Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me (34 page)

We have to stop pretending that Islam is merely a religion—it is primarily a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West. A free society should not grant freedom to those who want to destroy it. Every
halal
shop, every mosque, every Islamic school, and every
burka
is regarded by Islam as a step toward the ultimate goal of our submission. As such, we must close down all Islamic schools, for they are totalitarian institutions where young children are indoctrinated into an ideology of violence and hatred. We must also close down all radical mosques and forbid the construction of new mosques, which Islam regards as symbols of its triumph. And we must ban the
burka
—people’s faces should not be hidden in society, for it is our faces that give us our identity and our fundamental means of communication with others.

The West must also stand up to intolerant Islamic regimes. They should recognize that human rights exist to protect individuals, not religions and ideologies. Member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation that do not renounce the Cairo Declaration, which elevates Sharia law over human rights, should be expelled from the United Nations. Until this happens, Western nations should refuse to make any financial contributions to the UN. As I have argued since 2007, Western countries should cut all development aid to OIC members that adhere to the Cairo Declaration and minimize bilateral relations with them.
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Since Islam has global ambitions, we are all in danger, and we should stand with every nation and every people that is threatened by jihad. This includes Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. We should recognize that the Israelis’ conflict with the Palestinians is not about land; it is an ideological conflict between freedom and tyranny. We must also stand with all the oppressed non-Muslim groups suffering in silence throughout the Islamic world—the Christians, Zoroastrians, animists, and secularists in nations like Egypt, Iran, the Sudan, Nigeria, Indonesia, and elsewhere.

Fourth, we must cherish our national identity. In Europe, this means we have to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state and reverse the intrusions of the European Union. Our nation-states embody our democratic liberties and safeguard our national political freedom. That is why multiculturalists are hostile to the nation-state; they want to dissolve our sovereignty in a giant, Europe-wide bureaucracy that they control. People cannot attain security or preserve their collective identity without a nation-state, which enables self-government and self-determination. This insight led the Zionists to re-establish the state of Israel, with Theodor Herzl arguing that a Jewish state would facilitate “a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.”
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Today, we need our respective nation-states to preside over a new blossoming of the
Western
spirit.

The peoples of the free world can defend their liberties only if they can rally around a flag with which they identify. This flag, symbolizing ancient loyalties, can only be the flag of our nation. We love our nations because they are our home, because they are the legacy our fathers bestowed on us and which we want to bestow on our children.

Uniformity is not characteristic of the West; it is a feature of Islam, which eradicated the national identities of the peoples it conquered. The Coptic identity of Egypt, the Indian identity of Pakistan, the Assyrian identity of Iraq, the Persian identity of Iran—they were all suppressed, if not totally wiped away. Islam wants all nations replaced by the
Umma,
the collective identity of the Islamic nation to which all must be subservient and into which all national identities must vanish.

Resistance against Islamization is a patriotic duty. There is no Dutch flag in the Dutch Parliament, but a copy of the Koran lies on the Speaker’s desk. Let’s get rid of the Koran and bring in the national flag—in the Netherlands and in all free nations.

Striving to create a supranational Caliphate, Islam threatens the survival of all free peoples. Dutchmen, Americans, Canadians, Australians, Indians, Germans, Brits, Russians, Irishmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Danes, Swiss, Israelis, and others should unite against our common adversary. We must stand together to counter Islamization. The Islamic tide is strong, but the West has repulsed it before, and we can do it again.

The political elite reject my proposed solutions to Islamization and mass immigration, believing that the problems can be solved largely by accommodating Islam. They can call their policies “tolerance,” “coexistence,” or some other pleasant-sounding euphemism, but in fact they are all tantamount to surrender. And as Winston Churchill said, “Never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
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If we do not oppose Islamization, we will lose everything: our freedom, our identity, our democracy, our rule of law, and all our liberties. It is our duty to defend the legacy of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem.

In 1862, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
³²

Just so. The West is in danger, but we can still prevail. We begin the struggle by standing up for our values and telling the truth about Islam. Even when we are insulted, even when we are harassed and intimidated, even when we are marked for death just for stating an opinion—we must never be silenced.

Notes

CHAPTER 1

1
Thomas Landen, “Heeere’s Muhammed!” Stonegate Institute, January 4, 2010,
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/980/heeeres-muhammed
.

2
Flemming Rose, “Why I Published Those Cartoons,”
Washington Post,
February 19, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702499.html
.

3
Adrian Humphreys, “The Most Hated Man in Mecca: Meet the Cartoonist Who Set the World on Fire,”
National Post
(Toronto), October 3, 2009.

4
Patricia Cohen, “Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book,”
New York Times,
August 12, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html
.

5
Matthew Campbell, “Panic Room Saved Artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist Assassin,”
Sunday Times
(London), January 3, 2010,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6973966.ece
.

6
“Muhammad Cartoonist ‘Full of Angst,’” AFP (Paris), November 15, 2010, available at
News24.com
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Muhammad-cartoonist-full-of-angst-20101115
.

