Islam film Dutch MP to be charged
Geert Wilders lives under police protection because of death threatsA Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
"In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to... draw a clear line," the court in Amsterdam said.
Mr Wilders said the judgement was an "attack on the freedom of expression".
"Participation in the public debate has become a dangerous activity. If you give your opinion, you risk being prosecuted," he said.
Not only he, but all Dutch citizens opposed to the "Islamisation" of their country would be on trial, Mr Wilders warned.
"Who will stand up for our culture if I am silenced?" he added.
'Incitement'
The three judges said that they had weighed Mr Wilders's "one-sided generalisations" against his right to free speech, and ruled that he had gone beyond the normal leeway granted to politicians.
I often marvel at the ideology of many Europeans especially as it concerns hate speech and discrimination. Every time I hear a European complain that America has become unjust, bigoted, and so forth, I think of all the stupidity of hypocrisy which enshrouds continental Europe.
This latest attempt by a liberal court to silence conservative voices is ridiculous. Have they ever considered that the Muslim call to jihad is hatred and discrimination? Do they ever think that chanting "Down with America," "Down with Britain," "Down with Israel" is not to be considered hateful speech?
I know what this is. This is liberal political maneuvering guised as legal ideology. It's amazing this type of thinking hasn't reached the American shores. Or has it?
One of pres. Obama's executive orders was to order Gitmo closed. While that might appeal to the liberal talking heads, one has to wonder where these people will wind up? Granted, torture is bad. But so is war. So is jihad against Americans. Are we to sit quietly and not defend ourselves? Why should we refrain from protecting our own? As intelligent beings all of humanity is not even close to the ideal being, where peace and love is the norm - no matter how cliche that might sound.
These recent events remind me of the political and ideological garbage the communist party used to spew out each day in defiance of reason.
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