We read:
"Lawyers for a Dutch politician who has harshly criticized Islam argued at his trial Tuesday that he has the right to issue warnings about the religion's spread in Europe and should be acquitted of inciting hatred and discrimination.
Geert Wilders, one of the Netherlands' most popular politicians, is charged with violating hate speech laws by equating Islam to Nazism, calling for a tax on "head rags" and advocating a ban on the Quran. His film "Fitna" argued that Islam is a violent and intolerant religion — drawing protests from Muslims around the world.
Lawyer Bram Moszkowicz said Wilders is exercising his right to freedom of speech and compared him to historical figures who were willing to voice unpopular opinions, including Winston Churchill and Galileo. "Wilders makes the hate of others known, and warns about it vigorously," Moszkowicz said. "Don't shoot the messenger."
A verdict is expected Nov. 5. If convicted Wilders could face up to a year of prison, though a small fine is more likely.
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Instead of:
drawing protests from around the world
Shouldn't that have been:
drawing violent protests from around the world
???
I'm not judging, I'm just saying....
"If convicted Wilders could face up to a year of prison, though a small fine is more likely."
And if he is acquitted, a fatwa go out for his head. Either way, it's win-win for Islam and lose-lose for Wilders.
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"Lawyer Bram Moszkowicz said Wilders is exercising his right to freedom of speech..."
Apparently he doesn't understand how this works. If he were a Muslim and calling for the death of Jews, Christians and, well, anybody who isn't Muslim he would have gotten off scot free.
Free speech for me but not for thee!
Only now is the EU starting to realize what their socialist and totally unrealistic immigration policies have done/is doing to their countries. Now they are starting to see that the hoards of radical Muslims they have allowed to enter their countries are not at all interested in assimilating, but instead, are looking for total control. And in some of those countries, thanks to their fuzzy-brained socialist mentalities, they'll get it.
"[Socialists and anarchists] are the stench today in the nostrils of all honest men and women. They are a poison; and I would have them go and colonize and live out their theories and eat one another up; for they produce nothing and they subsist as suckers on what honest men, frugal and industrious, produce." – John D. Rockfeller
When this case was first made against Wilders the climate in Europe was to convict him but in the time since then the message he has been giving has altered the climate as more and more people are awakening to the truth of what he has been saying.
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