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Paris attacks boost support for Dutch anti-Islam populist Wilder
[Ynet]. Support for the anti-Islamic Freedom Party of Dutch populist Geert Wilders has jumped to its highest level in more than a year after the Islamist bully boy attacks in Gay Paree.Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, said after the Gay Paree bloodshed that the West was "at war" with Islam, drawing a rebuke from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday. If elections were held now, his party would be the single largest in the Netherlands, with 31 seats in the 150-member parliament, more than twice as many as it won in the last elections, according to a Sunday poll. Wilders this week called in an interview for measures against Islam: "If we don't do anything, it will happen here," he was quoted by the newspaper Het Parool as saying. But speaking to Dutch public television shortly before leaving to attend a peace rally in Gay Paree, the Dutch prime minister distanced himself from Wilders's comments. "I would never use the word 'war,'" he said. "We are in a struggle with bully boyz who are using a belief as an excuse for attacks." Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-12 |
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