Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has asked the National Anti-terrorism Co-ordinator for clarification about an infiltrator into his Freedom Party. Mr Wilders wants to know how a journalist of weekly magazine HP/De Tijd was able to serve a four-month work placement with the party without having been screened.

Countless death threats have been made against Mr Wilders in the past following his criticism of Islam's suppression of women and homosexuals, and of the alleged Islamisation of Dutch society. He is under permanent police protection.
 

Waved through
The weekly's editor said the journalist, Karen Geurtsen, having supplied formal evidence of good behaviour, only had to write an application letter and have a 30-minute interview before starting her placement. HP/De Tijd says her background was not investigated in any way. If anyone had googled her it would have become clear immediately that she was working for the magazine, the weekly said.

The journalist told daily de Telegraaf that she had scores of opportunities to hurt or even kill Mr Wilders. "Once I had a permanent pass, I was waved through every time I entered the office," Ms Geurtsen wrote in the magazine. The aim of her infiltration was to find out from the inside how dangerous the populist anti-Islam party really is, she wrote.

The leader of the Freedom Party says that it appears to be easy to infiltrate his party and that this makes him feel unsafe.

Geert Wilders (Photo: pvv.nl)