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Dutch media continue to mock Geert…
And Holland even more so than Canada, is hard to find the line between government and private media. So when the government seemed to be setting Geert up for assassination as we posted on last year on Vlad, now it is hard to tell if this is a private TV station or if it is a Government smear, and in fact, when it comes to media in Holland, it may be indistinguishable.
Taliban Threaten Netherlands Over Geert Wilders
If the Taliban don’t like you, you must be doing something really right.
From PI NEWS:
Somehow, the Taliban don’t seem to like the Dutch government under the tolerance of Geert Wilders’ PVV. Their speaker for Afghanistan, Zabiullah Mujahid, let it be known that a “Jihadist group” from the little country will be administered, if the anti-Islam policies are forced.
The Basler Zeitung reports:
A Taliban leader is accusing the Netherlands of working on an anti-Islam policy with Geert Wilders. If his policies are advanced, it could lead to an attack.
A commander of the Afghan Taliban has, according to a newspaper report, warned the Netherlands of an attack, if the new government implements the demands of Islam opponent Geert Wilders. “If the Netherlands remain by their anti-Islamic policies or increase their intensity, then they will most certainly be the target of a Jihadist group,” the daily newspaper “Volkskrant” on Monday quoted Zabiullah Mujahid, the official speaker of the Taliban for eastern and northern Afghanistan.
If Wilders successfully “manipulates” the Dutch Parliament “so that it passes more anti-Islam laws, then there is no doubt that Muslims from other countries will become active in order to help their Muslim brothers and sisters,” Mujahid said further. (…)
“Israel Is Fighting Our War”
From Gates of Vienna, an important article. Please spread this link as far and wide as you can.
Below is an interview with Geert Wilders from the Israeli newspaper Yedioth, published on November 19, 2010 (print edition only).
Many thanks to DarLink for translating it from the Hebrew:
“Israel is fighting our war”
Even a journalist from a friendly country such as Israel does not escape invasive hands of the security guards who protect Geert Wilders. At the entry point to the interview with Holland’s extreme politician, founder and leader of the anti-Islamic “Party for Freedom” [PVV], bodyguards do not hold back, and run extensive security checks. Time and again they recheck my identity, making sure that I possess nothing that could potentially turn into a weapon.
Wilders, on the other hand, looks disconnected from the security turmoil around him. It seems that he must be used to it. That’s the way it is if you are one of the most threatened persons in the world.
“To tell the truth, yes, I fear for my life,” he admits.
“I am just a man. The danger does not come only from Holland. It is outside too. There are very serious threats from various terror groups, and when one is aware of the extent of the danger, it is only human to think that something bad will happen. But I cannot allow these thoughts to affect my work. If I moderate my voice because of the threats, stop saying what is on my mind, or quit being a politician, those people will have used anti-democratic means, threats and murders to silence others. They will win. I am not going to let them”.
He has reason to fear. His statements against Islam, his demands to stop immigration of Muslims to his country, the building of new mosques or wearing the veil in public — all that did the job. Although in Europe he is recognized as the most prominent leader of the anti-Islam movement, imams in the Muslim world have sentenced him to death. Terror groups promise to murder him — a man who until recently was an obscure politician with hardly any influence, but now, thanks only to his support, a new Dutch government was formed a few weeks ago.
Wilders says aloud what many Dutch and EU citizens probably think, and he pays a very heavy price for that. He lives under around-the-clock tight protection in a “safe house” provided by the Dutch government. He is the only parliamentary representative with an “unknown” home address.
“It is sad that while fighting for my country’s freedom I lost my own,” says Wilders in a special interview for Yedioth. “I have only freedom of speech and thought. Threats to my life prove that my arguments are just. I am sure that if I spoke with criticism about Christianity or Judaism, there would be no such radical response. There would be no demonstrations in Vatican. The Dutch flag would not be burnt. A million and a half people who voted for us in the last elections do not see me as a fascist or a racist.”
