Geert Wilders
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"He also likes to quote a 1974 speech of the former Algerian president Houari Boumediene: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere, and they will not go there as friends."--A Century of Populist Demagogues (2020) by Ivan T. Berend |
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Geert Wilders (born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who is the founder and the current leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid – PVV). Wilders is the parliamentary group leader of his party in the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer). In the 2010 formation of the Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a "support agreement" (gedoogakkoord) between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts. Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam and his defense of free speech; his views have made him a controversial figure in the Netherlands and abroad, and since 2004 he has been protected at all times by armed bodyguards.
See also
- Criticism of multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
- Philo-Semitism
- Bibliography of books critical of Islam