Geert Wilders in Berlin: Be very afraid!

Geert Wilders took his "Keep the Fear Alive" roadshow to Berlin to show support for Rene Stadtkewitz and his flailing Die Freiheit Partei (Freedom Party).  Wilders spoke before an enthusisatic crowd of about 550 and was introduced by the founder of the hate blog Politically Incorrect. 

WIlders gave his usual pitch about how Europe is quickly becoming Islamicized due to the cowardice and political correctness of the "elite class", how Islam is incompatible with western values and is, after all, not even a religion but rather a totalitarian ideology. 

In his speech, Wilders directly attacked German Chancellor Angela Merkel twice, accusing her of capitulating to Islam's growing presence and power in Germany:

Trotz meines prall gefüllten Terminkalenders war es mir ein Anliegen, nach Berlin zu kommen, weil auch Deutschland eine politische Bewegung braucht, die die deutsche Identität verteidigt und die sich der Islamisierung Deutschlands entgegenstellt. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel sagt, die Islamisierung Deutschlands sei unvermeidlich. Sie hat die Bürger dazu aufgerufen, sich auf weitere Veränderungen durch Einwanderung einzustellen. Sie möchte, dass Sie sich den daraus resultierenden Umständen anpassen. Die Vorsitzende der Christlich Demokratischen Union sagte – ich zitiere: “Moscheen etwa werden stärker als früher ein Teil unseres Stadtbildes sein.“ Ende des Zitats.

(In spite of my tight schedule I felt it was important to come to Berlin since Germany also needs a political movement that defends German identity, which stands in opposition to the Islamacization of Germany.  Chancellor Angela Merke says that the Islamization of Germany is unavoidable. She has called on citizens to get ready for further changes due to immigration.  She wants people to adjust to the new conditions.  The Chairwoman of the CDU has said, "Mosques will be a bigger factor in our cities than ever before.")

Sind wir dabei, die verhängnisvollen Fehler der Weimarer Republik zu wiederholen? Ergeben wir uns dem Islam, da unsere Hingabe zur Freiheit bereits tot ist? Nein, dies wird keinesfalls geschehen. Wir sind nicht wie Frau Merkel. Wir akzeptieren die Islamisierung nicht als unabwendbar. Wir müssen die Freiheit erhalten.

(Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic? Are we capitulating to Islam because our dedication to freedom is dead? No, that will never happen.  We are not like Mrs. Merkel. We don't accept that Islamization is unavoidable.  We must retain our freedom. )

In this one speech Wilders referred to two American presidents: Ronald Reagan and Theodore Rooselvelt.  Reagan for standing up to evils of communism (Islam = Communisim = Nazism) and Roosevelt for insisting that immigrants to the US adopt an "American identity" ("Präsident Theodore Roosevelt hatte eine klare Vorstellung von den Pflichten der Zuwanderer.") Actually, for Geert Wilders to evoke Teddy Roosevelt is probably appropriate, since TR was a notorious racist and eugenicist, who felt strongly that "inferior races" could never become true Americans.  He despised slavery, not because it was an abomination, but rather because it brought the black man to American soil: ""The presence of the negro is the real problem; slavery is merely the worst possible method of solving the problem" -=Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Vol 3).