Geert Wilders Quotes

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction.

The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimately only be defeated by moderate Muslims around the globe, countries like U.A.E. that have led the fight within their own border to promote tolerance.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

Islam does have two faces—a bright face and an evil face, and we must work with the former. The reaction of Moslems against Islamic extremism doesn’t get the coverage it should.

In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives.

We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

I am not big on the idea that a rapid injection of democracy will reform radical Moslems.

If radical Islam is ever to be shunted aside it will be by other Moslems with alternate interpretations.

Terrorism is a part of mainstream Islam. The Koran preaches violence.

Any terrorism act perpetrated by Muslims is condemnable… it goes against the teaching of Islam, the Koran and the teachings of the prophet. There is no justification whatever for these acts. That is the view of the main body of Muslims worldwide.

Islamofascism

Muslims tend to quote the Koran selectively to support their own ethical views.

There is the moderate, Westernized Islam on which we have hung our hopes, and there is everyone else.... And if allowed to play out to its goal of world domination, radical Islam will make the “domino theory” of Southeast Asia pale by comparison.

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.