Who lost Europe?

Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?" Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons in New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem ..

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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. (As a “Brit” I couldn’t believe this particular speech so I decided to investigate this bit – to my utter astonishment it is quite true!) 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 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.

譯文

韋達士(Geert Wilders) 是荷蘭的國會議員。

再過一、兩代人後，美國會問自己這個問題：『是誰把歐洲丟了？』。下面是韋達士以荷蘭自由黨黨魁的身份在紐約四季酒店為介紹愛國聯盟及宣布將於耶路撒冷召開應對伊斯蘭聖戰會議的演講。

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朋友們：

謝謝你們邀請我在這裡講話。

我到美國來有一個任務。舊世界裡有很多問題。我們正在面臨太多的危機令人難以感到樂觀。我們可能正在歐洲伊斯蘭化的最終階段。這不但對歐洲本身是一個顯見和實在的危機，對美國和西方國家單純的生存要求也是一個威脅。美國作為西方文明最後的一個堡壘將和一個伊斯蘭的歐洲對持。

首先我在歐洲的立場向大家介紹目前的情況。然後我會談談有關伊斯蘭的事。最後我會宣布有關在耶路撒冷會議的消息。

大家都知道歐洲此刻正在轉變中。

你們大概都曾見過那些著名的路標。但是所有的大城市裡，也許就在你們到過的那些旅遊點附近，有一個由於大量穆斯林移民而衍生的另類社區。

一個新的現實正在整個歐洲浮現：整片的穆斯林社區裡甚少見到土生土長的居民。即使有，也許是因為迫不得已。對警察來說也如是。只見頭巾包頭，女人擔著寬鬆的帳蓬推著嬰兒車和帶著一群兒童到處逛。她們的丈夫，或者可以說是奴隸主，領先幾步走在前面。街頭回教寺廟林立。店鋪上有你我都看不懂的文字標記。要在這裡找到任何經濟活動難之又難。這些都是被宗教狂熱份子控制的穆斯林貧民區。這些穆斯林社區在歐洲每個大城市猶如雨後春筍般蓬勃成長。這些據點將一條一條街道，一個個社區，一個個城市逐漸蠶食佔據歐洲越來越大塊的地區。

現在歐洲各地建起了成千上萬的回教寺。教民比教堂的還要多。同時在每一個歐洲城市將建造更大的超級回教寺，一旦建成所有基督教堂看起來好像大巫見小巫。訊息很清楚：這是我們的世界。

很多歐洲城市人口已經有四分之一是穆斯林：例如阿姆斯特丹，馬賽和瑞典的馬爾默。很多城市中十八歲以下的人口大部分是穆斯林。現在巴黎已經被一圈穆斯林社區包圍了。穆罕默德是很多城市裡最多的男孩子名字。

阿姆斯特丹的一些小學校不可以談到農場，因為這難免會牽涉到豬隻，穆斯林會覺得冒犯。

比利時和丹麥的國立學校對學生只提供合乎伊斯蘭教規定食物。一向對同性戀寬容的阿姆斯特丹，很多同性戀者被打，而打人者幾乎全是穆斯林。非穆斯林婦女經常聽到人喊『娼妓，娼妓』。衛星電視節目的訊號接收碟不再指向本地電視台，而指向那些居民本國的電視台。

在法國，教師被勸諭避免觸及穆斯林感到冒犯的作家，包括伏爾泰和哲學家狄德羅；就算達爾文也不例外。學校也不能教授有關大屠殺的歷史，因為恐怕會傷害穆斯林的感情。

在英國，伊斯蘭教法審判的法庭現在正式成為英國法律系統的一部分。很多法國的社區對不帶頭巾的婦女是禁區。上星期在布魯塞爾有一個男人幾乎被打死因為他竟然在回教齋戒月喝酒。

法國的猶太人大量逃離，比二次大戰反猶太浪潮最劇烈的時候還要迫切。今天在特拉維夫和納坦耶的街頭處處可以聽見人們以法語交談。這些伊斯蘭化的故事例子不勝枚舉。

目前居住在歐洲的穆斯林多達五千四百萬人。聖地亞哥大學最近計算過，從現在起只在十二年內，歐洲四分之一的人口將是穆斯林，令人吃驚。伯納路易斯預測到了這個世紀末，歐洲的人口中穆斯林將佔大部份。

這些不過是數字而已。如果穆斯林移民願意與當地文化融合，這些數字不會令人感到觸目驚心。但是如此的跡象極少。根據皮尤研究中心報導，一半法國穆斯林覺得對伊斯蘭的忠誠比對法國更重要。三分之一的法國穆斯林不反對自殺式的攻擊。英國社會凝聚力中心報導三分之一的英國穆斯林學生接受成立一個世界伊斯蘭教國。穆斯林要求所謂『尊重』，我們便給他們尊重，因此我們有了正式的穆斯林假期。

