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<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: x-small;">S<img src="images/stories/OAKI-logo.png" border="0" alt="The Oak Initiative" title="The Oak Initiative" align="left" />peech of Geert Wilders in Berlin 9/3/2011 </span></span></strong>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">  </span>Thank you for inviting me to Berlin. It is an honor to be here in this beautiful city of Berlin. When I was here last year I emphasized how important Germany is for all of us. We all benefit from a healthy, democratic, self-confident Germany.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;">
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<p>Much has happened since my last visit. In the Netherlands we were able to achieve many amazing things. We have successfully started to roll back the process of Islamization in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>We have done so in a peaceful way and through the democratic process. Recently, a deranged narcissistic psychopath from Norway committed a horrible crime. In cold blood he murdered nearly eighty innocent fellow citizens. The assassin pretended to be a concerned European. He said that he had committed his atrocity because "It is meaningless to participate in the democratic process."</p>
<p>But he is wrong! The mass murderer from Oslo murdered and maimed, and he justified his heinous crime by denying – I quote – "that it is remotely possible to change the system democratically." – End of quote.</p>
<p>But he is wrong! The Oslo murderer falsely claims to be one of us. But he is not one of us. We abhor violence. We are democrats. We believe in peaceful solutions.</p>
<p>The reason why we reject Islam is exactly Islam?s violent nature. We believe in democracy. We fight with the force of our conviction, but we never use violence. Our commitment to truth, human dignity and a just and honorable defense of the West does not allow us to use violence nor to give in to cynicism and despair. We cherish the tradition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Jelena Bonner, Lech Walesa and Ronald Reagan. These heroes defeated a totalitarian ideology by the power of their conviction and without firing a single shot. As the ex-Muslim and Islam-critic Ali Sina said in a reaction to the Oslo atrocity: "We didn?t raise a sword against darkness; we lit a light."</p>
<p>So it is. We lit the light of the truth. And the truth will set us free.</p>
<p>The truth is that Islam can be successfully fought with democratic means. We do so in the Netherlands. You can do so, too, in Germany! Let me tell you what we have achieved in the Netherlands since my last visit to Berlin, less than one year ago. It will encourage you. What can be done in the Netherlands can also be done in Germany.</p>
