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Geert Wilders for Breitbart: The Netherlands is Taking a Pakistani Imam to Court for Issuing Fatwa And Deserves the West’s Support
Breitbart News ^ | 2 Sep 2024 | Geert Wilders

Posted on 09/03/2024 8:33:07 AM PDT by george76

September 2nd, is a historic day. It is the first time ever that an Islamic cleric will have to stand trial for issuing an assassination fatwa...

20 years since policemen wearing bulletproof vests and carrying machine guns arrived at my home. They gave me ten minutes to pack, pushed me into an armoured car and drove me off to an unknown destination. The evening of November 4, 2004, was the last time that my wife and I were in our house. Since that moment, we have been forced to live in various safe houses. We have lost our freedom and privacy.. I am constantly surrounded by bodyguards.

The same thing happened on that ominous evening to my colleague, fellow member of the Dutch Parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fugitive from Islamic Somalia. We had both been fierce critics of Islam and the Islamization of our country, the Netherlands. As a result of this, Islamic death threats or fatwas ordering the Islamic faithful to kill us had been issued.

Since then, Ayaan has left Dutch politics and emigrated to the United States. I stayed and founded my own party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), which is currently the largest party in the Netherlands and the largest party in the ruling government coalition.

I have always been a firm defender of freedom of speech. It is the bedrock of a free society and a functioning democracy. I will never be silenced. Fatwas, death threats, being on the death list of the Taliban and ISIS, nothing will ever stop me from telling the inconvenient truth.

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Fatwas are a direct assault on freedom of speech. The Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini has never been taken to court for his 1989 fatwa condemning the British author Salman Rushdie to death, but he should have been.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; European Union; Foreign Affairs; France; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assassination; ayaan; ayaanhirsiali; fatwa; geert; geertwilders; hirsiali; theovangogh; vangogh; wilders

1 posted on 09/03/2024 8:33:07 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

I prefer a dirt nap versus taking them to court.


2 posted on 09/03/2024 8:38:05 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

Dutch King swears in Geert Wilders’ .. to make Netherlands DUTCH again..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4248743/posts

Note The Assassination of Theo van Gogh by Mohammed Bouyeri, a 26-year-old Moroccan.. His documentary “Submission” (2004), co-produced with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician, featured quotes from the Quran


3 posted on 09/03/2024 9:00:37 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Those who issue death fatwahs should be the ones who have to go underground.


4 posted on 09/03/2024 9:07:40 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: george76
I think the whole world is cowed by the "religious freedom" aspect in free societies.

It needs some tweaking.

For example, any "religion" that uses force, threats, violence, etc., needs to be denied the definition of a religion.

The first time a Moose Limb opened his mouth with a "fatwah" he should have been treated as if it was a common threat against that persons life (which of course it is): Arrest, trial, punishment.

Happens twice it should lose the "religion" its tax-exempt status and earn its common nuisance up to RICO status.

Religions must be beneficent. Conspiracies of criminals can not hide behind the 'religion' rubric.

Judges need spine transplants and need to fix this problem.

I mean, give me a break.

If I go to confession and the priest says, "for your penance say three Glory Be's and go whack this guy." It definitely would not qualify as a sacred instance of repentance and sacramental absolution. It would be seen as a simple conspiracy to commit murder.

5 posted on 09/03/2024 9:10:19 AM PDT by caddie
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western governments need to be issuing substantial “dead or alive” bounties for the heads of these clerics.


6 posted on 09/03/2024 9:11:30 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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islam deserves no 1st Amendment protection. It is barbarism in religious drag.


7 posted on 09/03/2024 2:18:20 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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