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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Geert Wilders 'delighted' after being cleared of 'hate speech'
Geert Wilders, the prominent Dutch anti-Muslim politician, has been cleared of "hate speech" crimes for comparing the Koran to Mein Kampf and Islam to Nazism in an Amsterdam court.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/09/american-muslims-view-community-needs-king-hearings-radical-islam/6:12PM BST 23 Jun 2011
Judges ruled that although Mr Wilders, whose anti-Islam Freedom Party came third in Dutch national elections last year, had made "hurtful and shocking", his comments were legitimate in terms of a lively Dutch public debate on multiculturalism.
Mr Wilders, 47, was put on trial after complaints of incitement to racial hatred were levelled against him by Muslims after he released a film which presented Islam as the biggest threat to world peace.
Fitna, meaning "strife" in Arabic, juxtaposed pages of the Koran with images of September 11 2001 terrorist attacks and fundamentalist burka clad Muslims with placards warning Europe to "be prepared for the real holocaust".
The flamboyant, peroxide blond Dutch MP, who now holds the balance of power in the Netherlands by lending parliamentary support to the minority government, also described the Koran as "fascist", comparing it to Hitler's book Mein Kampf, a text that is banned in the Netherlands.
In one opinion piece cited during the trial, he wrote: "I've had enough of Islam in the Netherlands; let not one more Muslim immigrate."
Marcel van Oosten, the presiding judge, warned Mr Wilders that the film, the linkage of Islam to Nazism and comments about a "tsunami" of immigrants were "crude and denigrating" and "on the edge of what is legally permissible".
"You have spoken in a hurtful and also shocking way," he said.
"You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you. The bench finds that your statements are acceptable within the context of the public debate."
Mr Wilders said he was "delighted" with the ruling.
"It is a victory, not only for me but for all Dutch people," he said. Today is a victory for freedom of speech. The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamisation is not a crime. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak."
In a new book, awaiting imminent publication, Mr Wilders will step up his anti-Islam rhetoric by describing the Prophet Mohammed as an "insane, paedophile, rapist murderer" who built the Muslim while suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, whose Liberal and Christian Democrats government relies on Mr Wilders's Freedom Party to pass legislation, welcomed the ruling.
"The ruling is clear," he said in a Twitter posting. "It's great news for Geert Wilders, with whom we're co-operating well."
"You have spoken in a hurtful and also shocking way," he said.
"You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you. The bench finds that your statements are acceptable within the context of the public debate."
Mr Wilders said he was "delighted" with the ruling.
"It is a victory, not only for me but for all Dutch people," he said. Today is a victory for freedom of speech. The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamisation is not a crime. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak."
In a new book, awaiting imminent publication, Mr Wilders will step up his anti-Islam rhetoric by describing the Prophet Mohammed as an "insane, paedophile, rapist murderer" who built the Muslim while suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, whose Liberal and Christian Democrats government relies on Mr Wilders's Freedom Party to pass legislation, welcomed the ruling.
"The ruling is clear," he said in a Twitter posting. "It's great news for Geert Wilders, with whom we're co-operating well."
SCHOOLS MUST REMAIN SECULAR IN ORDER TO PREVENT SEGREGATION AND GUARANTEE UNIVERSAL RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN CANADA
"The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is promoting segregation by adopting a policy that allows religious influence within the school system. TDSB recently permitted students at Valley Park Middle School on Overlea Blvd to have prayer services in the cafeteria. This is another attempt of political Islam to recruit youth. It will not take long before other religious leaders push for their own space in schools.
Homa Arjomand proclaims that “schools will become a battle ground between various religious groups. Segregation does not stop here. Soon under the influence of religious leaders with political agendas, there would be a huge confrontation between students of so called one faith with the children of another faith, undermining the enforcement of the secular school system that certainly plays an important role towards integration”.
“TheToronto District School Board is playing a dangerous game with children and it needs to stop right now before turning schools to a perfect breeding ground for the growth of extremists. Schools are supposed to be a place where children develop personal autonomy, critical thinking and reasoning; a place to achieve universal social values and not a base to recruit youth to various sects or cults.”
“The Government of Ontario needs to end interference of religion in all public sectors, in order to protect the wellbeing of children” added Ms. Arjomand.
Media Contact:
Homa Arjomand
homawpi@nosharia.com
416-737-9500
www.nosharia.com
Homa Arjomand proclaims that “schools will become a battle ground between various religious groups. Segregation does not stop here. Soon under the influence of religious leaders with political agendas, there would be a huge confrontation between students of so called one faith with the children of another faith, undermining the enforcement of the secular school system that certainly plays an important role towards integration”.
“TheToronto District School Board is playing a dangerous game with children and it needs to stop right now before turning schools to a perfect breeding ground for the growth of extremists. Schools are supposed to be a place where children develop personal autonomy, critical thinking and reasoning; a place to achieve universal social values and not a base to recruit youth to various sects or cults.”
“The Government of Ontario needs to end interference of religion in all public sectors, in order to protect the wellbeing of children” added Ms. Arjomand.
Media Contact:
Homa Arjomand
homawpi@nosharia.com
416-737-9500
www.nosharia.com
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