’t fight the Islamisation, we will lose
everything: our cultural identity, our democracy, our rule of law,
our liberties, our freedom. We have the duty to defend the ideas of
Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. The ancient heritage of our forefathers
is under attack; we have to stand up and defend it.
A century and a half ago, on the other side of the world, a young
President said exactly what I mean. This is what Abraham Lincoln
said in 1862, and I leave you with that:
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
(Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
It is five to twelve. Freedom must win, we have to win and we will win.”
Via andrewbostom.com.org & familysecuritymatters.org.
If you like this essay: | Stumble it | digg it |
[Others/comment/guestlog78.htm]