Betrayal of the Netherlands (video)

Here's a fresh warning from Geert Wilders about the fate of the Netherlands under the lunatic policy of Open Borders, a policy that is equally applicable to the other countries whose political elites seem hell-bent on destroying European civilisation, true liberalism, and their children's futures in what many hapless observers are calling "The Great Betrayal".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=FJOQPR7wWBI

The Windmills of the BBC Mind

Ah, the crafty BBC.  If they can't get their leftist propaganda across by one route, they'll get it across by another.

"We did this," the BBC's fictional lady doctor says (in an indictment of Western policy) during the year's first episode of Silent Witness. "Make beasts." 

Propaganda to soften up the public regarding mass Muslim immigration, from the drama department of the BBC  

The plot  focuses on the plight of "desperate people".  But the traumatised "Syrian refugee girl" is hardly  representative of the testosterone-fuelled so-called "asylum seekers" in the "camps" across the Channel waiting to be smuggled into Britain.

Another propaganda piece, courtesy of Al Beeb's Travel page recently, entitled "What can Albania teach us about trust?":

".... Little known to most, Albania was one of a few European countries to emerge with a larger Jewish population by the end of WWII than at the start, saving nearly all of its original Jews while offering refuge to more than 2,000 others from surrounding countries. Despite pressure from Italian fascists and occupying Nazi soldiers, Albanians refused to yield their guests, as doing so would not only result in great shame but would bind the master of the house to  “clean the blood”, meaning to take vengeance.

 More recently, Albania has again found itself offering besa, this time to those travelling from the Middle East. Hundreds of Iranian exiles are currently residing within the country after having been relocated from Camp Liberty in Iraq. Albanian prime minister Edi Rama has also expressed an intent to aid Syrian refugees, provided a collaborative agreement is reached with other European nations, saying that Albania will not ignore its duty.

Despite all these heroic instances, unassuming Albania remains unrecognized for its great services to the huddled masses of the world. The truth remains that this Balkan nation is small and poor, and as such, it hardly receives international attention for its exploits. Yet, at a time when refugees are being turned away at borders all over the world, it seems that there is a lot to learn from Albania’s penchant for hospitality...."  [Emphasis added]

An earlier attempt at this propaganda went slightly awry, leaving the propagandists with egg on their face:

"EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story stated that hundreds of Iranian refugees were residing in Albania. We've updated the text to explain that these Iranian refugees had been relocated from Camp Liberty in Iraq. We’ve also clarified that the refugees from Kosovo were mostly ethnic Albanians."

From EdgarDavidson's blog here

And then, of course, there's the direct approach at propaganda, brazenly thumbing the nose at Al Beeb's obligations to be objective required of it by its Charter and its Producers' Guidelines.

On a recent Newsnight the BBC's John Sweeney  displayed a shamefully naked piece of bias in his piece about Geert Wilders, whose policies he attacks and whom he belittles and vilifies  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6z0XZMvdD8):

 

To quote Al Beeb:

"Populist parties are growing in strength across Europe - emboldened by both Brexit and Trump. There's Marine Le Pen and the National Front in France of course. But there's a critical election before that: next month, in Holland. Geert Wilders - who leads the anti Muslim Freedom Party is hoping to top the ballot. He wants to take them out of the EU, and to 'de-islamise the Netherlands' with a ban on immigration from Muslim countries. In 2016 he was convicted of inciting discrimination. The Dutch coalition system means it's unlikely Wilders will be crowned Prime Minister. But he could end up leading the largest party which would chill European centrists and boost other populist movements throughout the continent. We sent John Sweeney in pursuit."

Towards the beginning Sweeney waits for an opportunity to "have a natter" with Wilders, and when he gets the chance to buttonhole him he tells him "Some people say you're a bit of a fascist".  "Well, don't talk to those people" is the reply.

