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(Bloomberg) — Dutch Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders was acquitted by a court of charges that he made remarks defaming Muslims, ending a three-year prosecution that he described as a bid to restrict his freedom of speech.

Wilders, 47, was charged with inciting hatred and discrimination and insulting Muslims for calling the Koran “fascist” and comparing it to Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial. A year later, he released his movie “Fitna,” in which he urged Muslims to rip out “hate-preaching” verses from the book.

“You have spoken in a hurtful and also shocking way,” Presiding Judge Marcel van Oosten said in the Amsterdam district court today. Even so, “the court finds, in the broadest context, that you have to be able to propagate the message of such a film.”

The movie led to protests in Islamic-majority countries including Indonesia and Pakistan and prompted Malaysians to call for a boycott of products from the euro area’s second largest exporter. Wilders, whose party backs the minority Dutch coalition government, has been under constant police protection since a Muslim radical murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004.

“Today is a victory for freedom of speech,” Wilders said on its website today. “The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.”

Prosecutors, who were forced to file charges against Wilders by a higher court, also called for the politician to be cleared, saying his criticism was aimed at Islam as a religion and not at Muslims.

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38 comments
  1. Ricky says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:36 am

    Please view this. It has a debate that the British had and that we are facing today. It is very revealing about the path they took and the path we are on.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SG23bVpw65o
    This is very scary.
    Content is after the mocking of the Saudi.

  2. Andrew says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:41 am

    About darn time. He is the only one that gets it in Europe. The left has tried to silence the lone voice in the wildness, and failed. There is hope!!

  3. Libra says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:41 am

    Is there hope?

  4. ThomNJ says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:42 am

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Go Geert!

  5. ThomNJ says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Thanks Ricky – the opening of the Welsh Guards playing the Darth Vader theme when the saudi king showed up was oh so British and funny. The debate was scary – never heard that excuse before: “it’s a historicl ruling”. The muzzies will try anything to rationalize their teachings and behavior.

  6. soupkitchen says:
    June 23, 2011 at 8:56 am

    “You have spoken in a hurtful and also shocking way,”

    Bullshit.

  7. D. Austin (Caveman) says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:02 am

    They thought they could quietly do away with Wilders
    Instead they found they were making a martyr of him

    The English are currently doing the same to Tommy Robertson
    with the same sort of trumped up charges

  8. Ricky says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:08 am

    @ThomNJ
    They let it happen to them and accepted the lies that it was “just historic documents”. Now they are dealing with full blow sharia.

  9. Louisiana Steve says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:10 am

    Finally, a ray of sunshine in the darkness that is political correctness.

  10. Texasron says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:19 am

    To commemorate today, members of the “Religion of Peace” will cut someones head off.

  11. Mackie says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:23 am

    GREAT AND BEST NEWS IN A LONG TIME!! After years of dealing with this travesty of justice. When it comes to freedom of speech, common sense finally prevails after all in the Netherlands. Sadly even still Geert Wilders still remains a man who needs 24 hour security in his own country for his criticism of Islam.

    This acquittal of Geert Wilders should clearly reverberate across the world this morning for all those who love freedom and liberty.

    Thank God for such good news this morning!! There is still hope yet in a world that seems not so sane now days.

  12. Mickey Shea says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Let the riots begin…hell, if they riot over a cartoon, they’ll really go batshit
    crazy now.

  13. dogman says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:59 am

    WHITE BOY with balls. YES

  14. Ozconservative says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:17 am

    Savages to start rioting in 3….2….1….

  15. Niles says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:19 am

    Pisslam must be pissed upon at every opportunity, by all races and creeds, even by good muslims. Go Geert!

  16. Canterbury says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Vreiheit!!!!

  17. Canterbury says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Sorry sp? Freitheit!!!!! Freedom

  18. Ma Kettle says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:01 am

    This victory is going to make it easier to begin to contain and flush out the Islamic caliphate for what it is. The promoters of Sharia law FINALLY have a lawful freedom of speech resistance against them, one place in Europe. It will begin a landslide, you’ll see. YEA!!!!!

    Whitey and Wilders, what a great day!

  19. Noelegy says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:13 am

    Fantastic news!

  20. Monica says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:19 am

    Islamic witch-hunt where the useful idiots carry water for the Islamofacists Supremacists in Eurabia.

  21. Vaughn says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:32 am

    Truly a great day to celebrate! Have followed this story intently since the start, and never expected sanity to prevail. Gonna celebrate!

    On another front, since one doesn’t have to be an American to get elected president, obviously, let’s invite Geert to relocate!

