Posted on 03/19/2016 8:10:33 AM PDT by Rockitz
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician leading calls for an EU ban on Muslim immigration, defied prosecutors in his discrimination trial on Friday by repeating in court that he wants "fewer Moroccans" in the Netherlands.
Wilders is accused of inciting hatred and discrimination against the Moroccan minority, in a trial that coincides with heated debate in European Union countries about the million or more people who have poured into the region over the past year fleeing war and poverty. Many Dutch people oppose the influx.
Wilders could face up to a year in prison.
"Why did I speak about fewer Moroccans?" he said. "The honest answer is because I want fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands."
The case against Wilders, which follows the acquittal in December of his political ally Marine le Pen in France on similar charges, pits freedom of speech against freedom from discrimination.
Wilders says the trial is politically motivated and his comments are protected by his right to free speech.
With his trademark peroxide blond hair, Wilders sat calmly listening to a day of legal arguments before asking judges to acquit him.
"I didn't say all Moroccans should leave the country, or all Moroccans are no good, but I spoke about fewer Moroccans because that's what I want and with me millions of Dutch citizens," he said, repeating that he wants the border closed to all non-Western migrants.
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Can’t say that I blame him.
Free Speech up to a year in prison
I want fewer Mexicans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Somalians, Syrians, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Yemenis, etc., etc., etc., etc.,
ME too, but we’ll keep the Irish. The Irish can stay, we’ve got most of them anyway.
I want fewer Dummycrats and libtards
There’s hope for Europe yet.
Only in today’s upside down world can being for banning Muslim immigration, the most violent, anti-western group on earth, be considered “far-right”. I didn’t know sanity could be described in any political terms.
People are forgetting the simple distinction between what the government ought not do and what the people are entitled to do.
They’re forgetting it here too.
“Dutch far-right leader tells court: ‘I want fewer Moroccans’”
Sounds like a HATE CRIME, at least by European standards...and by the standards applied to Trump by the GOPe and Ted Cruz.
Read the article. That’s why he’s in court.
I did read the article. Other than hatred of Trump, why exactly should he be on trial?
He shouldn’t be. They tried the same thing on le Pen.
Agreed.
Fixed it. Moroccans in Europe behave like poo-flinging monkeys in the zoo. There's no reason at all to tolerate even a handful of the primitives.
Moroccan Roll.
Good man. None would actually be too many.
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