Allen West on Geert Wilders
I recently read of the travails of my fellow IFPS board member Geert Wilders. A day later my attention was drawn to President Barack Hussein Obama signing an executive order to shut down operations at the Guantanamo detention facility.
By Lieut. Col. Allen B. West (ret.)
The irony struck me that here we have the new President seeking to extend US Constitutional protections to Islamic terrorists, the enemy. We plan to provide them legal rights under the equal protection clause. Yet in Holland, a fellow democracy, the government is ordering the criminal prosecution of an elected representative for exercising one of the Western world’s most precious freedoms, freedom of speech; and in this case, freedom of speech to discuss the jihadist ideology of the enemy.
Allen West paying tribute to the US troops
What is happening in Western civilization? Have we become so enamored with this illness called multiculturalism that we are embarrassed to honor and defend our own cultural principles? Can nothing be more shocking than to charge a member of the Dutch Parliament with “hate speech” for speaking the truth?
This reminds me of the seminal scene from the movie A Few Good Men. “I want the truth,” one of the character says. And the response was: “You can’t handle the truth.” I am starting to believe that we–actually our elected officials–are not leaders, and cannot handle the truth. The truth is that an enemy does exist and that this enemy lives amongst us, and hates us. The truth is that our insidious policies of open immigration and multiculturalism are now ushering in our demise and promoting the deconstruction of our Western civilizational values, freedom of conscience, and the freedom to express our thoughts.
The truth as I see is that we no longer have men in Western governments who are willing to defend our way of life. I find this prosecution of Geert Wilders to be an example of abject cowardice. How can it be that Islam has become such an intimidating religion that men cower away? And I address “men” because I have found more often that women are taking a stand and condemning this modern-day totalitarian, imperialistic radical ideology mired in antiquated 7th century concepts.
Islam as a religion elevates and follows a man who was nothing more than a psychopath, murderous warlord, and by modern-day standards a sexual deviant and pedophile. Islam as a political entity is based upon complete submission and seeks only to subjugate and suppress every freedom we cherish in western civilization. Until Islam undergoes a reformative process bringing it into alignment with the rest of the world, then I shall reject it, and stand against it. The converse I find reprehensible; to convert, be subjugated, or die, which are the Koranic options given to me, a non-Muslim.
I will gladly peacefully coexist with Islam. Can the same be said in reverse? And do not tell me about the Koranic verse stating, “there is no compulsion in religion,” because I understand the theory of naskh or abrogation. That means that the later verses of the Koran supercede previous verses. As a result, most violent verses in the Koran abrogate previous “peaceful” writings.
Have I just committed hate speech? No, it is the truth according to the Koran and the Hadiths, and I have no fear in stating such. I will not allow Western civilization nor America to be paralyzed by soft or hard jihad, by legal tactics, nor kinetic attacks. I pledge to fight, not for myself, but for others, for our future and legacy which we leave our children and grandchildren. Any man that cannot find the courage to do so as well, especially leaders in western civilization, I call a coward.
Geert, stand resolute, my comrade. You will win this fight, and we shall defeat this third jihad and incursion to defeat our way of life.
All who read this post never forget a simple maxim which I live by: “When tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide”.
Count on Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West to stand and fight against this enemy, radical Islamic terrorism and their state sponsors anywhere, anytime.
Steadfast and Loyal,
ABW
Lieut. Col. Allen B. West (ret.) is a member of the IFPS board of advisors. He served 22 years in the US Army, spending 43 months in the Middle East combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Comments
By zx10man on January 26th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I salute Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West!! It’s obvious from this short commentary that he has a clear & concise grasp of the problem of cancerous islam in the west. Thank you, good sir, for stating so eloquently what many of us readers see as so obvious.
By Mark Spiro on January 27th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Hats off to Allen West – It is refreshing to see that there are still some people who are capable and willing to speak the truth. He hit the nail right on the head.
By Beverly Payce on January 27th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Lieut. Col. Allan B. West.
I wish to commend Lieut. Col. Allan B. West on his courageous stand against the Islamic enemy. Also for standing behind Mr. Geert Wilder. This is an appalling miscarriage of justice. I am so glad their are still a few brave men in our society. I was appalled today when I heard Pres. Obama say that we have to extend the hand of friendship to the Muslim world. Is he insane.
Since when do we make the foes our friends. I believe it was Mr. Camberlain
who thought this way too and it all blew up in his face.
God Bless you and protect you Lieut. Co. West.
Sincerely, Bev
By Ken Besig on January 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Perhaps as an indication of which direction Western civilization is heading, while any criticism of Islam is taboo, no curse or call for the genocide of the Jewish People is ever condemned.
More and more loudly and clearly, demonstrators, Islamic leaders, Left wing pundits, and Right wing hate mongers throughout the West and of course, the Islamic world are calling for the genocide of the Jewish People. Often their remarks are not even reported, much less criticized, by either the mainstream media or any world leader. Indeed, these calls for genocide are routinely excused as being a reaction to Israeli policies, or Israeli actions towards Arabs, even though the tales of Israeli atrocities are always nothing but pure fiction.
Why does the West bow down and worship the evil that is so evident in Islam? No one knows, but I would suggest that those who can find no fault with Islam are the ones who can give chapter and verse regarding the inherent evil of the Jewish People.
By Citizen Warrior on January 30th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Good article.
But you are actually UNDERstating the case. Wilders doesn’t actually say anything in the film. He merely shows quotes from the Qur’an. And along with the quotes is film footage of modern Muslims acting out those passages.
The Muslim population has gotten too high in the Netherlands. As long as a group is politically active and organized, they do not have to be a majority to exert disproportional influence.
We must stop Muslim immigration into the United States while it is still possible. Sign this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-more-Muslim-immigration
By Citizen Warrior on January 30th, 2009 at 5:27 am
I really like this article, but there ARE, in fact, men in Western governments who are willing to defend our way of life.
http://citizenwarriors.com/2008/09/frank-wolf-motivates-state-department.html
http://citizenwarriors.com/2008/09/tom-tancredo-makes-decent-proposal.html
and a woman:
http://citizenwarriors.com/2008/11/representative-sue-myrick.html
By Robin on February 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
The Lt. Col. Allen B. West is one thousand percent on target.
I am woman, 52, mother, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with this man.
Where are the rest of us???
Let our voices be heard and clearly understood.
By Jim Warner on February 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Col. West — I salute you sir. You have squarely addressed the central threat to our civilization, viz., large numbers of our fellow citizens in the west are ashamed of civilization.
By pub on February 18th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
It’s about demographics and we should have been paying attention. Lieutenant Colonel, please don’t give up the fight to help us save our Western world.
By Craig Zinkoski on February 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
We here in AMERICA need ABW as our President of the United States! As a Veteran of the USMC and my father being one of the Frozen Chozen we need to honor them along with the ones who fought for freedom before them…
By Wraith on July 28th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
At least there are still great men like LtC West who haven’t forgotten what it means to be American. It is our duty to speak out against threats to civilization, regardless of whether it’s politically or socially expedient to do so.
May we one day swear in President West!
By FUAW on July 30th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Tolerance is a tenant taught by Jesus Christ.
Intolerance is a tenant taught by racists and bigots.
By Ana on October 9th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Look at the stupid little propaganda words like ‘Islamophobe’ and ‘fascist’ used by the bullying PC thugs!!!!! There are psychotic extremists hiding in a Trojan horse of wimpy wishy- washy weasel words and guess what? The Europeans have finally woken up and are calling the enemy out. Geert is Ulysses and it is we who are waiting to take the decisive action…we will not be cowered by loud-mouthed, illiterate, violent fools!
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