Geert Wilders: "I want to have absolutely nothing to do with far right-wing parties like Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National in France and the British National Party"

From Der Spiegel:

In a SPIEGEL interview, Dutch Islam-opponent Geert Wilders discusses his fight for a Koran ban, why German Chancellor Angela Merkel is running scared on the immigration issue and his belief that the Netherlands' debate over Muslims has now crossed the border into Germany.

Wilders: I was recently in Berlin on an invitation from René Stadtkewitz ...

SPIEGEL: ... a former member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who is also calling for another integration policy and recently founded a party called Die Freiheit (The Freedom Party), which virtually nobody in Germany has ever heard of.

Wilders: That may be true, but the main thing for me is that I want to have absolutely nothing to do with far right-wing parties like the German Republikaner, Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National in France and the British National Party.

SPIEGEL: You disassociate yourself from their die-hard slogans, but agree with them when it comes to aggressively wooing the votes of the hard-working middle class?

Wilders: We want to have nothing to do with these far right-wing parties. Indeed, following our success in the European Union elections, we have joined no faction in the European Parliament. Ask our political opponents in the Netherlands: They may not share our opinions, but they do not all maintain that Wilders and his people are extremists. Anyone who labels 2 million Dutch as extremists does not insult me, but rather the voters.