Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders was quoted on Tuesday as urging Muslims to dump half the holy Quran and saying he would chase the Prophet Mohammad (Wilders, who is seen as an heir to murdered populist Pim Fortuyn and whose new party won nine of 150 seats in parliament in November elections, has warned of a “tsunami of Islamisation” in a country home to 1 million Muslims. “I know that we’re not going to have a Muslim majority in the next couple of decades, but it is growing.”
“You no longer feel that you’re living in your own country. There is a battle under way and we must defend ourselves. There will soon be more mosques than churches here.”
Wilders, who has lived under heavy guard since 2004 when a Dutch-Moroccan killed filmmaker and Islam critic Theo van Gogh, has campaigned to ban the Muslim veil, wants to freeze immigration and ban new mosques and religious schools. “If Muslims want to stay here they must tear out half of the (holy) Quran and throw it away. They shouldn’t listen to the imam. I’ve read the (holy) Quran ... and I know that there are enough awful things in it,” he said.
Nasr Joemann, secretary for the Contact Organisation for Muslims and government, said he would raise the demonisation of Islam with the new Dutch cabinet.