Geert Wilders attacks ‘Moroccan scum’ in election campaign launch while LEADING in polls
GEERT Wilders officially launched his election campaign in typically controversial fashion today, promising to rid the Netherlands of what he called “Moroccan scum”.
By ROSS LOGAN
Express.co.uk
Sat, Feb 18, 2017
Amid tight security, Mr Wilders made a rare public appearence in his Freedom Party’s stronghod of Spijkenisse, where he shook hands with supporters and posed for photographs.
Opponents of the far-right candidate – who has promised to shut down mosques and ban the Koran – stood holding placards bearing pro-immigrant slogans.
Mr Wilders told the crowd: “There is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe.
“If you want to regain your country, make the Netherlands for the people of the Netherlands again, then you can only vote for one party.”
It is not the first time Wilders has targetted Moroccans. He was convicted in December of inciting racial discrimination for comments made in a 2014 post-election speech.
The populist has been dubbed the “Dutch Trump” – a right-wing firebrand whose inflammatory anti-Islamic rhetoric echoes that of the new US President.
This week he promised to ‘de-Islamisise’ the Netherlands, and said he would change the country’s constitution if necessary.
Mr Wilders tsaid: “A constitution is not something that is (set) in stone and can never be changed.
“It is alive as a society is alive and we are now being threatened by mass immigration and Islamisisation and what I see as the toxic combination of mass immigration from Islamic countries.”
He also described Islamic faith as “possibly more dangerous” than Nazism – comments which were heavily condemned by Spior, an Islamic organisation representing 70 mosques and Islamic groups in the Netherlands.
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