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Dutch Anti-Islamic Politician Wilders Stands Trial for Insulting Muslims - Bloomberg
Geert Wilders, a Dutch political party leader who has agreed to support the first minority government in the country since World War II, went on trial in Amsterdam today for inciting hatred and insulting Muslims.
With me, the freedom of speech of many, many Dutchmen is on trial, Wilders told Presiding Judge Jan Moors at the start of the seven-day trial. Ive said everything I have said and wont take a word of that back. The head of the Freedom Party appeared in the Amsterdam District Court accompanied by his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz.
Wilders, 47, is prosecuted for calling the Koran fascist and comparing it to Adolf Hitlers book Mein Kampf in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial, which led to complaints. A year later, he released his movie Fitna, in which he calls on Muslims to rip out hate-preaching verses from the book.
Geert Wilders, a Dutch political party leader who has agreed to support the first minority government in the country since World War II, went on trial in Amsterdam today for inciting hatred and insulting Muslims.
With me, the freedom of speech of many, many Dutchmen is on trial, Wilders told Presiding Judge Jan Moors at the start of the seven-day trial. Ive said everything I have said and wont take a word of that back. The head of the Freedom Party appeared in the Amsterdam District Court accompanied by his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz.
Wilders, 47, is prosecuted for calling the Koran fascist and comparing it to Adolf Hitlers book Mein Kampf in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial, which led to complaints. A year later, he released his movie Fitna, in which he calls on Muslims to rip out hate-preaching verses from the book.