Friday, March 5, 2010 – Mauricio Claver Carone, Dan Burton, Bill Gertz

Frank starts off with news of Geert Wilders’ recent electoral victories in the Netherlands.  Mauricio Claver Carone talks with Frank about the effort to fight for human rights in Cuba, and what the mainstream media won’t tell you about the Castro brothers’ regime.  Appalled by the Navy SEALs being put on trial for punching a terrorist? Congressman Dan Burton addresses what needs to be done about this important issue.  Bill Gertz returns to highlight the rising threat of Communist China, and what it means for you.

Friday, March 5, 2010 – Monologue

But first I want to give you a bit of good news; we don’t often get to do it here, but I’m very please to say that we do indeed have some good news here at Secure Freedom Radio. As you may be aware, we have had in recent months developments in the Netherlands that have caused the government there to fall, and when that did happen, one of the beneficiaries in an odd way was a man who has been (speaking of persecution) persecuted by his government, which is to say Geert Wilders, the man who has very courageously, as a member of the Parliament of the Netherlands, stood up with his Freedom Party for freedom, for liberty, specifically, the sort of liberty that the Islamists (those who embrace Shariah and seek to impose it on the rest of us) are trying assiduously to inflict upon the people of Holland, and indeed freedom loving people everywhere.

Well as the result of the government of the Netherlands falling in recent weeks over the disagreements within the governing coalition at the time about whether to keep a small continent of Dutch troops in Afghanistan, Geert Wilders has an opportunity to test the popularity of his party (the Freedom Party) with the Dutch people. In just the past couple of days, that has been tested in a small way in local elections in two of the Netherlands’ largest cities, Almere and the Hague (The Hague is of course the capital of the Netherlands and very much in the public eye). Well in these local elections, the Freedom Party became the largest faction, the largest party in Almere and the second-largest party in The Hague. I think many people believe that were the elections to be held today nationally, as opposed to in June (when the Parliament will all stand for election); Geert Wilders’ party may well be the largest in the Netherlands. Now what does that mean?

That means that a man who is being prosecuted by his government, on the grounds that he has given offense to Islam, that he has in particular in the movie he has made called Fitna which juxtaposes passages from the Koran to show what people to do fulfill the admonitions towards Jihad, their treatment of other religions, and their oppression of women (even of the faith). Well this kind of message is resonating powerfully in the Netherlands today, and it would be remarkable, it would be extraordinary; it will be epochal if Geert Wilders in June succeeds in becoming the largest party and therefore presumably the head of government in his country, even as he is being prosecuted for these so-called “crimes.”

Now I mention all of this part in part— this is not just a matter of interest to those who love freedom and who are concerned about it wherever it is under assault. I mention it because here in America, under the Obama Administration we have the same sorts of forces that are trying to silence Geert Wilders at work. Indeed, the Obama Administration (as we’ve talked about here before) co-sponsored a resolution in the Human Rights Council last that would in effect apply, what would basically require us (notwithstanding the First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech) to impose a similar kind of Shariah blasphemy law in this country that Geert Wilders is being prosecuted under in the Netherlands.

Unimaginable you say? Well, possibly—but President Obama has just appointed as his special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the conclave of Muslim countries that brought us this odious resolution, Rashad Hussain. Rashad Hussain is I believe if not a Muslim Brother, certainly a man who emulates one, who seems entirely at home with their efforts well according to their words to destroy this country by forcing our submission to Shariah. As it happens, this business of submitting to Shariah, to accommodating ourselves to its program, its demands for our silence, its demands for our acquiescence; is now being manifest in of all places the Virginia Assembly on the 11th of this month.  Now the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque, I have to say is one of the most notorious, one of the most dangerous of the Wahhabi owned and operated Mosques, one of the most pernicious purveyors and implementers of Shariah in our country. It is the place where the Iman Al-Alwaki, who was such an influence on the 9/11 terrorists, on the Fort Hood Massacre perpetrator, on the “Panty Bomber” was operating for some years in Northern Virginia.

It is unimaginable that the House of Delegates would dignify a man like Al-Alwaki, who propounds Shariah, denounces this country, and supports Jihad. If you don’t want to see that happen, I encourage you to get in touch with your representative in the House of Delegates (if you live in Virginia) or if you don’t live in Virginia get in touch the House of Delegates anyway. Tell them you don’t want to see the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque or its Iman honored in this way. Let’s keep freedom of speech for sure, but let’s not dignify those who are seeking to deny it to the rest of us—to say nothing of imposing upon the rest of our civil liberties and rights in ways that would be, to put it charitably, destructive of them.

Well those are my thoughts, we welcome yours. Please feel free to post here or on the Frank Gaffney Facebook or Twitter accounts. Let me know what you think. Are you concerned? Are you hopeful by what you see in the Netherlands? Do you want to ensure that we exercise the same kind of freedom that Geert Wilders hopefully will be able to exercise in his country for the foreseeable future? Anyway, let me know.