Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius is to lead the European Union delegation in the Intergovernmental Accession Conference on November 5 in Brussels, where a new chapter in Turkey’s accession negotiations with the EU will be opened after a three-year break.
EU General Affairs Council has on October 22 adopted a decision to open Chapter 22 (Regional policy and Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments) with Turkey, paving the way for the resumption of the accession negotiations with Turkey during the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council.
The European Commission has presented its annual Progress report on Turkey stating that Turkey is a strategic partner for the EU and that the full potential of the EU–Turkey relationship is best fulfilled within the framework of an active and credible accession process. The European Commission has also underlined that the accession negotiations need to regain momentum and that opening of Chapter 22 after a long stalemate in the negotiations is an important step in this direction.
Turkish delegation in the Intergovernmental Accession Conference will be led by Egemen Bağış, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, and Dr. Cevdet Yilmaz, Minister of Development of Turkey. The European Commission will be represented by Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy.
Candidate countries in their accession negotiations have to close 35 thematic chapters. Turkey has opened 14 chapters and preliminary closed 1 chapter.
The bully of East Mediterranean declared a casus-belli against Greece
Turkey has a casus-belli against Greece, a fellow NATO member, over the issue of continental shelf! Turkey demands Greek oil under the Aegean Sea! Moreover, Charles Aznavour overheard Erdogan state that he hates Armenians and Greeks! No wonder, Turkey refuses to apologize for the Armenian genocide, the Pontian genocide, and the Cypriot genocide.
Turkey still occupies Northern Cyprus, killing Cypriots, bringing Turkish settlers to Northern Cyprus, destroying Christian churches, looting Cypriot property, and terrorizing all people. Some Turcokleptocrats will eventually go to Hague for crimes against humanity. The Cypriot genocide continues up to this moment.
Turkey, the casus-belli-bully, is the world’s largest prison of journalists, bloggers, and generals. Erdogan has outlined his course declaring democracy is a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off. His dictatorial mentality can already be seen in such steps as challenging the independent judiciary, fostering nonsensical conspiracy theories to jail his opponents, imprisoning countless journalists, and issuing preposterous fines against unfriendly media companies.
These autocratic ways are growing over time. After a decade of reasonably democratic rule, impending crises signal Erdogan’s moment to get off the streetcar of democracy. As the AKP bares its fangs, Turkey further rejects Occident and grows to resemble a repressive stagnant theocracy. Ataturk’s country is no more. There are currently 30,000 pending complaints against Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights concerning violations of various political and personal freedoms.
Turkey needs to end its use of overly broad antiterrorism laws to hold thousands of activists and journalists, who have spoken out or engaged in the non-violent promotion of Kurdish rights, in prolonged detention. Tight government control of appointments to the national human rights institution and ombudsman undermine confidence in potentially important oversight mechanisms.
Turkey’s restrictions on freedom of expression are evident both in its laws and in the pattern of prosecutions and convictions under these laws. Turcokleptocrats’ intolerance of dissenting voices, extending as far as criticizing television soap operas, and their willingness to sue for defamation perpetuates a chilling climate for free speech. The campaign of arrests have intensified against Kurdish political activists, as well as students, journalists, human rights defenders, and trade unionists.
Impunity for serious human rights violations by Turcokleptocrats remains a huge challenge. Investigations into police violence lag behind investigations into the victims. Despite a commitment to reduce domestic violence with a new law designed to protect women from violence, the police and courts repeatedly fail to provide effective protection for women who try to file complaints.
Turkey and Fourth Reich pretend they want to unite! To get rid of the deep state of Ataturk, Caliph Erdogan hoodwinks that Turkey is eager to be enslaved to Fourth Reich. But Turkey already has a free trade agreement with Fourth Reich that allows it to manufacture for tariff-free sale throughout the Fourth Reich market. Turkey has a remarkable 8% growth, while Fourth Reich is in depression.
Turkey has the nerve to hoodwink about joining EU, while declaring casus belli against EU and occupying by brutal force a part of EU! EU is just scared of Turkey, the casus-belli-bully, which has the second largest army in NATO. 80% of EU citizens and 70% of Turks oppose Turkey’s membership to EU. EU cannot afford a clash of cultures within its borders. Graecoroman culture and Islamic culture cannot mix.
