Geert Wilders: ‘Freedom Is Threatened in the Netherlands’
Wilders made an ardent closing statement yesterday:
Of all our achievements, freedom is the most precious and vulnerable. It is for freedom that people gave their lives. … I believe with all my heart that these days freedom is threatened in the Netherlands. … I dedicate my life to the defense of freedom. I know the risks and I pay the price every day [Wilders lives with constant security because of Islamists’ threats]. I won’t complain about that; it is my own decision. … It is not only the right, but also the duty of free people to speak out against every ideology that threatens freedom. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was right: The price for freedom is eternal vigilance. …
I don’t intend to offend people. I have nothing against Muslims. I have a problem with Islam and the islamization of our country, because Islam is the opposite of freedom. …
AdvertisementFuture generations will ask how we served our most precious achievement in 2010 in this courtroom. If there is freedom for both parties in this debate, and therefore also for critics of Islam, or if in the Netherlands only one side in this debate may be heard? If freedom of speech in the Netherlands is for everybody, or only for some? The answer to this is also the answer to the question if freedom does still have a home in this country.
Wilders requested to have 17 experts and witnesses testify in this trial, among them. These include American critics of Islam like Wafa Sultan, Robert Spencer, and Andrew Bostom, as well as Islamists like Mohammed Bouyeri (who murdered film director Theo van Gogh) and Yussuf al-Qaradawi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
On February 3, the Amsterdam District Court will announce how many of these witnesses are allowed to testify in the trial. The court will also announce the trial’s timetable.
Don’t think for one second this isn’t happening in America – we’re just a few years behind Eurabia if things continue on their present course.
We are being infiltrated by Islamists aided by leftist collaborators & liberal airheads. The ”useful idiots” in gov’t., in our universities, & in the media are paving the way towards the same disaster as in Europe.
Islam is no different than Nazism or Communism – a totalitarian political ideology antithetical to freedom.
We need urgently to rethink our ideas of freedom of religion, fight political correctness when dealing with this hostile & noxious ideology, & make Islam very unwelcome in our country.
Europe has gone quite insane. To put this man on trial, while thousands of radical Muslims march and shout, “Death to the infidels,” is just plain crazy. We have now reached a point that radical Muslims in Europe can say and do anything they want and not be prosecuted. They can have major riots over some stupid cartoon in a Danish magazine and that’s fine. They can threaten and blackmail people who don’t agree with their strange religious views, and that’s fine. They can engage in “honor” killings and beat their wives, and that seems to be fine too. But if anyone should disagree with radical Muslims or their medieval beliefs, they can be put on trial. I would boycott Holland simply for being so stupid. Any country that thinks this little about free speech does not deserve our respect, let alone our friendship. I also wonder when the native Europeans will rebel and start killing radical Muslims. Don’t think it can happen in Europe? Hmmm, ask any Muslim in Bosnia or Kosovo whether or not Europeans are capable of a backlash against them. If this insanity in Holland goes on any longer, that backlash will arrive sooner rather than later all over Europe, especially in places like France and Germany.
Shame on the Netherlands for even bringing this into court. Geert Wilders is absolutely correct, freedom is threatened. I guess stating a fact in the Netherlands these daysis hate speech. Yet, all one has to do is read the Koran and listen to Moslem clerics to establish the fact.
Geert Wilders deserves a lot more support than he’s getting.
Is Islam a fascistic set of beliefs?
find out yourself:
Ibn Warraq: Islam, Middle East and Fascism
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=3766&sec_id=3766
At the center of this trial lies the clash between two Dutch constitutional rights: freedom of speech and non-discrimination. Both rights have equal weight in the Dutch constitution.
They have equal weight in the Dutch constitution, so which do you think carries more weight with Dutch judges?
And discrimination in what? Did he refuse to hire Muslims, or refuse to do favors that they asked? Where is the discrimination?
If the “right” of non-discrimination is to be extended to anything anybody has to say about you (a right that the government of the Netherlands clearly doesn’t recognize in actual Dutchmen), then the two rights do not carry equal weight in the constitution, much less in the inequitable way their legal system is likely to enforce the constitution.
What they’re saying to their own people is, in effect, “your right to speak your mind is protected, unless you say something bad about an illiberal foreign religion which instills in its adherents a seething hatred for all the fundamental values on which our society is based.”
They’re saying to Muslim immigrants: “You can come here, live at public expense and preach the violent destruction of the society that accommodates you, and, since your religion will brook no criticism of any kind, no one is permitted to contradict your ‘opinions.’”
This upcoming trial is going to be a cusp event that defines what freedom is on the coming generation. The U.N. and it’s bozos are already trying to get this type of international law enacted. It is the genius of our founders that realized the First Amendment really was the FIRST freedom and without there was nothing. The tribal peoples and those raised up in the former kingdoms of Europe are always easily moved to reject the example of America’s First Amendment. You see it in action now where they say it is not the truth of his words that matters, it is only whether it is illegal to say! The media should be pesterng Obama about this. But we’ll get there soon enough.
The statement of no good or bad Islam is exactly what the PM of Turkey is quoted to have said recently.
Free speech in the USA once more! Today, 1/21/10, the Supreme Court struck down most of McCain-Feingold and other prior laws pertaining to restricting speech prior to elections. Geert Wilders, you need a good robust First Amendment in the Netherlands and courts there that will support it.
8. DVG:
“The statement of no good or bad Islam is exactly what the PM of Turkey is quoted to have said recently.”
Islam is ether active or inactive. Osama is the one man alive today whose life resmbles Muhammad. He is active and other Muslims know it.
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”
Despite what they say Islam is all about, what lessons are we learning from the deeds of Muslims in Europe, in America – even around the world – today?
The Politically Correct Thought Police has had things their own way for too long but there is a backlash brewing. The powers that be have mistaken tolerance for complacency and complacency for complicity.
There is a lot of anger and discontent brewing in Europe.
Daily digest
If you go left, you receive help.
If you are Muslim, you have advocates.
If you are color, you become bout.
If you are not honest, the will respect you.
If you are say what the won’t. You have right to speak.
If you are white, honest, witness and will testify, you will be liquidated.
If you are with and need help, advocate Gov. Help etc. you receive 0, 0! That’s who it looks like in this moment.
O and if you will tell you honest experience, the pushed you from 6 floor, like they did to me daughter!
Like they did if/when she wonted working on a book about her experiences in children communistic gulag/working camp and immigration experiences.
If you are will pointed on spy in the land/industry the will kill you and/or you children.
If you survive and will asylum in other free country, you will Suffern, receive not right and will live in poverty and misery.
That’s the reality.
All group receive help, bud white people the have stand up against the Bolshevik spy have no chance to survive!
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