The Lights are going out all over Europe: Geert Wilders

I will be out of off and one for the next two days as I have a conference to attend for work. I will be checking my email and posting what I can if I am able to.

I do not own a laptop. I wanted to leave this post at the top about Geert Wilders. Please share this with as many as you can.

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This may be one of the finest speeches we will ever hear. Geert Wilders, who is being tried again in the Netherlands, gave this speech on the first day of his trial. These valiant, courageous and true words are aimed at the progressives, the elites, those who drink the thee toxic stews of the west, diversity, political correctness and multiculturalism. Unchecked, rampant muslim immigration has stained Europe and the west with all the ugliness of islam and sharia law. For over fourteen centuries islam has waged a war against the free world. If we do not defeat this cancer now the the malignancy that is islam and sharia law will consume the globe. muslims cannot even get along with each other, nor can they assimilate very well into our western society.

Our Constitution IS NOT compatible with islam as it is not a religion but a political ideology that destroys the individual and all freedom of thought or actions. islamic sharia law is one that subjugates and persecutes women to the most horrible level of any other ideology known to man. female genital mutilation, honor killings, slavery and more are what wait for us at hell's door if we allow islam and muslim immigration to continue.

"Future generations will look back at this trial and wonder who was right. Who defended freedom and who wanted to get rid of it."

Our time is now, not yesterday for that was too late. Our time is now and it is for the future and the future of our children.

From Gates Of Vienna.

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The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe

Below is the speech given by Geert Wilders on the opening day of his new trial on “hate speech” charges in Amsterdam. Many thanks to Vlaamse Leeuwin for the translation:

The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. The foundation of the West is under attack everywhere.

All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us for fourteen centuries. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve [a Dutch author], the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. The ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. Surprisingly, the elites do not want to hear any criticism of this ideology.

My trial is not an isolated incident. Only fools believe it is. All over Europe multicultural elites are waging total war against their populations. Their goal is to continue the strategy of mass immigration, which will ultimately result in an Islamic Europe — a Europe without freedom: Eurabia.

The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom-loving citizens who criticize Islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between Islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer, and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger.

The lights are going out allover Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.

This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of speech is not the property of those who happen to belong to the elites of a country. It is an inalienable right, the birthright of our people. For centuries battles have been fought for it, and now it is being sacrificed to please a totalitarian ideology.

Future generations will look back at this trial and wonder who was right. Who defended freedom and who wanted to get rid of it.

The lights are going out all over Europe. Our freedom is being restricted everywhere, so I repeat what I said here last year:

It is not only the privilege, but also the duty of free people — and hence also my duty as a member of the Dutch Parliament — to speak out against any ideology that threatens freedom. Hence it is a right and a duty to speak the truth about the evil ideology that is called Islam. I hope that freedom of speech will emerge triumphant from this trial. I hope not only that I shall be acquitted, but especially that freedom of speech will continue to exist in the Netherlands and in Europe.

Original article is here.

The Heartland: Is this the future that we want?

This article appeared in our local paper on Sunday, July 4th. That is what got me a bit mad about it. Published on the 4th of July. Before anyone out there attacks me, hear me out. I am for LEGAL immigration. Our system is broken and we must enforce the laws we currently have on the books. I think ALL immigration should be curtailed until we can be sure that we are able to control who and when people immigrate into the United States. Please note in the article to follow some immigrants requested a MUSLIM ONLY area in the local cemetary. If some people want their own cemetary, let they buy their own land and build one. If they demand special food in the shcools, let them open their own schools and run it themselves, making sure it complies with all other schools in the district. Make sure all the students learn english first, and start assimilating into the  society we have here in the states. "Learn the language and assimilate." If all immigrants did this, our country would be much better off. Instead we have places like Dearbron, Michigan which I now call Dearboristan for obvious reasons. They do not have to give up everything but they really should be adapting and assimilating into America, not trying to change it into Ameristan or wherever they immigrated from. Successful immigants have become part of the American tapestry and adpoted our way of life. Those who want to change our country into an Islamic enclave should not be allowed to stay here. That goes for ALL who want to come to America. Quit trying to change this country and us. Most of us are not interested. Diversity, political correctness and mutilculturalism have wreaked havoc in Europe and England. The same is happening here and it must be stopped now.

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A snapshot of the future in America’s heartland
By David Klepper

Like their predecessors, immigrants bring their own cultures. In May, Somali residents ruffled some feathers in Garden City after they requested a Muslim-only section in the city cemetery for religious reasons. “This is our home now,” said Abdulkadir Mohamed, a Somali Muslim and translator at the Tyson plant who moved here in 2006. “But we need a place for us in the cemetery.”