Pretrial detention in Turkey is being used as a punishment without trial. Turkey abuses civil liberties under the pretense of shutting down terrorist organizations. Turkey’s terrorism laws aren’t being used against terrorists. They’re used against innocent military officers, journalists, academics, defense lawyers, and ethnic Kurds accused of imaginary pseudoterrorist conspiracies. All charges are attacks on free speech. These freakish abuses are compounded by the routine manner in which disgusting Turkish judges agree to deny defendants bail. Many of the accused innocents have been in jail for years, some for a decade, as they await trial. This amounts to routine summary punishment of the presumed innocent.
Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen is the most influential preacher of Islam in Occident. His followers have founded schools in 140 countries, banks, media companies, hospitals, insurance companies, universities, the largest Turkish newspaper Zaman, and the ruling party of Turkey AKP. The cemaat religious community educates its future leaders throughout the world in houses of light, a mixture of a shared student residence and a Koran school. Gulen is their guru, an ideologue who tolerates no dissent, and who is only interested in power and influence, not understanding and tolerance. Gulen dreams of a new age in which Islam will dominate Occident.
The houses of light are the foundation of the movement, where young Fethullahcis, followers of Gulen, are taught to become loyal servants. The residences exist in many countries, including Turkey, the United States, and Germany. There are two dozen in Berlin alone. The cemaat offers schoolchildren and university students a home, free of charge, and in return it expects them to devote their lives to hizmet, service to Islam.
Most civil servants are Fethullahcis. Gulen trained and supported them. When these grateful children assume office, they continue to serve Gulen. Fethullahcis hold ninety percent of senior positions in the Turkish police force! Fethullahci Erdogan was locked for six months in prison for publicly reciting a verse declaring the mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets - words considered by a court to be incitement to religious militancy. Now taking his revenge, CaliphErdogan has locked many thousands of Turks in prison!
Anyone who messes up with Erdogan, Gulen, or Kurdistan is destroyed. 200 innocent Turkish journalists are in jails, the highest incarceration rates for members of the news media in the world. 700 innocent Turkish military officers are also behind bars, wrongfully charged in a series of pseudoplots to topple the government with weird names such as Ergenekon, Sledgehammer, and Action Plan Against Reactionary Forces.
Turkish officers are resigning en masse to avoid arrest and sentencing for conspiracy against the government. Mass detentions of both serving and retired officers have been taking place in Turkey over the last decade. There are many trials against top brass accused of plotting against the ruling government.
Over at least the past half a century, the Turkish armed forces have been notorious for regular interference in domestic politics, organizing several coups to displace governments and generally having great influence on the political landscape. Turkish high brass has always been proud of staying guard of the secular nature of the Turkish state, the legacy of Kemal Ataturk.
In the eyes of the military AKP symbolizes the threat to Turkey's secularism, whereas Erdogan’s party eyes the armed forces as a dictator that has been telling the country what to do for too long. Twenty per cent of all Turkish 348 generals and admirals are currently locked behind bars.
In late January 2013 the exodus of Turkish officers from the army was given a new push. Famous Admiral Nusret Guner resigned over the detention of hundreds of his colleagues. His premature voluntary retirement sparked yet another wave of resignations. Guner says: In the past few years my comrades in arms, some of whom I know very closely and about whose patriotism I have never felt the slightest doubt, have been found guilty through verdicts handed down by courts in the name of the nation.
Two hundred Turkish Air Force officers followed the example of Guner’s resignation. These pilots say: well, no one really loves us, we’ve served the ten years minimum time, let’s just take our pensions and get a better job in a private sector.
The cases against the officers have been marked by forged documents, detentions without evidence, and an attempt to subordinate the military not to the institutions of the state but to Caliph Erdogan himself. Although many Turks do not support the military’s interference in the political system, they still see the legal proceedings against it as politically motivated. In that, they are correct: The downfall of the officers is the culmination of a highly undemocratic campaign to intimidate, harass, and imprison Erdogan’s opponents.
All suspect cases have been cooked up, with public opinion shaped by leaks to Fethullahci newspapers like Taraf and Zaman. Too much of the evidence is doubtful to believe the investigations are aimed at further democratization. Fethullahci prosecutors are hounding certain groups and individuals for political gain. The aggressive way in which these investigations are carried out shows the existence of a secret agenda or a hidden motive behind these operations against the army, intellectuals, academics, journalists. These cases have had a devastating impact on the morale of officers, and their focus if these cases are ever dropped will be trying to restore the morale of the officers rather than seeking to take revenge.
