The Geert Wilders Show Trial: Only Three of Eighteen Witnesses Allowed
Last week, the pretrial for the popular Dutch politician Geert Wilders ended negatively for the defendant and for the right to free speech.
Geert Wilders stands trial on the charge of insulting Muslims as a group and inciting hatred via his sharp critiques of the Koran and Islam. During the pre-hearings, Wilders requested to call 18 expert witnesses. His wish list consisted of three categories: renowned legal experts on freedom of speech; experts on Islamic ideology; and jihadist “experiential experts,” such as the killer of Theo van Gogh. The first category of witnesses would argue that harsh critique or rejection of a religious group by a politician is legal, as long as there is a factual basis and a public interest in the things he says. The second category of experts would state that the Koran and Islam form a violent and totalitarian ideology. And the third group of witnesses would testify they observe Islamic law by practicing jihad.
The court ruled it will only hear three of Wilders’ witnesses. All three are experts on the Koran and Islam, and are severe critics: Syrian-American anti-Islam activist Wafa Sultan and Dutch Arabists/Islamologists Hans Jansen and Simon Admiraal.
By rejecting to hear any experts on freedom of speech, the Amsterdam district court played down the immense issue at stake in this trial: Is there room to criticize the Koran and Islam in a European constitutional state? Does even a member of parliament not have the right to do so outside of parliament itself?
By hearing so few experts on Islam, the court showed disinterest in learning the truth about the religion. The truth could define Islam as a totalitarian threat to Dutch open society. This would give Geert Wilders the legal right to speak out against it outside of parliament.
The three expert witnesses will be heard by an examining magistrate behind closed doors. Says Wilders:
Apparently, the truth about Islam must remain a secret.
The hidden hearings will take place in the coming three to four months. Five public sessions will be scheduled for this summer or fall. During these sessions, no witnesses will be heard. Only the written reports of their testimonies behind closed doors will be presented.
Geert Wilders keeps hoping and fighting for justice:
I’m still counting on an acquittal.
Wilders also criticized the trial as unjust:
This court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial. I can’t have any respect for this. This court would not be out of place in a dictatorship.
You can follow the trial at www.wildersontrial.com.
Pat Condell calls the trial of Geert Wilders “the trial of the century and the crime of the century”.
What does Obama have to say about it? Don’t expect our free press to ask him.
Any decent Dutch people emigrated a long time ago, what’s left is socialist rabble: Dutch and Arab. Wilders should have emigrated to an anglophone country a long time ago, he’s a hero, but he cannot win, the Dutch have already surrendered to Allah and his catamite Mohammed.
Sounds like the Scopes Monkey trial.
You know when a trial encompassing this level of assault on freedom of speech is not getting juicy pieces of the inner schemes reported in the press that the entire society has already folded. Imagine what mind must be in a judge to not scream at the thought of even having to preside over such a travesty. Not a word. Quietly giving up in the face of Islam. Submission. Buh-bye. Gee, I hope we don’t have to send out sons and daughters over to assist in their waking. Cowards deserve their cage.
Does anyone know where Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch stands on this European cram-down of free speech?
this medieval trial is so terrible and strange, eerie and creepy. we are falling faster and further into the dark ages, dumb and deluded, unable to think or process the truth, and therefore find no value in it. geert wilders is heroic, but there are so few heroes and so many rabble. and the community organizer is hiding under the bed with his teeth chattering.
The give-away was when they asked the witnesses to swear on a Koran.
This trial is a sop to the Mohammedans.
Seems that the court is in a Catch 22. The Koran allows Muslims to lie to non-Muslims. Therefore, NOTHING that they say can be accepted as truth unless you are a Muslim and maybe not even then. Swearing on a Koran just reinforces this position. Who but Allah can tell if what they say is the truth (and that is questionable)? We can only offer all possible support to Wilders and hope that this kangaroo court will get it right in support of truth and justice.
