Geert Wilders in Rome: Defending the West from Cultural Relativism and Jihad

AMERICAN THINKER, 3/26/2011 by Andrew G. Bostom (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler via MILINET/email) - Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address yesterday evening (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy. ∴ As is his wont, Wilders presentation moved far beyond the timorous platitudes about the most obvious (and dangerous) failures of cultural relativism belatedly echoed by Western European leaders Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, and David Cameron. Wilders demands that the West acknowledge the jihad-both cultural and military-being waged against it openly and incessantly by institutional Islam, Muslim nations, and the global umma. The Ducth Parlaimentarian concludes his eloquent and informative speech by insisting that four concrete measures must be taken immediately, quoting Ronald Reagan, so we can "...act today to preserve tomorrow."

1. Defend freedom of speech
   
2. End cultural relativism and re-assert our belief in the superiority of Western culture compared to Islamic culture
   
3. Stop the Islamization of the West because, "more Islam means less freedom."
   
4. Restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state

Wilder's speech in its entirety, is reproduced [at]: American Thinker...