Pianist Fazil Say is an internationally acclaimed Turkish artist. He had to pay damages for insulting Muslim religious values on Twitter. Erdogan calls him a traitor to the nation. Many Turks quote Persian poet Omar Khayyam: You say that there are rivers of wine. Does that mean it is a heavenly bar? You say two virgins will be given to every believer. Does that mean it is a heavenly brothel? Say was one of the two hundred Twitter users to circulate the Khayyam quote, but he is the only one to face a trial for posing a risk to public order. Selective persecution is just a political tool.
Author and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk had to pay damages after he openly criticized the genocide of Armenians. Elif Shafak alos paid damages for broaching the same topic in her book, The bastard of Istanbul. Nedim Guersel, author of the novel Allah's Daughters, had to pay damages for blasphemy.
Media that criticize Caliph Erdogan have found themselves in financial trouble due to punitive fines and tax investigations. After the leading newspaper Hurriyet connected Erdogan to a charity scandal, Erdogan fined the publication’s corporate owner, the Dogan Group, $523 million for tax evasion, and then fined it again seven months later for $2.5 billion in unpaid taxes and other unspecified irregularities, putting the total amount owed higher than the value of the company itself. The campaign served as a warning to other media not to criticize Erdogan, and, alongside arrests and firings of unfriendly journalists, it has created a climate of fear.
Caliph Erdogan has limited the ability of ordinary Turks to question his power. The anxiety produced by Erdogan’s actions against journalists, the military, and politicians has produced a high degree of self-censorship. Erdogan has empowered special security courts to arrest citizens on suspicion of terrorism without evidence or any right to a hearing and has used judicial indictments to target those calling for greater autonomy for the Kurds. Erdogan has virtually taken over the Turkish Academy of Sciences, once a bastion of Kemalist orthodoxy.
Caliph Erdogan has also established a nationwide internet filtering system which blocks out most messages and most blogs that are against him, Turkishness, Islam, AKP, Fethullahcis, Gulen, the Ergenekon persecution, the Sledgehammer persecution, the Armenian genocide, the Pontian genocide, the occupation of Northern Kurdistan, and the occupation of Northern Cyprus!
Caliph Erdogan cannot control his vanity. He now wants to leave his own legend on the cityscape of Istanbul with a supermosque. Erdogan's supermosque will be built on the highest hill on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, will have a capacity of 30,000 worshippers, and bear six minarets taller than the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
Vanity is a long Turkish tradition. On the European side, Sultan Suleiman put his legend on the city with the Suleymaniye Mosque, which could be seen everywhere from old Istanbul. Now Erdogan wants to put his own legend on the Asian side. Ottoman sultans adorned the hills of historic Istanbul with mosques dedicated to their victories. By building the supermosque, Erdogan is telling the world he is the new caliph.
Erdogan has won the battle with the old secular elite that emerged with the founding of the modern republic in 1923. Erdogan has muzzled the military, upholder of secularism, that had ousted four governments since 1960. Reforms in the military and the judiciary were promoted as complying with change demanded for entry to the European Union. Economic growth, outstripping EU, is driven increasingly by trade with Middle East.
Erdogan is embracing Istanbul's imperial past, when the Ottoman Empire sprawled across three continents. Erdogan plans to dig a 45-km channel linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara to ease congestion in the Bosphorus Strait. He proposes a new constitution, replacing the version written after a 1980 military coup and in the process creating a powerful executive presidency. Barred from running for prime minister again, Erdogan is widely expected to bid for the new presidency in 2014, cementing his status as Turkey's most significant leader since Kemal Ataturk.
Kora Blagden accused Charles Dickens Primary School of denying her child water on one of the hottest days of the year for fear of upsetting pupils observing Ramadan!
The school refused to let the 10-year old Luke drink from his water bottle because it was unfair to fasting classmates! Many Muslim students at Portsmouth of Hampshire in England are fasting during Ramadan, and they do not take food or water between sunrise and sunset for a whole month.
Luke was dehydrated when he got home and drunk three glasses of water straight away. The teacher made the ruling on Thursday when temperatures soared to thirty degrees.
Teachers at a British government-funded school have complained that they are being ordered to wear the hijab – even if they are not Muslim.
Employees at the Al-Madinah free school say they are ‘concerned’ by its practices, which include banning non-halal food and forcing female pupils as young as four to sit at the back of the class away from boys.
Female members of staff, some of whom are not Muslims, say they have been told to sign new contracts which force them to wear the hijab.
These also ban them from wearing jewellery or bringing non-halal food on to the school’s premises in Derby.
One woman, who had been interviewed for a position, claimed she was told she was not allowed to shake hands with male teachers to avoid insult.
Another staff member said the school was like being in Pakistan.
