Wilders v. SBS: Popularity v. Ideology

SBS Dateline, Mr Controversial

GEERT WILDERS: Our culture which is based on Christianity, Judaism and Humanism, is better than the retarded Islamic culture and this is tough to say, but it is true. We should defend who we are and get rid of this cultural relativism because at the end of the day it will kill us...

I even acknowledge the fact that the majority of the Muslims in the Western world and certainly also in the Netherlands today, are law-abiding people. But still, the more Islam would come to our free society, the more is the Islamic culture will become dominant and the less freedom we will get...

We are not part of the political elite. We are a new political party. Second, we are the only party that really says as strong as we do that we are fed up with the mass immigration from non-Western countries - or more especially from Islamic countries...

As you can see, it is not always easy to row against the tide...

... it is very difficult to make clear to the people that Islam is not just another leaf on the tree of religions. It is not to be compared with Christianity. It is a violent ideology like communism and fascism and we should deal with it that way. If we don't, at the end of the day, Islam will eat us...

We want to stop building more mosques. We don't want more Islamic symbolism in the Netherlands. We want the closure of Islamic schools.

So if there is a political will….It will be possible and we will all benefit from it.

... our criteria is not whether you are Muslim or not. We say no immigration to everybody from Muslim countries. It could mean if you are not a Muslim and you come from Egypt, you are also not accepted.

From whatever country you are from, as long as it is an Islamic country, and the United Nations has a list what are the Islamic countries - a country where a 50% of the people are Muslim indeed - and those people from those countries are not allowed to come. So we are not saying that if you are Muslim, we are saying that if you come from that country, in reality it means that 99% of those people are Muslim indeed. I agree with that. But this is not the criteria...

Naturalised citizens with dual nationality who are guilty of crime, like many of the Moroccan street-terrorists, must surrender their Dutch passports and leave the country...

These are dramatic times. The Europe you know is on the verge of collapsing. We are now witnessing profound changes that will forever alter Europe's destiny. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, all cultures are not equal. That Islam should be compared with other totalitarian ideologies like communism or fascism… Not one person from the Muslim countries should be allowed to immigrate to our societies any more…. We expel them - we tell them, "There is the door, you have to leave our societies."

It is an international struggle to defend our freedom and to stop Islam. We will work in many countries. It will be based in the US, and will focus on also many European countries. We will also visit Australia. We will try to help grassroots organisations to support this message and to also try to get some leverage on a political level. My mail box is full of letters and e-mails from Australia, from Canada, from Norway, from Taiwan, from everywhere, the people want to do something with this message and I believe we should give them the opportunity and some shelter...

We will never give in. We will never give up. We will never surrender.

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