1. Exterior of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders office 2. Wilders talking to reporter 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker: "I would stop the immigration immediately of non-western immigrants for five years, immediately. Not because I have anything against foreigners or people from non-western countries, but because we have huge problems with integration in the Netherlands. I'm not talking about terrorists because the majority have nothing to with terrorism, but if you look at the lists, all the worst lists possible - if you look at the list of crime and population of our prisons, the list of domestic violence, the people who are dependent on social schemes - I could continue for a long time, people who are non-western immigrants are on the top of those lists." 4. Cutaway 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker: "Islamic people are often not (open) to criticism, and I believe that in a mosque there is recruitment for Jihad and there were public reports from a secret service saying there is a growing recruitment for the Islamic Jihad in those 20 mosques in the Netherlands. If in a mosque there is recruitment for Jihad, it is not a house of prayer it is a house of war - and if its not a house of prayer it should be closed down. Once again, the majority of the muslims, they are moderate. But if they are not moderate they should be closed." 6. Cutaway 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker: "I am not anti-Islam, I am not making a political party (based around the issue) of Islam. That's total nonsense. But I am very tough on radical Islam. I am maybe the toughest, I have toughest ideas about beating this problem and I am proud of it. I say nothing wrong. I am no racist, I am no anti-Islamist . Like I said in a debate here in Holland a few weeks ago about what happened in those mosques, I said that if what happened in those mosques in Netherlands would happen in church or a synagogue I would say exactly the same. But the facts are that it is happening with Islam in mosques and radical islamic groups." 8. Cutaway 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker: "The political culture in Islamic countries is retarded. And there is not one rule of law in Arab and Islamic countries. There is no civil society, there is not one parliament that can send a president or a prime minister away. Everything is lacking and we have immigration from those countries to the Netherlands. We should not import a retarded political islamic society to our country." 10. Various of people walking out of a mosque in the Netherlands 11. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Voxpop Muslim resident "There is no problem but some people want to create problems and want to make problems bigger than they are. And they want to make small things into big. And that is a mistake, a big mistake." 12. Various of exterior of mosque STORYLINE: Popular Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Friday he would weed out radical Muslims by sealing the border to non-Western immigrants for five years and shutting down mosques advocating fundamentalism. Wilders, who inherited the populist mantle of slain politician Pim Fortuyn, told The Associated Press in an interview that the Netherlands must take strong measures to stamp out Islamic fundamentalism - or face the collapse of the country's democratic system. Wilders, who stunned the political scene with his success at the polls, left the free-market coalition partner Liberal Party two months ago for backing the candidacy of Turkey - a predominantly Muslim country - to the European Union. He has since formed his own party. Wilders said he is not a racist and is not opposed to mainstream Islam. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c848256f8bd44d84615dab6f6080bb58 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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