GEERT WILDERS LOSES BID TO STOP HATE SPEECH TRIAL
20/05/09 21:25 Filed in:
Creation of Eurabia and Muslim Invasion
The bad news
just keeps coming and coming...the chastisement has
arrived for Western Civilization.
THE HAGUE (AFP)--Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders lost a legal bid Wednesday to stop his pending trial for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.
"The attorney general is of the opinion that there are no grounds" for a further appeal, the Dutch Supreme Court said in a statement.
Lawyers for Wilders had sought to overturn a ruling by the Amsterdam Court of Appeals in January that he should be prosecuted for a series of public anti- Muslim statements, particularly for comparing Islam to Nazism.
"It is a political process," Wilders responded in a statement on the Web site of his Freedom Party, or PVV, which has nine out of 150 seats in parliament.
"I am being prosecuted for saying about Islam what millions of Dutch think. Freedom of expression is at risk of being offered at the altar of Islam."
"...Wilders has called for the banning of the Koran in the Netherlands, calling it "fascist."
In June last year, the prosecutor's office said "Fitna," though offensive to Muslims, didn't give rise to a punishable offense.
It dismissed dozens of complaints received from around the country, saying Wilders' utterances were made in the context of public debate.
But the appeals court ruled six months later that politicians, given their special responsibility, ought not to be permitted to make "statements which create hate and grief," and ordered the prosecution to put Wilders on trial.
THE HAGUE (AFP)--Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders lost a legal bid Wednesday to stop his pending trial for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.
"The attorney general is of the opinion that there are no grounds" for a further appeal, the Dutch Supreme Court said in a statement.
Lawyers for Wilders had sought to overturn a ruling by the Amsterdam Court of Appeals in January that he should be prosecuted for a series of public anti- Muslim statements, particularly for comparing Islam to Nazism.
"It is a political process," Wilders responded in a statement on the Web site of his Freedom Party, or PVV, which has nine out of 150 seats in parliament.
"I am being prosecuted for saying about Islam what millions of Dutch think. Freedom of expression is at risk of being offered at the altar of Islam."
"...Wilders has called for the banning of the Koran in the Netherlands, calling it "fascist."
In June last year, the prosecutor's office said "Fitna," though offensive to Muslims, didn't give rise to a punishable offense.
It dismissed dozens of complaints received from around the country, saying Wilders' utterances were made in the context of public debate.
But the appeals court ruled six months later that politicians, given their special responsibility, ought not to be permitted to make "statements which create hate and grief," and ordered the prosecution to put Wilders on trial.
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