Holland rep wants to get tough!

Popular Dutch lawmaker would shut border

to Muslim immigrants for 5 years

By ANTHONY DEUTSCH

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said Friday his country's democracy is under threat and called for rejecting immigration from non-western nations in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker, allegedly by a Muslim radical.

"We are a Dutch democratic society. We have our own norms and values," Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. "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."

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Muslims make up about six per cent of the Netherlands' 16 million people. Wilders said he was concerned about studies saying some 10 per cent of Dutch Muslims - or about 100,000 people - support radical Islamic views.

Without swift, bold action, Islamic fundamentalism will topple the country's democratic system, he said.

"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 to discuss immigration, one of Europe's most pressing and sensitive issues. EU justice and interior ministers agreed to demand that immigrants learn 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.

Mosques that advocate fundamentalism should be shut down, he said.

"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.

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On Friday, he cited a report by Dutch intelligence saying recruitment for jihad 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," he said. "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."

Mata Musing: Woof.... Wise and risky words that are a delight to my ears. We could use a few like him here in the US to balance out all this dangerous PC crap. Altho it is more likely the Dem's and MSM would fiercely skirmish amongst themselves to be first to politically tear him to shreds.