Wilders later grants an interview to the sneering BBC man, who says with regard to the Dutchman's concerns regarding mass Muslim immigration into Europe (it's not Muslim individuals he's against but rather the ideology of Islam which is "incompatible" with Western freedoms, he explains): "Aren't we going back to 1939?"   It's less a question than a reflection of Sweeney's own views.

"People are equal.  Ideologies, values ... religions are not equal" observes Wilders, who speaks at some length about "cultural relativism".

Sweeney's mind is already made up, and avoiding the role and contribution of The Elephant in the Room he concludes the program, funereal tones to the fore: 

"There is no doubt that this man is changing what was once the most liberal country in Europe into something quite different." 

Not an iota as different as what these charmers have in mind:

"Truth & Liberty Are Stronger Than You, & So Am I" (videos)

A Dutchman defies his demonisers.  Geert Wilders on his persecution by the "multicultural political elite":

A few days ago, at a migrant centre in Holland:

(Hat tip: Vlad Tepes blog)


Points from a must-read by the Gatestone Institute's Giulio Meotti:

'On December 9, for the first time in Dutch history, a court criminalized freedom of expression: The truly heroic Dutch Member of Parliament, Geert Wilders, was found guilty of the "crime" of "hate speech."

The death sentence against Salman Rushdie in 1989 by Iran's supreme leader looked unreal. The West did not take it seriously. Since then, however, this fatwa has been assimilated to such an extent that today's threats to free speech come from ourselves. It is now the West that put on trial writers and journalists.

The Red Brigades, the Communist terror group which devastated Italy in the 1970s, coined a slogan: "Strike one to educate one hundred." If you target one, you get collective intimidation. This is exactly the effect of these political trials about Islam.

 "Hate speech" has become a political weapon to dispatch whoever may not agree with you. It is not the right of a democracy to quibble about the content of articles or cartoons. In the West, we paid a high price for the freedom to write them and and read them. It is not up to those who govern to grant the right of thought and speech.

 In Europe now, the same iron curtain as in the Soviet era is descending.'  [Emphasis added]

 Douglas Murray here

Say Goodnight To Sweden, Gracie

Oh dear, all really is not well in the land that recently voted to recognise a Palestinian state.  It seems that it's not only in Sweden's second city, Malmo, long known as a centre of Islamist anti-Jewish activity, that the negative consequences of mass Muslim immigration are being heavily felt.

Just read this article, for instance.

The menace of mass Muslim immigration is a sober reality for many of the nations of northern and western Europe, of course, and not least for their Jewish citizens (see here for Sweden's courtship of the Muslim vote) , so we certainly should not gloat.

 Meanwhile, in Denmark, Daniel Pipes and Geert Wilders consider the threat to Western societies:

 

Australian Politicians Condemn Plans For Anti-Islam Party

Here's Geert Wilders, congratulating the anti-Islam Q Society of Australia on its work:

He's due in Perth, Western Australia, next year, in order to launch a new political party, expected to be called the Australian Liberty Alliance.

Says Wilders:

"Like you, good people in Europe, America and Canada have had enough of politicians who don't share our values and foolishly declare that all cultures are equal and who lack courage to speak the truth and say that Islam is the biggest threat to freedom today.

It may seem like a big task to turn around. But the winds are changing .You too will soon have the opportunity to turn the tide in Australia."

It's reported that Debbie Robinson, President of the Q Society, will stand as a candidate for the new party at the next federal election, which must take take place before September 2016.

Observes Q Society spokesman Andrew Horwood:

"We can see what's happening with Islam around the world and we would like to initially have a 10-year halt in Islamic immigration until Australia can get a handle on how to deal with the issue of Islam or there is a bit of a reformation with the Islamic faith and it can deal with living in the 21st Century."

Not surprisingly, politicians across the political divide have condemned the mooted Australian Liberty Alliance.

Read and see more here

"Who Was Responsible?" "Zionists!": Demonstration In Sydney Against Geert Wilders (video)

"Muslims are welcome, racists are not!" is among the chants of the crowd, which also raises a cry of vilification against "Zionists":

 Here's Geert Wilders' speaking, "shoulder to shoulder with Israel".

