With thanks to John Sobieski of Pedestrian Infidel for this story, since that's where I saw it first:
Photo of Geert Wilders courtesy of the Middle East Times
The Dutch government swiftly condemned Wilders' remarks as damaging for community relations in the Netherlands and said that the proposal was unworthy of consideration.
"It has to be perfectly clear that banning the Koran in the Netherlands is not up for discussion for this government and will not be up for discussion in future. We have freedom or religion here," integration minister Ella Vogelaar, said in a statement.
Vogelaar described Wilders' call as "an insult to the majority of Muslims in the Netherlands and abroad who reject calls to hate and violence."
Wilders, who heads the far-right Freedom Party, which holds nine of the 150 seats in parliament, argued for the ban in a letter published in the De Volkskrant newspaper.
Wilders compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf and said that it has "no place in our constitutional state." Dutch far-right MP calls for Koran ban (more)
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Dutch politician calls for ban on Koran
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