A small victory for free speech in Europe: right-wing (or, if you’re the BBC, ‘far-right’) Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been cleared of inciting hatred against Muslims.
It should never have come to this, of course. Wilders may have angered Muslims by likening Islam to fascism and the Koran to Mein Kampf, but expressing opinions that some find offensive is not the same thing as inciting hatred. But, as is generally the case in Europe these days, those who called for Wilders to be prosecuted were determined to silence him, partly out of knee-jerk political correctness, and partly because they feared his remarks might provoke a violent response from Muslims – which of course rather helps to make Wilders’ point for him.
Wilders insisted, quite rightly, that his remarks were part of a legitimate debate; unfortunately it’s a debate that European societies and their leaders don’t want to have, which is why Islamic extremism has been allowed to fester across the continent.
The court’s decision doesn’t, as an idiotic piece of analysis attached to the BBC’s report suggests, mean the famously tolerant Dutch people have suddenly become less so. It does mean they should now feel more free to speak out against extremists in their midst whose ideology is blatantly intolerant.
Cheers for this bravest of men. May he continue his fight to save European civilization from barbarism.
One of the accusers of Wilders is a guy called Jeroen de Kreek. You can hear him makes his case (in Dutch) in court here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_9H6MAdkU
He is a lawyer and owner of several websites denying the Holocaust:
http://www.hetzuur.nl/
http://www.holocaustles.nl/
http://nazitruth.nl/
Another accuser is Mohamed Rabbae, a man who called for the banning of the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and who claims Wilders is executing some kind of Israeli policy of instigating hatred towards Muslims.
These are the people who are behind the trial of Geert Wilders. I think it is outrageous a supporter of Israel is being hounded in the name of Holocaust by anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.
If it wasn’t so insane, it would be funny.
Happiest day for me since I heard Obama was killed,….short lived since it turned out to be Osama.
Your comment is a provocation, you try to stain all the good work that “we” do in here with the violent implications of your comment.
I reject the violence implied in your comment.
Reject this, Zangpo! 100 Wilders are needed to offset the damage one Obama does. His position, in no manner, protects him from being the terrorist he is. No way, one can be pro islam, and not be anti-American/Jewish.
If you read the comments that I post, you know that I write some of the angriest comments against this administration of internationalist subversives and islamic supremacism supporters.
But that has nothing to do with any direct or implied idea of violence.
And the expression of any direct or implied idea of violence can only help this administration of internationalist subversives and islamic supremacism supporters.
They will use such comments to cover all our investigations and reflections with a blanket (“racism”, “right wing nuts”, blah blah).
These are marxists, they are dangerous.
The destiny of Freedom and of the Republic hangs by a very thin thread.
We have to win on the field of ideas, that the marxists have polluted for decades.
We have to win on the field of information, that the marxists have gagged for decades.
We have to win politically, to become able to undo the system of fortresses of subversion that has been built in the schools , in the universities, in the media…in the minds.
It’s a lot of work.
It will require all of our energies.
Excellent news about Wilders.
The West is not yet reduced to silence.