Geert Wilders: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I feel ashamed for all those in the government and in parliament who refuse to stop the Islamic invasion.”

Geert Wilders

As quoted in Content and Meaning of National Law in the Context of Transnational Law, edited by Henricus Joseph Snijders & Stefan Vogenauer, page 31, footnote (translation by Rick Lawson)
2000s

Feeling

“Leading a life like that got me thinking about some big questions. It is sometimes said that Americans and Europeans differ a lot and that they are growing further apart. I disagree—we share the same fundamentals, and that binds us together. Western societies guarantee their citizens something that no other civilizations grant them: privacy. It's one of those things you tend to take for granted unless you lose it. The importance of privacy is unique to Western society with its notion of the sovereign individual. In stark contrast to Western norms, Islam robs people of their privacy and dignity. Islamic societies—including Islamic enclaves in the West—exert tight social control that is indicative of the totalitarian character of Islam.”

Geert Wilders

Source: 2010s, Marked for Death (2012), Ch. 2, pp. 22–23

Life , People , Question , Thinking

“I do not pretend to be a man who knows no fear, but when I heard about van Gogh's murder I can honestly say I felt anger, not fear. I defiantly proclaimed to the journalists that I would not allow anyone to intimidate me into silence. I was angry at the assassin and his accomplices, I was angry at Islam—this doctrine that has people murdered for their opinions—and I was angry at the naive politicians, journalists, and so-called intellectuals in the West who refuse to admit how dangerous Islam is and how fundamentally incompatible it is with our Western values and ideals.”

Geert Wilders

Source: 2010s, Marked for Death (2012), Ch. 2: "On Freedom", pp. 10–11

People , Fear , Silence , Anger

“The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.”

Geert Wilders

Dutch Islam film 'nearly ready', BBC News, 28 February 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7268618.stm,
2000s

“There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. … And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.”

Geert Wilders

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

“San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. … Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favour of a worldwide caliphate.”

Geert Wilders

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

Suicide , Strong , Universe , Loyalty

“So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a "right-wing extremists" or "racists."”

Geert Wilders

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

“Islam is something we can't afford any more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams… Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.”

Geert Wilders

The Guardian 'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam' http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/17/netherlands.islam (17 February 2008)
2000s

School

“Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighbourhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, … Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.”

Geert Wilders

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

People , Country

“The less Islam, the better. It is as simple as that.”

Geert Wilders

Speech at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna (27 March 2015) http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/03/geert-wilders-in-vienna-part-2/
2010s

“Whenever Islam becomes empowered, the non-Muslim population suffers. That's something to keep in mind as Islam relentlessly expands throughout the West.”

Geert Wilders

Source: 2010s, Marked for Death (2012), Ch. 6: "Tears of Babylon", p. 99

Suffering

“Do not prevent jihadists from leaving our country. Let them leave, with as many friends as possible. If it helps, I am even prepared to go to Schiphol to wave them goodbye. But let them never come back. That is the condition. Good riddance. And, as far as I am concerned, anyone who expresses support for terror as a means to overthrow our constitutional democracy has to leave the country at once. If you are waving an ISIS flag you are waving an exit ticket. Leave! Get out of our country!”

Geert Wilders

Speech by Geert Wilders during parliamentary debate in the Netherlands (4 September 2014) ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7mfCYbGGuI)
2010s

Democracy , Support , Help , Country

“Cultural relativism dictates that all cultures are equally moral and valuable—though in practice, Western culture is often presented as inferior to all others, stained as it supposedly is by racism and imperialism.”

Geert Wilders

Source: 2010s, Marked for Death (2012), Ch. 11: "The Facilitators", pp. 177–178

“Bombing IS in Syria and Iraq, while refusing to see the problems at home, will have disastrous consequences.”

Geert Wilders

"Stop Denying the Obvious: Islam is a Problem" (26 September 2014) http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4733/stop-denying-the-obvious-islam-is-a-problem
2010s

Home , Problem

“We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.”

Geert Wilders

"Demonstrations over Islamic centre held in New York" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11274010, BBC, 11 September 2010.
2010s

Drawing

“For me, the asylum seekers here aren't refugees. They came through six or seven safe countries.”

Geert Wilders

Interview http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/dutch-populist-geert-wilders-wants-to-leave-the-eu-a-1100931.html, Spiegel Online (1 July 2016)
2010s

Country

“There are many moderate Muslims, but that does not change the fact that the political ideology of Islam is not moderate—it is a totalitarian cult with global ambitions.”

Geert Wilders

Source: 2010s, Marked for Death (2012), Ch. 2, p. 26

Change

“Muslims demand what they call "respect". And this is how we give them respect. Our elites are willing to give in. To give up. In my own country we have gone from calls by one cabinet member to turn Muslim holidays into official state holidays, to statements by another cabinet member, that Islam is part of Dutch culture, to an affirmation by the Christian-Democratic attorney general that he is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey. Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behaviour, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs. … I call the perpetrators "settlers."”

Geert Wilders

Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies, they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

Support , Holiday , Parting , Country

“The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. … But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. … It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration. All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corner. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.”

Geert Wilders

2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)

Women , Children , People , World

“I've had enough of the Quran in The Netherlands: ban that fascist book.”

Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders, De Volkskrant (8 August 2007)
2010s, Marked for Death (2012)

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