An openly gay Dutch politician, much loved and respected, who had been a talk-show host and regularly appeared on TV, Pim was assassinated by a white Christian supporter of Muslim fundamentalism who sought to silence Pim's demands that immigration be limited to Holland until the immigrants already in the country were assimilated.

His stance had been misconstrued as racist and anti-Islamic by the liberal western media who refused to condemn his murder and in many cases welcomed it. Had Pim not been murdered he would have been the next Premier of Holland.