Thread: Jihad Watch:Geert Wilders' Speech at 4 Seasons, NY, 02/23/09

February 25, 2009

Wilders: "Our enemies should know: we will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the left"

Here is Geert Wilders' speech at the Four Seasons in New York on February 23:

Thank you.

Thank you very much for inviting me. And – to the immigration authorities – thank you for letting me into this country. It is always a pleasure to cross a border without being sent back on the first plane.

Today, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack all throughout Europe. Free speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for.

As you might know, I will be prosecuted, because of my film Fitna, my remarks regarding Islam, and my view concerning what some call a ‘religion of peace’. A few years from now, I might be a criminal.

Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue; I gave up my freedom four years ago. I am under full-time police protection ever since. The real question is: will free speech be put behind bars? And the larger question for the West is: will we leave Europe’s children the values of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem, or the values of Mecca, Teheran and Gaza?

This is what video blogger Pat Condell said in one of his latest you tube appearances. He says: “If I talked about Muslims the way their holy book talks about me, I’d be arrested for hate speech.â€

Excellent! This man is a hero.

I like what Wilders has to say, but Islam and multiculturalism are the symptoms. The woes of Western Civilization exist because the West has nothing to live for.

Freedom, the abstraction, means little when people don't have a belief to make that freedom worthwhile. That is why free men and women crawl willingly, eagerly, back to tyranny.

The departure of Christianity from millions of lives has left quite a vacuum that neither science nor politics will fill. Without it driving the belief of sanctity of the individual (and with it the idea of individual rights), we can expect to see the erosion of these rights.