Geert Wilders: On Trial for Having an Opinion

From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

A few years ago Britain’s Channel 4 TV broadcast a documentary exposing a number of hate preachers. These were shown variously praising Osama bin Laden, denouncing non-Muslims, or “kuffar,” calling women “deficient,” and inciting violence, including the murder of Jews and homosexuals. Much of what was said, and broadcast in Undercover Mosque, was patently illegal under British law. Instead of acting against the preachers, the police filed a complaint against the filmmakers, who they accused of taking things “out of context” – it’s just that easy to do, when imams call for murder, apparently.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.” Why would he say this and why should we take him seriously?

Besides being asked to leave Great Britain on his arrival there, outcast Wilders is also slated for trial for his recent video production of his anti-Koran piece called “Fitna.” Wilders is a common sense kind of man with a strong heart for the principles of free speech and an eye for anything that smacks of the strangling of freedom under the feigned hypocrisy of political correctness.

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