7
“Norwegian Held over Cartoonist Plot,” AFP (Paris), September 17, 2011, available at
News24.com
,
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Norwegian-held-over-cartoonist-plot-20110917
.

8
Kurt Westergaard, “Why I Drew the Cartoon: The ‘Muhammad Affair’ in Retrospect,”
Daily Princetonian,
October 1, 2009,
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/10/01/23967/
.

9
“Somali Man Charged in Attack on Danish Cartoonist,” Associated Press, available on
USA Today,
January 2, 2010,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-01-danish-cartoonist-attack_N.htm
.

10
“Westergaard Is Best Forgotten: Revenge Attack on Danish Cartoonist Highlights Insult Wrought by Danish Media,” Gulf News, January 3, 2010,
http://gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/westergaard-is-best-forgotten-1.561259
.

11
Leviticus 24:20. Also: Exodus 21:24; Deuteronomy 19:21.

12
Landen, “Heeere’s Muhammed!”

13
Ronald Reagan, “The Future Doesn’t Belong to the Fainthearted,” Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 1986, in Brian MacArthur, ed.,
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches
(Penguin, 1999), p. 455.

CHAPTER 2

1
Fitna
is available for viewing at:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=216_1207467783
.

2
“US Media Pins Europe as Training Ground for Terror,”
Economic Times
(New Delhi), April 17, 2003,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes
. com/2003-04-17/news/27540826_1_al-qaeda-militants-jammu-and-kashmir-german-intelligence-officials.

3
“‘Geitenneuker zeggen mag. Allah beledigen niet,’”
Elsevier
(Amsterdam), December 27, 2004,
http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Nederland/09156/Geitenneuker-zeggen-mag.-Allah-beledigen-niet.htm
. “Theo van Gogh: ‘Wat is er mis met geitenneuker?’”
HP/De Tijd
(Amsterdam), October 28, 2009,
http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2009-10-28/theo-van-gogh-wat-is-er-mis-met-geitenneuker
.

4
Statement of Theo van Gogh to the Amsterdam police, “Proces-Verbaal 99023171,” Politie Amsterdam-Amstelland, District 3, November 11, 1999,
http://www.theovangogh.nl/proverbl.html
.

5
Frank van Hoorn, “73 jaar ‘vrijheid,’”
Elsevier Magazine
(Amsterdam), May 15, 2007,
http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Artikel/175175/Vrijheid-Dat-mag-je-niet-zeggen.htm
.

6
Leon de Winter, “Fatal Detraction: A Provocative, and Offensive, Filmmaker and Columnist Attacks Islam and Pays with His Life,”
Wall Street Journal,
November 5, 2004.

7
Hans Jansen, “In negentig seconden, graag,”
HP/De Tijd
(Amsterdam), December 19, 2008.

8
“‘Syriër die Hofstadgroep inspireerde al lang weg,’”
Trouw
(Amsterdam), December 27, 2004,
http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/nieuws/archief/article/detail/1738560/2004/12/27/Syrier-die-Hofstadgroep-inspireerde-al-lang-weg.dhtml
.

9
“Moslimorganizaties spreken afschuw uit,”
De Telegraaf
(Amsterdam), November 3, 2004.

10
The NCTV website says “The authorities avoid using the terms ‘Islamic terrorism’ or ‘Muslim terrorism’ or ‘Islamist terrorism’ as much as possible. The large majority of Muslims consider terrorism to be un-Islamic and resent their religion being in any way connected with terrorism. For similar reasons the term ‘religiously inspired terrorism’ cannot be used. This encourages the notion that a religion as such could be a foundation for violence.” “Jihadism and Jihadist Terrorism,” Nationaal Coordinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid website,
http://www.nctb.nl/onderwerpen/terrorismebestrijding/wat_is_terrorisme/jihadisme_en_jihadistisch_terrorisme.aspx
.

11
James Slack, “Government Renames Islamic Terrorism as ‘Anti-Islamic Activity’ to Woo Muslims,”
Daily Mail
(London), January 17, 2008,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-508901/Government-renames-Islamic-terrorism-anti-Islamic-activity-woo-Muslims.html
.

12
“Aan de Voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal—Onderw-erp: Van Gogh,” letter of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior to the Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives,
Tweede Kamer,
November 10, 2004, available on the Buro Jansen & Janssen website,
http://www.burojansen.nl/documenten/brief10nov2004terrorisme.doc
.

13
Both letters are available on Militant Islam Monitor, “Articles,” “English Translation—Letter Left on Theo Van Gogh’s Body by the Militant Islamist Killer was ‘Jihad Manifesto’—A Call to Destroy America and All ‘Unbelievers,’” November 5, 2004,
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/312
.

14
Anthony Browne, “Anti-Muslim Dutch Politicians in Hiding after Death Threats,”
Times
(London), November 5, 2004,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article503307.ece
.

15
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on A New Beginning,” White-house. gov, June 4, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
.