She says: Girls are treated very separately from boys, the girls sit at the back of the classroom. Boys go and eat first at lunchtime and then the girls are allowed to go. It is like being in any school in Pakistan. That is why it was founded, that is the idea.
The decision to make all female members of staff, regardless of religious beliefs, wear the Islamic headscarf was introduced over the summer.
But some female members of staff have been spotted removing the headwear immediately after stepping out of the school building during their lunch hour.
And around half a dozen teachers at the free school, who could face losing their jobs if they refuse to comply with the rules, are now seeking legal advice from the National Union of Teachers.
Regional NUT officer Nick Raine says: We are very worried about the school and the education of the 200 children there. There are worries over practices concerning the discrimination between male and female pupils in the school, with the girls being told to sit at the back of the class regardless of whether they can see the board properly. It’s one thing to have a dress code which we can challenge and quite another to build it into a contract. The school is publicly accountable so there needs to be a greater level of transparency.’
As a free school, Al-Madinah operates outside local authority control but still qualifies for government funding. It was set up in September last year.
Geert Wilders says:
“Europe has had enough of Islam. More than three quarters of the Dutch (77 percent) believe that Islam is no enrichment for our country. More than two-thirds – 68 percent – say that there is enough Islam in the Netherlands. It is striking that a majority of voters from all political parties (from PVV to VVD, CDA, D66, PvdA, SP and 50plus) share this view.
A poll conducted by the research bureau of Maurice de Hond (the Dutch equivalent of Gallup), commissioned by the PVV, among a representative sample of over 1,900 people also shows other striking results:
A majority of 55 percent favor stopping immigration from Islamic countries.
63 percent say: no new mosques.
72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.
64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.
Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.
The results are very clear. The Netherlands has had enough of Islam. The majority does not want new immigrants from Islamic countries, nor any new mosques. They think that Islam is no enrichment for the Netherlands and say: Enough is enough. I will confront the Dutch government with these findings and demand that we finally stop the Islamization of the Netherlands. For a long time is has been claimed that anti-Islamic opinions are extremist. It is clear now that the majority of our people supports them!
63 percent say: no new mosques.
72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.
64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.
Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.
The results are very clear. The Netherlands has had enough of Islam. The majority does not want new immigrants from Islamic countries, nor any new mosques. They think that Islam is no enrichment for the Netherlands and say: Enough is enough. I will confront the Dutch government with these findings and demand that we finally stop the Islamization of the Netherlands. For a long time is has been claimed that anti-Islamic opinions are extremist. It is clear now that the majority of our people supports them!
I am an elected politician from one of the oldest democracies in the world. I am the leader of the Party for Freedom, the largest Dutch opposition party. We have almost 1 million voters in a country that is known for its tolerance. I am not a fringe figure; I am not far-right either. Political opponents brought me to court, accusing me of hate speech and discrimination. But the court in Amsterdam after an ordeal that lasted 2 years cleared me of all charges.
Earlier, I have spoken in the premises of the United States Congress, the British House of Lords, the Danish Parliament and other government premises. I participated in conferences in the U.S. and Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, and elsewhere, with people none of which belong to the far-right.
For the past 9 years I have been living under round the clock police protection. Wherever I go, plainclothes policemen go with me. I live in a government safe house, bulletproof and safer than the National Bank. I wish I had their money. Earlier my wife and I have even lived in army barracks and prison cells just to be safe from assassins.
Why do I need this protection? I am not a president or king, I am a simple parliamentarian.
I have been marked for death. I was placed under police protection in November 2004 when the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slaughtered in broad daylight because he had criticized Islam. A few hours later, the police found a letter written by van Gogh's assassin threatening to kill me and my colleague Ayaan Hirsi Ali as well. We, too, had been critical of Islam, especially through our work in parliament.
Ayaan has since left for America, but I continue to candidly express my views about Islam in the Dutch Parliament and in the public debate around the world.
But it is not I who am important here. What is at stake is the defense of our freedom.
Only two months ago, a good friend of mine, Lars Hedegaard, a journalist from Denmark, survived an assassination attempt. A foreigner tried to shoot him through the head. Why? For the simple reason that Lars is critical of Islam.
Europe has become a dangerous place for those who criticize Islam. So many people rooted in a culture entirely different from our own Judeo-Christian and humanist tradition have entered Europe that now Europe's identity and its culture are in danger.
Tourists visiting our major European cities today can still see the postcard views of the Eiffel tower, Buckingham Palace, and the Amsterdam canals, but if they are not careful and walk too far, they risk entering a dangerous Islamic ghetto.
