What Wilders wouild have said to England

As you may, or may not, know, Wilders was barred from entering England because his video Fitna and his political positions regarding Muslim immigration into the Netherlands and Europe is deemed hate speech.

This is excerpts from the speech he planned on giving.

Today, I come before you to warn of another great threat. It is called Islam. It poses as a religion, but its goals are very worldly: world domination, holy war, sharia law, the end of the separation of church and state, the end of democracy. It is not a religion, it is a political ideology. It demands you respect, but has no respect for you.

Today, I come before you to warn of another great threat. It is called Islam. It poses as a religion, but its goals are very worldly: world domination, holy war, sharia law, the end of the separation of church and state, the end of democracy. It is not a religion, it is a political ideology. It demands you respect, but has no respect for you.

There might be moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam. Islam will never change, because it is build on two rocks that are forever, two fundamental beliefs that will never change, and will never go away. First, there is Quran, Allah’s personal word, uncreated, forever, with orders that need to be fulfilled regardless of place or time. And second, there is al-insal al-kamil, the perfect man, Muhammad the role model, whose deeds are to be imitated by all Muslims. And since Muhammad was a warlord and a conqueror we know what to expect.

Islam means submission, so there cannot be any mistake about it’s goal. That’s a given. The question is whether the British people, with its glorious past, is longing for that submission.

Britain seems to have become a country ruled by fear. A country where civil servants cancel Christmas celebrations to please Muslims. A country where Sharia Courts are part of the legal system. A country where Islamic organizations asked to stop the commemoration of the Holocaust. A country where a primary school cancels a Christmas nativity play because it interfered with an Islamic festival. A country where a school removes the words Christmas and Easter from their calendar so as not to offend Muslims. A country where a teacher punishes two students for refusing to pray to Allah as part of their religious education class. A country where elected members of a town council are told not to eat during daylight hours in town hall meetings during the Ramadan. A country that excels in its hatred of Israel, still the only democracy in the Middle-East. A country whose capitol is becoming ‘Londonistan.’

I would not qualify myself as a free man. Four and a half years ago I lost my freedom. I am under guard permanently, courtesy to those who prefer violence to debate. But for the leftist fan club of Islam, that is not enough. They started a legal procedure against me. Three weeks ago the Amsterdam Court of Appeals ordered my criminal prosecution for making Fitna and for my views on Islam. I committed what George Orwell called a ‘thought crime.’

You might have seen my name on Fitna’s credit role, but I am not really responsible for that movie. It was made for me. It was actually produced by Muslim extremists, the Quran and Islam itself. If Fitna is considered ‘hate speech,’ then how would the Court qualify the Quran, with all it’s calls for violence, and hatred against women and Jews?


Mr. Churchill himself compared the Quran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Well, I did exactly the same, and that is what they are prosecuting me for.


The Court’s decision and the letter I received form the Secretary of State for the Home Department are two major victories for all those who detest freedom of speech. They are doing Islam’s dirty work. Sharia by proxy. The differences between Saudi Arabia and Jordan on one hand, and Holland and Britain are blurring. Europe is now on the fast track of becoming Eurabia. That is apparently the price we have to pay for the project of mass immigration, and the multicultural project.


Ladies and gentlemen, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack. In Europe, freedom of speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural component of our existence is now something we again have to fight for. That is what is at stake. Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue. The question is: Will free speech be put behind bars?


We have to defend freedom of speech.


For the generation 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 the darkness of Nazi tyranny. Millions of my country men listened to it, illegally. The words ‘This Is London’ were a symbol for a better world coming soon. If only the British and Canadian and American soldiers were here.


What will be transmitted 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?

Link Wilders speech.

I urge you to click on the link and read his speech. It is accurate but calm. Wilders is no raving radical. He merely brings the truth supported by historical facts and puts it before us.

But England has turned him away. The cradle of democracy. The birthplace of the Magna Carta - The Great Charter of Freedom - has now collapsed into a fearful slop of political double speak because it fears Wilders and his 15 minute video will cause riots.

