Norway: deconstructing the majority

10 Dec 2008
Fjordman

Here is a revealing interview ... with the leading academic Multiculturalist in my country, Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen of the University in Oslo, who has received millions in government funding for his projects and is something of a national celebrity ... He says point blank that in his view the most important thing to do right now is to "deconstruct the majority [population] so thoroughly that it can never be called the majority again." End of quote. And this is the agenda of the Multiculturalists in all Western nations. Make no mistake about it...

The birds aren't the only thing that will scatter.

EU moving into full scale anti-racist totalitarianism

December 08, 2008
Lawrence Auster

According to the French website Bivouac-Id ...

Racism, inciting to hatred, justification, negation or trivialization of genocidal crimes will soon be punishable by one to three-year prison terms throughout the European Union, the European Commission announced today Friday (November 28)...

"Racism and xenophobia do not have a place in Europe and should not exist anywhere in the world."

Since what the EU controllers call racism and xenophobia are normal human phenomena that exist wherever human beings exist, and since what the EU controllers really mean by racism and xenophobia is the racism and xenophobia of whites, and since what they ultimately mean by the racism and xenophobia of whites is any impulse by whites to resist their extinction as peoples and nations by the EU and its partner Islam, to declare that racism and xenophobia have no place in Europe and should not exist anywhere in the world, and that they will be accordingly stamped out by imprisoning people who exhibit these attitudes, is the language of totalitarianism and genocide, aimed at the silencing and extinction of white Europe. The phrase echoes Nazis saying that Jews have no place in Europe and should not exist anywhere in the world.

Fjordman's book: Defeating Eurabia

October 27, 2008

This would be good in spoken podcast form. You can buy a printed version via the Brussels Journal. The headings below are not exhaustive, there are other topics in each part.

• Preface - conditions for republication
• Part 1 - The Eurabia Code
• Part 1a - The Eurabia Code — 2008 Updates
• Part 2 - Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union
• Part 3 - Spanish and Portuguese: Once and Future Dhimmis?
• Part 4 - The Case of Sweden
• Part 5 - On Anti-White Racism

Obama energizes Europe to dispossess the white race

November 12, 2008

Jonathan L. at VFR

... in the game of white status competition that has been played out across the West over the last 40 years (where white elites prove their moral superiority to one another by continually increasing their patronage of alien minorities), the U.S. has just massively upped the ante, and instead of folding, Germany, France, and Great Britain have gone to liquidate their life savings so as to stay in the game.

Can Europe produce an Obama?

... said Dominique Moïsi, a French political analyst. "And now we have to think, too, about our identity in France — it's the most challenging election ever. We realize we are late, and America has regained the torch of a moral revolution."

In Italy, Jean-Léonard Touadi, the only black member of the Italian Parliament, sees the Obama victory similarly. It is "a great and concrete provocation to European society and European politics," said Touadi, born in the Congo Republic. Obama gives hope, he said, that "one day" there can be a similar outcome in Europe...

But Ashok Viswanathan, assistant director of Operation Black Vote, which works to engage members of minorities in politics, predicted that Britain could have a party leader from a minority in the next 10 to 15 years, and a minority member as prime minister in 30...

"Germans can't believe a Turkish politician believes in a politics for Germany," ... "The Germans think, 'This is our country. Why should we elect a Turk? He might want to Islamicize the country."'

The Germans love Obama ... But Kiyak said the Obama victory was causing significant reflection in the immigrant community, if not yet in the country at large. "Minorities see what is possible in another country, and they become jealous," she said, noting that President Abdullah Gul of Turkey said recently in Der Spiegel that Turkish Germans "should take part in German society and politics and not look back."

...France ... numerous politicians signed a manifesto written by Yazid Sabeg, a millionaire child of Algerian immigrants, calling for affirmative-action programs to turn the supposedly colorblind French ideal of equality into reality for alienated immigrants.

