Discurso de Geert Wilders à Casa dos Lordes, 5 de Março de 2010

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Geert Wilders Speech, House of Lords, London, Friday the 5th of March 2010

«Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport.

Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, this is a sacred place. This is, as Malcolm always says, the mother of all Parliaments, I am deeply humbled to have the opportunity to speak before you.

Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for your invitation and showing my film ‘Fitna’. Thank you my friends for inviting me.

I first have great news. Last Wednesday city council elections were held in the Netherlands. And for the first time my party, the Freedom Party, took part in these local elections. We participated in two cities. In Almere, one of the largest Dutch cities. And in The Hague, the third largest city; home of the government, the parliament and the queen. And, we did great! In one fell swoop my party became the largest party in Almere and the second largest party in The Hague. Great news for the Freedom Party and even better news for the people of these two beautiful cities.

And I have more good news. Two weeks ago the Dutch government collapsed. In June we will have parliamentary elections. And the future for the Freedom Party looks great. According to some polls we will become the largest party in the Netherlands. I want to be modest, but who knows, I might even be Prime Minister in a few months time!

Ladies and gentlemen, not far from here stands a statue of the greatest Prime Minister your country ever had. And I would like to quote him here today: “Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step (…) the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.” These words are from none other than Winston Churchill wrote this in his book ‘The River War’ from 1899.

Churchill was right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t have a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims. The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.

Islam strives for world domination. The Quran commands Muslims to exercise jihad. The Quran commands Muslims to establish shariah law. The Quran commands Muslims to impose Islam on the entire world.

As former Turkish Prime Minister Erbakan said: “The whole of Europe will become Islamic. We will conquer Rome”. End of quote.

Libyan dictator Gaddafi said: “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent today and their number is on the increase. This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted into Islam. Europe will one day soon be a Muslim continent”. End of quote. Indeed, for once in his life, Gaddafi was telling the truth. Because, remember: mass immigration and demographics is destiny!

Islam is merely not a religion, it is mainly a totalitarian ideology. Islam wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave. Shariah law is a law that controls every detail of life in a Islamic society. From civic- and family law to criminal law. It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet. Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.

I believe that Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life. Islam is a threat to Western values. The equality of men and women, the equality of homosexuals and heterosexuals, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, they are all under pressure because of islamization. Ladies and gentlemen: Islam and freedom, Islam and democracy are not compatible. It are opposite values.

No wonder that Winston Churchill called Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ “the new Quran of faith and war, turgid, verbose, shapeless, bur pregnant with its message”. As you know, Churchill made this comparison, between the Koran and Mein Kampf, in his book ‘The Second World War’, a master piece, for which, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill’s comparison of the Quran and ‘Mein Kampf’ is absolutely spot on. The core of the Quran is the call to jihad. Jihad means a lot of things and is Arabic for battle. Kampf is German for battle. Jihad and kampf mean exactly the same.

Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That’s a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage.

We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women’s rights are being destroyed. Burqa’s, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings. Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don’t get a handshake. In many European cities there is already apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are leaving Europe.

De virtute græca et timore nostro ante veritatem

Do Sr. Fjordman, um artigo sobre a origem do papel, a circulação do conhecimento através das civilizações do mundo antigo, e a postura epistemiológica islâmica: Socratic dialogue vs. Islamic dialogue. Destaco a parte final, relativa ao "millagre grego": «"Criticism of your own teacher – rare, if not quite unknown in China – was common in Greece, sometimes as a prelude to the pupil setting up a rival school of his own. The case of Aristotle is just the most famous of many that can be cited. To be sure, the role of text-books in Greece eventually came to be considerable, even though none, not even Euclid's Elements, achieved quite the cachet of a Chinese major canon, at least not in Greco-Roman antiquity. Of course, on the Chinese side, not all instruction was mediated through such texts. In the Lunyu[Analects], Confucius, for instance, is described in dialogue with his pupils in an open situation that might seem reminiscent of the fictional conversations of Socrates in Plato. Yet two differences remain: first Confucius' authority is never challenged by his pupils in the way Socrates is contradicted by some of his interlocutors (however much Plato stacks the cards in Socrates' favour in their eventual refutation). Secondly, Confucius' pupils were not his sole, nor maybe even prime, preoccupation, which was rather, we said, to find a ruler worthy to advise."