This is a case in point illustrating How socialists deal with Speech Freedoms.Our own crypto stalinists have tried their best to suppress free speech in the universities,and in politics.So far, they have failed,which is why the libtard/stalinists ,and their RINO dupes, like the cretinistic senator MCcain were so rabidly upset with the SCOTUS ruling destroying the MCcain-Feingold law.
UN Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
So, how are the protests against the government of the Netherlands for ignoring the above going?
1: The Dutch non-Muslims are on the verge of dhimmitude (if not there already).
2: Islam is not a religion. It is (fascist) political ideology parading around in the clothing of religion, much like the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
3: The following you-tube video is a must see and bolsters Evelyn Markus’ column: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII
I too wonder, as does malclave,how have the demonstrations been going against this absolute idiocy ??!! The ppl should be in the streets fighting against the surrender of their nation to an ancient barbaric “civilization”. Are they ? Or are they actually surrendering their nation without a fight ?
The society that Orwell envisioned in 1984 is coming to pass 26 years later. The old Soviet bloc nations are becoming freer than the West: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/111032-0/
We now have trials for thought crimes. The elites of England, France and the Netherlands are surrendering their country. They are more intent on protecting the delicate sensibilities of Muslims from offense and any perceived slight, while they could care less about the lives of their citizens.
But like the little sheep they are, the citizens of these countries are OK with it, as long as they get their soccer and government entitlements. THAT is why there are no protests against this show trial.
As that Pravda article excalims, “Westerners, you deserve this, since the vast majority of you take it and swallow it, like the good little castrated serfs you are. Enjoy your extinction, as you loaf around on your Chinese couches.”
What Wilders is doing is principled, brave — and utterly futile. This trial is a show trial that would have made Stalin proud.
And it is being covered by a mostly left-wing international media in cahoots with the Islamists.
He should follow the example of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and get out. He can then use American conservative media as a big megaphone.
Anti-Free World Netherlands SHOCKING ATTACK on Western Civilization
Leaflets were distributed in major British cities which included slogans such as: “The final hour will not come until the Muslims kill the Jews.”
Britain’s response? “police appeared reluctant to prosecute because the calls to fight the Jews were carefully couched in quotes from the Koran.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1370900/Extremist-backs-%27kill-Jews%27-poster.html
Does Britain believe it’s acceptable to call for the Religious Murder of Jews and other innocents because it’s in the Koran? In a frightening violation of the Peoples’ right to protection, the UK showed respect for the public call to murder non-Muslims because it’s in the Koran!
In Europe & other countries, Muslim mobs shout in our streets: ‘Jews to the Ovens’, ‘All Jews to the Gas`.
What is the European response to this great evil? They are persecuting innocent Geert Wilders! A frightened European asks: “When can we expect Kristallnacht part 2?”
Wilders’ film, Fitna, is the words of the Koran and Muslims. Why is Geert Wilders being punished for the WORDS of the KORAN and MUSLIMS?
HAARETZ
“the umbrella group for Dutch Muslims said that the film does not insult their religion”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969825.html
In prosecuting innocent Geert Wilders, the Netherlands is declaring non-Muslims have no human rights. No right to protest against the violent Islamic written and verbal calls for our murders. The Netherlands betrays all of innocent humanity.
Sign petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/wilders/petition.html
Protect Wilders/Free World: We must have global street demonstrations for Wilders and FREEDOM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k
PA Muslims CELEBRATE Murder of Americans 9/11
doesn’t take a Prophet to read the writing on these walls.
the western world is in a downward spiral.
more bad news every day. down down down
fools in charge. idiots praised as wise men.
raid the treasury. pillage the kingdom.
truth = lie
no honor or justice to be found.
best thou gird thy loins early lest the battle
overtake thee quickly, brethren.
The solution is simple. When the courts ignore the law, you ignore the courts. Who are the people who wrote the law? Who are the people enforcing the law? Attack that problem from that end. Expose them, ridicule them, make them answer for taking away the right to speak the truth. Do they march there? Civil unrest? Or are they sheep in wooden shoes.
To Religious Extremists everywhere:
If you can’t handle criticism of your religious beliefs, then you should move to another planet.