Sep 6, 1963 - Present
Leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party
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We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would\'ve been extreme, we would\'ve got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote.
We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are afraid to send their children to school because of all the harassment they get from this parallel Islamic society. And people are not extreme in Holland.
When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.
We are politically correct, we are afraid to address the problem. Because if you address the problem like I do, people like you call us evil extreme, or you\'re being taken to court or you will get death threats in your life.
What I\'m trying to do when I visit Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is.
I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.
As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don\'t make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.
Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.
I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children and your grandchildren, and tell them what I believe the Islamic threat is, and to discuss it with anybody - also people who don\'t agree with me. This is democracy. This is civil society. We should cherish that.
I don\'t have anything against Canadians or Australians.
I\'m proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
I don\'t even blame pseudo-refugees for trying to have a better life in Holland. I blame our government for allowing it to happen; for not saying \'enough is enough you are not a refugee\', we have to defend our own country and close our borders.
If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.
Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It\'s already started. In a few years\' time it will not be there anymore. Don\'t ask me if it will be two years or ten years but the end is near. Like the Roman Empire, it\'s gone.
If you are in Holland, be careful not to say tomorrow that you don\'t like French, German or Swedish food or people, you could be called a racist.
We should be able to see Islam for what it is, make a distinction between the people and the ideology, and stop with being politically correct, and address the problems, as many people see it when it comes to the Islamisation of their country.
Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it\'s a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.
It\'s already a million Muslims! As long as they obey the law and respect the constitution, nobody has anything to fear. They can stay and they have the same rights and the opportunity for a fantastic life in Holland.
[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don\'t come here. And don\'t forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.
I\'m not talking about the people. I have nothing against the people. I have nothing against the Indonesian people or the Arab people or the Muslim people. I\'m talking about the ideology.
There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam.
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it\'s getting worse.
As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.
I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason.
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That\'s why leaving the EU is necessary.
Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.
Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to all these liberal politicians and socialist politicians in my own parliament that, \'Hey you are very happy here, you applauded the fact that Mein Kampf was outlawed in the Netherlands. If you are really consistent, you should, for the same arguments that you use as liberal politicians to outlaw Mein Kampf, outlaw the Koran as well.\'
If you\'ve been to the city of Malmo in Sweden, or to Berlin or to Hamburg or to London or to Paris in the suburbs, or Rotterdam in my own country. You see many cities where there is a city within a city - where even today in the United Kingdom - I don\'t know if you\'re aware of that - there are even sharia courts active, whether it\'s rulings that the worth of a woman is half of that of a man.
Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.
[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.