The following excerpt from a speech by Czech President Miloš Zeman was recorded at a conference in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Mr. Zeman had some very politically incorrect words to say about the mass immigration of Muslims into Europe. Once again, it is truly remarkable to hear such sentiments voiced by a sitting (not former) head of state in the European Union.
The man at the podium sitting to President Zeman’s left is Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, who has said very similar things to his own people on a number of occasions.
Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
14:22 | And, I am left with the last point, | |
14:26 | and that is migration. | |
14:35 | Friends, we have permitted the | |
14:39 | right wing, at times the extreme right wing, to steal | |
14:44 | the theme which used to belong | |
14:48 | historically to social democracy. | |
14:52 | And that is the theme: the protection of national | |
14:56 | interests and the defense of European values. | |
15:00 | And we are putting up the face | |
15:05 | of peoples who had forgotten | |
15:09 | their past. | |
15:13 | And as Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past | |
15:18 | are condemned to repeat it. | |
15:23 | Socialists have always been | |
15:27 | internationalists, in the sense that they had welcomed | |
15:31 | migrants from culturally similar regions. | |
15:36 | Migrants, who managed | |
15:40 | to adapt, or, if you prefer, | |
15:44 | to assimilate. In the Czech Republic | |
15:48 | there is for example a Vietnamese community which | |
15:52 | assimilated marvelously. Their children | |
15:56 | are studying at universities; they speak perfect Czech. | |
16:00 | The Vietnamese are — and now I have committed | |
16:05 | an insult to my own nation — the Vietnamese are more industrious | |
16:09 | than the average Czech citizen. Why not admit this, when | |
16:14 | this is the truth? | |
16:18 | About 110,000 Ukrainians | |
16:22 | live here. And they are hard-working, they have overcome | |
16:26 | the language barrier, | |
16:31 | they have integrated very well into the [greater] society. The Slovaks | |
16:35 | I do not count, because I consider them ‘our people’. | |
16:39 | Thus, | |
16:43 | we are not xenophobic. | |
16:47 | 5% of the Czech population are foreigners who are integrated | |
16:52 | into our society. But | |
16:56 | when it comes to the term ‘migration’ we forget | |
17:00 | one adjective: and that is | |
17:04 | ’Islamic migration’. | |
17:09 | Political correctness, my friends, is | |
17:13 | synonymous with a lie. If you want | |
17:17 | for the unspoken truth. Islamic migration | |
17:21 | is not possible to integrate and is not capable of being | |
17:26 | assimilated into European culture. | |
17:31 | Let me give just one and only one example: | |
17:35 | Social democracy has, for the whole of its history, fought for the | |
17:39 | rights of women, including the voting rights of women. | |
17:43 | Islamic migration means | |
17:47 | a culture in which, [according to] Sura 4 | |
17:52 | of the Koran, a man has the right | |
17:56 | to beat his wife. Perhaps some men | |
18:01 | might be intrigued by this notion, but I hope not the majority. | |
18:05 | Islamic civilization | |
18:09 | means that women are | |
18:13 | denied access to education and public | |
18:18 | office. Islamic civilization means that | |
18:22 | the testimony of a woman in court has half the value | |
18:26 | of the testimony of a man, and thus I could go | |
18:30 | on and on. | |
18:35 | The only way to solve the migration | |
18:39 | crisis is to deport | |
18:43 | the economic migrants and those | |
18:48 | who preach religious violence, religious | |
18:52 | hate; in short, those who are preparing | |
18:56 | terrorist activities. The Swedish Prime Minister, | |
19:01 | following the murder of a 20-year-old social worker by an Islamic migrant, | |
19:05 | announced that | |
19:09 | 80,000 migrants would be deported. And you know very well | |
19:13 | that Sweden once had | |
19:18 | such liberal migration policies that it was | |
19:23 | almost suicidal. Luckily, | |
19:27 | at the last moment, this suicide was avoided. | |
19:31 | The European Union, | |
19:35 | and I am its supporter, | |
19:40 | has failed utterly at solving | |
19:44 | this migration problem. | |
19:49 | It was not prepared for it, and when the migration wave | |
19:53 | came, it spent its time | |
19:57 | in endless prattle | |
20:01 | which it nobly called ‘discussions’ | |
20:06 | Boasts that, we ought to | |
20:10 | welcome the migrants because we have a shortage | |
20:15 | in our workforce. Well, perhaps they had not read | |
20:19 | that the average unemployment rate in the European Union is | |
20:23 | at 11%. But, certainly, | |
20:28 | an Eritrean cyber-scientist just might | |
20:32 | significantly improve the quality of the European workforce. | |
20:36 | So, this argument | |
20:40 | obviously falls apart, and let’s not lie to ourselves | |
20:44 | that, among the migrants there are not even jihadis | |
20:49 | who may create so-called ‘sleeper cells’, | |
20:53 | preparing terrorist actions similar to | |
20:58 | those seen recently in Paris. | |
21:02 | And the last comment on migration — and here I will be repeating | |
21:06 | what Robert [Fico] said: | |