The Magna Charter wasn't just given by the King. It was forced from him by people who would have likely lost all, including their lives, had they lost their demands. Now they are afraid of what a Dutch politician will say and a 15 video. How so very descriptive of so many of Modern Western Man. Stupidly ashamed of his past he trembles at the thought of someone speaking freely.

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If the truth causes the threat of riots then isn't it time to speak the truth before worse happens? Think about that. What is next? “We shall riot if everyone is not summoned to prayer? We shall riot if “honor killings” remain illegal?" Sound stupid? Well, I would have said so if ten years ago you had told me a Dutch politician had been barred from England because of a 15 minute video and his political statements.

Fitna is not hateful. It is truthful. Some may regard it as ugly, but what it reveals is ugly. It doesn't attack Muslims. It reveals what the radical Muslims have done by their selecting only what they want from the Koran. No Muslim should be concerned over what it says anymore than what a Christian should be concerned over what is said in some passages in the Old Testament. But just as Christians should be concerned if some group started preaching and acting on those passages, Muslims should be concerned over the acts of the radicals and extremists.

We in the US still retain a great deal of what England and Europe once had, free speech. But even here we see speech codes in our once great universities and students destroying newspapers and newspaper stands. Other students are charged and threatened with dismissal because of what they may have posted on the student center bulletin board.

In our last election it was forbidden by the press to call Hussein, Hussein because it was a Muslim name. Yet his whole name is Muslim and he chose to be sworn in as Barack Hussein Obama.

The issue was never "Hussein." It was about him wanting the power to tell you what to say and a large number of you threw away your freedom of speech to run trembling in anticipation of the love of a second rate Chicago Politician.

So read Wilders' speech. Watch the video. Understand and see what is coming towards us at light speed.

Fitna

The above is an expansion of my comment in the Tennessean.

The religion of peace strikes again.

BAGHDAD — A female homicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials.....

Mohammed Abbas, a medical official in Mussayib, said most of the dead and wounded from the attack were women and children.

The attacks against the pilgrims appear to be part a Sunni extremist campaign to rekindle the sectarian conflict that nearly plunged the country into full-scale civil war two years ago.

On Thursday, a homicide bomber detonated an explosive belt packed with nails among Shiite worshippers in Karbala near the revered Imam Hussein shrine, killing eight pilgrims and wounding more than 50.

A day earlier, at least 12 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in bombings in Baghdad that targeted Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala, 50 miles to the south.

Yeah, yeah, I know. These are radicals, these are extremists.

These are also a bunch of dead people.

And if they kill each other like this, NOW do you understand the attacks on Jews and Christians??

Fox News source.

Stupid is as stupid does.

After seeing this....



the phrase "Stupid is as stupid does" from the movie "Forest Gump" takes on special significance..

Hat tip to Grant M!

England loses freedom of religion.

The depth of some of the citizen's of England desire to not offend Muslims is shown here.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 5:10PM GMT 08 Feb 2009

A local council removed the woman from their register for failing to "respect and preserve" the teenager's faith, even though the girl made her own decision to change religion when she was 16.

The carer, a churchgoer in her 50s who has fostered more than 80 children, is now planning legal action against the council, amid complaints from religious groups that Christians are increasingly becoming victims of discrimination.

She claims that she did not pressurise the girl, who was put in care after being assaulted by a family member, to convert, and actually tried to discourage her initial interest in Christianity.

"We had a multicultural household and I had no problems helping the young person maintain her faith of birth," the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Mail on Sunday.

Seems simple enough. A young girl is removed from the family after being assaulted by a family member. The girl, who is actually a teenager of 16, decides to convert to Christianity. A seemingly private act that had nothing to do with the outside world.

Yet she has now been removed from a seemingly happy and acceptable environment and, I assume returned to either the family or a Muslim care giver. Since people who convert from Islam to a diffferent faith are condemned to death I can imagine how she was and is being treated.

The carer claims that social services from the counvil, which also cannot be named for legal reason, were aware that the girl was attending a Christian church, but her foster manager became "incandescent with rage" when she was baptised.

A society that rejects religious freedom for the individual and cannot protect its children does not deserve to be considered a western style democracy.

