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| Geert Wilders to go on trial for inciting racial hatred |
| 2010-10-04 |
| A very brave move from the home country of Theo can Gogh and Pim Fortuyn. he Dutch anti-Islamist MP Geert Wilders is to go on trial in Amsterdam on charges of inciting racial hatred against Muslims. If found guilty, Mr Wilders could face up to a year in jail or a fine of up to 7,600 euros ($10,000). The controversial politician is set to become a shadow partner of the next coalition government. He claims that he has said nothing offensive. Mr Wilders will stand trial on five charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims, including calling Islam fascist and likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf. Prosecutors say Mr Wilders committed the offences in his 17-minute film Fitna, which has sparked protests across the Muslim world. The BBC doesn't remind its readers of Theo can Gogh and Pim Fortuyn, or their fates, natch. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #7 Dutch prosecutors should seriously consider putting The Koran on trial The judge previously ruled that the Koran cannot be quoted as defence by MP Wilders. Therefore one can assume it will not be prosecuted in the near future. As for the more distant future, that depends on the result of MP Wilder's trial. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-04 19:00 |
| #6 And Muslim, as followers of Islam, is not a race. Indeed. And you'd expect that to be the first line of his defence. Members of a race deserve some basic respect for their humanity, on a par with everyone else's. Members of a cult, like Islam, deserve no such basic respect or deference, even if born into it. So many people find it so hard to separate the hardware from the software. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-10-04 12:24 |
| #5 This will only make him more popular. And Muslim, as followers of Islam, is not a race. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2010-10-04 11:34 |
| #4 Can we put the Muzzies on trial for inciting religious hatred? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-10-04 11:07 |
| #3 Wilders would have been put on trial if he had made a movie about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The point isn't what he said, it's who he is. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-10-04 08:53 |
| #2 Dutch prosecutors should seriously consider putting The Koran on trial due to the fact that, in hundreds of mosques, during every Friday public sermons, hundreds of Muslim clerics incite hatred by relying on verses from Allah’s instructions to demonize and dehumanize Christian and Jews. The following Koranic verses are often chanted during the beheading rituals we often see on radical Islamic websites. For the pious Muslim beheading his defenceless hostage, is an act of heroic proportion, because he is slaughtering the Devil incarnated in the human form of an Infidel. “Satan has gained possession of The People of The Book (Jews and Christians) and caused them to forget Allah’s warnings. They are the confederates of Satan; Satan’s confederates shall assuredly be lost in hell. The Believers are the confederates of Allah (Hizbollah); and Allah’s confederates shall surely triumph”. Koran 58:19 “We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers (Jews and Christians). They serve other Gods for whom no sanction has been revealed. Hell shall be their home; dismal indeed is the dwelling place of the evil-doers”. Koran 3:149 “Believers, do not make friends with any men other than your own people. They will spare no pains to corrupt you. They desire nothing but your ruin. Their hatred is clear from what they say, but more violent is the hatred which their breasts conceal”. Koran 3:117 Let us remember always: “The Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness [the madness of intolerance]." Sir Winston Churchill |
| Posted by: Sergei Bourachaga 2010-10-04 07:53 |
| #1 Fitna is just a bunch of Koran readings. Another own goal for anti-free speech lefties. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-10-04 07:42 |