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| Paris attacks boost support for Dutch anti-Islam populist Wilder |
| 2015-01-12 |
| [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." |
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