O discurso de Allen West e o projecto Pedra de Roseta

O Gates of Vienna, no âmbito do projecto Pedra de Roseta, está à procura de voluntários para traduzir o discurso do tenente-coronel Allen West. Algum leitor se quer propor? Escreva para o Baron Bodissey: unspiek (at) chromatism.net

Recúo da Administração Obama no julgamento de terrorista?

Segundo reporta o Jihad Watch, a Administração Obama parece preparar-se para recuar na decisão de julgar Khalid Sheik Mohammed em tribunal comum. Boas notícias:

White House: Hey, let's try the 9/11 jihadis in military tribunals

Great idea! Why didn't anybody think of it before? "White House reconsiders holding terror trials in civilian court," by Julian E. Barnes and Christi Parsons for the Los Angeles Times, March 5 (thanks to Mackie):

The White House is considering an end to its effort to prosecute the suspected Sept. 11 plotters in a civilian court and may send them instead before military tribunals, in an apparent retreat from President Obama's pledge to overhaul the Bush administration's detention policies.

Last year, the Obama administration announced it would try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others in federal court in New York. That step came after Obama overhauled interrogation policies and ordered the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

But safety concerns about the trial have grown, and support for holding the trial in New York has eroded.

"It is politically untenable," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity because a decision had not been made. "No place wants to hold a trial."...

Anti-sionismo ou anti-semitismo?

Diálogo ou imposição de uma perspectiva? Universidade como centro de saber ou como terreno de propaganda?

Tres de Benedicto Servo servorum Dei

1. Aumentou o número de cathólicos no mundo, em termos absolutos e relativos.
2. O Papa expressou as suas condolências pelos cristãos há pouco assassinados em Mosul, e apela a que as autoridades locais proporcionem paz e segurança às comunidades millenares aí residentes. (ouvir em italiano)
3. Site da visita do Papa Bendito XVI a Portugal, nos próximos dias onze a catorze de Maio. Destaque para o encontro do Sumo Pontífice com figuras cimeiras da cultura nacional, no centro cultural de Belém às dez da manhã do segundo dia, e apelo à presença de cada um nas Eucaristias do Terreiro do Paço, Fátima, e Avenida dos Aliados, conforme a possibilidade e devoção individuais.

Santo Padre, rogai por nós.

Para uma verdadeira compreensão do islão: zakat (e jihad)

Um dos problemas apontados por alguns estudiosos do islão para a sua compreensão pelos ocidentais é a radical diferença entre o islão e o ocidente judaico-cristão no que respeita às bases morais e epistemológicas. As diferenças são tão radicais que tornam o islão incompreensível aos olhos de um ocidental. A reacção normal é adaptar os conceitos islâmicos à nossa mundividência. Assim, projectamos os nosso valores sobre o islão; lemos os islão em chave judaico-cristã. Isto impede-nos de perceber o islão e, por consequência, deixa-nos incapazes de identificar uma ameaça como tal, donde decorre a inabilidade de lhe fazer face. Vejamos um caso concreto, pela mão de Raymond Ibrahim. Eis como Ibrahim formula o problema:

«(...) the all too common inability to transcend one's own culturally-ingrained notions of right and wrong, [leads to] ascribing to them a universal pedigree.»

Ou seja, tendemos a julgar universal a nossa maneira de ver o mundo, pelo que nem chegamos a conceber que pode ser visto de modo radicalmente distinto. Passemos ao caso concreto:

«A typical seventh-grade textbook, for instance, teaches that "jihad represents the human struggle to overcome difficulties and do things that are pleasing to God. Muslims strive to respond positively to personal difficulties as well as worldly challenges. For instance, they might work to be better people, reform society, or correct injustice." Strictly speaking, this is by and large true. However, by not explaining what it means to be "better people, reform society, or correct injustice" — from a distinctly Islamic, as opposed to Western, perspective — the textbook abandons students to fall back on their own (misleading) interpretations.»

Serão os conceitos «ser melhor pessoa», «reformar a sociedade» e «corrigir injustiças» idênticos no islão e no Ocidente?

