Geert Wilders: ‘Freedom Is Threatened in the Netherlands’
On January 20, the pre-trial hearing of Geert Wilders’ free speech trial took place in the Netherlands. Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament, and his Freedom Party is at the top of the polls.
Wilders is charged with “slandering a group,” “discrimination,” and “sowing hatred.” According to the Dutch public prosecutors, Wilders broke the law by comparing Islam to Nazism, by calling for a stop to all immigration of Muslims into the Netherlands, and by presenting his movie Fitna. (Fitna pictures Islam as a brutal totalitarian ideology that aggressively seeks world domination in democratic and non-democratic ways.) Wilders has no positive words for Islam: “There is no moderate Islam. It doesn’t exist, because there is no distinction between good Islam and bad Islam. There is Islam and that’s it.” “Islam is the Koran, and nothing but the Koran. … I’m fed up by the Koran in Holland: Ban that fascist book!” “Close the borders, no more Muslims into Holland.”
Wilders could be sentenced to 1 to 2 years in prison or fined up to $14,000.
At the center of this trial lies the clash between two Dutch constitutional rights: freedom of speech and non-discrimination. Both rights have equal weight in the Dutch constitution. Both rights resonate with people’s memories of living under the Nazi regime during WWII. The left establishment typically leans towards non-discrimination at the cost of free speech, and the political right typically sees jihadist organizations in the Netherlands as exploiting that.
Don’t think for one second this isn’t happening in America – we’re just a few years behind Eurabia if things continue on their present course.
We are being infiltrated by Islamists aided by leftist collaborators & liberal airheads. The ”useful idiots” in gov’t., in our universities, & in the media are paving the way towards the same disaster as in Europe.
Islam is no different than Nazism or Communism – a totalitarian political ideology antithetical to freedom.
We need urgently to rethink our ideas of freedom of religion, fight political correctness when dealing with this hostile & noxious ideology, & make Islam very unwelcome in our country.
Europe has gone quite insane. To put this man on trial, while thousands of radical Muslims march and shout, “Death to the infidels,” is just plain crazy. We have now reached a point that radical Muslims in Europe can say and do anything they want and not be prosecuted. They can have major riots over some stupid cartoon in a Danish magazine and that’s fine. They can threaten and blackmail people who don’t agree with their strange religious views, and that’s fine. They can engage in “honor” killings and beat their wives, and that seems to be fine too. But if anyone should disagree with radical Muslims or their medieval beliefs, they can be put on trial. I would boycott Holland simply for being so stupid. Any country that thinks this little about free speech does not deserve our respect, let alone our friendship. I also wonder when the native Europeans will rebel and start killing radical Muslims. Don’t think it can happen in Europe? Hmmm, ask any Muslim in Bosnia or Kosovo whether or not Europeans are capable of a backlash against them. If this insanity in Holland goes on any longer, that backlash will arrive sooner rather than later all over Europe, especially in places like France and Germany.
Shame on the Netherlands for even bringing this into court. Geert Wilders is absolutely correct, freedom is threatened. I guess stating a fact in the Netherlands these daysis hate speech. Yet, all one has to do is read the Koran and listen to Moslem clerics to establish the fact.
Geert Wilders deserves a lot more support than he’s getting.
Is Islam a fascistic set of beliefs?
find out yourself:
Ibn Warraq: Islam, Middle East and Fascism
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=3766&sec_id=3766
At the center of this trial lies the clash between two Dutch constitutional rights: freedom of speech and non-discrimination. Both rights have equal weight in the Dutch constitution.
They have equal weight in the Dutch constitution, so which do you think carries more weight with Dutch judges?
And discrimination in what? Did he refuse to hire Muslims, or refuse to do favors that they asked? Where is the discrimination?
If the “right” of non-discrimination is to be extended to anything anybody has to say about you (a right that the government of the Netherlands clearly doesn’t recognize in actual Dutchmen), then the two rights do not carry equal weight in the constitution, much less in the inequitable way their legal system is likely to enforce the constitution.
What they’re saying to their own people is, in effect, “your right to speak your mind is protected, unless you say something bad about an illiberal foreign religion which instills in its adherents a seething hatred for all the fundamental values on which our society is based.”
They’re saying to Muslim immigrants: “You can come here, live at public expense and preach the violent destruction of the society that accommodates you, and, since your religion will brook no criticism of any kind, no one is permitted to contradict your ‘opinions.’”
This upcoming trial is going to be a cusp event that defines what freedom is on the coming generation. The U.N. and it’s bozos are already trying to get this type of international law enacted. It is the genius of our founders that realized the First Amendment really was the FIRST freedom and without there was nothing. The tribal peoples and those raised up in the former kingdoms of Europe are always easily moved to reject the example of America’s First Amendment. You see it in action now where they say it is not the truth of his words that matters, it is only whether it is illegal to say! The media should be pesterng Obama about this. But we’ll get there soon enough.
The statement of no good or bad Islam is exactly what the PM of Turkey is quoted to have said recently.
Free speech in the USA once more! Today, 1/21/10, the Supreme Court struck down most of McCain-Feingold and other prior laws pertaining to restricting speech prior to elections. Geert Wilders, you need a good robust First Amendment in the Netherlands and courts there that will support it.
8. DVG:
“The statement of no good or bad Islam is exactly what the PM of Turkey is quoted to have said recently.”
Islam is ether active or inactive. Osama is the one man alive today whose life resmbles Muhammad. He is active and other Muslims know it.
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”
Despite what they say Islam is all about, what lessons are we learning from the deeds of Muslims in Europe, in America – even around the world – today?
The Politically Correct Thought Police has had things their own way for too long but there is a backlash brewing. The powers that be have mistaken tolerance for complacency and complacency for complicity.
There is a lot of anger and discontent brewing in Europe.
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If you go left, you receive help.
If you are Muslim, you have advocates.
If you are color, you become bout.
If you are not honest, the will respect you.
If you are say what the won’t. You have right to speak.
If you are white, honest, witness and will testify, you will be liquidated.
If you are with and need help, advocate Gov. Help etc. you receive 0, 0! That’s who it looks like in this moment.
O and if you will tell you honest experience, the pushed you from 6 floor, like they did to me daughter!
Like they did if/when she wonted working on a book about her experiences in children communistic gulag/working camp and immigration experiences.
If you are will pointed on spy in the land/industry the will kill you and/or you children.
If you survive and will asylum in other free country, you will Suffern, receive not right and will live in poverty and misery.
That’s the reality.
All group receive help, bud white people the have stand up against the Bolshevik spy have no chance to survive!
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