  (Hat tip: reader Shirlee)

A bonus video below:

Down Under, They're Just Wild About Wilders (updated with extra video)

Hate speech: sowing discord in the Victorian community

As reported by J-Wire, Jewish bodies in the Australian state of Victoria have signed a statement extolling the benefits of multiculturalism and expressing disquiet about the visit to Australia of Geert Wilders (incidentally, see this video for what veteran Aussie broadcaster and champion of Islam George Negus thinks of him, and this video for the way Wilders once dealt with a certain Mr Cohen).

"Victoria is a multicultural and multifaith society in which racial, religious and linguistic diversity is embraced as a strength. This vibrant diversity has generated social, cultural and economic benefits for all Victorians.... 

Community harmony in Victoria is strengthened by a long-standing, shared commitment across government, community and business – and in a range of settings, including on the sporting field – to respect and embrace difference, to respond appropriately to unjust treatment and vilification, and to recognise and celebrate our common bond as proud Victorians and Australians.

We have a collective responsibility to respect our fellow citizens and preserve the social cohesion and harmony that characterise Victoria and makes our society great. We also encourage genuine and constructive engagement and dialogue as a means to achieving greater understanding and acceptance of diversity.

We welcome challenging ideas and debate, however, inciting hatred and animosity towards specific cultural or faith-based communities has no place in Victoria. All Victorians have a right to practice their faith and observe their cultural traditions and languages."

More discord ...

This "motherhood" statement was endorsed by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

All very civilised.  All very honorable.  And all very well.

Who doesn't want peace and harmony and a quiet existence?

But the statement's basic premise is that all cultures are created equal.  And that tends to stick in the craw, because, although impeccably politically correct, in some respects it's a betrayal, a betrayal of enlightened values.

No matter that some cultures espouse ideologies and permit practices at odds with modernism, democratic principles, and gender equality.

Whether a woman outraged by a credo of inherent female intellectual inferiority (and other insults to the female sex), or a Jew distressed by the allegation that s/he is "the descendents of apes and pigs" or a person of whatever background alarmed by Islamist-driven antisemitism and delegitimisation of Israel, we must all, it seems, be cultural relativists now.

... and cultural enrichment

Comments one opponent of the statements referred to above:

"I’m still at odds trying to work out why the JCCV [Jewish Community Council of Victoria] and the ECAJ have put this statement out.

It doesn’t make sense.

What’s the issue?

What are they afraid of?

 Many countries are coming out and saying multiculturalism doesn’t work and here we have these organisations saying it does.

Multiculturalism asks for people to bring their ‘culture’ and that they never really need to become ‘Australians’.

Multiculturalism implies that people can change this country to suit their values, which becomes unacceptable.

 British Prime Minister David Cameron said during a panel discussion attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel

 “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream,

“We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong.”

He said the “hands-off tolerance” in Britain and other European nations has encouraged Muslims and other immigrant groups “to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.”

More still, as this democracy-decrying Sydney conference showed

He further said

 “Multiculturalism, was undertaken for the highest of motives. It was intended to create a more tolerant society, one in which everyone, regardless of colour, creed or culture, felt at home. Its effect has been precisely the opposite

Multiculturalism, entered into for the noblest of reasons, has suffered from the law of unintended consequences. By dissolving national identity it makes it impossible for groups to integrate because there is nothing to integrate into, and by failing to offer people pride in being British, it forces them to find sources of pride elsewhere.”

This has been echoed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy'

 Comments another:

"Everything being presented ... about multiculturalism in Australia – the same multiculturalism that European leaders admit has been a demonstrable abject failure in the countries they lead – points to a profound misunderstanding of what multiculturalism is.

 Everything being presented ... about Geert Wilders’ message demonstrates that they either have never heard what he has to say or have heard but not listened.

Read his lips: It is not about muslims. it is about islam.

You will find apostate muslims and non-mus[l]im migrants from muslim countries among Wilders’ supporters. Listen to them.