"The election of Barack Obama highlights via a cruel contrast the shortcomings of the French Republic and the distance that separates us from a country whose citizens knew how to go beyond the racial question," the manifesto said. It won support from Sarkozy's wife, Carla, who told Le Journal du Dimanche, "our prejudices are insidious" and hoped the "Obama effect" would help to reshape society.

Inspired by Obama, European minorities take action

PARIS – An Obama effect is rippling across Europe.

In France, a pro-Barack Obama grassroots group created months ago is morphing into a campaign for political diversity. In Britain, a black voter group says it is inundated with calls and attendance is soaring.

In Austria, a Rwandan-born activist has fired off letters to big parties urging them to field minority candidates. And in Germany, the staff of Turkish politician Cem Ozdemir started a Facebook group called "Yes we Cem" — a takeoff on Obama's slogan "Yes we can."

Obama's victory is inspiring hopes and even planting the seeds of action for changing the overwhelming whiteness of Europe's political elite...

"The vote for Obama rings as a critique of politics in France as sclerotic, old and tired — and not just here," said Faycal Douhane, a Socialist of Algerian heritage who leads an association of mayors in the Paris area. "It's embarrassing for France."

Obama's victory was particularly resonant in France. A group formed in a cafe months ago as the Friends of Barack Obama in the southeastern city of Lyon is renaming itself "The Movement" to lobby political parties to select minority candidates. It also plans to write up and send a report to President Nicolas Sarkozy by year-end on France's lack of political diversity.

Spokesperson Azedine Haffar said France's stance that all of its citizens are simply French holds minorities back.

"There was a before Nov. 4, and an after Nov. 4," he said. "And those who want to stay in the before, we can tell them: 'No, it's finished. This era is over.'" ...

Lawmaker Frederic Lefebvre was quoted last week in a newspaper proposing that parliament require TV stations to reflect France's full color range...

Austria ... Neuberg says his group is fighting on behalf of the 25,000 Africans and 200,000 Turks in the country of 8.3 million. Within hours of the Obama victory, "I got so many calls from everybody all over the place — and not only from Africans but from whites," he said.

"They said, 'Alexis, don't lose hope, because what happened in America can also happen in Austria,'" Neuberg added. "We want to try to champion a new way."

Lawrence Auster

America elects a nonwhite president in a free election, and what is the statist Europeans' immediate response? That they must assure the choice of nonwhites for political office! Ironically, even as the Europeans consider us as their model in our election of a nonwhite, they ignore our model of popular elections and seek to get the same result that we got, but through the statist control of society.

Merkel's response to the Obama election is not the act of a living being, it is the act of a zombie.The countries of Europeans are dead societies led by dead people.

Yes, we must be rid of that "overwhelming whiteness". The "game of white status competition" is the reason we have African immigration. Because the jetsetters fly around the world and then come home to conclude we are "monotonously, homogeneously white". Or our immigration minister re-opens African immigration because "we have a job to do rebuilding confidence and our international reputation". We can't appear to be racist, can we? No. It's status, no matter what the domestic cost. We will have our status, even if it kills us. The moral martyrs.

Belgian politician Bart Debie jailed for 'racism'

October 29, 2008
Diana West

... Bart Debie ... has been ordered to report to a Belgian prison ... to begin serving a one-year term for “racism.”

Let me explain the ghastly surrealism of this sentence as meted out to this former police officer and former Antwerp City Council Member by the Belgian state: Debie neither made the racist remarks at issue, nor was he even present during the incident. This only adds horrific dashes of Kafka and Koestler to a politically correct prosecution of a member of the political opposition by what may be best described as fascistic little Belgium...

... While responding to complaints about a pair of drunks, Debie and his policemen were attacked by five Turkish men wielding a baseball bat and a knife. Two witnesses testified to this attack in court. After helping to subdue and arrest the attackers, Debie was called away to supervise a SWAT team elsewhere in Antwerp, and his men returned to the station with the Turkish prisoners, who later claimed they had been beaten and subjected to racism while at the station. Debie believes the beating did indeed occur in his absence, although his ultimate conviction was for creating, as he explains it, "an atmosphere which led other people to say such things" as--get this--“Now we have five lambs here and we can slaughter them.”

