Prime Minister Mark Rutte has crossed swords in parliament with populist Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders. The PVV has an agreement to support the minority centre-right government from parliament on most issues.
At one point, the two men shouted at each other to “behave normally”. The exchange followed the prime minister objecting to an earlier statement by a PVV MP, calling Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan an “Islamic monkey”.
Mr Rutte also warned the PVV leader against overemphasising the problem of criminality amongst Dutch-Moroccan youths. He told Mr Wilders that this could lead to the alienation of law-abiding and highly qualified members of the Dutch-Moroccan community. Mr Wilders countered that such people should take the criminal members of their community in hand.
The prime minister also made it clear that the government is against holding a referendum on banning the construction of new minarets on mosques in the Netherlands. On Wednesday, the PVV put forward holding such a referendum.
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Why build more mosques? Whats the real reason? Are you in the middle east haha no your not. The only thing I can think of you want your country to be a backwards islamic state. Thats why you need a great leader like Geert to save you and your country.
I support strongly the idea of highly qualified members of the communities taking their criminals in hand . . . Otherwise what is the point of being community . . .
On the other hand mimarets are not religious must . . . If they are going to be built in such a way deserving the dutch architectural creativity . . . That is ok . . . If they are going to be built with no originality then take a vacation in Turkiye . . . We have 80 (eighty) thousand of them . . . Minarets did not, does not and will not help democracy . . . Share the wealth justly and dont forget the people of your community . . . Stop acting like religious monkeys and scratching the touchy issues of the ordinary Dutch citizens. . .
Yours sincerely.