In an interview with Dutch news channel NU.nl, Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders says that his party’s ideas are striking a chord with increasing numbers of people across Europe. Mr Wilders spoke of an unstoppable ‘anti-Islam’ wave. “We are having our own little revolution down here” he said.

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Populist MP Geert Wilders is writing a book about the history of Islam that argues it is not a religion but an ideology.

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“The lights are going out all over Europe,” British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarked on the eve of World War I. I am reminded of those words whenever I read about Europeans being dragged into court for so-called hate-speech crimes.

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I have only just caught up with the BBC1 documentary on the Dutch politician Geert Wilders that was transmitted on Tuesday evening. Did I say documentary? ‘Europe’s Most Dangerous Man' was a vicious hatchet job that was a disgrace to journalism. More than that, it could be argued that by presenting Wilders as a latter-day Nazi who was likely to foment war in Europe between Muslims and non-Muslims, it was in effect inciting violence or the murder of a politician who is already under armed guard 24/7.