... The policeman who admitted to making the “racist” comments went unpunished and now serves, Debie told me, on a “team for managing diversity in Antwerp.” Meanwhile, the Turks were never charged for their assault on police.

Having left police work, Debie decided to run for a seat on the Antwerp city council and, as he put it, “make Antwerp safe that way.” He ran as a member of Vlaams Belang, the Establishment-reviled conservative political party that (1) seeks Flemish independence from Belgium, and (2) opposes the Islamization of European culture which Left-wing elites in both Belgium and elsewhere in Europe actually encourage in part to help increase their own constituencies. And Debie won.

It so happens that after Debie was elected, prosecutors appealed his verdict.

Hmmm. I wonder why? Could it be part of the Belgian government’s ongoing campaign against Vlaams Belang, which, as the largest political party in Belgium, presents an continual threat of secession to Belgium (home, after all to “united Europe”) and opposition to Islamization? Even now, two of the leading members of the party, Filip Dewinter and Frank Vanhecke, are facing legal battles of their own to retain their political rights and viability against other completely bogus charges of “racism”—the favored bludgeon of PC Belgians desparate to retain centralized power...

And what does a convicted “racist” in Belgium do to make pay his debt to society? So far, Debie has paid fines of E30,000. He long ago lost his police career, and after this recent conviction, the government of Belgium actually stripped him of his political and civil rights for 12 years locally and five years nationally. All of which sounds, frankly, more Old Soviet than Old Europe...

Tomorrow, barring unforeseen intervention, he reports to overcrowded and violent Vorst prison outside Brussels where he will be serving alongside some of Belgium’s worst criminals, a not inconsequential number of whom are what Debie wryly characterizes as his “former clients.”

This surely puts Debie’s very life at risk, a fact he has urgently pressed onto Belgian authorities, who have so far failed even to acknowledge his safety concerns.

“When I got the news [to report to the prison], I rang to the prison director,” Debie told me. “They knew exactly who I was and they told me, We are very sorry but this is the worst place you could get” assigned to.

October 30, 2008
Lawrence Auster reports Debie's sentence has been suspended...

So, as a result of the authorities' sudden access of humanity, Debie, instead of having been fired from his position as police superintendent, forced off the police force, forced out of the political office to which he was subsequently elected, stripped of his political and civil rights so that he can't vote or run for any office, fined 30,000 euros, and sentenced to prison for a year, he has been fired from his position as police superintendent, forced off the police force, forced out of the political office to which he was subsequently elected, stripped of his political and civil rights so that he can't vote or run for any office, fined 30,000 euros ... and confined to his home for a year.

Clearly, in the EU, the quality of mercy is not strained.

And last year in 'fascistic little Belgium' ...

Peacful demonstrators attacked by Brussels police


Some videos of Debie in court (here and here) and as a policeman (here and here).

And a video by Diana West of Debie's last day in parliament here.

Cologne, Nazi-free city, says yes to Islamization

September 21, 2008
Robert Spencer

... Even if there were problems with some of the speakers, the issue is real -- and the speakers have a right to be heard if there is to be a free society in Cologne. Many Muslims, including the internationally renowned Sheikh Qaradawi, have stated openly their intention to Islamize Europe.

Moreover, Spiegel reported this in July about the group behind the Cologne mosque:

Even DITIB, the comparatively moderate organization behind the mosque project in Cologne, arouses mistrust. DITIB is the long arm of a religious institution in secular Turkey. "What will most likely happen," ask the residents of Cologne who take part in the protests, "if the feared Islamization of Turkey happens? Will DITIB bring it over here?"