21:10 | If the European Union is | |
21:15 | incapable of defending its outer borders, | |
21:19 | which is the first and most basic duty of every | |
21:24 | State, then it has no right to think up | |
21:28 | nonsensical relocation and quota mechanisms | |
21:32 | which not only infringe the sovereignty | |
21:36 | of its member states, but also | |
21:41 | does not solve the problem, it just moves it off | |
21:45 | and thus creates a new category of nomads, | |
21:49 | that is, of migrants crisscrossing | |
21:53 | the European States, and ending up [in Germany] | |
21:57 | with an iron-clad-certainty, because there the | |
22:02 | social benefits are the highest. | |
22:06 | Angela Merkel once invited Syrians into Germany. | |
22:10 | Since then, all migrants | |
22:15 | have become ‘Syrians’. They have false | |
22:19 | passports, sometimes not even that. If you have seen the movie | |
22:24 | ”Four Murders Are Enough, Darling!” | |
22:28 | ”We are all Gogo!” [a quote from the movie, used to convince a gullible landlady that every member of an invading force was one tenant] | |
22:33 | So, “We are all Syrians!” And now, Germany had problems which | |
22:37 | it has itself caused through its ill-advised migration policy. | |
22:41 | So, it’s not sufficient to close | |
22:46 | one’s own borders. This is a necessary, yet not | |
22:50 | sufficient pre-condition. It is necessary to deport | |
22:54 | all those who have come here, | |
22:58 | not as refugees fleeing civil war, | |
23:03 | but as economic migrants | |
23:07 | who don’t even wish to work here, but want to live | |
23:11 | only and exclusively off of | |
23:16 | social benefits — which, actually, in our countries is done by | |
23:20 | by a somewhat different category of people, | |
23:24 | who are sometimes called unadaptable. And why | |
23:29 | should we enlarge this category? | |
23:33 | So, in closing, social democracy | |
23:37 | ought to protect | |
23:42 | national interests, it ought to defend the historical | |
23:46 | roots of not only its own, but also of | |
23:50 | European culture and [it ought to] realize | |
23:55 | that this culture is incompatible | |
23:59 | with the culture of hate towards | |
24:04 | unbelievers, with the culture based on | |
24:08 | the subjugation of these unbelievers | |
24:12 | that would turn them into its slaves. In this, I have quoted one | |
24:17 | of the holy scriptures — yet not | |
24:21 | the evangelical [Christian] scripture. After all, | |
24:25 | in Paris, the murderers did not yell out: “Praise be to Jesus | |
24:30 | Christ,” but they did yell out “Allahu Akhbar!” |
can he be President of the U.S.A.?
Nah, sorry, we’ll keep him here in Czechia
Mr. Zemen 100% on point.
Is there any way to get the transcript without the time stamps?
Thanks
And, I am left with the last point, and that is migration.
Friends, we have permitted the right wing, at times the extreme right wing, to steal the theme which used to belong historically to social democracy. And that is the theme: the protection of national interests and the defense of European values. And we are putting up the face of peoples who had forgotten their past. And as Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Socialists have always been internationalists, in the sense that they had welcomed migrants from culturally similar regions. Migrants, who managed to adapt, or, if you prefer, to assimilate. In the Czech Republic there is for example a Vietnamese community which assimilated marvelously. Their children are studying at universities; they speak perfect Czech. The Vietnamese are – and now I have committed an insult to my own nation – the Vietnamese are more industrious than the average Czech citizen. Why not admit this, when this is the truth? About 110,000 Ukrainians live here. And they are hard-working, they have overcome the language barrier, they have integrated very well into the [greater] society. The Slovaks I do not count, because I consider them ‘our people’. Thus, we are not xenophobic. 5% of the Czech population are foreigners who are integrated into our society. But when it comes to the term ‘migration’ we forget one adjective: and that is ‘Islamic migration’. Political correctness, my friends, is synonymous with a lie. If you want for the unspoken truth. Islamic migration is not possible to integrate and is not capable of being assimilated into European culture. Let me give just one and only one example: Social democracy has, for the whole of its history, fought for the rights of women, including the voting rights of women. Islamic migration means a culture in which, [according to] Sura 4 of the Koran, a man has the right to beat his wife. Perhaps some men might be intrigued by this notion, but I hope not the majority. Islamic civilization means that women are denied access to education and public office. Islamic civilization means that the testimony of a woman in court has half the value of the testimony of a man, and thus I could go on and on. The only way to solve the migration crisis is to deport the economic migrants and those who preach religious violence, religious hate; in short, those who are preparing terrorist activities. The Swedish Prime Minister, following the murder of a 20-year-old social worker by an Islamic migrant, announced that 80,000 migrants would be deported. And you know very well that Sweden once