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Populist parties are often associated with extremism. However, the term 'extremism' is usually ill-defined & value-laden. Conceptual analysis will help to define populism as well as extremism in a more precise & value-neutral sense. Empirical analysis of the programs of six Dutch & three Flemish parties suggests that populism does not entail extremism, even if it can be combined with it. The Centre Party & Centre Democrats as well as the Socialist Party & the Flemish Bloc may have displayed extremist as well as populist tendencies at some point. Yet the (more or less) populist parties Liveable Netherlands (Leefbaar Nederland), the List Pim Fortuyn, the Freedom Party, the movement Proud of the Netherlands (Rots op Nederland) & the List Dedecker should not be considered extremist. Adapted from the source document.

In 2008, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders (Partij voor de Vrijheid PVV, Party For Freedom) published on the Internet his film Fitna, discussing the Islam in what the author of the present article calls an amateurish series of stereotypes, prejudices, decontextualized images and (purposeful) mistranslations. The Dutch debate surrounding the movies was almost exclusively directed in terms of freedom of opinion and expression, and their alleged threat. An upheaval amongst the Dutch political elite and within media circles that was, however, disappointingly short. In the present article, the author discusses the obsession for Islam as a symptom of growing political incapacity to make a rational and nuanced analysis of the diversity and complexity of the Islam on the one hand, and the role and place of religion in the 21st century in general. The first part is a criticism of the conducted debate, the second part an effort to formulate the right questions that can lead to some realistic answers. References. O. van Zijl