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A Dutch member of parliament has called for the Quran to be banned in the Netherlands, describing it as a "fascist book" which calls on people to kill non-believers and rape women. Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, called for the ban in a letter published in De Volkskrant newspaper. In his letter, Wilders compares the Muslim holy book to Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's autobiography, and said the Quran has "no place in our constitutional state". "I have been saying this for years: there is no such thing as a moderate Islam," Wilders wrote. Wilders' Freedom Party holds nine seats in the Netherlands' 150 seat parliament.
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Wilders also said several chapters in the Quran "call on Muslims to oppress, persecute or kill Christians, Jews, dissidents and non-believers, to beat and rape women and to establish an Islamic state by force".
The publication of the letter comes after a weekend attack on Eshan Jami, a young Dutch politician, who established a group to support people who have renounced Islam.
Jami, who was not visibly injured in the attack, is now under police protection as is Wilders.
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"Ban this wretched book like "Mein Kampf" is banned," Wilders wrote in a letter published in the local De Volkskrant newspaper and cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf outlines the future Nazi dictator's racist ideology It has been banned in the Netherlands since the end of World War II.
"Send a signal to…Islamic radicals that the Qur’an cannot be used in the Netherlands as an inspiration or an excuse for violence," wrote MP Wilders, whose party holds nine seats in the 150-member parliament.
He claimed that the Muslim holy book has no place in "our constitutional state," claiming that the Qur’an asks Muslims to persecute or kill non-Muslims and to establish an Islamic state by force.
"I have been saying this for years: there is no such thing as a moderate Islam," wrote the far-right lawmaker.
"I am fed up with Islam in the Netherlands: no more Muslim immigrants allowed.
"I am fed up with the worship of Allah and Muhammad in the Netherlands: no more mosques."
Earlier this year, Wilders pressed for a no-confidence vote against Muslim ministers Ahmed Aboutaleb and Nebahat Albayrak, questioning their loyalty to the Netherlands.
He has also campaigned to ban the building of new mosques and halt all Muslim immigration.
Muslims make up one million of the Netherlands’s 16 million population.
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