Islam has creating a parallel society within our cities. Shortly before her death in 2006, the well-known Italian author Oriana Fallaci wrote: "In each one of our cities, there is a second city, a state within the state, a government within the government. A Muslim city, a city ruled by the Koran."
The Islamic presence is changing the outlook and the character of Europe. In some urban neighbourhoods, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women's rights are being trampled. We are confronted with headscarves and burqa's, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honor-killings.
Five years ago, Michael Nazir-Ali, the Anglican bishop of Rochester, England, who is himself of Muslim descent, already warned for Islamic no-go zones. "Those of a different faith or race may find it difficult to live or work there because of hostility to them and even the risk of violence," he said.
A group called Muslim Patrol posted a video on Youtube showing how they control an entire neighborhood of the British capital London. They intimidate people, force women to cover up, harass gays, confiscate alcohol, and forbid non-Muslims to walk past the local mosque.
Two years ago, a high ranking German police officer admitted that no-go zones outside police authority are proliferating all over Germany. We can witness this phenomenon all over Europe.
I used to live in Kanaleneiland, a suburb of Utrecht which, during the 20 years that I lived there, transformed into a very dangerous neighborhood for non-Muslims. I have been robbed. On several occasions I had to run for safety.
The same transformation has happened in parts of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and other cities, in the Netherlands, as well as in cities in Belgium, Germany, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and other countries.
In August 2011, a Dutch newspaper sent its war correspondent – yes, you heard right, its war correspondent – to the Dutch city of Helmond to investigate reports that Islamic thugs were harassing local residents. His article detailed terrible abuses suffered by the non-Muslim population, including the sexual harassment of young girls. The locals complained that the police are afraid of the thugs.
In France, the authorities have drawn up a list of 751 so-called "sensible urban areas." These are the lost territories of the French Republic, even though a staggering 5 million people, or 8 percent of the total French population, live in them.
In Brussels, the capital of the European Union, 25 percent of the population is Muslim. The city has several predominantly Islamic districts. Police officers entering these neighborhoods have been shot at with Kalashnikovs. Three years ago, the police union acknowledged that there are boroughs in Brussels which – I quote – "officers do not dare enter in uniforms."
In my own country, Moroccans are the largest ethnic group among Islamic immigrants. Almost every week there are incidents with Moroccan youths. In the Netherlands, 65 percent of all the Moroccan boys between 12 and 23 years have already been arrested at least once by the police.
The list of violent incidents involving Moroccans, whether occurring in our streets, our schools, our shopping malls or on our sports fields, is endless. But the victims are almost never Moroccans or Muslims.
I am not exaggerating. I tell it like it is.
Two years ago, Germany's Family Minister Kristina Schröder advocated – I quote – "an open debate about racist Muslims."
Last September, Jean-Francois Copé, the former French Budget Minister under president Sarkozy, also pointed out that "racism is growing in our cities."
Copé, too, was referring to the surge of Islamic violence against ethnic Frenchmen.
Islam has brought us jihad: intimidation, violence.
Then there is the phenomenon of nonviolent jihad. The rise of Islam also means the rise of Islamic sharia law in our judicial systems. In Europe, we have sharia wills, sharia schools, sharia banks. The introduction of elements of sharia law in our societies creates a system of legal apartheid. Sharia law systematically discriminates between groups of people.
Britain now has official sharia courts. One of these courts settled the inheritance of a man whose estate had to be divided between his children. It gave the sons twice as much as the daughters, in accordance with the Koranic pronouncement that a woman is only worth half a man. This is a disgrace. In our civilization, men and women used to be treated as equals before the law. In contemporary Europe, this is no longer the case.
Sharia law also affects our fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of speech. Sharia law forbids criticism of Islam. This is considered blasphemy. The penalty is death.
That is why I have been marked for death. That is why people like me and Lars Hedegaard are in so much trouble; that is why three years ago a man with an axe tried to chop the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard to pieces; that is why we, and Salman Rushdie and others are living in hiding. Because if you criticize Islam, you pay a very high price.
This brings me to the second major topic of my post. The nature of Islam.
Is it not strange that we, who are not Muslims, are punished by Islam for breaking Islamic rules? Religious rules do not apply to people who do not belong to a specific religion, do they? Indeed, a religion – every religion – should be voluntary. Yet, Islam imposes its rules on everyone.
Why does sharia law alter our Western secular legal system in such a dramatic fashion? The answer is that rather than a religion, Islam is a totalitarian political ideology which aims to impose its legal system on the whole society.
