Wilders launches campaign bid to 'de-Islamise' the Netherlands

[TomSea]

Wilders launches campaign bid to 'de-Islamise' the Netherlands

 By Thomas Escritt | AMSTERDAM

Geert Wilders kicks off his election campaign on Saturday, promising to ban Muslim immigration and close all the mosques in the Netherlands, hoping a global upsurge in populism will propel him to power.

Security will be tight at the launch as the politician - who has lived in hiding since the 2004 murder by an Islamist of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh - will make a rare public walkabout.

"I want us in government," Wilders said earlier this week, promising to "de-Islamise" the Netherlands with policies that echo, and go further than, those of U.S. President Donald Trump.

His Freedom Party leads in polls with 17 percent, but the pro-business liberals of Prime Minister Mark Rutte are barely a percentage point behind, having closed the gap on Wilders by matching some of his anti-immigration rhetoric and getting an electoral boost from a surging economy.

Continued: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-election-campaign-idUSKBN15W2GT?il=0

[Fishrrman]

Good on Wilders. He recognizes what must be done.

The whole of Western Europe must be "de-islamicised" as was Germany "de-nazified" after World War II.

Europe's only hope for a Western future lies in a "second Expulsion".