Geert Wilders, the founder and leader of the Party for Freedom, currently the second largest party in the Dutch parliament, gave a speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s the American Freedom Alliance’s annual Heroes of Conscience dinner on Sunday night.
UPDATE: As the Dutch politician spoke to WND before addressing the American Freedom Alliance’s annual Heroes of Conscience dinner here Sunday night, it wasn’t hard to imagine why he has been under constant protection, courtesy of his government, since November 2004, when two North African Muslims were accused of planning to murder him. “Islam is the problem,” said Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, now the country’s second largest in Parliament. “We can only deal with [the threat] if we first face the truth, [which] might not be too politically correct, but still is the truth, and that is that Islam — and not Islamism or radical Islam, but Islam — is an evil ideology like communism or fascism that has no place in a free society,” he told WND. “And at the end of the day it will replace us, and we will lose our freedom,” he said. The West, Wilders emphasized, is “faced today with an existential problem.” “If we don’t act today, we cease to exist in the future.” Wilders applauded Trump for frankly recognizing the global “fight between good and evil,” but the Dutchman insisted the evil isn’t confined to certain people within the community of Islam. (More, includes video interview)
Geert Wilders Keynote @ AFA 2017 Heroes of Conscience Awards https://t.co/eMH5q6YTUj— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) May 23, 2017
UPDATE: As the Dutch politician spoke to WND before addressing the American Freedom Alliance’s annual Heroes of Conscience dinner here Sunday night, it wasn’t hard to imagine why he has been under constant protection, courtesy of his government, since November 2004, when two North African Muslims were accused of planning to murder him. “Islam is the problem,” said Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, now the country’s second largest in Parliament. “We can only deal with [the threat] if we first face the truth, [which] might not be too politically correct, but still is the truth, and that is that Islam — and not Islamism or radical Islam, but Islam — is an evil ideology like communism or fascism that has no place in a free society,” he told WND. “And at the end of the day it will replace us, and we will lose our freedom,” he said. The West, Wilders emphasized, is “faced today with an existential problem.” “If we don’t act today, we cease to exist in the future.” Wilders applauded Trump for frankly recognizing the global “fight between good and evil,” but the Dutchman insisted the evil isn’t confined to certain people within the community of Islam. (More, includes video interview)