Posted on 10/12/2010 3:05:27 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Prosecutors relent, say Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders 'not guilty' of criminally insulting Muslims
Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders should be found not guilty of insulting Muslims and non-western immigrants as a group, the public prosecution department said at the MP's trial on Tuesday.
By likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, Wilders was focusing on Islam and the Koran, rather than Muslims, even if the statement can be considered upsetting, the public prosecutors said during court hearings in Amsterdam.
In addition, there can only be talk of collective insult when a statement damages the entire group, the prosecutors said.
Second week: The public prosecutors began outlining their sentencing demands on Tuesday, in the second week of the MP´s trial. In addition to group insult, Wilders has also been charged with discrimination and inciting hatred. The department will outline its case and sentence demand on those charges on Friday. The department has also said that none of the groups and individuals making formal complaints about Wilders are eligible for damages. [DutchNews.nl]
And why should you care about this trial, anyway...?
Because the true name of the game is Muslim intimidation of a divided, squabbling, and spineless West... while they -along with unwitting fifth-columnist morons of our Left- destroy the few brave individuals still actually willing to speak-out in our defense...
"The West's longstanding democratic tradition of free expression means nothing if it doesn't protect unpopular speech" -IBD
As the Dutch government attempts to shut-down Wilders by going after him in court with open-to-interpretation "hate crime" charges, it's hard not to recall litigious one-worlder Barack Obama's recent legal attempts to crush the will of not just Governor Jan Brewer but 70% of her electorate while aiding and abetting foreign invaders at our expense... then dismissing those expressing concern as ill-informed bigots...
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Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, thank you God! I’m so happy!
It’s going to get interesting now that people understand they can speak freely about their feelings on the Islam and The Koran.
We’ll trade congress and the entire Obama administration for Geert Wilders. He can run our government.
It’s great and it’s awful. Great that he’s aquitted and awful that we have to be thankful that he’s aquitted of charges that shouldn’t be possible in a Western countery.
Maybe the Nazis can sue now.
Amen!
Now they will consider the incitement charges.
ugh
Amen to your thank God!!!
What made them change their minds? Did they finally see how dangerous it was going down this narrow road?
I’m thrilled. Hope Wilders moves to NYC!
Holland is run by 1968 Leftists...the residual element of the Euro hippy Left.
THAT’s why it was possible... and Geert still facing some other charges from these kooks
So, they are going to continue with these charges?
It’s great that a Dutch politician speaks out against Islam.
What the HELL does that do for US?
Swooning over Geert Wilders means you should move to Holland.
Insulting muslims is not a crime.
People insult Christians all the time and they do not face jail. This is PC hypocritical bullsh1t.
There is no law anywhere that says you have a right to not be offended. People offend me daily, I don’t call for them to be jailed.
How much money did Wilders pay for his defense? I am glad that he was acquitted but he is probably financially ruined and marked for a future beheading.
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