«(...) In Islam, killing certain "evil-doers," such as apostates or homosexuals, is a way of "correcting injustice"; overthrowing manmade constitutional orders (such as the United States) and replacing them with Sharia mandates, and subjugating women and non-Muslims, are ways of "reforming society." Those enforcing all this are, in fact, "better people" — indeed, according to the Koran, they are "the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong [3:110]," that is, ruling according to Sharia law.»

Assim, qualquer ocidental de boa vontade é enganado sem seque sonhar que o foi. Ibrahim prossegue o artigo passando ao seu tema principal: a zakat, ou esmola islâmica:

«So it is with the Muslim concept of zakat, a word often rendered into English as "charity." But is that all zakat is — mere Muslim benevolence by way of feeding and clothing the destitute of the world, as the word "charity" all too often connotes? (...) [Westerners] conflate a decidedly Islamic concept, zakat, with the generic notion of charity. Is this justified? As with all things Islamic, one must first examine the legal aspects of zakat to truly appreciate its purport. Etymologically related to the notion of "purity," zakat — paying a portion of one's wealth to specifically designated recipients — is a way of purifying oneself, on par with prayers (see Koran 9:103).

The problem, however, has to do with who is eligible for this mandatory "charity." Most schools of Muslim jurisprudence are agreed to eight possible categories of recipients — one of these being those fighting "in the path of Allah," that is, jihadis, also known as "terrorists."[Jihad fi sabil Allah: in its section on zakat, the Arabic-English edition of the standard legal text, 'Umdat as-Salik, translates fi sabil Allah as "those fighting for Allah." Next to the index entry for fi sabil Allah, it simply says "see jihad."]

In fact, financially supporting jihadis is a recognized form of jihad — jihad al-mal [jihad financeira]; even the vast majority of militant verses in the Koran (e.g., 9:20, 9:41, 49:15, 61:10-11) prioritize the need to fund the jihad over merely fighting in it, as fighting with one's wealth often precedes fighting with one's self. Well-known Islamists — from international jihadi Osama bin Laden to authoritative cleric Sheikh Qaradawi — are well aware of this and regularly exhort Muslims to fund the jihad via zakat.

More revealing of the peculiarly Islamic nature of zakat is the fact that Muslims are actually forbidden from bestowing this "charity" onto non-Muslims (e.g., the vast majority of American infidels). "Charitable" Muslim organizations operating on American soil are therefore no mere equivalents to, say, the Salvation Army, a Christian charity organization whose "ministry extends to all, regardless of ages, sex, color, or creed." In Islam, creed is a major criterion for receiving "charity" — not to mention for receiving social equality.

(...)

«American zakat has, in fact, been used to fund the jihad. (...) American Muslim "charities" are subject to ["excessive" scrutiny] by law enforcement. Yet this scrutiny is itself a direct byproduct of the fact that American Muslim "charities" have, indeed, been funding the jihad, both at home and abroad.»

Eis como Ibrahim demonstra concludentemente como um conceito como a zakat/esmola islâmica ― aparentemente não apenas anódino, mas até benévolo ―, se vem a revelar, na verdade, uma prática segregativa ―uma vez que, como vimos, a zakat só pode ser dada a muçulmanos ― e homicida ― visto que uma das actividades propostas como destinatárias da doação é a jihad. Voltemos, para finalizar, à jihad, conceito com o qual Ibrahim iniciou o seu artigo. Já vimos que lutar para «mudar o mundo», ser «melhor pessoa» e «corrigir injustiças» não quer necessariamente dizer, na mentalidade islâmica, exactamente a mesma coisa que para um ocidental desprevenido. O mesmo se passa com a jihad fi sabil Allah, a guerra santa em nome de Alá.Para nós, trata-se de terrorismo, de inaceitáveis actos de violência, independentemente da justificação aludida. Vejamos o que pode significar para os muçulmanos:

«[A westerner] may be surprised to discover that men such as Osama bin Laden actually see their jihad—yes, with all the death and destruction entailed—as an act of altruism, as an ugly means to a beneficent end (see Koran 2:216), that is, the establishment of Islamic law across the world (which is, incidentally, another Muslim duty). One of the most renowned Muslim clerics and hero of modern day jihadists, Ibn Taymiyya, has written at great length describing jihad as the ultimate expression of "love." And, at any rate, it seems a safe bet that most Muslims will be inclined to adhere to his opinions, i.e., his fatwas, as opposed to [some westerner's] casual thoughts on the matter.»