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Hat Tip Brussels Journal

From the Caliphate of England

LONDON (AP) -- Britain barred a far-right Dutch lawmaker from entering the country Thursday because of his anti-Islamic views, touching off a wide-ranging debate in the U.K. about the limits of free speech.

The British government has said that Wilders was not welcome because he posed a threat to ''community harmony and therefore public security.''

Wilders was invited to Britain by a member of Parliament's upper house, the House of Lords, to show his 15-minute film ''Fitna,'' which criticizes the Quran as a ''fascist book.''

The film sparked violent protests around the Muslim world last year for linking Quranic verses with footage of terrorist attacks.

Uh, don't tell the AP but those were MUSLIM terrorists. I mean Islam, Muslims, Quran... terrorists.... Nope, no connection. Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Wilders told The Associated Press he had no regrets about the trip, attacking what he called ''the cowards in the U.K. government,'' and accusing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of having a servile attitude toward Islam.

Wilders told the AP by telephone it was ''a sad day for Britain and freedom of speech.''

''You would expect something like this to happen in Zimbabwe or Jordan,'' he said

Yes. Yes you could. You can now add the Caliphate of England to that list.

NYTimes

The Brussels Journal has an article in it titled "P. D. Ouspensky and the Nightmare of Revolution," by Thomas F. Bertonneau. It is an appreciation of "Letters from Russia" (1921), by Peter Damian Ouspensky.I confess to have never heard of it which is my loss. Bertonneau notes:

the (book) boasts the twin virtues of its brevity (less than sixty pages) and its moment of composition, the year 1919, during the fantastic and homicidal tumult of Russia’s Civil War.....fled St. Petersburg when the Communist coup d’état erupted but could not find his way free of embattled territories until 1920,...In his role as mathematician and philosopher, Ouspensky had written about the fourth dimension, so he had some experience in trying to come to terms rhetorically with odd notions and fantastic, counterintuitive theses. The first of the five installments of Letters from Russia establishes the book’s pervasive, nightmarish tone as Ouspensky describes upheavals of ordinary life so gross and brutal that he must search out a new language of indirection by which to convey them to the blissfully uninitiated....

In a subsequent sentence Ouspensky feels compelled to put the phrase living in the old way in quotation marks and supply for it a gloss, but the attempt fails. “You do not even know the significance of the words… you have not the necessary perspective; you cannot get away from yourselves and look at yourselves from another point of view.”

At the Tiflis railway terminal, where Ouspensky stopped (or rather was halted) on his way from St. Petersburg, Bolshevism manifested itself as “terrifying cries and shouts… heard on the platform, quickly followed by several shots.” A soldier told passengers that he and his comrades had executed a “thief.” By morning they had executed three more thieves. The abuse of language is characteristic. In any case, shooting summed up Bolshevism, which, having “no constructive program,” could only destroy and did so prodigiously and gleefully. Ouspensky anticipates Solzhenitsyn in identifying Bolshevism (Marxism) as a pernicious German invention seized on by Lenin and his followers to justify their orgy of violence against a world they hated because it had the temerity to exist apart from their desires and wishes. “As a general rule,” writes Ouspensky in the fourth letter, “Bolshevism based itself on the worst forces underlying Russian life.”

I shall read this book. I think it shows what all "isms" bring, and that would include the terror"ISM" of radical Muslims and living in a society where extremists Muslims can shut down free speech merely by threatening to riot.

Ouspensky repeats a refrain in all five letters that Bolshevism, being barbarism with a fancy vocabulary, constitutes a threat not only in Russia, but anywhere, hence also everywhere, because it is a destabilizing condition of ordered life, so arduously achieved, always to carry with it “barbarian forces existing inside [the] society, hostile to culture and civilization.” I could not help connecting a recent remark made by Sean Gabb in a Brussels Journal entry with the foregoing words by Ouspensky.

In a discussion of “hate speech” laws and their selective enforcement, Gabb notes that, “the soviet socialists and the national socialists kept control by the arbitrary arrest and torture or murder of suspected opponents,” but that these methods are currently “not… acceptable in England or in the English world.” Nevertheless, writes Gabb, censorious speech-legislation involving intimidating criminalization of certain words or verbal attitudes “has nothing really to do with politeness,” but is, rather, “about power.” So it is as well in the United States and Canada. Wherever governments and elites seek to control expression, whether or not as Gabb observes it has to do ostensibly with “diversity and inclusiveness,” the real agenda is to achieve “the unlimited power to plunder and enslave us, while scaring us into the appearance of gratitude for our dispossession.”

