In a message about yesterday’s Charlie Hebdo massacre, Geert Wilders calls for the de-Islamization of the Netherlands, an end to all Muslim immigration, and the withdrawal from the Schengen area:
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After the massacre in Paris yesterday, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, appeared on French television to address her fellow countrymen about what had just happened.
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Transcript:
| 00:00 | My dear compatriots: France is in mourning, | |
| 00:04 | hit by a terrible attack in the very heart of Paris on the premises of | |
| 00:08 | Charlie Hebdo. Our country has not known such barbarity in decades. | |
| 00:12 | The nation is united in condemning this foul attack, and | |
| 00:16 | joins in the grief of the families. The nation is united in | |
| 00:20 | declaring its visceral attachment to freedom of information and the media, | |
| 00:24 | which, of course, was the target. But the nation is also united | |
| 00:28 | in declaring that we, the French people, of whatever origin, will never accept | |
| 00:32 | attempts on our lives and our freedom. Because this IS their aim, | |
| 00:36 | to endanger our lives and our freedom. But | |
| 00:40 | we are lucid enough to know that these attacks on our country | |
| 00:44 | are not the consequence of destiny. They come from men | |
| 00:48 | often hardened and trained; they come via a murderous ideology | |
| 00:52 | which at this very moment causes thousands of deaths in the world. | |
| 00:56 | The aim of these barbaric acts is to terrorise, | |
| 01:00 | to paralyse by fear, to defeat or to censure | |
| 01:04 | And, undeniably, after this act has traumatised the entire nation, | |
| 01:09 | the fear is here. It is my responsibility | |
| 01:13 | to tell you that the fear must be overcome and to say that this attack | |
| 01:17 | must free our speech, our response to the Islamic fundamentalism. | |
| 01:21 | Not to be silent, and to start daring to name what has happened | |
| 01:25 | Not fearing to say the words: this was a terrorist attack | |
| 01:29 | committed in the name of “Radical Islamism”. | |
| 01:33 | The time for denial and hypocrisy has passed. | |
| 01:37 | The absolute rejection of fundamental Islamism must be declared loud and strong | |
| 01:41 | by those who hold life and freedom as their most precious values. | |
| 01:45 | Facing things is the efficient and protective action | |
| 01:49 | to take. Why have we arrived at this point? | |
| 01:54 | What was the path of these assassins? | |
| 01:58 | What is the extent of radical Islamic networks on our soil, their financing? What countries | |
| 02:02 | support them? The questions are many, and they are legitimate. | |
| 02:06 | The debate must occur; nothing must hinder it. Asking the right questions | |
| 02:10 | and coming up with frank and clear answers. Taking measures | |
| 02:14 | to protect our country and compatriots is the right of all our citizens, | |
| 02:18 | but it is above all a duty of all politicians. | |
| 02:22 | I intend to assume this daunting responsibility in order | |
| 02:26 | to allow France to defend herself in this war which has been declared against her. | |
| 02:30 | I wish to underline that nobody wants to confuse | |
| 02:34 | our Muslim compatriots who are attached to our nation | |
| 02:38 | and to her values with those who kill in the name of Islam. | |
| 02:43 | But this obvious refusal to amalgamate must not be an excuse for inertia | |
| 02:47 | or denial; this would be the worst service we could render | |
| 02:51 | to French people of whatever origin. |