Qual a lição que, segundo Ibrahim , devemos retirar?

«The lesson here? Well meaning [people] would do well to cease interpreting age-old Muslim doctrines—from jihad to zakat—according to their Western epistemology and instead rely on the standard rulings of mainstream Islam, as articulated by its authoritative schools of jurisprudence. That is, after all, what Muslims do.»

Termino recordando que a zakat é um dos cinco pilares do islão, prática absolutamente obrigatória para todos os muçulmanos. Fiquemos ainda com Ibrahim, e com uma história que liga zakat e jihad:

«After Muhammad's death in 632, several Arab tribes, while still identifying themselves as Muslims, refused to pay zakat, much of which was being used to fund ongoing military operations. Abu Bakr, the first "righteous" caliph, responded by launching the Apostasy Wars, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Arabs. In this context, neither the uses of zakat, nor Abu Bakr's murderous response, seem very "charitable." (Who ever heard of killing people for not being "charitable" enough?)»

De Raymond Ibrahim pode ler The Al Qaeda Reader.

Blogando o Alcorão: surata 2, "A Vaca", versículos 141-210 (excerto)

Blogando o Alcorão: surata 2, "A Vaca", versículos 141-210

Prosseguindo o nosso itinerário através de «A Vaca», a segunda e a mais extensa surata do Alcorão, deparamos, nos versículos 141-150, com a questão da qibla, a orientação geográfica da oração. Os muçulmanos são instruídos, daqui em diante, a voltar-se para a Mesquita Sagrada de Meca quando rezam (v. 150), quando, anteriormente, se associavam aos judeus voltando-se para Jerusalém. Esta mudança parece ter ocorrido uma vez terminadas as tentativas de Mafoma para convencer os judeus de que era um profeta na linhagem dos profetas judaicos. Só «os néscios» (v. 142) se opuseram a esta mudança — ou seja, os judeus: quanto a esta dedução, o comentador relativamente moderado Muhammad Asad, assim como o comparativamente mais duro mufti Muhammad Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri estão de acordo. Asad afirma: «Este "virar de costas" a Jerusalém desagradou, evidentemente aos judeus de Medina, os quais se devem ter sentido confortados ao ver os muçulmanos voltar-se em oração para a sua cidade santa; e é a eles que a primeira frase desta passagem se refere». Alá prossegue criticando os judeus e os cristãos por cederem aos seus «seus [vãos] desejos» (cf. Yusuf Ali: «their (vain) desires») mesmo sabedores de que a qibla de Mafoma vem de Alá (vv. 144-146). (...)

Leia todo o capítulo em O Alcorão Comentado. Leia o texto original em inglês em Qur'an Commentary. Sugestão de leitura: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and The Crusades) de Robert Spencer.

«Não se pode propriamente dizer que o islão é uma religião de paz»

Se frase que serve de título a esta entrada, assim como a maioria das palavras ditas pelo seu autor nesta entrevista, fosse dita por um não-muçulmano, certamente não faltaria quem acusasse quem a proferiu de «ódio racial» (?) ou de islamofobia. O que concluir quando o seu autor é um muçulmano inglês, Anjeem Choudary? O que pensar quando ele, recusando-se a condenar os ataques terroristas de 7 de Julho em Londres, afirma que os seus autores apresentaram argumentos retirados do Alcorão, muito difíceis de refutar e que constituem pura ortodoxia islâmica? Transcrição ex Jihad Watch:

"You can't say that Islam is a religion of peace, because Islam does not mean peace. Islam means submission. So the Muslim is one who submits. There is a place for violence in Islam. There is a place for jihad in Islam."

"The Koran is full of, you know, jihad is the most talked about duty in the Koran other than tawhid -- belief. Nothing else is mentioned more than the topic of fighting."

"For the people who carried it out [the July 7, 2005 London bombings], it was legitimate. If you look at the will of the 7/7 bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, they would be justified. And there are many verses from the Koran and many statements to say that's the Islamic argument. And that is a difficult Islamic argument to refute. And there are many scholars who support that argument as well."

Choudary says his group is merely following core Islamic teachings and that Islam is much more than a religion.

"This particular belief is more than just a religion," he declared. "It is not just a spiritual belief. It is, in fact, an ideology which you believe in and you struggle for and you are willing even to die for, because you believe in that: That is your whole life."