Islam is an ideology because it is political rather than religious: Islam is an ideology because it aims for an Islamic state and wants to impose Islamic Sharia law on all of us.
Islam is totalitarian because it is not voluntary. It orders that people who leave Islam must be killed.
Contrary to all the other religions – real religions – Islam also lays obligations on non-members.
Australian theologian Mark Durie has said: "Islam classically demands a political realization, and specifically one in which Islam rules over all other religions, ideologies and competing political visions. Islam is not unique in having a political vision or speaking to politics, but it is unique in demanding that it alone must rule the political sphere."
We can see what Islam has in store for us if we watch the fate of the Christians in the Islamic world, such as the Copts in Egypt, the Maronites in Lebanon, the Assyrians in Iraq, and Christians anywhere in the Islamic and Arab world. The cause of their suffering is Islam. Indeed, the only place in the Middle East where Christians are safe to be Christians is Israel. Israel is also the only democracy in the Middle East, a beacon of light in an area of total darkness. We should all support Israel.
My friends, I always make a distinction between Muslims and Islam. Most Muslims are moderate, but the ideology of Islam is dangerous. The moderates are the captives of a totalitarian system. If only they could liberate themselves from the Islamic culture of fatalism and apathy, then the most beautiful things could happen to them and the whole world.
I have travelled the Islamic world extensively. I have visited countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia. I was overwhelmed by the kindness, friendliness and helpfulness of many people there. They are often good people, but they are the captives of Islam. These people are not free; they live under the yoke of Islamic sharia law. If they leave Islam, they sign their own death verdict.
Thirty years ago, I travelled from Israel to Egypt. This trip made a huge impression on me. Israel and Egypt are neighbours, with the same climate, the same natural riches, similar resources, the same potential. And yet Egypt is poor, while Israel is wealthy.
Freedom is the key to prosperity; and Islam deprives people of it.
However, as long as Islam remains dominant, there can be no real freedom.
Just look at what is happening in the Arab countries. The so-called Arab Spring quickly degraded into a freezing Arab Winter. The situation of women and non-Muslims, such as Christians, worsened dramatically.
In Islamic countries, democracy does not lead to freedom. Islam keeps people entrapped in a mental prison. A survey by the American Pew Center found that even though 59 percent of Egyptians prefer democracy to any other form of government, 84 percent want the death penalty for apostates.
Despite the presence of many moderate Muslims, the growing Islamic presence in Europe is causing huge problems. Europe's Islamic lobby is increasingly assertive.
It has successfully pressured European politicians into implementing pro-Islamic policies, institutionalizing sharia practices, adopting anti-Israeli positions, and restricting freedom of speech under the pretext that telling the truth about Islam is a hate speech crime.
In the Netherlands, we have prison cells with arrows on the floor directing towards Mecca; prisons where only halal food is served; Islamic lawyers who do not have to rise when the judge enters the courtroom; schools that close on Islamic holidays; works of art that are removed from public buildings because they might offend Islam; separate swimming hours, separate theatre performances, separate courses for men and women; nurses in homes for the elderly who are exempt for treating men because Islam forbids women to touch men; etcetera.
Islamic and pro-Islamic groups drag people to court simply because they exercise their legal right of freedom of speech. This is called legal jihad. People like myself, Lars Hedegaard in Denmark, and countless others from Canada to Austria have been subjected to endless time, energy and money consuming trials for speaking the truth.
To understand the nature of Islam, one also has to understand its founder, Muhammad, the author of the Koran. It is uncomfortable for people to speak about it, but we must because he is the example of 1.5 billion people. According to Islam, Muhammad is the perfect man whose life must be imitated. The consequences are horrendous and can be witnessed on a daily basis.
Islam presents Muhammad as the role model to 1.5 billion people. Fortunately, the majority of them do not follow this example. The fact that Islam presents him as the model man obliges us, however, to talk about his character and the things he did.
Islamic texts such as the Sira, Muhammad's biography, and the Hadiths, the descriptions of Muhammad's life from testimonies of his contemporaries, show that he was the savage leader of a gang of robbers from Medina. Without scruples they looted, raped, and murdered.
The sources describe orgies of savagery where hundreds of people's throats were cut, hands and feet chopped off, eyes cut out, entire tribes massacred. An example is the extinction of the Jews in Medina in 627. Muhammad himself participated in chopping off their heads. The women and children were sold as slaves. As you know, Muhammad married the 6 year old girl Aisha whom consummated when she was 9 years old. In our countries today, such a pedophile would be sent to jail for a very long time.
