“Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your midst today. I am happy and proud to be in this impressive church.<\/p>\n
My friends, I am here to speak words of truth and freedom.<\/p>\n
Do you know why America is in a better state than Europe? Because you enjoy more freedom than Europeans.<\/p>\n
And do you know why Americans enjoy more freedom than Europeans? Because you are still allowed to tell the truth.<\/p>\n
In Europe and Canada people are dragged to court for telling the truth about islam.<\/p>\n
I, too, have been dragged to court. I am an elected member of the house of representatives in the Netherlands. I am currently standing in court like a common criminal for saying that islam is a dangerous totalitarian ideology rather than a religion.<\/p>\n
The court case is still pending, but I risk a jail sentence of 16 months.<\/p>\n
Last week, my friend Lars Hedegaard, a journalist from Denmark, was fined because in a private conversation, which was recorded without his knowing, he had criticised the way women are treated in islamic societies.<\/p>\n
Recently, another friend, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a human rights activist from Austria, was fined because she had criticised islam’s founder Muhammad. She had said that Muhammad was a pedophile because he had married a 6-year old girl and raped her when she was 9.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, there are many similar cases.<\/p>\n
I am especially happy to be in your midst because here I can say what I want to say without having to fear that I will be dragged to court upon leaving this church.<\/p>\n
My dear American friends, you cannot imagine how we envy your First Amendment. The day when America follows the example of Europe and Canada and introduces so-called “hate speech crimes” which is only used to punish people who are critical of islam, that day America will have lost its freedom.<\/p>\n