如果穆斯林佔多數的話，基督民主檢察長同意接受在荷蘭實施伊斯蘭教法。我們的閣員中有的持有摩洛哥和土耳其護照。

穆斯林的要求通過非法的行為得到實現。這些行為從一般犯罪和零星針對救傷工作人員和巴士司機的暴力，到小規模的暴亂等。巴黎曾經歷在低收入郊區發生的暴動。我稱他們為『僑民』，因為他們的本質如此。他們不是要融合到我們的社會來，而是要把我們的社會融合到他們的伊斯蘭教地區裡去。故此，他們是僑民。

我提到的街頭暴力大多數針對非穆斯林，迫使當地人離鄉別井。還有，現在穆斯林是不容忽視的游離選票群。

第二件你必須知道的是穆罕默德先知的重要性。他的所作所為對穆斯林來說是不容批評的典範。如果穆罕默德是一個和平使者，好像甘地和德蘭修女合二為一那樣的話，沒有問題。但是穆罕默德是一個軍閥，屠夫，孌童癖者及重婚者。伊斯蘭傳說他如何英勇戰鬥殺敵，甚至處死俘虜。穆罕默德親手將一個猶太古萊扎族屠殺殆盡。對伊斯蘭好的就是好，對伊斯蘭不好的就不好。

不要相信伊斯蘭是一個宗教。不錯，它有一個神，有後世，還有七十二處女。但是實質上伊斯蘭是一個政治理念。有系統地寫下社會和每一個人的生活規條。伊斯蘭要主宰控制信徒生活的每一個細節。伊斯蘭的意思是：『皈依服從』。伊斯蘭和民主自由的理念格格不入，因為必要按伊斯蘭教法辦事。若要把伊斯蘭和其他的政治理念相比的話，那只有共產主義和納粹主義，那都是極權主義的理念。

現在你們該知道為何邱吉爾稱伊斯蘭為『世上最逆行的威權』，為何他將希特勒著作的『我的奮鬥』和可蘭經相提並論。國際輿論完全接受巴勒斯坦發表的論調並將以色列視為侵略者。我曾經在這個國家住過同時經常來來往往。我支持以色列。首先，因為它是猶太人兩千多年前被逐走直至奧斯威辛集中營後才回去的故鄉；第二因為它是個民主政體，及第三以色列是我們的第一道防線。

這個小小的國家位處伊斯蘭聖戰的斷層，阻擋了伊斯蘭的領土擴張。以色列面對聖戰的前線，好比克什米爾，科索沃，菲律賓，南泰，蘇丹的達爾富爾，黎巴嫩以及印尼的阿齊。以色列就是這樣對著幹，好像冷戰時期的西柏林。

對以色列開戰不獨是對付以色列，而是對付整個西方國家，是聖戰。以色列替我們擋住了來自對方的打擊。如果沒有以色列，伊斯蘭帝國主義早就循各種渠道爆發它那積聚的精力和征服世界的野心。感謝以色列的父母把他們的孩子們送到軍隊，徹夜無眠，讓歐洲和美國為人父母者可以睡得安穩，做得好夢，渾然不覺危機已經迫在眉睫。

歐洲很多人在爭論主張放棄以色列，為了安撫國內穆斯林少數民族的指責。但是萬一以色列倒下，也不會為西方帶來任何好處。我們的穆斯林少數民族也不會因此而突然改變他們的作風並且接受我們的價值觀。以色列倒台反而給伊斯蘭的勢力打了強心劑。他們會認為以色列的滅亡證明了西方已經處於下風，來日無多了。以色列結束了，不是說我們和伊斯蘭之間的問題也結束了。恰恰相反，問題才剛剛開始，那就是為主宰世界的決戰擂響了戰鼓。他們認為如果他們可以打敗以色列，他們誰都可以打敗。所謂新聞工作者往往主動標籤任何對伊斯蘭化的批判稱之為：『右翼激進分子』或『種族主義者』。我的祖國荷蘭，百分之六十的國民認為大量的穆斯林移民是自二次大戰以來最糟糕的政策過失。還有百分之六十的人認為伊斯蘭是最大的威脅。但比遭受恐怖分子襲擊更大的危機是作為最後力挽狂瀾的美國令人擔憂的現況。歐洲的燈光可能熄滅得比你的想像更快。伊斯蘭的歐洲會變成一個沒有自由，沒有民主的歐洲，一塊經濟荒地，知識分子的噩夢，和一個喪失了軍事優勢的美國 – 它的盟國變成了擁有核武的敵人。歐洲全盤伊斯蘭化，只剩下美國來保存繼承羅馬，雅典和耶路撒冷的遺產了…

朋友們，自由是上天賜給我們最寶貴的禮物。我們這一代從不需要為它奮鬥過，我們今天唾手可得的禮物，是我們的先輩以生命換來送給我們的。歐洲各地，處處都有的美軍墓地提醒我們那些回不了家的青年人，我們永遠懷念珍惜。我們這一代並不擁有這個難得的自由；我們只是它的守護者。我們只能把這個難得的自由傳承給歐洲的兒童，正如我們的先輩給我們一樣。我們不能和伊斯蘭的教徒達成協議，未來的子孫永不會原諒我們。我們不能胡亂銷蝕我們的自由，我們無權這樣做。

我們現在必須採取必要的行動來阻止伊斯蘭的愚昧思想摧毀我們所知的自由世界。