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I strongly recommend that you read the Canadian website MACLEANS.CA and their story: The absurd trial of Geert Wilders before continuing.
According to NewsOK: Victorious Dutch anti-Islam politician back in UK
LONDON (AP) — Fresh off a local election victory in the Netherlands, Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is returning to Britain, seizing the media spotlight and stirring up protest.
Wilders is due in London on Friday to show his anti-Islam film "Fitna," a 15-minute short which associates the Muslim holy book, the Quran, with Islamist terror. The 46-year-old maverick, whose Freedom Party is on the rise in the Netherlands, will present the movie at London's House of Lords.
In his trial Geert Wilders has directly compared the Islamic Koran with a book by Hitler.
Any way that you wish to look at this case the Dutch establishment must be wishing that they had never set out on this crusade against the policies of the main opposition party leader.
Throughout my youth it has been third world nations that have resorted to taking their political opposition to court in an attempt to publicly silence them before just killing them if all else fails. Now I am not saying that the Dutch state will execute Geert, just that he has been afforded less protection than the killer of Theo Van Gough. Effectively holding their main opposition leader up in public, making certain that everyone knows exactly where he will be, and not affording him the same level of protection as those accused of other crimes. Am I the only one that thinks the Dutch state might find it convenient if Geert was knocked off?
Is this as far down the African political road as we will go in Europe or will we see further progress in this direction? Free speech does seem to be a victim of crime in the UK at the moment because of politically correctness. I know that I am not the only person who believes that Dr Kelly did not commit suicide.
It is better to allow oppositions to speak freely so that the people can judge for themselves rather than have the state judge the opposition, allowing the accused great public sympathy and thereby, leaving the way open for the people to sympathize with the formerly accused at the polling stations.
