There are Islamists in Europe who are trying to create Muslim enclaves with Sharia law just like in the ungovernable provinces of Pakistan and who look to the day that Europe will be a part of an Islamic Caliphate. They are small in number, they are a minority within the European Muslim community but that community is growing in size by a combination of both legal and illegal immigration plus a much higher birth rate than the indigenous community. These are all facts, however uncomfortable and inconvenient they are. Wilders is doing nothing but draw attention to facts. All the information is already out there in the public domain all he is doing is putting them together and inviting people to draw their own conclusions.

Wake up Europe! These people say they want to take over your country. Why are you not believing that they are sincere? Why are you pretending that they will all change their minds when they settle down with a few wives and a few dozen kids?

Why are you assuming that Muslims will become integrated when you can see third generation Muslim immigrants in burqas and niqabs advocating polygamy and having more children than the previous generation? Where is the evidence that Muslims are integrating and absorbing European norms and values? Only middle class Muslims are integrating, to some degree, that's a minority's minority.

Islam is a dangerous religion. The religious have to take on board the idea that there is such a thing as a dangerous religion, a religion which destroys freedom and perverts human motivations. All religions have some potential to damage society but clearly they vary and their effects vary. The religious need to be woken up out of their complacency and led to the understanding that religion is not something which is universally benign and good in infinite amounts. You can have too much religion and you can have a bad religion. Islam is dangerous because it is so conducive to the killing of liberty, the denial of freedom and the crushing of dissent. Even quite mild religions such as Anglicanism can create intolerable conditions for those who don't fit in. It was the domination of Anglicanism which lead to the Puritans leaving and setting up home in America. It is the fear of being swamped by the Roman Catholic Church which motivates the Protestant paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland. When people see somebody else's religion about to impinge on their freedom they become moved to act. Unless they are spineless appeasers like the Labour Party and Prince Charles.

The aspirations of Islamic militants are hardly secret. They really do want to take over the whole world. They have a clear agenda of building a new Caliphate, an Islamic empire, in which Islam will make all the laws and only Islam or other religions of the book will have a place. Polytheists and atheists will not have the status of citizens, or even humans. This Caliphate will begin with traditionally Muslim states but will expand to take in Europe and eventually America too. They are not patiently waiting for the end of the world they believe and teach that this will come to pass and it will require jihad, holy war, to achieve. They welcome war, struggle, violence, conquest and martyrdom. Islamic texts describe migration as a strategy for conquest. In what way is this not alarming? In what way is it reasonable to treat Muslims as just another harmless religion who will happily and peacefully coexist with other religions? It isn't. The Qur'an gives them clear instructions to use the idea of tolerance of religion so they can be tolerated until they are in a position to attack and then there is no room for tolerance. Allah has no desire to allow tolerance for those who deny him. Muslims are required, not allowed, required, to engage in holy war to spread Islam by the sword. Of course the all wise all knowing Allah's final prophet was unable to prophesy the coming of guns so Islam will always be dominated by men with beards and swords.

Pretending that Islam is just the same as Methodism or Zen Buddhism is complacent and ignorant of the reality. Some religions are slow-growing and benign and some are malignant. Over time religions can change from one mode of expansion to another. Christianity started out as a secretive cult, it became aggressive, assertive and obnoxious and at that time was selected by the Roman Empire as possibly useful. This was a fatal move for the Roman Empire and its civilization as its mechanisms were used to expand the reach of the religion and the civilization fell. Islam didn't start until all this was history. Muhammad knew from the history of Rome that religions and empire can go together. If a religion could conquer an empire why not create one? Surely this is the megalomaniac charlatan's ultimate wet dream: founding both an empire and a religion, having power over men, their minds, their souls their women, their little girls and the posterity of the entire species. Ruling the world. Like Fu Manchu and every Bond villain. Ruthless determination, asceticism, fanatical followers, he even liked cats.