To steal an expression of what use to be the world's oldest governing body of a free people, England's Parliament, "Here Here!"

I would say that “hate crime” and “hate speech” laws represent a trial balloon of totalitarian methods. Such methods are barbarous. They betray the basic decency of the Western achievement. They take root in “the worst forces,” as Ouspensky says, “underlying our life.” Now “ought” is a counterfactual word. But it strikes me that if history taught only one lesson to the civilized it would be that as soon as any visibly power-hungry group succeeds in an agenda of intimidation, no matter how minor, sensible people dedicated to their own freedom ought to respond with all necessary resistance until the aggressors have themselves been intimidated into a retreat.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3792">Link

If you ever wondered how a civilization could slide down into darkness, look no further than what the English have done.

A great country has died. Not from Spanish shot or French cannon balls or German bombs, but the poison of self hatred that was self made, self taught and self administered.

It shall be missed.

Dear England. Rest In Peace. Your children have deserted you.

Muslims and Obama and immigration

On Monday I posted that Obama had issued an Executive Order to spend $20.3 million dollars to assist in the immigration of Muslims from the Gaza strip of Palestine. Since no Muslim country will take them I opined that his intent is to bring them into the US.
The question, of course, is why he would want to bring hundreds of thousands, 99.9% of which will possess no marketable job skills beyond untrained labor, given that even when our economy was booming there were few jobs available and almost none now. I say that he sees them as reliable voters… watch how quickly they become naturalized citizens… to assist him in remaining in power in 2012 and perhaps longer if he can get the Constitution changed.
So all this piffle that follows any discussion concerning the spread of Muslims and their effect always evolves to discussions about religion and good/bad Muslims, etc., etc., but that actually has nothing to do with anything. It matters not if the Muslims are good. The net effect is always bad.
Before we can discuss immigration, the base question becomes, “Do you want your country’s culture and laws to remain basically unchanged?” If you don’t care they are changed then you will have no problem with unlimited immigration by groups that are outside the existing culture and laws. If you do care then you will be opposed.
And the actual country doesn’t matter, nor the groups. When small groups enter they are easily assimilated. As the groups become larger, assimilation becomes harder because the larger the group the more identification there is with the culture and country of the past. Thus in the late 19th century and early 20th we had Little Italy, Chinatown, Irish enclaves in Boston and New York as well as the Jewish Garment District in New York. All were known to have problems and all were known to have high crime rates.
However, several things pushed them into the existing “American” culture. The first was that there were no major newspapers or journals in their native languages, although there were some small papers. Communication with family and friends left in the “old” country was slow and expensive. All official communication was in English, and schools were in English. In addition there was a large need for unskilled labor and land was being given away. All external pressures pushed the immigrant towards learning English and becoming “American.”
Although of less importance, at that time, the basic religions were Christian and Jewish…and the immigrants came from countries in which a secular form of government existed. And yes, the demands of the Jewish faith stressed the bubble as did some of the Catholic Church’s demands. But on the whole these were marginal.
In addition, the vast majority of the immigrants came from legal systems that were based on either English Common Law or the Napoleonic Code.
That is no longer true. There are numerous radio stations/TV in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic as well as newspapers. We not only dial 1 for English we skip channel 11 for Spanish…Ballots are printed in non-English and signs are printed in various languages.
From a purely commercial view these things may be good. But for having a unified society with, basically, a common culture, it is not only bad, it is stupid.
Now, let us back track to Europe.
Amazingly, much of what can be said of the US can be said about Europe. It was a secular society based on English Common Law or Napoleonic Code or some variation thereof. But even more surprising, Europe was even more nativist than the US. Oh, I know many spoke several languages as a practical matter, but on the whole they were ferocious defenders of their homelands as the various wars fought through 1945 show.
