**Geert Wilder's speech to Holland's Parliament ***
 **11 MARCH 2008 *

*"Madam Speaker, allow me, first, to express my sincere thanks to you
 personally for having planned a debate on Islam on the very day of my
 birthday. I could not have wished for a nicer present! Madam Speaker,
 approximately 1400 years ago war was declared on us by an ideology of
 hate and violence which arose at the time and was proclaimed by a
 barbarian who called himself the Prophet Mohammed.

 I am referring to Islam.

 Madam Speaker, let me start with the foundation of the Islamic faith,
 the Koran. The Koran's core theme is about the duty of all Muslims to
 fight non-Muslims; an Islamic Mein Kampf, in which fight means war,
 jihad. The Koran is above all a book of war, a call to butcher
 non-Muslims (2:191, 3:141, 4:91, 5:3), to roast them (4:56,
 69:30-69:32), and to cause bloodbaths amongst them (47:4). Jews are
 compared to monkeys and pigs (2:65, 5:60, 7:166), while people who
 believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God must according to the Koran
 be fought (9:30).

 Madam Speaker, the West has no problems with Jews or Christians, but
 it does have problems with Islam. It is still possible, even today,
 for Muslims to view the Koran, which they regard as valid for all
 time, as a licence to kill. And that is exactly what happens. The
 Koran is worded in such a way that its instructions are addressed to
 Muslims for eternity, which includes today's Muslims. This in contrast
 to texts in the Bible, which is formulated as a number of historical
 narratives, placing events in a distant past. Let us remind ourselves
 that it was Muslims, not Jews or Christians, who committed the
 catastrophic terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London; and
 that it was no coincidence that Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered by
 a Muslim, Mohammed Bouyeri.

 Madam Speaker, I acknowledge that there are people who call themselves
 Muslims and who respect our laws. My party, the Freedom Party, has
 nothing against such people, of course. However, the Koran does have
 something against them. For it is stated in the Koran in Sura 2, verse
 85, that those believers who do not believe in everything the Koran
 states will be humiliated and receive the severest punishment; which
 means that they will roast in Hell. In other words, people who call
 themselves Muslims but who do not believe, for example, in Sura 9,
 verse 30, which states that Jews and Christians must be fought, or,
 for example, in Sura 5, verse 38, which states that the hand of a
 thief must be cut off, such people will be humiliated and roast in
 Hell. Note that it is not me who is making this up. All this can be
 found in the Koran. The Koran also states that Muslims who believe in
 only part of the Koran are in fact apostates, and we know what has to
 happen to apostates. They have to be killed.

 Madam Speaker, the Koran is a book that incites to violence. I remind
 the House that the distribution of such texts is unlawful according to
 Article 132 of our Penal Code. In addition, the Koran incites to
 hatred and calls for murder and mayhem. The distribution of such texts
 is made punishable by Article 137(e). The Koran is therefore a highly
 dangerous book; a book which is completely against our legal order and
 our democratic institutions. In this light, it is an absolute
 necessity that the Koran be banned for the defence and reinforcement
 of our civilisation and our constitutional state. I shall propose a
 second-reading motion to that effect.

 Madam Speaker, there is no such thing as "moderate Islam".... As
 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said the other day, and I quote, "There
 is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it"....
 Islam is in pursuit of dominance. It wishes to exact its imperialist
 agenda by force on a worldwide scale (8:39). This is clear from
 European history. Fortunately, the first Islamic invasion of Europe
 was stopped at Poitiers in 732; the second in Vienna in 1683. Madam
 Speaker, let us ensure that the third Islamic invasion, which is
 currently in full spate, will be stopped too in spite of its insidious
 nature and notwithstanding the fact that, in contrast to the 8th and
 17th centuries, it has no need for an Islamic army because the scared
 "dhimmis" in the West, also those in Dutch politics, have left their
 doors wide open to Islam and Muslims.

 Apart from conquest, Madam Speaker, Islam is also bent on installing a
 totally different form of law and order, namely Sharia law. This makes
 Islam, apart from a religion for hundreds of millions of Muslims also,
 and in particular, a political ideology (with
 political/constitutional/Islamic basic values, etc). Islam is an
 ideology without any respect for others; not for Christians, not for
 Jews, not for non-believers and not for apostates. Islam aims to
 dominate, subject, kill and wage war.

 Madam Speaker, the Islamic incursion must be stopped. Islam is the
 Trojan Horse in Europe. If we do not stop Islamification now, Eurabia
 and Netherabia will just be a matter of time. One century ago, there
 were approximately 50 Muslims in the Netherlands. Today, there are
 about 1 million Muslims in this country. Where will it end? We are
 heading for the end of European and Dutch civilisation as we know it.
 Where is our Prime Minister in all this? In reply to my questions in
 the House he said, without batting an eyelid, that there is no
 question of our country being Islamified. Now, this reply constituted
 a historical error as soon as it was uttered. Very many Dutch
 citizens, Madam Speaker, experience the presence of Islam around them.
 And I can report that they have had enough of burkas, headscarves, the
 ritual slaughter of animals, so-called honour revenge, blaring
 minarets, female circumcision, hymen restoration operations, abuse of
 homosexuals, Turkish and Arabic on the buses and trains as well as on
 town hall leaflets, halal meat at grocery shops and department stores,
 Sharia exams, the Finance Minister's Sharia mortgages, and the
 enormous over representation of Muslims in the area of crime,
 including Moroccan street terrorists.

 In spite of all this, Madam Speaker, there is hope. Fortunately. The
 majority of Dutch citizens have become fully aware of the danger, and
 regard Islam as a threat to our culture. My party, the Freedom Party,
 takes those citizens seriously and comes to their defence.

 Many Dutch citizens are fed up to the back teeth and yearn for action.
 However, their representatives in The Hague are doing precisely
 nothing. They are held back by fear, political correctness or simply
 electoral motives. This is particularly clear in the case of PvdA, the
 Dutch Labour Party, which is afraid of losing Muslim voters. The Prime
 Minister said in Indonesia the other day that Islam does not pose any
 danger. Minister Donner believes that Sharia law should be capable of
 being introduced in the Netherlands if the majority want it. Minister
 Vogelaar babbles about the future Netherlands as a country with a
 Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, and that she aims to help Islam
 take root in Dutch society. In saying this, the Minister shows that
 she has obviously gone stark raving mad. She is betraying Dutch
 culture and insulting Dutch citizens.

 Madam Speaker, my party, the Freedom Party, demands that Minister
 Vogelaar retract her statement. If the Minister fails to do so, the
 Freedom Party parliamentary group will withdraw its support for her.
 No Islamic tradition must ever be established in the Netherlands: not
 now and also not in a few centuries' time.

 Madam Speaker, let me briefly touch on the government's response to
 the WRR [Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy] report.
 On page 12 of its response, the government states that Islam is not
 contrary to democracy or human rights. All I can say to that is that
 things can't get much more idiotic than this.

 Madam Speaker, it is a few minutes to twelve. If we go on like this,
 Islam will herald the end of our Western civilisation as well as Dutch
 culture.