Wilders not guilty on all counts – Update

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From DutchNews.nl

The public prosecution department on Friday afternoon stated that Geert Wilders is not guilty of discriminating against Muslims. Earlier on Friday it announced he should also be found not guilty of inciting hatred.

Prosecutors Birgit van Roessel and Paul Velleman reached their conclusions after a careful reading of interviews with and articles by the anti-Islam politician and a viewing of his anti-Koran film Fitna.

They said comments about banning the Koran can be discriminatory, but because Wilders wants to pursue a ban on democratic lines, there is no question of incitement to discrimination ‘as laid down in law’.

On the comparison of the Koran with Mein Kampf, the prosecutors said the comparison was ‘crude but that did not make it punishable’.

Dealing earlier on Friday with incitement to hatred, Van Roessel and Velleman said some comments could incite hatred against Muslims if taken out of context, but if the complete text is considered, it can be seen that Wilders is against the growing influence of Islam and not against Muslims per sé.

On Tuesday, the prosecutors said the MP should not be found guilty of group insult.

The public prosecution department was forced to take the case by the high court after anti-racism campaigners protested at its refusal to prosecute Wilders.

5 Replies to “Wilders not guilty on all counts – Update”

  1. Huge victory for freedom and against political correctness. Perhaps there is still hope. I can’t imagine the implications of him being convicted.

  2. It is interesting that neo-progressives and their ilk can freely compare people to Nazis and that is not hateful. Yet it is certainly analogous to comparing the Koran to Mein-Kampf, which the coward elites have determined is a hate crime.

  3. As I wrote to Mr. Wilders not long ago, I hope that the Dutch people understand that you cannot libel the truth.

    He has been telling the truth about Islam for years now and it appears that the prosecutors are listening.

    May he be acquitted and exonerated.

    People need to know that Islam is far more dangerous to freedom and western values than anything that Communism and perhaps even Nazism represents. Islam has been hating freedom and free will far longer than those other groups and has had afr more practice disguising its true intentions from those it is about to conquer.

  4. Remember the movie “Judgement at Nuremburg”? Let’s see if these Dutch judges will end up putting themselves in the docket.