In two weeks Wilders is coming for a visit to Israel as a guest of a parliament member Ariel Eldad. He is invited to participate in a conference against the two-state solution.
“Israel is the lighthouse and the only democracy in this backward and dictatorial part of the world,” he proclaims. “Israel is very close to us, to our European identity. Israel fights our war.”
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HAGUE APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS DEATH RAPPER’S CONVICTION
Mosheb: The Dutch courts upheld my ‘artistic license”
so I can fantasize on CD’s about murdering Wilders
This sick bastard should be behind some very thick walls swinging a sledge hammer to make small rocks out of big ones. What the Dutch court has done with verdict, is open the doors for every fundamentalist Muslim to wage war on Geert Wilders, giving a both a wink and a nod and tacit approval. Sick, and they dare bring Wilders up on charges on incitement for showing both a video of Muslim extremism (Fitna) along with their holy texts that they quote while carrying out their acts. What a sick bunch of judges, corrupted to the bone. KGS
THE HAGUE, 11/11/10 – The appeal court in The Hague yesterday acquitted a rapper of threatening Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders because it did not consider the text of his song constituted an offence.
The rapper, who calls himself Mosheb, was prosecuted for the track ‘Who is next?’. He sings: Pim Fotuyn talked about Muslims, was shot. Theo van Gogh, talked about Muslims, was shot. Who is next…? (…) Am planning to make an attack on Geert Wilders. And that in WORDS. I find you a creep. You will be strangled. (…) Everyone who talks about Muslims gets killed.”
In the number, the rapper constantly alternates threats with mitigating words. “Geert you would be better to jump off the roof, or would you rather have bullets in your body? I am no terrorist, am an innocent rapper. This is a warning!! Do you want to stay alive? Then you must take back all your statements (…) Listen Geert, this is no joke, last night I dreamed that I had cut off your head.”
Wilders launched proceedings against the song in 2007, after he had heard and seen the clip on the Internet. A lower court convicted Mosheb, but the appeal court arrived at acquittal yesterday.
According to the appeal court, the text is not in itself a punishable offence. The track is punishable however in the way it was to be seen on Internet site YouTube. There, gunshots were also heard.
These shots cannot however be heard on the rapper’s original CD version. The appeal court concludes that it cannot be established whether the shots were added by the rapper or by someone else.
NEWS FROM THE AMSTERDAM DEMONSTRATION
Here’s a video report from the Dutch state-TV program “Nieuwsuur” of the two spokesmen from both the DDL (Dutch Defense League) and ANTIFA, the brown shirts of the mulitculti self anointed elite. Nieuwsuur interviewed Bert Jansen (DDL), and Job Polak (AFA) who will be present today in Amsterdam, on either side of today’s demonstration assembled in support of Geert Wilders. KGS
NOTE: The TT will be updating this post as news filters in.
H/T: GOV
UPDATE: The Baron promises to have something soon up about the demo, but I found a site from the opposition who has been tweeting some of the happenings that took place already. By the looks of it, the Antifa thugs are gleeful.
UPDATE: THE BARON COMES THROUGH:
A Successful Counterjihad Demonstration in an Amsterdam Backwater
I just got off the phone with Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who will shortly be one of the speakers at today’s demonstration at Generatorstraat in Amsterdam. The police moved the demonstration to the new venue at the last minute, and Elisabeth says it is an awful place — a bare patch of grass in the middle of nowhere, far away from anything.
The demonstration, however is a smashing success, according to Elisabeth and others at the site. The remote open location apparently attracted massive media coverage, and Elisabeth has given four interviews so far. While she was talking to me, Paul Weston was being interviewed by a French media outlet.
The “anti-fascists” had gathered at the nearby train station to try to prevent the demonstrators from reaching the site, but they were not successful. Ruffians reputed to be from the AFCA/Ajax football club were at the station, ready for a fight, but were chased away by the police.
