Dutch Lawmaker Urges Halting Immigration to Save Democratic Holland
Dear Immigration Reformer:
Even the Dutch, those most tolerant and progressive of creatures,
have had it with mass Third World immigration and its twin evil
multiculturalism. Hordes of unassailable and unassimilating Moslems are
destroying Holland's traditional peace and civility. The recent murder
--actually torture and butchery -- of film-maker Theo van Gogh and the fact
that extremist Moslem threats have driven many Dutch politicians into hiding
demonstrate that a nation cannot accept large numbers of radically different
people, who may not share the commitment to peace, tolerance and democracy
of the host population.
Canada should take note. With 7 per cent plus unemployment what do we
need any more immigration for anyway?
Paul Fromm
Director
CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE
Newsday
Dutch Lawmaker Urges Halting Immigration
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
November 19, 2004, 2:38 PM EST
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- One of the most popular politicians in the
Netherlands said Friday the country's democracy is under threat and called
for a five-year halt to non-Western immigration in the wake of the killing
of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Muslim radical.
"We are a Dutch democratic society. We have our own norms and values,"
right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview.
"If you chose radical Islam you can leave, and if you don't leave
voluntarily then we will send you away. This is the only message possible."
In his first interview with the foreign media since the slaying of filmmaker
Theo van Gogh on Nov. 2, Wilders said his own life has been repeatedly
threatened. He said he has begun living under state protection and has even
had to stay away from his own home.
Wilders split with the free-market coalition partner Liberal Party two
months ago because it backed the candidacy of predominantly Muslim Turkey
for the European Union.
He formed his own conservative party, the Wilders Group, which has one seat
in the 150-member parliament. But a recent poll suggested his anti-immigrant
message was reverberating through the electorate, and he would win 24 seats
if elections were held today -- up from 19 seats before Van Gogh's murder.
Wilders said that without swift, bold action, Islamic fundamentalism will
topple the country's democratic system.
"The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long,"
he said. "We should not import a retarded political Islamic society to our
country. There is nothing to be ashamed of to say this. It's not Islam. I
speak out against the facts."
In Brussels, Belgium, European Union leaders met Friday to discuss
immigration, one of Europe's most pressing and sensitive issues. EU justice
and interior ministers agreed to demand that new immigrants learn the
language of their adopted countries and adhere to "European values" to guide
them toward better integration.
Even as the number of immigrants arriving in Europe falls due to tougher
policies, led by a sharp drop in the Netherlands, Wilders said closing the
borders isn't enough. Newcomers should be forced to integrate.
"If in a mosque there is recruitment for jihad, it's not a house of prayer,
it's a house of war. If it's not a house of prayer, it should be closed
down," he said.
Wilders, known for his radical positions and peroxide-blond hair, has been a
member of parliament since 1998. He was born and educated in the southern
city Venlo, near the German border.
"I'm very tough on radical Islam. I have the toughest ideas on beating this
problem and I'm proud of it. I say nothing wrong. I'm no racist, no
anti-Islamist," he said.
Wilders and the police took the death threats more seriously following the
slaying of Van Gogh, who had produced a television drama critical of how
women are treated in some Muslim societies. The filmmaker was shot and
stabbed to death, allegedly by a 26-year-old suspected Islamic extremist who
holds Dutch and Moroccan citizenship.
The most recent threats were disclosed when two terror suspects, arrested
Nov. 10 after a standoff in which several policemen were wounded by a hand
grenade, were charged with threatening Wilders and other politicians, their
lawyer said.
The latest video threat broadcast on the Internet -- in Dutch, with Arabic
music in the background -- condemns Wilders for insulting Islam and offers
the reward of paradise for his beheading.
Wilders' style and cause are reminiscent of Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant
political outsider who put immigration on the national agenda before the
2002 elections. Fortuyn was shot to death by an animal rights activist days
before the vote, but major parties since have largely embraced his ideas.
Wilders said he is not opposed to mainstream Islam but is concerned by
studies saying 10 percent of the Dutch Muslim population -- or about 100,000
people -- support radical Islamic views.
He cited a report by Dutch intelligence saying recruitment for jihad, or
holy war, is taking place in as many as 20 mosques in the Netherlands, and
said they should be closed and their imams, or preachers, arrested and
deported.
"If we don't do anything ... we will lose the country that we have known for
centuries. People don't want the Netherlands to be lost, and this is
something that I get angry about and I am going to fight for, to keep the
country Dutch," he said.
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