Dutch anti-Islamist presidential candidate calls Moroccan migrants ‘scum’

At campaign launch, populist Geert Wilders says immigrants ‘make the streets unsafe,’ states his intention to ‘make the Netherlands ours again’

SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands — Firebrand Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders launched his election campaign Saturday with a stinging attack on the country’s Moroccan population, calling them “scum” and saying he wanted to make The Netherlands “ours again.”

Wilders has been leading opinion polls ahead of crunch elections on March 15, seen as a litmus test of European politics after Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States.

“The Moroccan scum in Holland … once again not all are scum… but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people… and that should change,” Wilders told a scrum of journalists before attempting to take a stroll at a market in Spijkenisse, just south of Rotterdam.

“If you want to regain your country, if you want to make the Netherlands for the people of the Netherlands, your own home again, than you can only vote” for his Freedom Party, Wilders said.

“Please, make the Netherlands ours again,” said the far-right politician, sporting his trademark peroxide hairdo as a small group of supporters chanted “Wilders! Wilders!” in the background.

The MP, who has vowed to ban the Koran and close mosques should he be voted into power…

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