The fact that so many venues cancelled his appearance out of fear shows that Australia has succumbed to fear.

Not all 1938 Germans were evil. That was not about Germans...."

 Here (hat tip: reader Shirlee) is an ABC (equivalent to the BBC) segment regarding Wilders in Oz, beginning with remarks from pro-Islam leftist detractors and going on to feature interviews with the man himself and others:

"You should open your eyes and learn from the mistakes we made in Europe," Wilders says in this video.

He warns that, if Australians "fail to be vigilant" against the inroads of radical Islamism, women, gays, and, yes, Jews, will be the first "to pay the price".

But let's give the last word to the man who for decades bestrode the Australian Jewish communal leadership scene like a Colossus – a man who warned (here) two or three years ago:

'It is surely high time for Diaspora leaders to stop living in denial and get their act together. Instead of competing with each other in oozing political correctness, they should display some backbone and call a spade a spade.

We are currently witnessing the greatest revival of global anti-Semitism since the Middle Ages. This permeates all classes of society, and, ranging from academics to illiterates and European leaders who retain office despite making unabashed neo-Nazi remarks about Jews to mobs at anti-Israeli demonstrations carrying placards "gas the Jews."

It encompasses the entire political spectrum, but is spearheaded by liberals and Muslims. Muslim radicals relate to Israel in a manner reminiscent of the Church's medieval attitude toward the Jews. They promote popular TV programs depicting the blood of Muslim children being used for baking matzot, and have revived The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a best-seller. They certainly compare favorably with the worst Nazi Jew baiting, with imams quoting genocidal religious texts to the faithful, inciting them to murder Jews, "the descendants of apes and pigs."

It is macabre to observe the alliance between liberals and jihadists who represent the antithesis of everything the Left purports to represent. The extremist Islamists are the most reactionary elements in the world. They reject fundamental human rights, proscribe freedom of expression and religion, promote the degradation of women and, to this day, implement barbaric laws including stoning of adulterers and homosexuals and the amputation of limbs for petty crimes. More than 50 Muslim countries deny Judaism or Christianity equal standing with Islam....

This is taking place at a time when the Muslims have the audacity to promote legislation at the UN and elsewhere which would make any criticism of Islam a criminal offense. The response of the Obama administration has been to reiterate the ludicrous mantra introduced by president George W. Bush describing Islam as "the religion of peace" and blatantly deny the reality that present-day terrorism is essentially a Muslim phenomenon, even though that does not mean all Muslims are terrorists....

 Alas, Jews who exaggerate the presence of Islamophobia become leading proponents of the campaign to sanitize and understate Islamic extremism. This is especially bizarre, given that Jews, especially in Europe, but also increasingly in the US, are facing far greater threats of violence than Muslims. It is also synagogues, rather than mosques, which are continuously being desecrated and vandalized, in many cases by Islamists.

In that context, the relative tranquility which Muslims experience in Western societies is a great tribute to tolerance – a tolerance unlikely to have been extended to Jews in similar circumstances. Imagine the response if Israel had a track record like some of the Arab states, or if Jews in Western countries were blowing up their neighbors...."

Demonstration In Melbourne Against Geert Wilders (video)

Organised by Students For Palestine, and with the comrades from Socialist Alliance inevitably participating, here's a demo in the Melbourne suburb of Somerton on 19 February against the appearance of anti-Islamist campaigner Geert Wilders at a public meeting organised by the Q Society.

Demonstrators physically tried to prevent people from going in to hear Wilders: see, for instance, this report.

For the cancellation of the controversial Dutch politician's Perth speech see here. (Hat tip: reader Shirlee)

More here

"A Few Minutes To Twelve": Wilders Warns (video)

Insisting he has nothing against Muslims in general, the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who's booked for speaking engagements in Australia, explains his views to a Danish interviewer:

Meanwhile (hat tip: reader Shirlee) a political party opposed to large-scale Muslim immigration has been launched in Australia.