Dutch parliamentarian and leader of the Party of Freedom, Geert Wilders, spoke at Temple University in Philadelphia. Security was very tight. You see, today’s universities are hives of intolerance – every bit as much as any Middle Eastern mosque. “Where Islam sets roots,” Wilders told his student audience, “freedom dies.” According to the Associated Press, the Dutchman’s remarks, “were met by a mixture of applause and boos, and occasionally gasps – particularly when he stated that ‘our Western culture is far better than Islamic culture and we should defend it.’ The problem university nihilists have with Mr. Wilders is that he speaks in absolutes. He desires that the Western World survives. In addition, Wilders is himself experienced in the ways of self-preservation. He’s marked for death by Dutch absolutists of a different kind – followers of “the religion of peace.”
In 2004, two men belonging to a Dutch Islamic extremist group – known as the Hofstadgroep – stormed The Hague and attempted to murder Wilders and fellow legislator Ayaan Hiris Ali. The assailants carried three hand grenades. The pair was eventually apprehended after a short siege. Elsewhere, another member of Hofstadgroep, Mohammed Bouyeri, murdered Dutch writer and filmmaker Theo van Gogh after the release of his film “Submission.” It chronicled the barbaric treatment of women under Islamic law and tradition. As van Gogh rode his bicycle to work, Bouyeri shot him eight times with a handgun, then nearly decapitated his victim using with a large knife. Two knives plunged into van Gogh chest secured a five-page manifesto urging Dutch Muslims to kill “infidel enemies” in the West, which included Dutch politicians, Jews and Ayann Hirsi Ali – the Somali born member of the Dutch Parliament who collaborated with van Gogh in the making of “Submission.” For half a decade, Geert Wilders hasn’t slept in the same bed twice, and only visits his wife once a week.
Wilders’ speaking engagement at Temple University was not only upsetting to the institution’s nihilist faculty and student body but to the Muslim Student Association. Their web site describes Wilders as “a person who has been tried in the Netherlands Supreme Court for his hate speech concerning Islam, banned from the United Kingdom due to the threat he poses to community harmony, and is currently charged for violating anti-hate laws in the European Union…” Wilders see President Obama’s policy of treating barbaric Islam with “mutual respect” as one-way street, tantamount to donning a Burka and simply submitting.
Unlike Obama and his nihilistic fellow travelers, Wilder understands that radical Islam’s most reliable ally in the fight to defeat the “infidel West” is the cancer of moral and cultural relativism:
“Our entire Western elite, whether they are politicians, journalists or judges, has lost its way. Their sense of reality has vanished. Those cultural relativists believe that all cultures are equal. They think that the Islamic culture is equal to our culture which is based on Christianity, Judaism and Humanism. Our culture adheres to freedom, human rights and the equality between men and women and not to violence and hatred.”
“To the cultural relativists, I proudly say: Our Western culture is far better than the Islamic culture. And we should be proud of that and defend it. Unlike most countries where the Islamic culture is dominant, we have a rule of law, a democracy, a functioning parliament, freedom of speech and a constitution that protects us against the government.”
His recognition of and willingness to fight for a Western tradition based on “Christianity, Judaism and Humanism” is remarkable in light of fact that Wilders is an avowed atheist. Unlike those who we mistakenly define as “elitists,” Wilders refuses to reject the Judaeo- Christian foundation of Western Civilization, which one must do to bring about Obama and the international community’s vision of “hope and change.” Therefore, Wilders is a hunted man – by murderous Islamic absolutists and European courts saddled with the impossible task of maintaining a new world order built on a foundation of shifting sand.
– Mr. Curmudgeon
