We read:
"The Dutch authorities have arrested the cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym. Nekschot means deathblow, litt: “shot in the back of the neck” [An interview with Nekschot here]). The judicial authorities in Amsterdam said yesterday that the cartoonist was arrested as a suspect for the criminal offense of “publishing cartoons which are discriminating for Muslims and people with dark skin.”
The cartoonist was arrested on Tuesday, while the police searched his house for “discriminating evidence.” His computer, backups, usb sticks, mobile phone and a number of drawings were confiscated.
Nekschot was released two days later but it is possible that he will be charged following a complaint in 2005 by the Dutch imam Abdul Jabbar van de Ven, an indigenous Dutchman who converted to Islam.
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The guy is a hero, considering the Muslim-loving Dutch authorities and the lack of protection for free speech there.
4 comments:
If he was arrested for something that was "published", then why would they have to search his house? The things he has published would be available from the publisher, not at his house. At his house, they will probably find things he wrote but never published, which are probably much worse than the things he did actually publish.
The police and the authorities behind them (in any country)welcome the excuse that an arrest gives to circumvent normal privacy rights and find out all they can on people and their associates, whether or not there is actual criminality there - à la "1984".
Hew publishes under an alias, so they can't just take whatever is published and tell a court it's his.
They need evidence that the person arrested is indeed the person behind that alias, and that he's the person who actually made the material (an alias might well hide a group of people).
Of course the radical immam making the accusation was never arrested for anything, despite continuing to incite hatred against Jews, Christians, and anyone else who doesn't subscribe to his branch of Islam.
It's a wierd form of racism - what the "natives/immigrants" say among themselves isn't important no matter what it is!
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