Guilty Or Not Guilty Of Spreading Hate? A Judge Rules On Geert Wilders
The Dutch Islamic Federation brought their case before a judge in The Hague asking him to rule that Geer Wilders is guilty of spreading hate by releasing his anti-Quran film “Fitna”. Today, the judge made an official ruling and found Wilders…Not Guilty.
The Hague - A judge has ruled in a case against MP Geert Wilders brought by the Dutch Islamic Federation that Mr Wilders is not guilty of spreading hate, although his statements are provocative.
The Islamic Federation wanted a judgement on the Freedom Party’s leader after he compared the Qur’an to Mein Kampf. However the judge ruled that members of parliament have to be able to express their opinions strongly.
The democrat party D66 want the Lower House to investigate exactly what Mr Wilders told the cabinet about his film Fitna. Two ministers and Mr Wilders disagreed during a Lower House debate on the anti-Qur’an film last week about what was said during a meeting in November.
A record of the meeting says the ministers were concerned about the end of the film in which Mr Wilders said he intended to tear out pages of the Qur’an and burn them in the fireplace. Mr Wilders accused the ministers of lying. D66 leader Alexander Pechtold says it is bad for the image of politics when an MP and the cabinet get into a situation like this. Last week the conservative VVD called for an investigation.
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If spreading hate don’t fit, you got to acquit.
This dude gets it
April 7th, 2008 at 9:56 ama bit of sanity
April 7th, 2008 at 10:10 amYay for free speech
April 7th, 2008 at 10:26 amI’m not enthused about the outcome; it is only Wilders’ status as a member of parliament that protected him. And it appears that his fellow MPs were not above lying about the film to try to nail him.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:40 amWow! A European judge with common sense!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:08 pmGeeez, tell the truth and you get called names by the open minded, compassionate, tolerant left!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pmSo Wilders quotes verbatim from the Koran and the muzzies are miffed that there is all the footage from 9/11 (the same footage that they cheered throughout the Middle East).
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They cheer the Koran. They cheer the footage. They denounce Wilders.
I call BS!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmI would like to make it publically known that Richard Gere has stolen my identity and is making political statements using my PatDollard sign on.
Either that or I have forgotten to erase Richard Gere from my sign on.
One or the other. I can’t remember which.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pmGeert’s Blatant Blonde mop is Islamophobic provocation! He should be legally compelled to dye it black!
April 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am