Cologne's Archbishop Joachim Meisner is already warning people about of areas in Germany "where sharia law is increasingly spreading." In the case of DITIB, this warning might be premature or simply inaccurate. At the same time, however, the association is remotely controlled from Ankara and has a reputation for being more concerned with helping to maintain the identity of Turkish immigrants than with helping them integrate in their new homes.

... In a sane and healthy Europe interested in protecting and preserving European civilization, the huge numbers of counter-protesters would actually have been protesting against Islamization, and the mainstream parties of Europe would have been represented at the rally. Anti-jihadists in Europe should work to avoid all taint of neofascism and race supremacism -- and this is particularly in Europe, where fascism and race supremacism led to the mass murder of millions within recent memory. But to label all and any opposition to Islamization as "Nazism" and "racism," as the Cologne authorities and counter-protesters seem to be doing, is simply a ticket to national and civilizational suicide. If anyone here is behaving like a fascist, it is not the anti-Islamization demonstrators, but the city authorities who are violently clamping down on debate and dissent.

... Islam is not simply a religion in those terms, as I have pointed out many, many times. It is a political and social system as well, and that political system ought to be subject to scrutiny, criticism, and rejection like any other. To say that to do so is inherently "racist" or "xenophobic" is to confuse the issue (and often those who do this do it willfully). There is nothing wrong with wanting to limit immigration -- particularly of those with an avowed goal of replacing one's society and culture with their own, rather than assimilating...

"Germans Thwart Anti-Islam Rally," from IslamOnline, September 21:

COLOGNE, Germany — Tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets of the western city of Cologne on Saturday, September 20, to protest an anti-Islam conference of European far-rightists.

"We're here to show racism the red card," Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma told the cheering crowd, reported Reuters.

He slammed the local far-right group Pro-Koeln, which is organizing an "Anti- Islamisation Congress," as "arsonists and racists" hiding under the cloak of a citizens' movement.

Carrying banners saying: "We are Cologne -- Get rid of the Nazis!," protesters gathered outside the city's cathedral to demonstrate against the congress.

Some of the protesters carried placards reading "Nazis out of Cologne" and "Temples, synagogues, churches and mosques -- everything's okay".

Most of the protests, called by trade unions, churches and anti-racist movements, saw thousands of students, families and local businessmen and women carry signs with slogans including "No to Racism" and "Cologne is rebelling!"

They disrupted the Pro-Koeln congress, ensuring less than 50 delegates were able to return to the meeting on Saturday morning.

The two-day congress, opened on Friday, brought together 150 far-right politicians and publicists from across Europe to protest Muslim presence in Europe.

Victory

Around 150 bars in Cologne stopped selling Pro-Koeln members the local Kolsch beer.

Many taxi and bus drivers were refusing to transport delegates to the congress.

One hotel even cancelled bookings made by "undesirables."

"Racists and extremists aren't welcome," stressed Mayor Schramma.

A far-right rally to protest the construction of a mosque in Cologne was also cancelled by police Saturday after clashes with opponents.

"The rally has been cancelled," said a police spokesman.

Police said 40,000 people protested against the rally, which had been expected to attract 1,500 people but only dozens showed up.

Many protestors cheered the rally ban.

"It's a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city," Mayor Schramma told the DPA news agency.

On Friday, several hundred opponents of the congress formed a human chain around a mosque in solidarity with the Muslim minority.

Though Islam is Europe's second religion, European Muslims are facing campaigns from far-right groups to have stately mosques on claims that they are signs of the "Islamization" of Europe.

Armin Laschet, minister for minorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper it was the first time an entire German city "stood up to protect its Muslims."...

Refusing service to someone based on their political allegiance sounds like illegal discrimination to me. But legalities are obviously not a concern for pro-Islamic fascists.

Violent mob, cheered on by authorities and newspapers

September 22, 2008
Lawrence Auster

At her blog, Diana West tells how 40,000 rioters flooding the streets of Cologne prevented an anti-Islamization group of 1,500 persons from legally gathering and protesting the construction of a proposed super-mosque. Cologne's mayor called this victory of mob rule "a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city."

