The Latest Update on the Geert Wilders Trial

A DEFENDER of the free (and a frequent commenter on CitizenWarrior.com) just alerted me to a web site devoted to staying up to date on the Geert Wilders trial. Excellent. Check it out:

Wilders on Trial

Thank you, Damien! The latest update says: "The criminal proceedings against Geert Wilders will continue in October of this year. The dates of absence of the people involved in the proceedings prevent the case coming up for trial sooner. The last expert-witnesses will be heard on the 28th of June."

I see no way to subscribe to the updates via email yet, but there is a way to get email updates on any blog using the RSS feed. Just go here:

http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?AddFeed

And paste in the RSS feed address for Wilders on Trial, which is:

http://www.wildersontrial.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss

Any new updates on that web site will be sent to your email inbox. Spread the word.

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A Cry of Despair From Malaysia

WE RECENTLY received another email from Jasmine in Malaysia. We've posted something from her before. This time she wrote:

I just cried when I read from Stop Islam's Relentless Encroachment the article called You Will Be Muslim" posted Feb 10 2009.

Why some American schools allowed Islamic teachings when Christian teachings are sidelined? Why Oh Why?

Why not Christian values, passages from the Bible (and also Christian History, like the inquisition & crusades); Islamic ideology, passages from Koran and Islamic History taught in shcools?

Christians have learned from the Inquisition & Crusades. But Muslims? Keep on persecuting infidels?

Ya, I read that Islam was in Spain 800 years and Christians survived. Sure, survived at a heavy price like higher taxation & I guess some other injustices as well.

Why do Americans allow this??? I just can't believe what I read!!!

I'm so disillusioned - like there is no hope. I also viewed all the 7 youtubes forum by Brigitte Gabriel. She knows better as she was from Lebenon.

Here in Malaysia, all we can do is pray. We cannot question. At least in America there is still freedom to voice out like what Brigitte is doing.

As for the Geert Wilders trial, I am watching very closely.

Have the West & America give in to Islam??? If they have, then the whole world is gone.

I answered her with this simple statement: "No we have not given in. There are those who are actively fighting against it, and there are those who are completely ignorant of it. Very few who are aware of it have given in. Very very few."

This is similar to the situation on board Flight 93. The three other planes flew into buildings, killing everyone on the plane. The passengers believed the Islamic supremacists who said they would land the plane safely, so they stayed in their seats. They didn't know any better.

But the passengers aboard Flight 93, with only a little more information, realized what they were up against and they fought back. It took the Muslims two years to plan their attack; but forty strangers were able to defeat their plot in a half hour.

What is needed is more people who know the goals of Islam and the method (waging jihad by gaining concessions). Once enough people know, the rest will be easy. Wield your freedom of speech and get the word out now. Start here: Just One Thing.

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Why Girls Are the Key

Below are a couple of quotes from an article in the New York Times called The Women's Crusade, by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof, the authors of Half the Sky and the creators of the Girl Effect.

If you help women, you solve many of the problems we have on earth, including the problem of Islam's relentless encroachment.

The reason I feel this should be shared is because about half the non-Muslims who write to me and who want to do something about the terrifying brilliance of Islam are not very adept at influencing people. They have a strong desire to share what they know, but they are finding that the only people willing to listen are those who already know it and agree with it.

But we need to reach the rest of them. That is a central pivot point in the cause. If enough people knew, we could change national polices. But some people really don't want to know about it, for whatever reason, so the word is not spreading as quickly as it should.

One way to deal with it is to improve your ability to influence people, which I highly recommend. But another way is to choose something that has less built-in ready-made resistance to it. The Girl Effect is an excellent candidate.

You can get people to watch and share the video on the Girl Effect website and you can convince them to get involved. You can share with them the quotations below, and invite them to join the Girl Effect on FaceBook to get updates. You can read the book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide and share the book with your friends. And for all these things, you will get very little resistance.

Anyway, on with the quotes:

There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That’s why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution...

In many poor countries, the greatest unexploited resource isn’t oil fields or veins of gold; it is the women and girls who aren’t educated and never become a major presence in the formal economy. With education and with help starting businesses, impoverished women can earn money and support their countries as well as their families. They represent perhaps the best hope for fighting global poverty...