Via Women Against Sharia.

Mosab Yousef: palestiniano, espião israelita (2)

Video da entrevista com Sean Hannity, no qual Yousef é ainda mais explícito no estabelecimento de uma relação entre o islão e a violência e descarta liminarmente a existência de um islão moderado, destacando que a boa índole dos homens e mulheres muçulmanos é corrompida pelo islão. Veja Mosab Yousef: palestiniano, espião israelita. Via Tundra Tabloids.

Muçulmanos e direitos humanos

Excelente artigo de Sultan Knish sobre os muçulmanos e os direitos humanos:

«Over the last decade the treatment of Muslims has dominated discussions about human rights in Europe, the United States and Israel. While left wing "human rights organizations" such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International (...) have dived in to the business of protecting the rights of Muslims in the West with both feet, very little attention is paid to the rights of Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and others living in Muslim countries. (...) the last Jews of Yemen are being evacuated after one of the community's few remaining leaders was murdered by a Yemeni Air Force Pilot who ordered him to convert to Islam or die. Yemen in turn fined the pilot and offered to build the remaining Jews their own ghetto for "their own protection". Naturally they chose to leave instead. Yemeni Jews had been fleeing the country since the 19th century, a flow that only intensified when the Yemeni government began seizing orphaned Jewish children and converting them to Islam in the 20's (...). After the creation of the State of Israel, the majority of Yemen's Jews fled the tide of Muslim violence. And now that last handful of what had been a community of tens of thousands is departing. But what makes the story of Yemen so damning is that it actually is fairly tolerant by Muslim standards. And that the Jews of Yemen are only a small part of the more than 800,000 Jewish refugees from Muslim lands in the Middle East whose plight is ignored (...) The 800,000 Jewish refugees are themselves only part of the story. The Armenian genocide and the Assyrian Holocaust both offer eloquent testimony to how Muslims treat non-Muslim minorities. As do the modern day persecutions of the Zoroastrians in Iran and the Christian Copts in Egypt, who are denied basic rights and whose daughters are routinely kidnapped for forced Islamic conversion. While Muslims incessantly shout about their "rights" in Europe, America and Israel ― it might be a good idea to take a look at how non-Muslim guest workers are treated in Muslim countries. As much as 90 percent of Dubai is run by foreign guest workers who slave away for the Emirs. (...)

«O Turbante e a Suástica»

Documentário do canal Arte sobre o Grande Mufti de Jerusalém, Amin Al-Husseini, instigador da violência árabe na Terra Santa, aliado de Hitler, para quem arregimentou muçulmanos bósnios e turcófonos, grande entusiasta da «Solução Final para a Questão Judaica na Europa». A aliança entre a suástica e o crescente, entre os verdes e os castanhos, muçulmanos e nacional-socialistas.

The Turban and the Swatika part 1 of 2 from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

The Turban and the Swastika 2 of 2 from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

Correcção: o islão não é misógino

O xeque Abd Al-Aziz Al-Fawzan corrige, neste sermão, algumas interpretações erróneas do islão, as quais sustentam que o islão deprecia as mulheres e as descreve em termos inadequados; e explica que, afinal, o islão, compassiva e misericordiosamente, mais não faz que proteger as mulheres do seu principal inimigo: a sua própria natureza tortuosa. OK! Já estou mais esclarecido. Como costuma dizer Robert Spencer, do Jihad Watch: «Ninguém explica a este indivíduo - que é, evidentemente, um deturpador do islão - que, na verdade, o islão é a religião da paz?» Via Kitman TV, cujo boletim diário pode subscrever. Leia sobre este assunto no The Religion of Peace.

Lapidação islâmica explicada de modo a instruir sem horrorizar

Um belo video sobre um tema isento de qualquer beleza. Exercício de um estudante de uma academia de artes israelita. Para que ninguém diga que não sabe. Leia a disposição da lei iraniana mencionada. Via Gates of Vienna.

Prologus in seriem de sodomia et excerptum ex libro Gerardi van den Aardweg

Começamos hoje o combate ao homossexualmente correcto. Os leitores a quem desgoste a aparente fuga do assunto central deste blog considerem que uma nação de gente fraca não conseguirá combater as ameaças externas, quaisquer que sejam.