And here is the London Times' story (copied below). It reads like something in a Communist newspaper. A mob of 40,000 breaks up a peaceful protest, and the Times mocks the "farce" of the protesters fleeing for safety. Notice how the anti-Islamization demonstrators, who were seeking to do nothing but give speeches and tour the construction site, are repeatedly described as "far right wing extremists," while the huge mob that violently attacked, threatened, and disrupted them are described as "anti-fascists." What a dark day for the West.

I sent this comment to the Times:

I never thought I would see the London Times cheering on violent protesters and gloating at the sight of peaceful demonstrators being physically threatened and terrorized.

So the Times is FOR the Islamization of Europe, and it is FOR a violent mob silencing any protest against that Islamization.

Lawrence Auster, New York City, USA

Cologne's Speech-Killing Politico's Reek of 'Fascism'

September 25, 2008
Diana West

... I have watched in horror... as local authorities yielded their charge of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly -- indeed, yielded civic space and civic peace -- to a lawless band of violent leftists, who, in their weekend stint of mob rule, successfully prevented a political rally against the Islamization of Europe from taking place.

What's more, these same authorities, including the mayor of this fourth-largest German city (about 1 million people), yielded to the mob happily and with much self-congratulation. Indeed, Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma called the episode "a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces of the city."

Schramma may well count squelching peaceful political discourse with a violent mob as a victory for his city, but there is nothing "democratic" about it, or about the "forces" responsible. This twisting, weasel-use of language, however, is only one example of the campaign of disinformation waged against reality in Cologne this past weekend.

In brief, elected officials from several different countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy), politicians who campaign and win elections on the politically incorrect issue of resistance to the spread of Islamic law (Sharia), were invited to speak in Cologne.

Why Cologne? After a long and contentious battle, the city council last month narrowly approved the construction of a giant mosque complex funded by a group called the Turkish-Islamic Union to serve some portion of the city's 120,000 Muslims. While the American take on any house of worship going up is generally one of approval based on a straightforward belief in freedom of religion, in Europe, given the heavy influx of Islamic populations, there is a political and legal dimension to such mosque construction that we just don't recognize here. For example, Germany's Muslim population is largely Turkish; and it is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is infamous for having said in 1998, "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." Such a declaration of, well, religious war from someone who is now a head of state adds the threat of conquest to any serious mosque debate.

And that's not all. Earlier this year in Cologne, Erdogan declared before 20,000 cheering Turkish expatriates that "assimilation is a crime against humanity." On that same trip to Germany, the Turkish leader also proposed the German formation of Turkish-language schools. What's going on here? If Turkish assimilation is out, is Turkish colonization in? Isn't it the duty of politicians to debate these and other transformational questions within the political process? As a crossroads of Islam and Europe, as a frontline in the colonization of Europe, Cologne becomes the logical meeting-place for such a debate.

But it wasn't to be, not in "democratic" Cologne. As some 1,500 Europeans prepared to assemble to listen to the political opponents of Islamization make speeches last weekend, many more thousands of counter-demonstrators converged on the city specifically to deny rally supporters their right to assemble, and the politicians' right to speak. And yes, by whatever means necessary.

The thugs among the counter-demonstrators mounted a rock-and-bottle attack that shattered windows on a river boat plying the Rhine where the politicians attempted to hold a pre-rally meeting. They blocked urban trains in order to keep rally participants away. They ringed the city center with barricades (tolerated by German police), hurled paint bombs, lit fires and launched violent attacks on some of the participants who managed to draw near the rally location. One would-be rally participant, a Jewish man, sent in an account of his ordeal to Gates of Vienna, writing: "I was wearing my kippah and readily identifiable as a Jew; however, they (the leftist counter-demonstrators) screamed at me 'Nazi Raus.'" He reported they also shoved him, spit on him, and called him a fascist pig. "I was pummeled in the head several times and then shoved to the ground where I was beaten and kicked with steel toe boots in plain sight of police who did nothing." He later discovered he had a broken rib...

