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"Mr President, my colleague Paul Nuttall’s speech of a few minutes ago said many of the things that I might hope to say and with which I totally agree.
The threat that we all face in the West – and not just in the West – is from fundamentalist Islam. The terrorists and the extremists all have one thing in common: they are all reading the same book, and it is called the Koran. It contains exhortations, such as ‘kill unbelievers wherever you find them’, ‘make war on unbelievers’ and ‘strike terror into the hearts of unbelievers’. Some people take that literally.
We are told by our leaders that Islam is a religion of peace and love. The problem is that it is actually a contradictory mishmash of nonsense. The problem is that the extremists and the fundamentalists actually choose the bits that they like in order to satisfy their bloodlust and earn themselves 72 virgins in paradise, although nobody has actually come back to confirm that they get them.
Western liberal democracies must make it plain that extremist, fundamentalist Islam has no place in western society. We all come into contact with moderate, peace-loving Muslims every day. They are not the problem. Their ideology is. We must support the moderates against the extremists. Sun Tzu said that the first place you win a war is in the mind of your opponent. All propagandists know the importance of words. If you control words, you control how your opponent thinks and reacts.
Most religions are named after their founders – Christianity, the religion of Christ; Buddhism, the religion of Buddhists; Judaism the religion of the Jews – and yet we accept the word Islam – submission to the will of Allah. It is not. It is the construction of a person. Let us go back to what we used to call this religion 30 or 40 years ago: Mohammedanism. It is the cult of Mohammed, and these people accept the death cult of Mohammed.
Let us make it plain that we do not accept this ideology and take practical measures to defeat the extremists and support those moderates who want to stay in western liberal democracies. If they want to live under Sharia law, then they should go and live in one of the countries where they can do that."@en1
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