Laigle’s Forum

Geert Wilders never succeeded in scaring me before.

Perhaps you will remember how we carried news of his upcoming film long before the American press even knew about it, and when the film went public, we carried a link, and when the site went down, another link to another site?

Wilders and his film Fitna always fascinated me, but once it came out I sensed that the worst was over, that Wilders had proved a European can shake his fist in the face of the Islamic enemy and live to tell the tale. Then others would follow suit. A few have…

But that was back when America was in the hands of Americans. Geert Wilders scares me now, because we now face an enemy who will probably soon be called “President” by millions. I will never call him that.

The man who usurps power by the lies and distortions of the Left will withdraw the troops from Iraq and then Afghanistan, to the cheers of the “liberals” (sorry, I can’t write that without quotes around it. I just can’t). Things will seem tranquil at first. Then we will look around in our cities and see the women with the veils. There will be parts of cities where the men will call our women whores who venture there. Bars will have their windows smashed. Schools will stop talking about farms because that evokes images of pigs. Children’s songs like Old McDonald’s will be banned.

The words I write today will someday be banned and if discovered by someone in printed form, perhaps in a box in an attic, will sound quaint and distant, like the writings of a forgotten monk in an ancient monastery.

And this in the United States of America. Or rather in a country that goes by that name, somewhere else far from the heart. Somewhere we will be transported to by our elites. A country that should be called Ameristan, but will cynically bear the same name as when it was up here on this hill and its lights were still lit. It is a country we never loved enough, like a parent who is taken early in life before we could say “I love you” and embrace them in a way that made them understand we really meant it. It will be too late then.

Say it now, quietly and reverently:

America, I love you.

I am sorry you have to go.  But I will never let you die as long as I have a memory of the hymns sung around the piano at home, my first girl friend, my dear old dad and mom, now resting on the hillside, playing cowboys and Indians with my sisters and brothers, that little lean-to we built in the woods behind the house. My faith, that lives on inside me but that dies all around me. I will carry you with me and pass you on to others. Where two or three are gathered together, You will be with us.

Thank you, Lord, for the cherished good times and for being here with me when no one else dared to be! We will not forget your great gift of freedom to enjoy for a season and much less your gift of eternal life, in a home that knows no sorrow.

And no Change.

Donald Hank

Europe’s Last Stand

By Geert Wilders
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/8/2008

Below is a speech by Geert Wilders, chairman of “Party for Freedom” in the Netherlands. The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute, delivered at the Four Seasons, New York, on September 25 2008 and announced the upcoming “Facing Jihad Conference” in Jerusalem. -The Editors

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me. Great to be at the Four Seasons. I come from a country that has one season only: a rainy season that starts January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have three sunny days in a row, the government declares a national emergency. So Four Seasons, that’s new to me.

It’s great to be in New York. When I see the skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: “The sky over New York and the will of man made visible.” Of course, without the Dutch you would have been nowhere, still figuring out how to buy this island from the Indians. But we are glad we did it for you. And, frankly, you did a far better job than we possibly could have done.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the Old World. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This is not only a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself; it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The danger I see looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe? Patriots from around Europe risk their lives every day to prevent precisely this scenario form becoming a reality.

My short lecture consists of 4 parts: first, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. Thirdly, if you are still here, I will talk a little bit about the movie you just saw. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks: the Eiffel Tower, Trafalgar Square, Rome’s ancient buildings and maybe the canals of Amsterdam. They are still there.  And they still look very much the same as they did a hundred years ago.

But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors see - and one that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

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