Five years ago, today,  Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by Dutch Moroccan Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri.  Geert Wilders, whom we interviewed in the November edition of the New English Review, accused leaders of the Dutch opposition in the Hague Parliament of being "political accomplices" to Bouyeri creating "a climate of hate" against him and the Freedom Party leading in political polls..

Note his remarks in this Radio Nederland Report::

Mr Wilders says comments by the two politicians have contributed to "a climate of hate and violence against him and his party." He added that the Labour Party and D66 had not learnt anything from the murder of Pim Fortuyn.  The two politicians have typified the Freedom Party as extreme right and a danger to the constitutional state at the weekend.

Mr Wilders believes that this "demonisation and the denouncements"  were made out of fear of the Freedom Party's success. He warned: "If anything ever happens to me or my party that everyone will know that Van der Laan and Pechtold contributed to a climate that made it seem justified to some madmen."

The Friends of Pim Fortuyn foundation is holding a public commemoration of Theo van Gogh on the spot where he died this afternoon. A number of debates have also been organised to mark the anniversary of his death.