Centuries later that nineteenth century American charlatan Joseph Smith deliberately, consciously and openly modelled his new religion on the cult of Muhammad. What other model could possibly be better to use? Muhammad is without doubt the single most influential man who ever lived. That is simply a fact. Many things may be done in the name of Jesus but his actual teachings have been more venerated than observed and implemented. Which is just as well, have you read that stuff? Crazy family-splitting socialist nutter with a personality cult to die for. In contrast the law laid down by Muhammad continues to shape outcomes in the world today, his words live on, his imperial plans live on and his memetic and genetic legacy lives on. Genghis Khan sowed more wild oats and controlled more land, and in turn allowed Islam to sweep through the empire he had carved out, Alexander conquered more civilizations but nobody today follows their precepts or strives to implement their orders. More people know the name and ignore the teachings of Jesus but only one man in history has really had a chance of ruling the world for ever and ever.

The only prospect for world peace for Muslims is Islam, the nightmare scenario of a universal totalitarian religion controlled according to the interpretation of words in an old book, the accounts of a sub-literate man who claimed to be the spokesman on Earth of the one true god. What kind of a god would send a message to a nobody? One that liked the idea of war perhaps, a god who welcomed the prospect of men fighting for centuries trying and failing to do what any god deserving of the label could do in an instant.

When Islam was expanding at its fastest it was as civilized, rich and powerful as any other civilization on the planet, almost as progressive as Rome had been before Christianity came along and mired it in superstition. The Ottoman Empire conquered the Byzantine Empire which was the successor to the Roman Empire. The Ottomans spread Islam around most of the shores of the Mediterranean. Arabs spread Islam across Africa from the west coast to Zanzibar and around the edge of the Indian Ocean. However there was resistance. In parts of the Balkans where Christianity arrived first Christianity inoculated the people against Islam and they resisted, in their minds heroically, for centuries. Similarly the huge land mass of India was resistant, they had a material and religious culture strong enough to resist the relentless tide of Islam.

The Muslim's belief that their religion will conquer is based upon a flawed analysis of history. Islam has only managed to conquer lands where there wasn't a strong previous presence of a mature religion, lands which were well away from the cutting edge of science, civilization and progress. Poor lands filled with poor and uneducated peasants: always the perfect fodder for the missionaries of predatory monotheisms. Islam can take over the world's downbeat deadbeat backwaters but since the Byzantine Empire fell Islam's conquests have been decidedly second rate and in that time leadership of the world in terms of military might, civilization, culture and science has moved strongly away from the Islamic world. Islam has been playing in the third division of civilization now for over five hundred years and there is no prospect of that trend ever reversing. Islam is wedded to a pre-scientific past and an anti-scientific world view. Islam has no chance of taking over the world in the way that it did in the past. The Caliphate is an absurd pipe-dream. It could not happen because Muslim nations haven't got a handle on the way the world is operating these days. Islamic scholarship is moribund and useless. The days when Baghdad was at the cutting edge of scholarship are long gone and likely never to return. The world is not going to welcome Islam as a way out of poverty, ignorance and squalor. If anything it is clear that Islam offers an enhanced opportunity for Europe and America to experience more poverty, ignorance and squalor compared with the fruits of modern secular liberalism which are the sweetest man has ever known.

Islam offers nothing that Europeans want, if it did there would be hundreds of thousands of converts already. There are a few hundred. Islam is strange, foreign and barbaric. Whilst Europeans have been quick to adopt the food of the Islamic world where it has been good little else has been of much interest. Europe has not been afraid of the Islamic world or repelled by it, the Islamic world has simply not had much to offer. If it wasn't for oil how many Europeans would ever have bothered to learn Arabic? About as many as learned Hindi or Sanskrit.

Islam will not conquer Europe, that is clear, but Islamists will try and they are trying now. It is time Europe woke up and got to grips with this genuine threat. The threat to Europe from Islam is not a threat of terrorism it is the threat of Islam itself. Europe has stood up to much bigger threats than Islamic terrorism without buckling and giving in.

Islam is by its nature a thoroughly repressive and totalitarian system of thought. Islam means surrender, surrendering freedom and will to the idea of the will of Allah. Islam is surrendering to the interpretation of the diktats of a dead illiterate and ill-educated man from a desert land. It is vitally important that Europe wakes up to this challenge and confronts it, not with violence but with resolution.

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