Pim Fortuyn Quotes

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Pim Fortuyn

Profession : Politician

Birth : February 19, 1948

I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

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My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.

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I want to stop the influx of new immigrants. This way, we can give those who are already here the opportunity to fully integrate into our society.

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This country is bursting.

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Le Pen is old; I'm young.

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Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

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The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

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We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.

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The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.

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If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them.

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Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.

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If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.

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For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

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I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.

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An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.

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Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

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Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

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We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

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We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.

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The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.

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