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The Muslim Mayor of one of the Netherlands' biggest cities has said Islamic extremists who do not accept Western society should "just f*** off".

Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb launched the scathing attack on live television in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

The Labour Mayor of Rotterdam, who arrived in the Netherlands aged 15, told the current affairs show Nieuwsuur: "It’s incomprehensible that you turn against freedom like that, but if you don’t like this freedom, for heaven’s sake, get your suitcase, and leave.

"There might be a place where you belong, and be honest with yourself about that, don’t kill innocent journalists."

In an impassioned monologue hours after the massacre of 12 journalists at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, he went on: "This is so backwards, so incomprehensible, go away if you can’t find your place in the Netherlands, or accept the society we want to build here, because we only want people, including all those Muslims, and all those well-intentioned Muslims, who may be looked at with suspicion, we want to keep all those people together in what I call the 'We Society'.

"And if you don’t like it here because you don’t like the humorists who make a little newspaper – if I may dare say so – just f*** off."

Aboutaleb, who is the son of an imam, is the first immigrant Mayor of a city in the Netherlands.

Rotterdam is one of the country's most diverse cities. By 2020, immigrants are expected to account for more than half of its population.

Aboutaleb, 53, previously launched a scathing attack on extremism after the killing of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh by an Islamist in 2004.