Elisabeth says that there is a helicopter hovering over the field, police on horses, and fifteen to twenty police vehicles on the scene. There are more police than civilians.
The English Defence League’s minivan was smashed by the Antifas, and the EDL was asked (reportedly by the British police, strangely enough) to leave the demonstration early.
For that reason Tommy Robinson had to give his brief address ahead of schedule, and made some caustic remarks about the state of free speech in Amsterdam. He showed the audience that he had to wear a bullet-proof vest while addressing them, and had strong words say about the inability of the Dutch authorities to protect peaceful demonstrators. He said it was a disgrace that the mayor had shunted the demo off into the middle of nowhere.
While I was talking to Elisabeth, I could hear Gandalf (“The Younger”, of VV&D and the Alliance to Stop Sharia) in the background speaking to the crowd and chastising the Antifas who were heckling him for their inability to tolerate real democracy.
There will be photos later, and I hear that there are already photos posted here. There will also be video.
Stay tuned.
Kitman captured and uploaded this video from the pre-demonstration period
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Stunning testimony at the trial of Geert Wilders.
Thanks to the Counter Jihad Collective, and especially the work of V.H. as translator and the good Baron over at Gates of Vienna, we have managed to translate and subtitle a lot of the testimony given by the judge (I still don’t exactly understand that as procedure) reading from Wafa Sultan and others, on behalf of Geert Wilders.
This testimony, written by Hans Jansen, is the most blunt and insightful of all. Yes it is nearly an hour, but well worth it. Jansen does not mince words and responds to all the questions asked of him with tremendous clarity eliminating irrelevant assumptions from the questions and then discussing the pertinent aspects of Islam relative to the charges against Geert Wilders directly. This really is an excellent watch. Hans is an Arabist with world class credentials on Arabic and Islamic history and culture.
Come to Amsterdam. Support Geert Wilders.
The president of the Supreme Court says remarks made by anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders “undermine” the judiciary.
Radio Netherlands:
Speaking on television, Supreme Court President Geert Corstens said statements such as those made by Mr Wilders about his hate-speech trial “address in an erroneous manner” feelings living among the public.
Mr Wilders has repeatedly denounced his hate-speech trial as a “political trial” aimed at limiting the freedom of expression. On Friday he said he had “lost all confidence” in the judges trying him on charges of group insult, inciting hatred and discrimination. A review panel later that day granted his lawyer’s request to have the judges dismissed for creating an appearance of bias.
The Supreme Court president said undermining the judiciary was all the more serious in the case of an MP such as Mr Wilders. Mr Corsten said it was an MP’s task to help ensure the stability of the constitutional state.
© Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Dutch MP Wilders to face retrial
(UKPA) – 18 minutes ago
A court in the Netherlands has ordered a retrial before a new panel of judges in anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders’ hate speech trial.
Wilders called for the judges to be dismissed after a defence witness alleged improper conduct by a member of an appeals panel directly involved in the case.
A hastily convened panel at the Amsterdam District Court ruled that Wilders’ objections were valid. That means the trial which began in January must be repeated from the beginning with new judges.
Wilders faces charges of inciting hatred against Muslims for many remarks, including some equating Islam with fascism and violence, and others calling for a ban on the Koran and a tax on Muslim headscarves.
Copyright © 2010 The Press Association. All rights reserved.
UPDATE: From http://www.chron.com
Dutch retrial ordered for Wilders hate speech case
By TOBY STERLING Associated Press Writer © 2010 The Associated Press
Oct. 22, 2010, 10:39AM
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch court ordered a retrial Friday for anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, sending the closely-watched hate speech case back to square one before a whole new panel of judges.
The far-right politician faces charges of inciting hatred against Muslims for many remarks, including some equating Islam with fascism and violence and others calling for a ban on the Quran and a tax on Muslim headscarves.