16
“A Fear of Ideas:
3:AM
Columnist David Thompson Talks about Islam, Freedom and Denial with the Muslim Novelist and Exile Tahir Aslam Gora,”
3:AM Magazine
(Paris), September 11, 2007,
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-fear-of-ideas/
.

17
“Al-Azhar’s Response to the US on Religious Freedom: The Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar Response to the US State Department’s 2010 Report on Religious Freedom in Egypt,” Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar,
OnIslam.net
, December 19, 2010,
http://www.onislam.net/english/shariah/contemporary-issues/interfaith-intercivilizational-and-intercultural/450186-al-azhars-response-to-the-us-on-religious-freedom. html?Intercultural=
.

18
“Egypt Blogger Jailed for ‘Insult’: An Egyptian Court Has Sentenced a Blogger to Four Years’ [sic] Prison for Insulting Islam and the President,” BBC News (London), February 22, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385849.stm
.

19
Having served his sentence, Amer was released in November 2010, but not before he was beaten up by an Egyptian security officer. “Prior to His Release after Spending Four Years in Prison State Security Officer Beat Kareem Amer and Held Him Illegally,” Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, November 10, 2010,
http://www.anhri.net/en/?p=1636
.

20
Wafa Sultan, “Who Should We Believe?” Stonegate Institute, June 12, 2009,
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/579/who-should-we-believe
.

21
“The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030,” Pew Research Center, January 27, 2011,
http://pewforum.org/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx
.

22
J. B. Duroselle and Ian J. Bickerton, “Treaties—Creating a Framework for Making Treaties,”
Encyclopedia of the American Foreign Relations,
ed. The Gale Group, 2002,
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Treaties-Creating-a-framework-for-making-treaties.html
.

23
In 1786 Thomas Jefferson, then-U.S. Ambassador to France, and John Adams, then-U.S. Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey of Algiers’ Ambassador to Britain, to negotiate a peace treaty. To the U.S. Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims’ hostility toward America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. Jefferson wrote in his report to Secretary of State John Jay that upon inquiring “concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury,” the ambassador replied “that [this right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.” “American Peace Commissioners to John Jay,” March 28, 1786, in the Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1: General Correspondence. 1651-1827 (Library of Congress: Washington, D.C.).

24
William J. Federer, “Obama—Student of History? (Part 5)—Treaty of Tripoli,”
Worldview Times,
September 22, 2009,
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=5420
.

25
John Quincy Adams in Joseph Blunt,
The American Annual Register; for the Years 1827-8-9
(E. & G. W. Blunt, 1830), 29:269,
http://www.archive.org/stream/p1americanannual29blunuoft
.

26
Ibid.

27
George W Bush, “Islam Is Peace Says President: Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.,” the White House: President George W Bush website, September 17, 2001,
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
.

28
Obama, “Remarks by the President on A New Beginning.”

29
“Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary,” signed at Tripoli, Barbary (contemporary Libya), November 4, 1796. The text can be found at the website of the Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, Yale Law School: Lillian Goldman Law Library,
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp
.

30
Andrew Walden, “The Colonial War against Islam,”
FrontPage Magazine,
January 5, 2007,
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticleaspx?ARTID=758
. .

31
John Quincy Adams in
The American Annual Register,
29:274,
http://www.archive.org/stream/p1americanannua129blunuoft
.

32
Bey
is the Turkish word for “chieftain.”
Dey,
which literally means “mater nal uncle,” was the title given to the Regent of Algiers.

33
John Quincy Adams in
The American Annual Register,
29:274-75,
http://www.archive.org/stream/p1americanannual29blunuoft
.

34
Ibid., 29:299-300.

35
Ibid., 29:274.

36
The correct Arabic plural for
sura
(verse) is
suwar;
the plural for
kafir
(unbeliever) is
kuffar.
I use the normal English plural for the Arabic word in its singular form.

37
Koran 24:27. The sura translations are from
The Koran,
trans. with notes by N. J. Dawood (Penguin Books, 1956).

38
Alfred Guillaume,
Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah
(Oxford University Press, 1955), pp. 482-84.

39
Koran 4:89.

40
Ali Sina, M. A. Khan, Abul Kasem, M. A. Hussain, Sher Khan, Syed Kamran Mirza, Mumin Salih, “Who are We?” Islam Watch,
http://www.islam-watch.org/IW/aboutus.htm
.

41
“‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist Goes into Hiding at FBI’s Insistence after Assassination Threat,” Fox News, September 16, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/16/draw-muhammad-cartoonist-goes-hiding/
.

42
Dutch Penal Code, articles 137c and 137d.

43
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “In Holland, Free Speech on Trial,”
Wall Street Journal,
October 11, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657304575539872944767984.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion
.

44
Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia,” 1781, in
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters,
ed. Merrill D. Peterson (Library of America, 1984).

45
Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on Religion,
1776, Papers 1:548. This quote is originally from John Locke.

46
Abraham Lincoln, “Letter to Henry L. Pierce & Others,” April 6, 1859, in
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. III,
ed. Roy P. Basler (Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 376.

47
Robert Spencer,
The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion
(Regnery, 2006), p. 153.