Islamic violence does not spring from social and political grievances, as politically-correct sources claim. Islamic violence springs directly from Islam and Muhammad's example.
Because Muhammad lied and cheated in order to advance Islam, some followers feel entitled to do the same. Islam even has a word for this kind of lying. It is called taqqiya.
Because Muhammad spread Islam through acts of terror, some of his followers do the same.
Because Muhammad established an Islamic state, some of his followers see it as their duty to do the same.
Because Muhammad had his critics and the critics of his Islamic state murdered, some of his followers regard it as their duty to kill everyone who speaks his mind about Muhammad and Islam.
It is no coincidence that all the Islamic states in the world demand that freedom of speech be curtailed and that criticism of Islam and its prophet be forbidden. And yet, it is our duty to speak out and tell the truth.
Anyone who voices criticism of Islam and Muhammad is in grave personal danger. And whoever attempts to escape from the influence of Islam and Muhammad risk the death penalty.
We cannot continue to accept this state of affairs. A public debate about the true nature and character of Muhammad is badly needed how uncomfortable it might be to some people.
Understanding Islam and Muhammad, also learns us important lessons about our present situation.
It is important that you realize that in our present days Islam is spreading predominantly through the method of immigration from Islamic countries. Muhammad himself conquered Medina through the method of immigration. Or Hijra as it is called in Islam. Hijra is an instrument of jihad. It is an instrument that Islam uses to dominate the free world.
So, in order to stop Islamization, we should stop as we try to do in the Netherland where my party sees it as its first priority to stop immigration from Islamic countries. Enough is enough.
Today, Europe is confronted with millions of immigrants. Unfortunately, many of these immigrants are not strengthening nor enriching our societies, because many of them refuse to assimilate and they create a parallel society within our nations. A very large number of these immigrants have moved to Europe from Islamic countries. Europe is in the middle of an Islamization process, driven by immigration from North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and other parts of the Islamic world, such as Somalia.
The Islamic countries belong to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. It is the largest voting bloc and the biggest Israel haters in the United Nations. In 1990, it adopted the Cairo Declaration on human rights in Islam, in which human rights is bound by Sharia law. It also calls for the death penalty for people who leave Islam or insult Islam, Muhammad, or the Koran.
There is a second priority which we have in our party platform. This is to counter Sharia or Islamic law in our own country.
Let me explain. When people move to another country, they integrate, they blend in, they assimilate. That is the natural order of things.
When immigrants from Islamic countries settle in Western countries, they move from an unfree society to a free society. People always prefer freedom over tyranny. That is human nature.
In the normal order of things, immigration from Islamic countries would weaken Islam.
Their contact with Western freedoms, would lead Islamic people to abandon Islam. However, through the creation of a Sharia-based parallel society Islam manages to continue its control over its captives.
Their contact with Western freedoms, would lead Islamic people to abandon Islam. However, through the creation of a Sharia-based parallel society Islam manages to continue its control over its captives.
Islamic societies – including Islamic enclaves in the West—exert tight social control that is indicative of the totalitarian character of Islam.
My friends, I post here to warn this blog. Learn from the European lesson. The more Islam you get into your society, the less civilized it becomes and the less free.
How did the Europeans get into their present situation? It is partly our own fault because we have foolishly adopted the ideology of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is far worse than multiculturalism. Cultural relativism is the biggest political disease that we face in our countries today.
I am proud to say – I do not care whether people like it or not – that our culture which is based on Judeo-Christian and humanist values such as liberty, democracy and tolerance, is far better than the Islamic culture. I am proud of it.
We should not close our eyes to the fact that all over Europe and Australia, new mosques and Islamic centers are under construction. In any major city in Europe you will encounter halal shops and women in headscarves and burkas.
Two years ago, there was the case of Carnita Matthews, the Islamic convert in a burka, who escaped a jail sentence in New South Wales because the authorities could not prove that she was the person in a burka making a false statement to the police.
The rising number of immigrants and different ethnicities in the UK has given rise to increasing levels of segregation. This phenomenon is the white flight, falling number of ethnic whites in areas where they are minorities.
Part of the point of the euro was to disperse German power and prevent the rise of nationalism in Europe, but it has done precisely the opposite on both fronts. We now have serious national resentments in countries like Greece.
Open the pages of our newspapers and you will read horrific stories of women being trampled, female genital mutilation and honor killings in our own back yards.
We have to speak out, because it is the only tool we have got. We stand for our convictions, but we never use violence. We abhor violence. The reason why we reject Islam is exactly Islam's violent nature. We believe in democracy.