Wilders accused judges at the Amsterdam District Court of bias and called for their dismissal after they refused to recall a defense witness who wrote on a weblog that a member of an appeals panel directly involved in the case had improperly contacted him.
A hastily convened substitute panel ruled Friday that Wilders’ objections were valid, which means the trial that began in January must restart from the beginning with new judges.
Wilders welcomed the decision.
“This gives me a new chance on a new fair trial,” he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “I am confident that I can only be acquitted because I have broken no law but spoke the truth and nothing but the truth and exercised my freedom of speech in an important public debate about the dangerous totalitarian ideology called Islam.”
Judge G. Marcus said the panel understood Wilders’ “fear that the court’s decision displays a degree of bias … and under those circumstances accepts the appeal.”
Since the charges were filed, Wilders’ party has become part of the Netherland’s ruling conservative government, making him one of the most powerful politicians in the nation.
Wilders’ case pits his right to freedom of speech against the right of Muslims to worship freely. Dozens of complaints had been filed against Wilders by Muslims who said they felt insulted or threatened by remarks such as “let not one more Muslim immigrate” and “I’ve had enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: Forbid that fascist book.”
Prosecutors initially refused to take the case, saying Wilders’ remarks are part of legitimate political debate. But they were ordered to do so by appeals judges, who said there was sufficient evidence for a hate speech trial.
Defense witness Hans Jansen, called as an expert on Islamic culture, wrote on his personal website that he had been approached at a dinner party by one of the appeals judges, Tom Schalken.
“He kept steering the conversation back to the Wilders case,” Jansen wrote. “He tried to convince me that his decision to drag Wilders in front of the Amsterdam District Court was correct.”
Wilders earlier had asked the court to dismiss the judges because one said that Wilders appeared to be dodging debate by remaining silent in court. That motion was rejected.
The politician asked again Friday that the judges be dismissed, calling Schalken’s contact with Jansen “scandalous.”
“A judge that’s part of my process in the sense that he decided I should be prosecuted … without blinking an eye goes to dinner and tries to convince a witness that he’s right,” Wilders told a new panel of judges convened to rule on the dismissal. “I wonder which circus I’ve landed in here.”
A conservative government that depends on Wilders’ Freedom Party to reach a one-vote majority in parliament took office this month. In return for his support, the government has vowed to turn away more asylum seekers, halve the number of new immigrants from non-Western countries, ban face-concealing Muslim garb for women in public and force immigrants to pay for their own mandatory citizenship classes.
The other side in the Geert Wilders debate
Here is a rather compelling video clip. This is a plaintiff who I believe, is representing various Muslim organizations in Holland and is suing Geert as well as laying the criminal charges against Mr. Wilders shows his real contempt for all things Dutch here.
As an afterthought, the guy “dancing through the courtroom” reminds me a lot of this moment from Monty Python
Geert Wilders rips Job Cohen a new one on Dutch TV June 10 2010
Dunno how I missed this clip before but it’s a joy to watch.
Wilders not guilty on all counts – Update
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.
IT”S OVER! ALL CHARGES TO BE DROPPED FOR WILDERS!
Please click over to Gates of Vienna for the details. The judge may not accept the recommendation of the crown attorney.
A Giant blow for freedom! Get out the Champagne and your best Sunday ham!
Prosecutors ask for Wilders acquittal on all charges
Analysis & Opinion
AMSTERDAM | Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:50am EDT
AMSTERDAM Oct 15 (Reuters) – Prosecutors asked a Dutch court on Friday to acquit anti-immigration lawmaker Geert Wilders on charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.
Prosecutors, who had already called on the court to drop a charge that Wilders insulted Muslims by comparing Islam to Nazism, said his comments targeted Islam and not Muslims as a group. They said he also had the right as a politician to make statements about perceived problems in society. (Reporting by Aaron Gray-Block; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Please enjoy this little tribute I did for Geert and many like him through history with perhaps the most joyful music ever written.