The Wise Geert Wilders

DUTCH anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders was quoted as urging Moslems to dump half the Koran and saying he would chase the Prophet Mohammed out of the country if he was alive today." Islam is a violent religion.

If Mohammed lived here today I could imagine chasing him out of the country tarred and feathered as an extremist," Mr Wilders told De Pers daily in an interview.Mr Wilders, who is seen as an heir to murdered populist Pim Fortuyn and whose new party won nine seats out of the 150 in Parliament in November elections, has warned of a "tsunami of Islamisation" in a country home to one million Moslems.

"I know that we're not going to have a Moslem majority in the next couple of decades, but it is growing," he said."You no longer feel that you're living in your own country. There is a battle under way and we must defend ourselves. There will soon be more mosques than churches here." Mr Wilders, who has lived under heavy guard since 2004 when a Dutch-Moroccan killed filmmaker and Islam critic Theo van Gogh, has campaigned to ban the Moslem burqa veil, wants to freeze immigration and ban new mosques and religious schools.

"If Moslems want to stay here they must tear out half of the Koran and throw it away. They shouldn't listen to the imam. I've read the Koran ... and I know that there are enough awful things in it," he said.

Maverick politician Pim Fortuyn broke taboos with his criticism of Moslem immigrants in the Netherlands and his pronouncements that the country could not absorb anymore foreigners. He was gunned down in 2002 by animal rights activists and Moslem sympathizer just days before an election which saw huge popular support for his party.

Nasr Joemann, secretary for the Contact Organisation for Moslems and Government, said he planned to raise the demonisation of Islam with the new Dutch cabinet, expected to be finalised in the next week after months of coalition talks."

I don't think this sort of comment from a member of parliament is good for integration or for relations between Moslems and non-Moslems but we don't want to react to the content because we cannot take it seriously," he said.

If you don't react to the content or take it seriously then maybe the Dutch people will and they will start putting people in Parliament who really care about their country. The Moslems pose a real and dangerous threat to the Netherlands and her native citizens. And if the Dutch people value their freedom and way of life they'll have to stand up and fight against Islam. Cowering in fear and tepidness will eventually have them living under Sharîa law.