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| Text of Wilders House of Lords Speech he Wasn't Allowed to Give..... |
| 2009-02-14 |
| Read the whole thing - Its very good. Here are a few tidbits.... H/T Weasel Zippers. And yes this belongs in WOT Operations. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me. Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for showing Fitna, and for your gracious invitation. While others look away, you, seem to understand the true tradition of your country, and a flag that still stands for freedom. The Houses of Parliament is where Winston Churchill stood firm, and warned -- all throughout the 1930's -- for the dangers looming. Most of the time he stood alone. In 1982 President Reagan came to the House of Commons, where he did a speech very few people liked. Reagan called upon the West to reject communism and defend freedom. He introduced a phrase: 'evil empire'. Reagan's speech stands out as a clarion call to preserve our liberties. I quote: If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. 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. Two years ago the House of Commons welcomed Mahmoud Suliman Ahmed Abu Rideh, linked to Al Qaeda. He was invited to Westminster by Lord Ahmed, who met him at Regent's Park mosque three weeks before. Mr. Rideh, suspected of being a money man for terror groups, was given a SECURITY sticker for his Parliamentary visit. Well, if you let in this man, than an elected politician from a fellow EU country surely is welcome here too. By letting me speak today you show that Mr Churchill's spirit is still very much alive. Well since they did refuse him enterance I guess its dead now... sad. And you prove that the European Union truly is working; the free movement of persons is still one of the pillars of the European project. But there is still much work to be done. 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. 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. I wonder if the UK ever put Mr. Churchill on trial. 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? The choice is ours. Ladies and gentlemen, We will never apologize for being free. We will never give in. We will never surrender. Freedom must prevail, and freedom will prevail. Thank you very much. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #9 The link published by Jumbo Jaish8625 is referring to a bogus story. The US military has never referred to Wilders in any meaningful way. It appears Hot Air was punked a year ago. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-02-14 23:16 |
| #8 They were not on the side of freedom. Seems rather presumptuous for you and Hot Air to decide, considering that neither of you are doing any of the heavy lifting. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-02-14 21:34 |
| #7 Hai hai JJ! Big hugs for U! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-02-14 17:42 |
| #6 The US Military in Afghanistan has already weighed in on this. They were not on the side of freedom. Their commander in chief at the time was not B. Hussein Obama, but G. Hussein Bush. |
| Posted by: Jumbo Jaish8625 2009-02-14 14:38 |
| #5 The average Brit is awake, AU. It's their "leadership" that's dead from the neck up. They've lost their right to self-defense, they've lost most of their rights to free speeach, the right to petition their lords for the redress of grievences (that dates back to the Magna Carta), and much more. If I were an intelligent, middle-class Brit, I'd leave for the US, Canada, or Australia - where at least some freedoms are still protected. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-14 14:03 |
| #4 C'mon, Britain. Wake up, dammnit! |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-02-14 11:46 |
| #3 Hear! Hear! The Spemble. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-02-14 07:59 |
| #2 The time when European problems could've been resolved by talking is long past. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-14 07:57 |
| #1 You are correct that this belongs in Ops. Unfortunately the major battles are being fought in the Houses of Parliament and in every home and government in the west. And though our troops are doing well on the kinetic fronts, we have suffered primarily defeats on the contemplative fronts. It is not yet May 1940, and I suspect that it will be some time before we see it. When it arrives I have no doubt of how true freeborn Englishmen and Americans will respond to their Churchill. I just hope and pray too much ground hasn't been yielded to the serfs and submitters for liberty and freedom to prevail. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-02-14 06:24 |