While most in town are handling the religious differences well, the request touched off a debate that exposed some holes in the city’s seemingly strong ethnic tapestry.

“We’ve been too politically correct for too long,” said Leonard Hitz, a former Marine, retired banker and self-described cowboy poet. “If you want to come to this country and be an American, you’re welcome. But learn the language and assimilate.”

For a growing number of Americans, home is far-west Kansas in a city of 28,000, a world away from native Mogadishu, Mexico City and Myanmar.

It’s where women in burqas stroll down a Norman Rockwell Main Street that is festooned with Fourth of July banners, and where a Buddhist temple sits alongside grocery stores selling Mexican soft drinks and 50-pound bags of jasmine rice.

“This is my home. I want to become American,” said Abshiro Warsame, a Somali woman who works the late shift at the nearby Tyson beef packing plant in Holcomb.

Warsame came to the U.S. seven years ago, after her husband was murdered. An American flag hangs in her small, shared flat. In her spare time, she studies English and Spanish.

By 2050, the Census Bureau predicts, the United States will have a new ethnic minority: non-Hispanic whites. Already, non-Hispanic whites are a minority in California, Texas, New Mexico and Hawaii, as well as in about 1 in 10 U.S. counties.

America’s future just seems to have arrived early here.

New census numbers show that non-Hispanic whites now account for just under 50 percent of Finney County’s 42,000 residents. Hispanic residents — who may be of any race — make up another 45 percent, with African-Americans, Asian-Americans and a variety of immigrants rounding out the rest.

The county is the latest in Kansas where non-Hispanic whites are the new minority.

According to projections, the 2010 U.S. Census will show non-Hispanic whites as the minority in as many as four Kansas counties: Finney, Seward, Grant and Ford, all in southwestern Kansas. Non-Hispanic whites for years have been a minority in Wyandotte County, which has significant African-American and Hispanic populations.

Heartland attraction

Immigration, of course, is among the reasons for the demographic shift. Across the nation, immigration is challenging communities. Schools are searching for more money to hire interpreters. Governments are struggling to integrate newcomers. Longtime residents are adapting to neighbors who look, cook and speak differently.

Some people are pushing back.

Arizona sparked a political firestorm earlier this year by passing a law to crack down on illegal immigration. Late last month, residents in Fremont, Neb., approved a law prohibiting businesses and landlords from hiring or renting to illegal immigrants.

But the changes may be inexorable. The non-Hispanic white population is aging and its birthrates falling. Hispanic birthrates are rising. So is legal immigration.

Meat-packing centers such as Garden City offer an attractive destination during a down economy, with plentiful jobs that require few skills and little training.

Like their predecessors, immigrants bring their own cultures. In May, Somali residents ruffled some feathers in Garden City after they requested a Muslim-only section in the city cemetery for religious reasons. “This is our home now,” said Abdulkadir Mohamed, a Somali Muslim and translator at the Tyson plant who moved here in 2006. “But we need a place for us in the cemetery.”

While most in town are handling the religious differences well, the request touched off a debate that exposed some holes in the city’s seemingly strong ethnic tapestry.

“We’ve been too politically correct for too long,” said Leonard Hitz, a former Marine, retired banker and self-described cowboy poet. “If you want to come to this country and be an American, you’re welcome. But learn the language and assimilate.”

While other rural communities see populations dwindle and economies decline as their young people move away, Garden City is growing.

“This community doesn’t look like it once did in the ’50s and ’60s,” said former Mayor Nancy Harness. “But you know, the communities that look the same way they did back then? They’re all dying. These people bring fresh blood. They bring children.”

Sometimes that means reaching across a religious divide. Islam requires adherents to pray five times daily. To accommodate new Muslim workers, Tyson set up separate prayer rooms for men and women. The company also supplied prayer rugs, each outfitted with a compass to allow Muslims to pray toward Mecca.

The rooms fill up with workers from Myanmar, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.

“If we didn’t have this, we could not work here,” said Somali immigrant Farah Hanaf, 26. “It shows that they accept us.”

Immigration posed some of the toughest challenges to Garden City’s schools. Imagine the challenge of teaching 3,000 schoolchildren who speak a language other than English. The district, which has 7,400 pupils, had to hire more English language teachers. Even the cafeteria menu was changed to offer familiar foods.

Read the complete article here