I Hate Islam

Anti-Islam Dutch Politician Cleared Of Hate Speech Charges

TPM readers will remember Wilders as a special guest at Pamela Geller's rally against the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero, which took place last September 11. Geller introduced Wilders as "a modern-day Churchill," and in his remarks he called the project "a mosque, a house of sharia," that is "not only a provocation. It's humiliation."

In the past, he has also said Islam is "not a religion, it's an ideology," the "ideology of a retarded culture," and that he supports a ban on the Qu'ran, which he once described thusly: "The core of the problem is the fascist Islam, the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed as laid down in the Islamic Mein Kampf: the Qu'ran.

JURIST - Paper Chase: Dutch court acquits politician in hate ...

. The suspect in these statements directed them against the faith and not against people (Muslims) and it can not be proven legally and convincingly that he incites hatred with these statements and/or discrimination against Muslims, as he was charged with. Regarding several statements, the court considers that these statements also include criticism of individuals, especially politicians, who in the opinion of the accused, do not recognize evil aspects of Islam. These (parts of) the statements can not therefore also be brought under incitement to hatred or discrimination against people because of their religion. itself as "fascist," holding that prosecutors were precluded from including statements comparing Islam to fascism alone. In March, an Amsterdam court rejected Wilders' claims of improper venue, ruling that the Amsterdam court has the authority to judge the case, given that the alleged statements were committed within its jurisdiction. In February, the court granted Wilders the right to set out the objections [BBC report] he had made during the initial trial, which was postponed following the dismissal of the original panel of judges [JURIST report] amidst allegations of bias. Prior to their dismissal, the original panel members heard the prosecution's case, which culminated in a request that Wilders be acquitted on all charges [JURIST report]. The prosecutors based their request on determinations that the politician's statements were directed at Islam and not Muslims themselves and additionally, that the evidence failed to establish that he intended to incite violence. The presentment of the prosecution's case followed an order from a panel of Dutch judges to resume the trial after initially rejecting claims of judicial bias [JURIST report]. The trial had previously been suspended [JURIST report] after a lawyer representing Wilders accused one of the judges of making a statement which cast him in an unfavorable light to the jury.

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