Video: German police ban anti-mosque rally

September 21, 2008

Video: Police stop Islam critical demonstration in Cologne

September 24, 2008


Some foreign language videos are at Pro Cologne.

Auster on Wilders

Sept 2008
Wilders interviewed by Beck

After his speech in New York City last Thursday Geert Wilders had a brief but punchy interview on the Glen Beck program. One stand-out moment: Beck said (close paraphrase), "Are you making no distinction between extremist Muslims and other Muslims, because I have a Muslim who works on this show, and he's a peace-loving guy." And Wilders said, "There are moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam, Islam is a fascist ideology." On the main point, which is the nature of Islam, he didn't given an inch. What he was really saying was, there may be individual Muslims who don't follow this ideology, but they don't matter. What matters is this ideology that threatens our existence. He then went on to describe the culture of Islam in the Netherlands as violent. So while reasonably acknowledging the existence of individual Muslims who are moderate, he made it clear, with a telegraphic minimum of words, that they are moderate because they don't adhere to the religion. He is unyielding in his characterization of Islam as inherently dangerous and destructive. He strikes no PC notes, and makes no bows to the liberal orthodoxy of non-discrimination. And this was on a mainstream American television program.

Thoughts on Wilders's important speech

Geert Wilders's recent speech to the Hudson Institute in New York City is exceptional. In it, he makes statements about the Islamic threat to Europe, about the European elites' support for the Islamization of Europe, and about the nature of Islam, that are more stark than anything I've seen him say before. For example, he doesn't just say that Islam is, an addition to being a religion, a political ideology; he says that Islam is in its essence a political ideology. He doesn't say, as he did in the movie Fitna, that certain passages in the Islamic scriptures mandate terrorism, or that the fascist parts of the Koran should be outlawed; he says that "the problem is Islam itself." Regretfully, he does not recommend what to do about Islam, but the speech is so powerful and cogent that somehow it doesn't matter. If Islam poses a mortal threat to Europe and the West, and if Islam is the problem, then whatever is to be done to save the West must go beyond the usual nostrums of trying harder to assimilate Muslims and to spread democracy. Of course, Wilders has elsewhere advocated the cessation of Muslim immigration into the Netherlands, and has proposed outlawing the fascist parts of the Koran. Even though it's not clear at this point what such a law would actually consist of, it would, if enforced, make the Netherlands seem so inhospitable to Muslims that at least some of them would start to leave on their own...

Melanie Phillips: fascism rising in Europe

Sept 30, 2008

We should all be shuddering at the news from Austria where neo-Nazi parties, including the Freedom Party led by Hans-Christian Strache (pictured) have emerged as the biggest parliamentary block. It’s awful not just because it’s Austria, that cradle of Nazism which shows yet again that its terrible past remains its present. It’s because the implications are much wider for the whole of Europe – and are unlikely to be recognised before the danger spirals into the unspeakable...

These parties campaigned on an anti EU integration and anti-Muslim platform. Their success is due to the enormous feeling among the people of Europe against, on the one hand, the destruction of their powers of self-government and their assimilation into the undemocratic Euro superstate, and on the other the threat to western culture from Islamist conquest. On both of these seismic issues, the leaders of the democracies are either burying their heads in the sand or are actively bringing them into being. With no democratic party addressing these concerns and instead demonising legitimate nationalist feeling as ‘racist’, xenophobic’ or ‘Islamophobic’, people are turning to parties which truly are racist, anti-foreigner, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew and sometimes, indeed, neo-Nazi, but which are exploiting this political vacuum just as all such parties have always exploited other vacuums in leadership.

