Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has received a death threat after his appearance on Australian TV.
A radical Muslim preacher, Feiz Muhammad, speaking on a members-only jihadist website, called on Dutch radical Muslims to decapitate Mr Wilders because he was "humiliating Islam".
An interview with Mr Wilders recorded in June was aired by SBS TV in Australia on Sunday. He called Islamic culture "retarded" and "violent".
The Dutch intelligence service (AIVD) possesses a copy of the imam's speech. Intelligence sources say Feiz Muhammad is considered on a par with US Muslim preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who is seen as the brains behind a failed attack on a plane flying over Detroit.
Mr Wilders told daily De Telegraaf, which published a recording of the speech on its website, that he is shocked by the death threat.
Mr Wilders' Freedom Party wants to restrict immigration from Islamic countries and considers Islam a violent ideology rather than a religion. The Freedom Party is currently involved in protracted negotiations to support a minority centre-right government of free-market liberals and Christian Democrats.
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Listen to the speech - unless I am going deaf, no where in the tape on the Telegraaf website does he call on radical Dutch Muslims to behead Wilders.
This is a Telegraaf hype. Don't fall for it RNW. Check the facts.
That's exactly the kind of reaction Wilders was hoping for when he made those statements.
Creating discord is his bread and butter.