  22. Ariely says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

    I wonder either by publishing the translation to English of the leading Islamism ideology book is considered incitement or sharing info that the media is reluctant to publish?
    —Knowledge is power!
    Read the ideology book of all Islamist groups.
    Sheik Abu-Bakar Naji book “Governance in the Wilderness” (Edarat al-Wahsh)
    –
    * “The West has no stomach for a long fight.
    The only Western power still capable of resisting is the United States/

    Its last bastion, America, lacks the will for a long war

    *NO one should feel safe without submitting to Islam,
    Those who refuse to submit must pay a high price.
    Islamic movement must be global- fighting everywhere, all the time, and on all fronts
    *low-intensity war be extended to anywhere in the world with a significant Muslim presence.

    * Islamists in infidel countries must create parallel societies alongside existing ones, under the very noses of the authorities
    Operating as secret societies with their own rules, values and enforcement.
    * The Muslims should live a distinctly Islamic appearance, by imposing special styles of dress for women and beards for men.
    Then they will start imposing the shariah., effectively taking the areas out of government control.
    * Terror countless small operations that render daily life unbearable,
    * The “infidel,” leaving his home every morning, should be unsure whether he’ll return in the evening
    * Recommended are kidnappings, holding of hostages use of women and children as human shields, exhibition killings to terrorize the enemy, suicide bombings to make normal life impossible for the “infidel” and Muslim collaborators.

  23. ed357 says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:53 am

    BRAVO ZULU.

  24. Dana says:
    June 23, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Great news. Now he can get back to protecting Western civilization by ending Muslim immigration.

  25. Yep. says:
    June 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    I’m Muslim, and if somebody made a video about violent verses in the Bible, there would be a massive uproar.
    It’s unfair to base a religion on what a minority of its people believe. Islam means peace, and although I don’t think he should be jailed or anything, there should not be this discrimination any more.

  26. Rose1 says:
    June 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Go Geert! Death to pisslam! Stop all mooslum immigration NOW! all mooslums are mooslum! Enough said.

    Yep: There are no verses in the bible instructing its followers to kill all other people or make them submit to its dictates. And we put up with attacks against Christianity every freaking day. Go fuck youself. And take your nasty pedophile murder moehammy and your war manual with you. pisslam is not a religion, it is a totalitarian ideology. May a pig shit on a korshitran today! That’s where your evil book belongs: in a pigshit pile!

  27. lawn lizard says:
    June 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Geert’s picture reminds me of ElRic66 and what he looks likes, (very nice) a pic at the Anti GZ Mosque Rally winter 2010, he posted of himself, ‘member Zip?

  28. commieobamie says:
    June 23, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    Praise be to GOD!

    Now the islamos are trying to take it to the UN. Piss be upon allah and his pig faced puppet moohamhead.

  29. WesternGal says:
    June 23, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Wonderful news!! Keep at it Geert – so happy for your victory – so sorry you have to have protection from the crazed fanatics – I guess we all need that!

    God bless America, Israel, our troops, and fellow humans.

  30. Jim says:
    June 23, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    BEST NEWS I’ve had all week!

  31. MaryfromMarin says:
    June 23, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    AMEN!!! HALLELUJAH!!!

    Now, where are the Geerts in other countries? Time to stand forth!

  32. Pat in Michigan says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    It is truly a good day for Freedom of Speech.

    Jesus will smite these Muslims, one day. You watch.

    -Pat

  33. JooJooB says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Congratulations and thanks are in order for Geert, for staying the course and prevailing.

    Islam should not be a political force anywhere in Western culture. If they want to live under Islam, they should go back to the burning sands.

  34. House says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    You guys are truly ignorant.
    All religions including Christianity are truly inappropriate & outdated.
    70% of USA seems to be Christians, so in my opinion they aren’t one bit better then people who believe in the Islam.
    It’s just ignorant to condemn others for what they believe if your own religion sucks donkey-balls.

    For example:
    ‘The ark of Noah’. — How old was Noah again before he died? Oh yeah he was 950 years old. You can look it up in Genesis 9:29.

    Idiots.

  35. BlueSky says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    “The Muslim population in Europe,” Wilders said, “is largely concentrated in urban areas. Many European cities have huge Islamic concentrations.” Wilders warned about the imposition of sharia law in those European cities. “In some neighborhoods, Islamic regulations are already being enforced, also on non-muslims. Women’s rights are being trampled, Christians are being harassed.”

    http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-toronto-geert-wilders-repeats-his.html

  36. MUSLIMANIA says:
    June 23, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Death fatwa on the judge in 3….2….1…….

  37. Axel says:
    June 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    Congratulations Geert!!! Woo-Hoo! A True Freedom Fighter! Thank you for your courage and strength.

  38. MaryfromMarin says:
    June 24, 2011 at 12:31 am

    House says:
    June 23, 2011 at 5:22 pm
    ____________________

    How long did it take you to think all that up?

    Go home now–it’s past your bedtime.

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