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A Syrian “asylum seeker” — in reality, an economic migrant hoping to live off he many benefits the generous Dutch welfare state provides — has been arrested for stabbing to death a 17-year-old Dutch girl. In the week before that killing, he had sexually assaulted two other Dutch girls in separate incidents. In response to the killing, the anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders called for an immediate end to granting asylum to anyone. More on his infuriated demand, in a country where anti-Muslim sentiment is steadily rising, can be found here: “Wilders Calls for ‘Complete Asylum Shutdown’ After 17-Year-Old Girl Stabbed to Death in Amsterdam,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, August 25, 2025:
Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has called for a complete shut down of allowing asylum seekers into the Netherlands in the wake of the killing of a 17-year-old girl in Amsterdam allegedly at the hands of an asylum seeker.
Last week, the Netherlands was horrified by the brutal death of 17-year-old Lisa, who was stabbed to death while returning to her Amsterdam apartment following a night out with friends.
On Friday, it was revealed that the 22-year-old suspect in the alleged murder was in the country as an asylum seeker. He is also suspected in two other incidents, including a violent sexual attack on another woman on August 14th and an attempted sexual assault on August 10th, according to Dutch daily De Telegraaf.
Following the disclosure of the suspect being an asylum seeker on Friday, Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders called for an immediate and “complete asylum ban” in the Netherlands.
The call was reiterated in the PVV’s manifesto for the upcoming general election in October released on Saturday. In a forward to the programme, Wilders said that “the Netherlands is full, overcrowded, absolutely overflowing.”
It’s not just that the Netherlands is a tiny country is “full, overcrowded, absolutely overflowing.” It’s that these supposed asylum seekers, almost all of them from Muslim countries, are in truth economic migrants, who have arrived not because they are fleeing persecution, but in order to take advantage of all the benefits the generous Dutch welfare state allows, including free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education including vocational training, family allowances, and more. They are costing Dutch taxpayers more than $20 billion a year; each Muslim migrant is estimated to cost the state during his — or her — lifetime some 475,000 euros, a colossal sum. In addition to government benefits, these Muslim migrants add to their income by committing street robberies, home burglaries, shoplifting, car theft, and of course drug trafficking. Muslims are about 6% of the Dutch population, but they are close to 30% of the prison population.
But that is not all. These Muslim migrants are twenty times as likely as the native Dutch to commit sexual crimes, and thus the once-safe and peaceful Netherlands has become a place where crimes of violence are more common; single women and Jews have been special targets of Muslim violence.
Now Geert Wilders, once considered beyond the pale because of his supposed “racism” and “Islamophobia,” is in the political mainstream. The Party for Freedom, which he founded and heads, is now the most popular party in the Netherlands, and is projected to win the most Parliamentary seats in the October election.
“The PVV is standing up for democratic resistance. Against asylum centers, against mass immigration and Islamization, against nuisance and crime—and against the decades-long left-liberal policies that have caused the deplorable state of our country,” Wilders wrote.
“We are completely done with it. Done with disruptive asylum seekers, done with criminal non-Western immigrants, done with foreigners profiting from our welfare state—and done with the constant obstruction from politicians too cowardly to stand up for the Dutch. The PVV is putting the Dutch first.”
The election manifesto called for an immediate suspension of the country’s asylum system and for it to remain in place for at least the next four years….
The anger over the killing of 17-year-old Lisa in Amsterdam has not merely been confined to the populist-right, with the local city government and members of the nightlife industry organising on Tuesday “reclaim the night” demonstrations against violence against women.
However, Wilders noted that the conversation following such tragedies is often dominated with discussions of male violence, rather than on the problems associated with migration. He noted that male Afghani, Iraqi, Somali, and Syrian migrants are up to 20 times more likely to commit sexual offences in the Netherlands than native-born men, according to research from Dr Jan van de Beek….
Muslim migrants are twenty times more likely to commit sexual offenses than native-born Dutch. Isn’t that reason enough to call a halt to such asylum seekers?
After the killing of 17-year-old Lisa by a Muslim migrant, something seems to have finally snapped in Dutch attitudes. With each atrocity committed by Muslim migrants, especially those involving sex and death, the Dutch turn rightward. They are now willing to heed the once-shunned Geert Wilders, willing to contemplate an end to their asylum-seeker program, ready to deport all foreigners who have committed a crime. If the liberal, tolerant, left-leaning Dutch are now prepared to pull down the portcullis to keep the Muslims out, there is hope that other European peoples, historically not nearly as tolerant as the Dutch, will follow suit. Such a sea change by the Dutch, to reclaim their country from the Muslims who have been steadily increasing in numbers, and disrupting so many aspects of Dutch life, would be a great and gallant feat.