Our interviews and perusal of the data available suggest that the poorest families in the world spend approximately 10 times as much (20 percent of their incomes on average) on a combination of alcohol, prostitution, candy, sugary drinks and lavish feasts as they do on educating their children (2 percent). If poor families spent only as much on educating their children as they do on beer and prostitutes, there would be a breakthrough in the prospects of poor countries. Girls, since they are the ones kept home from school now, would be the biggest beneficiaries. Moreover, one way to reallocate family expenditures in this way is to put more money in the hands of women. A series of studies has found that when women hold assets or gain incomes, family money is more likely to be spent on nutrition, medicine and housing, and consequently children are healthier.

In Ivory Coast, one research project examined the different crops that men and women grow for their private kitties: men grow coffee, cocoa and pineapple, and women grow plantains, bananas, coconuts and vegetables. Some years the “men’s crops” have good harvests and the men are flush with cash, and other years it is the women who prosper. Money is to some extent shared. But even so, the economist Esther Duflo of M.I.T. found that when the men’s crops flourish, the household spends more money on alcohol and tobacco. When the women have a good crop, the households spend more money on food. “When women command greater power, child health and nutrition improves,” Duflo says.

...Yet another reason to educate and empower women is that greater female involvement in society and the economy appears to undermine extremism and terrorism. It has long been known that a risk factor for turbulence and violence is the share of a country’s population made up of young people. Now it is emerging that male domination of society is also a risk factor; the reasons aren’t fully understood, but it may be that when women are marginalized the nation takes on the testosterone-laden culture of a military camp or a high-school boys’ locker room. That’s in part why the Joint Chiefs of Staff and international security specialists are puzzling over how to increase girls’ education in countries like Afghanistan — and why generals have gotten briefings from Greg Mortenson, who wrote about building girls’ schools in his best seller, “Three Cups of Tea.”

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How Similar Are These Two Books?

In a Wall Street Journal article, Stop The Trial Of Geert Wilders, Leon de Winter wrote:

The Amsterdam court trying the controversial Dutch politician is now preoccupied with the question of whether this book, sacred to more than a billion believers, can be compared to one of the most vile publications in the history of Western civilization — Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

In his writing and speeches, Mr. Wilders has found these two works to be similar in terms of their anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred, and has thus called for a publishing ban on the Quran similar to the one in place for "Mein Kampf." This is what triggered Mr. Wilders's prosecution for discriminatory and insulting remarks against Muslims and Islam.

The court will have to determine just how similar the two books are! And they will do it on camera.

This trial may be the best thing that has ever happened to the citizen warriors of the world who have been trying to educate our fellow non-Muslims about Islam's relentless encroachment. Geert's trial is going to help bring to light the content of Islamic doctrine to an audience who would normally avoid the knowledge.

Thank you, Pastorius, for bringing this article to my attention.

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Freedom of Cuisine Versus Freedom of Speech

In an article in the Telegraph, Ed West writes, "Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party is on course to top the polls in the Dutch election in the summer, after tremendous gains in local elections this week – it came first in Almere and second in The Hague, the two only local authorities the party contested, and this despite Wilders being put on trial earlier this year for 'insulting Islam.'

"Or maybe because of… Despite the media consensus that Wilders is 'far-Right' and Islamphobic, and a trouble-maker with a dodgy haircut, the Dutch people obviously saw his trial for what it was – proof of his point that multiculturalism threatens freedom. They decided that, whatever the benefits of 'diversity,' the most important thing is diversity of opinion. Freedom to eat two dozen different cuisines in an evening or visit half a dozen religious buildings is small comfort if it is at the expense of freedom of speech.

"...unlike many opponents of mass immigration, he’s not a fascist or a racist – the British establishment would love Wilders to reveal himself to be another Nick Griffin or Jorg Haider, someone with lots of skeletons dressed in SS uniform in his closet, but he’s not. He’s just a normal mainstream conservative who sees, like many others, that the liberal establishment suffers from sort of groupthink madness when it comes to the subject of immigration."

Read the article here: Is Geert Wilders the new William of Orange?

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