“And women. For them women are second class citizens”
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Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist, and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
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culture · Dutch politician (1948–2002) · writer · columnist · politician · sociologist · professor · university teacher · political scientist · journalist · also Pim Fortuyn, Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, W.S.P. Fortuyn, Fortuyn
Born 19 February 1948 · Died 6 May 2002 · Q311697
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2026· 7 entries
“What about your opposition to immigration?”
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“I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.”
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“s liberal society and that Muslim immigrants should accept Dutch values. This struck a chord with many in Dutch society, and his party came second in the general election. Although it is now a shadow of its former self, since being routed at the polls earlier this year, it may benefit from the recent collapse of coalition talks and join a new centre-right government. Fortuyn”
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“It is fashionable to be impolite, to be intolerant and to be actually rude to immigrants.”
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“If it were legally possible, I”
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Public attention spiked: 2,842 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10× the usual 285, with 0 article edits.
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2023· 1 entry
A meeting room was named after Fortuyn in the temporary House of Representatives which contains a memorial window
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2014· 1 entry
Yahoo News UK: Pim Fortuyn: Politician's Killer Is Freed Early
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2012· 1 entry
Exactly ten years after Fortuyn's murder, a section of the Korte Hoogstraat (city centre) of Rotterdam was renamed Pim Fortuynplaats
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2006· 1 entry
Formed the Party for Freedom (which became the largest party in the House of Representatives in 2023)
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2004· 2 entries
To more strictly expel asylum seekers whose applications had failed was controversial
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In a TV show, Fortuyn was chosen as De Grootste Nederlander ("Greatest Dutchman of all-time"), followed closely by William of Orange, the leader of the independence war that established the precursor to the present-day N
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2003· 1 entry
Which would grant a general pardon to asylum seekers who had been in the Netherlands for more than five years combined with a temporary freeze on migration and new restrictions on further immigration
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2002· 4 entries
The Guardian: Dutch authorities ignored threats to Pim Fortuyn
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UPI: Commentary: Did Fortuyn have it coming?
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Died 2002-05-06.
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“Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant … And women. For them women are second class citizens. What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.”
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2001· 1 entry
Although he did not specify which party he would seek to stand as a candidate with
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1994· 1 entry
Began hosting his own radio program on RTV Rijnmond and often appeared on the political debate show Buitenhof and later as a commentator on the business current affairs program Business Class on RTL Nederland
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1992· 2 entries
Fortuyn wrote Aan het volk van Nederland ("To the people of the Netherlands"), in which he declared himself to be the spiritual successor of the charismatic but controversial 18th-century Dutch patriot politician Joan De
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“To the people of the Netherlands”
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1991· 1 entry
Proposed firing half of all civil servants and promoted privatisation and decentralisation
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1989· 2 entries
Fortuyn became director of a government organisation administering student transport cards and worked as a research assistant and advisor to the Social and Economic Council (SER)
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Fortuyn left the Labour Party and during the 1990s became a member of the centre-right VVD and was briefly a political consultant to the Christian Democratic Appeal in the early 2000s
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1986· 1 entry
His views shifted towards neoliberalism in the hope that the free market would lead to further individual emancipation, ending a perceived oppression by state bureaucracy
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1981· 1 entry
Received a doctorate in sociology at the University of Groningen as a Doctor of Philosophy
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1971· 1 entry
Ended his study with the Academic degree Doctorandus
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1967· 1 entry
Began to study sociology at the University of Amsterdam and also attended lectures in history, economics and law
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-02-19.
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