HOLLAND is bracing itself for another bout of Islamic rage following the news that the controversial politician Geert Wilders is putting the finishing touches to a short film highly critical of Islam.

According to the Guardian, Wilders has been doing a crash course in Koranic study, from which he deduces that:

Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology - the ideology of a retarded culture.

He likens the Islamic sacred text to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and he wants the ‘fascist Koran’ outlawed in Holland. He would also like the constitution to be rewritten to make all immigration from Muslim countries halted; Muslim immigrants paid to leave, and all Muslim ‘criminals’ stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported ‘back where they came from’. But he insists he has nothing against Muslims.

I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people.

Of his 10-minute film, which has thrown Holland into a state of panic, Wilders said:

It’s like a walk through the Koran. My intention is to show the real face of Islam. I see it as a threat. I’m trying to use images to show that what’s written in the Koran is giving incentives to people all over the world. On a daily basis Moroccan youths are beating up homosexuals on the streets of Amsterdam.

Wilders echoes some of the arguments against multiculturalism that have convulsed Germany in recent years, and are now being heard in the UK.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

Wilders views himself as a libertarian provocateur like the late Pim Fortuyn or Theo van Gogh, railing against Islamisation as a threat to what used to be the easy-going Dutch model of tolerance. He insists:

My allies are not Le Pen or Haider. We’ll never join up with the fascists and Mussolinis of Italy. I’m very afraid of being linked with the wrong rightist fascist groups.

He adds:

Islam is something we can’t afford any more in the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams… Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

For more than three years, Wilders has been paying for his honesty by living under permanent police guard as the internet bristles with threats on his life. He has lived in army barracks, in prisons, under guard at home.

There’s no freedom, no privacy. If I said I was not afraid, I would be lying.

Says the Guardian:

There is little doubt that if Wilders’s film exists - and it’s shrouded in secrecy - and is broadcast, it will be construed as blasphemy in large parts of the world and may spark a new bloody crisis in relations between the West and the Muslim world. He does not seem to care.