Sep 6, 1963 - Present
Leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party
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I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.
Moderate Islam? That\'s a contradiction. It\'s going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don\'t happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.
Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.
I believe that the mistakes that we made in Europe in the last decades by allowing so much mass immigration from Islamic countries is a warning that if Australia is not vigilant enough to preserve the freedom, what has happened here might happen to Australia in the next decades as well.
In Islam there is not much room for anything else but Islam.
[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
I\'m not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a \'leitkultur\', a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.
You see crime and you see all [ sharia] things happening, unfortunately all over Europe, because of (a) the mass immigration, but (b) also because of we politicians are not able to deal with it.
We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.
Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.
I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.
I\'m not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, \'hey this is not our country anymore.\'
I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.
Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.
I\'m against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.
In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren\'t asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.
We should fight [mass immigration], we should stop it, we should be proud of who we are and define what we are not.
Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.
I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.
There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.
This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.
A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.
My party\'s supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they\'re spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren\'t poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They\'re closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.
The best example is that if any person, any Muslim wants to leave Islam, then the penalty is death. It is not even allowed to leave it. That\'s why I believe Islam should not be compared with other religions like Christianity or Judaism.
Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I\'m Mr. Wilders. I\'m not anybody\'s copy or whatsoever.
European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.
Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.
The U.S. is so important to me, Europe is important.