After WWII, Europe prospered under the protection of the US and a funny thing happened. The protection came to be resented, mostly encouraged by members of the far Soviet Left. The developing welfare state(s) needed unskilled labor. At the same time, peace and improvement in health care caused a boom in the Muslim population. It was a merger; it turns out, made in Hell.
Immigrants were welcomed. Social benefits were plentiful as were jobs. The Europeans, even less religious than ever before and more secular, saw no problems with Islam and its gun bearer, Shari Law. And as the Muslim population was small, there were no large demands by them. And even worse, the governments made no attempt to push assimilation. They were still nativist and they were use to ghettos for the Jews, why not the Muslims?
Time, as it is said, went by. And since the governments had not pushed assimilation many second generation “European” Muslims did not think of themselves as French or German. They thought of themselves as Muslims. Worse, the economy had been bad for years. Unemployment was and is high and there is almost no demand for unskilled labor. That was and is a perfect receipt for developing an underclass that is under educated, bitter and envious.
Even worse, the European Union, in an attempt to pull a “country” together from the various pieces has pushed various speech codes and “hate” laws to the extreme trying to insure that the French do not insult the Flemish who do not insult the Germans who do no insult the Wallons. I trust you get the idea. But like most roads to Hell these good intentions prevented honest criticism among the groups and sheltered Muslims who needed the criticism most of all. Yet to do so subject the person criticizing to attacks and arrests. It was, and is, PC on steroids and diversity run wild.
And the various Islamic sects have done so by sponsoring schools, providing Imams that rant and attack. The picture includes riots in France, Denmark, England and Norway over such “insults” as cartoons and movies. With predicable attacks upon gays, rapes of non-Muslim female “honor” killings, etc. It has become a witch’s brew of diversity run wild and used by the extremist Muslims for their own purposes.
Worse, in a recent poll 42% of all Muslims in England think they should be allowed to go their separate way and develop their own society. That, of course, is nonsense. Islam is expansionist. The English must either force assimilation or be devoured.
So you see, the issue isn’t about good or bad. It is about numbers and a religion, Islam that is not only expansionistic; it has a history of expansion by conquest and is one of the least tolerant religions. The issue isn’t about freedom of religion; it is about freedom from Islamic religion. The radicals although small in number, aided by the extremists by largely obeyed by the “moderates” because of fear have the bit between their teeth and are constantly on the offensive.
They rule through peer pressure brought by the preaching of the Imams, terror of the extremists on the moderates and a European culture who has been abject surrender for two decades or so.
To understand this you must first know Islam is not a religion as we think of it; it is a system of living that controls all aspects of a Muslims life. And it does not tolerate other faiths. Thus whenever and wherever Muslim reaches a certain mass it starts to demand changes in its favor and control. And it is perfectly happy to discuss settlement of its demands while it prepares a list of new ones.
Some say that Europe is lost. These numbers aren’t exact, but somewhere around 2050, if the current trend continues, the population will be a majority of Muslims. But based on political control and the weakness of the native Europeans the Muslim population will be running things much sooner.
The issue of immigration should always be discussed thoroughly because of the economic and societal impacts on the existing citizens. The Muslim immigration into the US must be doubly reviewed. Not because they are “good” or “bad” but because the results of Muslim immigration have been uniformly bad in Europe and because the US is merely an extension of the Europeans, although more open and, on the whole, more liberal.
And because we can already see the results of increases in the Muslim population. They range from schools in San Diego segregating boys and girls and sponsoring times for prayers to technical schools in Minneapolis/St. Paul providing foot washing facilities for prayer services to taxi cab drivers refusing to carry dogs and/or people who have alcohol to a private school in Virginia teaching that it is okay to steal from and/or kill Jews.
And now we can turn again to Obama’s EO and ask, “Why?” He is an educated man, well informed so it is reasonable to assume that he knows these things. And once you come to that conclusion the only logical one is that he doesn’t care or that he sees these things as a positive.

As time goes on we will, unfortunately, understand his position. Both are bad.

The above is an expansion of a comment I made in the Tennessean.

No bathing suits in the lobby!

Success is getting what you want!
Happiness is wanting what you get!

And always be careful of what you ask for.
Particularly if you ask old men! They are apt to try and be helpful!

Hat tip to Jimmy M!