The Dutch to ban the Qur’an?

A Dutch member of parliament has called for the Quran to be banned in the Netherlands, describing it as a “fascist book” which calls on people to kill non-believers and rape women. Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, called for the ban in a letter published in De Volkskrant newspaper

In his letter, Wilders compares the Muslim holy book to Mein Kampf, Adolf  Hitler’s autobiography, and said the Quran has “no place in our constitutional state”.“I have been saying this for years: there is no such thing as a moderate Islam,” Wilders wrote.

Wilders’ Freedom Party holds nine seats in the Netherlands‘ 150 seat parliament.

Call for banWilders also said several chapters in the Quran “call on Muslims to oppress, persecute or kill Christians, Jews, dissidents and non-believers, to beat and rape women and to establish an Islamic state by force”.

The publication of the letter comes after a weekend attack on Eshan Jami, a young Dutch politician, who established a group to support people who have renounced Islam. Jami, who was not visibly injured in the attack, is now under police protection as is Wilders.

“Ban this wretched book like Mein Kampf is banned! Send a signal to Jami’s attackers and other Islamic radicals that the Quran cannot be used in the Netherlands as an inspiration or an excuse for violence,” Wilders said.Wilders acknowledged that his plan would not receive majority support in the Dutch parliament.

“I am fed up with Islam in the Netherlands: no more Muslim immigrants allowed. I am fed up with the worship of Allah and Muhammad in the Netherlands: no more mosques,” his letter concluded

Position on IslamReferring to the increased presence of Muslims in the Netherlands, he said: “Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!”
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Later, he suggested that Muslims should ‘tear out half of the Koran if they wished to stay in the Netherlands‘ because it contained ‘terrible things’ and that Muhammad would ‘in these days be hunted down as a terrorist’. These statements caused strong reactions in Muslim countries such as Tunisia, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.On August 8, 2007, Wilders opined in a letter to the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant that the Koran, which he called a “fascist book,” should become outlawed in the Netherlands, like Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.