Geert Wilders: Defender of the West Against the Grand Jihad
by Jerry Gordon (May 2012)
On Saturday, April 21st, Geert Wilders, populist leader of the PVV Freedom Party in the Netherlands walked out of intense negotiations with the ruling minority center-right coalition government headed by PM Mark Rutte of the VVD Liberal Party. Wilders and the PVV had sought to protect the pension rights of average citizens in Holland in the current budget crisis.
criticized Wilders for being an “extreme voice.” Wilders had earlier campaigned as a VVD member of parliament to deny Turkey’s entry into the EU. Wilders subsequently withdrew from the VVD in June 2004. Officials of the Islamist AKP government in Turkey in 2010 objected to Wilders’ inclusion in a Dutch parliamentary delegation visiting the NATO member.
Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me. Against the backdrop of the recent fall of the Dutch government, could this book tour be a prelude to a possible run for the PM position in a snap election?
outlines his thesis:
The Koran is not a book that was written by Allah, but on the contrary, one that was written by Muhammad. That is the truth, but to Islam that is outright blasphemy.
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That the Koran was not written by Allah in heaven is a fact. The Koran was made up by Muhammad as it suited him according to his opportunistic goals. We must confront Muslims with this truth. Because only the truth sets people free. And if the truth is that the Koran is not the word of Allah, it does not need to be taken literally.
We noted in an Iconoclast post on December 14, 2011:
Egyptian Human Rights blogger, Mahmoud Elsokby posted on the Al Ahram report:
Egyptian authorities have recently banned him from entering the country during a visit of a European Parliament delegation.
However, the Al Ahram report had an error. According to the Freedom Party (PVV) headquarters in the Netherlands:
Fortunately we have freedom of opinion here. The Egyptian military regime should concern itself with the rights and protection of Christians in Egypt and preventing further bloodshed rather than worrying about me.
Mark Steyn, a kindred fighter for free speech, subjected to prosecution brought by Muslim complaints against Steyn by human rights councils in Canada. Both authors are leaders of a burgeoning movement in the West, in the courts and the public square, defending the right to criticize Islam. Wilders’ book is both a primer on the underlying totalitarian doctrine of Islam and a personal chronicle. It illustrates his endeavors over the past decade to alert the West to the tsunami of Islamic hatred of freedom and liberty. A tsunami on the verge of engulfing his native Holland and other European countries, turning them into what Bat Ye’or has called Eurabia.
Steyn notes why Wilders has put his life at risk:
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Wilders left the VVD in order to create the PVV as a bulwark against Dutch multiculturalist policies abetting wholesale Muslim immigration with the attendant overarching threat of Islamization. There are currently approximately 1 million Muslims out of a total population of 16.5 million in The Netherlands.
Danish Free Press Society President, Lars Hedegaard was similarly entrapped by leftist media in an interview in which he criticized Islamic treatment of women. He was convicted and fined 1000 euros by the Danish eastern Superior Court in May 2011. He was recently acquitted by the Danish Supreme Court on the grounds that his privacy had been invaded. That still leaves untouched the Orwellian Danish penal code article under which he was charged with hate speech by prosecutors in Copenhagen. Under that law, the truth of what is spoken is no defense.
Westergaard commented in a New English Review interview, “Free speech – use it!” A rubric that Wilders propounds in his proposal for adoption of an EU version of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Columbia University in October 2009.
recently suspended from the Labour Party for allegedly having placed bounties on the heads of Presidents Bush and Obama while speaking in Pakistan.
We reported on the uproar created in October 2010 by the announcement of his retrial given the appointment of new judges following disclosures about a judge who had interfered with expert defense witnesses.
The chief judge took some 20 minutes to dismiss the charges one by one, speaking in clear, non-legal language. There was applause from the public gallery when he had finished his statement.
The department was forced to take the case by the high court after anti-racism campaigners protested at its refusal to prosecute Wilders.
Wilders notes in his book what the late Italian author Oriana Fallaci said:
What concerns him most was evidence of Muslim contempt for host countries, their tolerant benefactors. Contempt reflected in crimes of theft, assault and rape committed by young Moroccan and Turkish immigrants against native Dutch. A pattern reflected in the research of Danish Psychologist Nicolai Sennels working with young Muslim criminals, surveys of young German Muslims, 2/5ths of whom reject integration, and other facts emphasized in the bestselling book Germany Does Itself In by former German banker, Thilo Sarrazin.
Theo Van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam by a Moroccan Dutch émigré, Mohammed al Bouyeri, spurred Wilders to leave the VVD and create his new party, the PVV. Van Gogh had produced a short film, Submission, about deprivation of women’s rights under Shariah. The film was scripted by a VVD colleague of Wilders, Somali Dutch immigrant Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an avowed apostate from Islam. She had been placed under 24/7 protection of the RDPS. Ali, an accomplished author and politician, eventually was forced to leave Holland for exile in the US and become a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Wilders’ visibility and espousal of controversial issues would soon place in him jeopardy and he too, would be placed in 24/7 RDPS care over the ensuing decade.
speech last May in Nashville Wilders bore witness to what has occurred in the Netherlands and Europe:
Islam is dangerous. Islam wants to establish a state on earth, ruled by Islamic shariah law. Islam aims for the submission, whether by persuasion, intimidation or violence, of all non-Muslims, including Christians.
Wilders channels American presidents like the Adams, Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt (TR) and Reagan in both quotes and comments throughout his book. At the head of Chapter Three on Islamofascism, Wilders quotes TR:
Wherever the Christians have been unable to resist [the Mohammedans] by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared.
K.S. Lal calculations that 60 to 80 million Indians died as a direct result of jihad.
Wilders referred to Israel as the only safe haven for Christians in the Middle East during a speech in Nashville last May:
The only place in the Middle East where Christians are safe is Israel.
That is why Israel deserves our support. Israel is a safe haven for everyone, whatever their belief and opinions. Israel is a beacon of light in a region of total darkness. Israel is fighting our fight.
The jihad against Israel is a jihad against all of us.
watch here) he expressed his view that Jordan is Palestine. He believes Israel has both an ancient and legal right to the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria.
request that the Dutch government issue an official apology for “passivity’ in not recognizing more than 100,000 Dutch Jews murdered in Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.
Last May he was invited to speak in Nashville. Nashville is the buckle of Bible belt, the center of unbridled attempts by Muslim Brotherhood front groups to infiltrate the state by stealth and intimidation. At both private meetings sponsored by the Tennessee Freedom Coalition and before a major audience at the Madison, Tennessee Cornerstone Church, Wilders proposed a program of action:
There are five things which we must do.
First, we must defend freedom of speech.
Second, we must end cultural relativism and political correctness.
Third, we must stop the Islamization of our countries. More Islam means less freedom.
Fourth, we must take pride in our nations again. We must cherish and preserve the culture and identity of our country. Preserving our own culture and identity is the best antidote against Islamization.
And fifth, last but certainly not least, we must elect wise and courageous leaders who are brave enough to address the problems which are facing us, including the threat of Islam.
Politicians who have the courage to speak the truth about Islam.
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