Marked for Death

Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders, Regnery Publishing, 2012. 

Freedom of Speech

Wilders discusses several Europeans whose freedom of speech has been attacked for telling the truth about Islam. Jean-Claude Barreau was fired from his position in the French government for writing a book critical of Islam in 1991. On May 6, 2002, Pim Fortuyn, who advocated discrimination in favor of Christianity and against Islam, and who favored banning Islamic schools, was assassinated by animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf. On November 2, 2004 Theo van Gogh was killed by Mohammed Bouyeri for making the film Submission. On November 4, 2004 the Dutch government took Wilders and his family into protective custody. Wilders made the film Fitna in 2008. Wilders had difficulty finding television networks who were willing to show his film Fitna, so he released it on the Internet, at LiveLeak, in 2008. In 2009 Geert Wilders received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award. Wilders was denounced by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for offending Muslims. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banned Wilders from visiting Indonesia. He was prosecuted for “incitement to hatred and discrimination”. In 2011 Geert Wilders was acquitted because he was criticizing Islam, not Muslims. On January 1, 2010 a Somali Muslim immigrant, Muhudiin M. Geele, used an ax to break into the home of the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

Welfare as Jizya

Many Muslim immigrants to Europe perceive the welfare payments they receive as jizya, a tax dhimmis owe Muslims.

Immigrant Crime

The Kanaleneiland district of Utrecht has become run down and full of crime since Muslim immigrants have replaced many of the working-class Christian residents. Slotervaart, a borough of Amsterdam, has been abandoned by the Dutch police, after it was overrun by Muslim immigrants. France has 751 dangerous Muslim neighborhoods called ZUS (zones urbaines sensibles), containing 5 million people, that French citizens are warned not to enter, for their own safety. There were riots in the ZUS in 2005 that destroyed 10,000 cars and 300 buildings. 

Multiculturalism in Europe

Britain’s Labour Party has promoted immigration to make the United Kingdom more multicultural. The highest court of the European Union, the European Court of Justice, has annulled immigration legislation of The Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland. Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel have declared multiculturalism to be a failure. When the European people rejected the Constitution of the European Union by direct vote referenda in 2005, the European Union rewrote the measure as the Lisbon Treaty and passed it in the national legislatures. Wilders opposes Dutch membership in the European Union. Wilders also opposes admitting the Muslim-majority nation of Turkey into to the European Union. 

Arab Enslavement of Africans

Wilders remarks that the history of Islamic slavery is not well known, and that the largest slave revolt in history was the Zanj rebellion of agricultural slaves near Basra against the Abbasid Caliphate from 868 to 883 A.D. The Zanj (Arabic for black) people spoke Bantu and lived in East Africa, ranging from Mogadishu to the island of Zanzibar, which is named after them. 

Who Transmitted the Greek Classics?

Sylvain Gouguenheim, a professor of medieval history at l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, argues that ancient Greek philosophy reached medieval Europe first through Roman Catholic monks. Much of ancient Greek philosophy arrived in Western Europe by Orthodox Christians fleeing the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Wilders blames Sigrid Hunke, a German pagan Unitarian and friend of Heinrich Himmler, for promoting the disinformation that medieval Europe first learned Greek philosophy from Muslims in Andalusia.