We cherish the tradition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Jelena Bonner, Lech Walesa and Ronald Reagan. These heroes defeated a totalitarian ideology by the power of their conviction and by using no other means than their words.
As the ex-Muslim and Islam-critic Ali Sina said: "We don't raise a sword against darkness; we lit a light." So it is. We lit the light of the truth. And the truth will set us free. The truth that while Muslims can embrace freedom, Islam cannot.
Let no one tell you that Islam respects freedom. Freedom and Islam are incompatible.
Let no one tell you that Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is an ideology of violence.
Let no one tell you that you should tolerate the intolerant. We should not tolerate the intolerant and start becoming intolerant to those who are intolerant to us.
We should stop the building of new mosques. Enough is enough.
We want no more immigration from Islamic countries for we have enough Islam already.
If you are a criminal immigrant you should be expelled! If immigrants do not commit crimes, they are equal to anyone else. But if they commit crimes, they should be sent packing.
Very often, the appeasers are the governments who are afraid of Islamic radicals threatening violence and riots against anyone who dares to confront their intolerant ideas.
What we are witnessing today is how freedom dies. It dies because the political elite is cowardly unwilling to defend it. We must not accept that.
Indeed, my friends, we must change course.
We must struggle every single day against the rising tide of Islamization, even when our opponents brand us as extremists, even when they take us to court, and treathen to kill us, we should continue speaking the truth.
If we do not oppose Islam, we will lose everything: our freedom, our identity, our democracy, our rule of law, and all our liberties.
We must end the disease of cultural relativism and proudly proclaim: Our Western culture, based on Judeo-Christian and humanist principles, is far better than the Islamic culture. Only when we are convinced of that, will we be willing to defend our own identity.
You must demand that immigrants accept Australia's values, and not the other way round.
We must support the persecuted Christians in the Islamic world. We must also stand with Israel. Israel is in jihad's frontline. Because by helping Israel to survive, we help ourselves.
But most important of all, we must defend freedom of speech. Everything else depends on it.
We cannot correct our mistakes if we are not allowed to talk about them.
There is reason for concern if the erosion of our freedom of speech is the price we must pay to accommodate Islam. There is something badly wrong if those who deny that Islam is a problem do not grant us the right to talk about the issue.
Public discussion should not be stifled by threats; On the contrary, public discussion should be promoted. And everyone should be allowed to freely express his opinions. That is why all countries are in desperate need of an equivalent of America's First Amendment which guarantees us a maximum of freedom of speech.
Friends, there is hope if we overcome our fears and begin to speak the truth.
If we remain silent, we are certain to go from defeat to defeat; But if we speak the truth, we will be able to turn the tide and it will be our first victory of many.
Yes, my friends, there is hope. But only if we outgrow our fears and dare speak the truth.
As Ronald Reagan said "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted." The future freedom of free world, the liberties of your children – they depend on you.
There is hope because we are not alone. We still speak for the majority. While the elite has largely fallen for cultural relativism, the people have not.
In my country, the Netherlands, 56 percent of the population see Islam as the biggest threat to our national identity.
In Britain, a survey last month showed that the public regard immigration as the biggest issue facing British society.
In Britain, a survey last month showed that the public regard immigration as the biggest issue facing British society.
In Germany, 64 percent hold that Islam is violent and 70 percent that it is fanatical.
In France, 74 percent are convinced that Islam is intolerant and not compatible with French society.
These people are not wrongheaded, they are not extremists; they stand for decency, common sense and liberty. We must speak on their behalf. We must encourage them. We must tell them not to give up and not to lose heart.
My friends, always remember that our voice is the voice of liberty; it is the voice of liberation.
Let us defend our own freedoms. And let us support Muslims – and especially the suppressed Muslim women – who want to free themselves from the yoke of Islam.
Let them join the worldwide community of freedom, renounce Sharia and Islam. And be free, as we are free.
It would be good if Muslims leave Islam for Christianity or atheism or whatever they want, as long as it is not Islam.
If we want to preserve our nations – our homes – and our freedoms and pass them on to our children, we must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, with Israel and the other nations in the West.
We have to rely upon each other and help each other in the struggle against a common adversary. We must stand together. Otherwise we will be swept away by Islam.
I believe, my friends, that we will stand together, that we will stand firm, that we will not submit, and that we will survive. Why?
Because we stand for the truth.
And the truth will prevail.”
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We are bound to succeed together! Tesekkür ederiz!
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