This presents a nightmarish prospect in which, if the democratic parties of Europe continue to demonise legitimate aspirations to maintain national cultures against undemocratic and anti-democratic forces, more and more people will be drawn to these parties – see the sophisticated pitch by and increasing support for the BNP in Britain, and social disorder will rise.[...]

The awful thing is that, as the far-right advances and social disorder increases – as it will -- muddled liberals and malign leftists will blame these political and social calamities on ‘the far right’. As a result, the steady encroachment of Islamism will proceed apace -- and anyone who objects will also be demonised as ‘the far right’. The rise of the neo-Nazis will thus turn the defence of democracy toxic. There is therefore a danger that the only people who will be fighting the Islamic fascists and in defence of the nation against the supranational supremacists will be the fascists....

Daniel Pipes agrees.

Geert Wilders, Speech in New York

Sept 25, 2008
Geert Wilders, chairman Party for Freedom, the Netherlands
Speech at the Four Seasons, New York

... It is very difficult to be an optimist in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe. All the tides are against us. On all fronts we are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam. Muslim immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties. Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. The entire establishment has sided with our enemy. Leftists, liberals and Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with Islam.

This is the most painful thing to see: the betrayal by our elites. At this moment in Europe’s history, our elites are supposed to lead us. To stand up for centuries of civilization. To defend our heritage. To honour our eternal Judeo-Christian values that made Europe what it is today. But there are very few signs of hope to be seen at the governmental level. Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they probably know how grave the situation is. But when the little red light goes on, they stare into the camera and tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and we should all try to get along nicely and sing Kumbaya. They willingly participate in, what President Reagan so aptly called: “the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom.”

If there is hope in Europe, it comes from the people, not from the elites. Change can only come from a grass-roots level. It has to come from the citizens themselves. Yet these patriots will have to take on the entire political, legal and media establishment

... liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe’s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so...

Video: Pamela Geller Interviews Geert Wilders

Sept 25, 2008

Video is at Atlas Shrugs:

"Today I had the once in a lifetime honor --to spend an hour interviewing Geert Wilders, Parliament member of his own party, the Party of Freedom and producer FITNA."

Poll finds low levels of immigration tolerance in Europe

Feb 2007

The results of a survey on perceptions of migrants and migration make worrying reading for those concerned about integration and tolerance in Europe.

The survey, carried out as part of the EU-funded FEMAGE (Needs for female immigrants and their integration in ageing societies) project, drew upon the views of 21,000 native citizens in eight European countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.

Two thirds of respondents in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia thought that there were too many foreigners in their country, while nearly half of Austrians held this belief.

In all countries, respondents were found to have more negative attitudes to foreigners than positive attitudes...

Policy-makers often say that immigration is a partial remedy for population decline... Only 5% of Estonians and 8% of Czechs favour 'replacement' immigration.

... more than half of those surveyed in every country shared the opinion that an increase in foreigners favours the spread of crime and terrorism. In the Czech Republic as many as 8 out of 10 people agreed with this statement...

In Western Germany, more than half of those asked agreed with the statement 'the presence of foreigners is positive because it allows an exchange with other cultures'. In the Czech Republic and Estonia, only 30% of respondents aligned themselves with this statement.

The survey also found a correlation between traditional, conservative views of gender roles and migration. 'The more individuals advocate the traditional position of women in the family, the more they express negative attitudes towards immigrants in all countries studied,' reads the report.

... An overwhelming majority of respondents in six countries (all but Austria and Poland) said that foreigners who have not integrated after five years should return to their country of origin...

Most of those surveyed were against involvement in political life and the decision-making process via voting rights as a means to integration. Only 48% of Finns questioned thought that voting rights should be conferred after five years of residence, while the figure sank to 20% for Hungary.

'This meaning of integration and the prevalence of agreement that non-integrated foreigners should return to their own country, which cut across all countries irrespective of the lower or higher levels of xenophobia observed, appears to leave little scope for the policy discourse of multiculturalism as egalitarian mutual adaptation,' warn the project partners...