“The Prophet Mohammed is a Creepy Devil”

Here's an interview with Geert Wilders. The more I hear from wilders, the more sense he makes.
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by Baron Bodissey
The following is an interview with Geert Wilders which was published last weekend by the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, and translated by our Flemish correspondent VH. Explanatory notes from the translator are in square brackets:

“The prophet Mohammed is a creepy devil”

Exclusive interview / Dutchman Geert Wilders Dutchman outbids Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh with his anti-Koran film


That he finds the Koran an ‘intolerant, fascist book’, Geert Wilders (44) has already often explained in words. Now the controversial Dutch politician is going to illustrate it with pictures in a short film, and the Netherlands is waiting in fright. “Balkenende has not seen anything and already he speaks of a serious crisis. A frightened, cowardly man,” says Wilders in an exclusive interview with our editorial staff.

by Peter De Backer

“I do not want to sound emotional,” says Wilders during our candid conversation, which takes place in a small hall of the parliament in The Hague. “But I love Belgium. I think it is a beautiful country.” The Dutch politician is under 24/7 guard and is not generous in giving interviews. For our newspaper he makes an exception. “Once a month I go shopping in Antwerp with my wife. With a lot of police around me I still succeed doing this. I am increasingly more recognized. Sometimes we drive further to Brugge or Ghent, beautiful cities. Of course, also there are quite a few people who dislike me, but I love going to Belgium. I also have had some nasty experiences, though. Two years ago I spent New Year’s in Brussels and we encountered a group of Moroccans on the Grande Place. When they recognized me, we very urgently had to get out there and were rescued by the police. Very annoying.”

The anecdote is hardly surprising. Geert Wilders is without question since Pim Fortuyn the most controversial politician in the Netherlands. With his rock-hard attacks against Islam — “The Koran is the Mein Kampf of the Muslims” — he made himself hated by immigrants far beyond the Netherlands. Even before the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, Wilders had to go into hiding because of persistent death threats. Today he has lived for three and a half years with permanent security at his side: our northern neighbors don’t want to witness a third political assassination after those on Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh.

Wilders, who has been MP since 1998 for the Liberal [European Liberal] VVD [Peoples party for Freedom and Democracy], got into a dispute with his party [he thought is was becoming too leftist] and therefore founded his own Party for Freedom. With this party he obtained six percent of the votes in 2006, giving it nine seats in the parliament. Now the Netherlands is under the spell of the short film that Wilders announced last November. The film will be ten to fifteen minutes long and was expected to be released by the end of January, but is now postponed until early in March. “The film will not be completed until mid-February and then I still have to negotiate with the television broadcast organizations about broadcasting it. That will also take several weeks.”

Why do you need to proclaim your ideas in a film?

Geert Wilders: “Last year in a article I explained that the Koran according to my opinion should be banned because it is an intolerant, fascist book. Following that, in a debate in the parliament, I explained why I wanted this ban. The logical third step is now not to demonstrate it by words only, but with pictures to show that the Koran is the source of inspiration for a growing number of people who are doing the most horrible things with it. Unlike other holy books such as the Bible or the Torah, the Koran is not in a cabinet becoming dusty, but it in many countries it is even used as law. “
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