had such liberal migration policies that it was almost suicidal. Luckily, at the last moment, this suicide was avoided. The European Union, and I am its supporter, has failed utterly at solving this migration problem. It was not prepared for it, and when the migration wave came, it spent its time in endless prattle which it nobly called ‘discussions’ Boasts that, we ought to welcome the migrants because we have a shortage in our workforce. Well, perhaps they had not read that the average unemployment rate in the European Union is at 11%. But, certainly, an Eritrean cyber-scientist just might significantly improve the quality of the European workforce. So, this argument obviously falls apart, and let’s not lie to ourselves that, among the migrants there are not even jihadis who may create so-called ‘sleeper cells’, preparing terrorist actions similar to those seen recently in Paris. And the last comment on migration – and here I will be repeating what Robert [Fico] said: If the European Union is incapable of defending its outer borders, which is the first and most basic duty of every State, then it has no right to think up up nonsensical relocation and quota mechanisms which not only infringe the sovereignty of its member states, but also does not solve the problem, it just moves it off and thus creates a new category of nomads, that is, of migrants crisscrossing the European States, and ending up [in Germany] with an iron-clad-certainty, because there the social benefits are the highest. Angela Merkel once invited Syrians into Germany. Since then, all migrants have become ‘Syrians’. They have false passports, sometimes not even that. If you have seen the movie “Four Murders Are Enough, Darling!” “We are all Gogo!” [a quote from the movie, used to convince a gullible landlady that every member of an invading force was one tenant] So, “We are all Syrians!” And now, Germany had problems which it has itself caused through its ill-advised migration policy. So, it’s not sufficient to close one’s own borders. This is a necessary, yet not sufficient pre-condition. It is necessary to deport all those who have come here, not as refugees fleeing civil war, but as economic migrants who don’t even wish to work here, but want to live only and exclusively off of social benefits – which, actually, in our countries is done by by a somewhat different category of people, who are sometimes called unadaptable. And why should we enlarge this category? So, in closing, social democracy ought to protect national interests, it ought to defend the historical roots of not only its own, but also of European culture and [it ought to] realize that this culture is incompatible with the culture of hate towards unbelievers, with the culture based on the subjugation of these unbelievers that would turn them into its slaves. In this, I have quoted one of the holy scriptures – yet not the evangelical [Christian] scripture. After all, in Paris, the murderers did not yell out: “Praise be to Jesus Christ,” but they did yell out “Allahu Akhbar!”
It is interesting. You are a supporter of an institution, which is your own opinion failed its first and most important duties. It seems you are in urgent need of a psychiatrist.
Those were not my words, but President Zeman’s. I assume you understand that.
Not that I don’t need a shrink myself…
Pong.
I trust that English is not your first language. Take another look at your second sentence. If you cannot detect what is wrong with it then I advise you to run it past somebody who has mastered the language to the level of an average 12 year old. You might also ask that somebody whether your first sentence is in fact a sentence at all. As to your third sentence, I may be wrong here, but I understand that the word “that” should have been inserted between the words “seems” and “you”. I offer this advice only because you evidently regard yourself as someone qualified to recommend that somebody else needs psychiatric assistance. I would congratulate you on spelling psychiatrist correctly, but with autocorrect in word processing software, such congratulations would be misplaced.
Refreshing to hear a leader being this realistic and open. My respect to this man, Mr. Zeman. I wish other Europeans were to be as honest and patriotic as him, then we wouldn’t be in such troubles.
Zeman’s assessment is confirmed by Islam’s spokesmen:
“Therefore you must love the Muslims … and hate the kuffaar … .”
“You should hate them, disown them and their religion….”
“As a muslim I must have hatred towards everything which is non-Islam.”
http://libertygb.org.uk/news/islam-instructs-hatred-muslims-speak
A wonderful speech, here in the UK we are stuck with the useless Cameron in the land of Food Banks ( in the 21st century for God’s sake), pensioners who cannot afford to eat and heat at the same time, failing public services, zero hour or minimum pay contracts and a facile,pretend, renegotiation of our EU membership. Yet we put up third world illiterates, who have nothing to offer the country, in hotels, three meals a day plus pocket money, whilst pensioners who have paid into the system for 50 years are treated as an inconvenience. When the UK has finally descended into a 3rd world hell hole no doubt he will fly off to some well feathered bolt hole with his German patron, the odious Merkel, without remorse or a second glance.