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Free speech goes on trial in the Netherlands on January 20, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders appears before the Amsterdam District Court on charges of having “intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion,” as well as having incited to hatred and discrimination. What did Wilders do to warrant such charges? He told the truth about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, and their roots in Islamic texts and teachings, in his film Fitna and elsewhere. But nowadays truth-telling is at such a premium that those who still dare to engage in it are threatened, harassed...

Geert Wilders wants to ban the Koran, impose a tax on headscarves and calculate the cost of immigration. The Dutch right-wing populist also plans to run for prime minister in 2011 -- and his party is currently leading in the polls. Geert Wilders is sitting on a plane, glancing at the clouds below and occasionally turning the page of a newspaper. A cameraman from a Dutch news agency is sitting behind him, filming his every movement. The plane lands in London, after the short flight from Amsterdam. Wilders, 46, the head of the populist right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV), is...

THE HAGUE, 03/11/09 - Geert Wilders believes Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan and centre-left (D66) leader Alexander Pechtold should be held responsible if he should ever be assassinated. They are creating a climate of hate in which lunatics are incited to violence against critics of Islam, according to Wilders. It was exactly five years ago yesterday that filmmaker and Islam critic Theo van Gogh was butchered by 'home-grown' terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri. Wilders considers Van der Laan and Pechtold are behaving like "political accomplices" of Bouyeri. Statements made by the PvdA minister and D66 leader yesterday morning contribute to a...

Philadelphia (AP) - Amid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing "stealth jihad" that threatens democracy and free speech. "Where Islam sets roots, freedom dies," Geert Wilders told the students during his 30-minute address organized by a new student group called Temple University Purpose and funded by the California-based David Horowitz Freedom Center. His remarks were met by a mixture of applause and boos, and occasionally gasps -- particularly when he stated that "our Western culture is far better...

Well, as usual ignorant leftists who run on feellllllliinnnnnnnnggggsssss and not facts have done what they do best. Attempt to silence anyone that does not agree with them. You know, because dealing in reality would be too much for them. I will be a nice guy here and provide them with video proof, that backs up Great Geert's position.

On the air NOW!!!

Here is video of the "tolerant, freedom loving" Muslims that protested against Great Geert, during his recent UK visit.

The Temple Muslim Students Association is attempting to shut down the scheduled appearance of Geert Wilders on October 20. As part of its Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, and its campaign to Stop the Campus War Against Israel and the Jews, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is sponsoring appearances by Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders at Temple and Columbia universities (October 20 and 21). The Muslim Students Association has issued a statement condemning the event and calling on the Temple Administration to close it down. The MSA statement can be found at the end of this post. The David Horowitz Freedom Center statement...

Dutch politician Geert Wilders who recently had his UK ban overturned, has told it like is at his UK press conference. In the past Mr. Wilders had also stated that he wants to end Muslim immigration into the Netherlands. This man might just be the saviour of Europe. Protesters meet Dutch far-right MP Tension was high as angry protests greeted a visit to the UK by a Dutch far-right MP.

Geert Wilders landed at London's Heathrow Airport this morning after winning a court battle to gain entrance to the country. Wilders, who has branded the Koran a "fascist book" in his controversial film Fitna, was barred from coming to Britain in February over fears he could spark religious riots. But the head of the Freedom Party won an appeal against the decision earlier this week.

Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician, has won his appeal against the Government's refusal to let him enter Britain. The politician, who has been accused of Islamophobia, was told at the start of this year by the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that he would be refused entry should he attempt to enter the UK. But today's ruling by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal means that Wilders could now be allowed into the country. He was due to show his short film Fitna, which criticises the Koran as a "fascist book",

Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders should not have been refused entry to Britain to attend a screening of his film Fitna earlier this year, a British immigration tribunal ruled on Tuesday. Wilders had been invited to the House of Lords, the upper house of the British parliament, for the screening in February, but was told he would be refused entry on public order grounds. Wilders went ahead with the trip and was turned back by immigration officials at Heathrow airport. 'This is a very black day. They are bowing down to Islam by refusing entry to critics,' Wilders said at the...

THE HAGUE, 15/09/09 - The criminal court case in which MP Geert Wilders will be on trial for incitement to hatred against Muslims begins on 20 January. The MP is considering calling "radical Imams and other idiots" as witnesses in the proceedings. The politician has to appear in the Amsterdam district court on 20 January for incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims and insulting Muslims as a group. In this pro-forma session, the Public Prosecutor and Wilders can bring up their investigatory wishes. Wilders wants to make it the 'trial of the century'. "I want Islam to stand trial...

THE HAGUE, 28/08/09 - Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has seized on a news report from Saudi Arabia for peppery written questions to the cabinet. In these, he compares the Islamic prophet Mohammed to a pig. Wilders has requested clarification from Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on a marriage in Saudi Arabia between an 80 year old man and a 10 year old child. The child had run away from her elderly husband, but was brought back to him by her father, the English-language website Arab News reports based on a Saudi newspaper. Wilders asks the minister if he...

The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders is leading both of the nation's major opinion polls. While the party currently holds only nine seats of the 150 seats in the Dutch Lower House Parliament, both the Synovate Political Barometer and pollster Maurice de Hond say the party stands to be the largest in Parliament following the next national elections. A Synovate poll released Wednesday shows PVV in a tight race with the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), which currently holds 41 seats. If elections were held this week, both parties would win 32 seats, Synovate pollsters found. Maurice...

Israel will be a major part of Geert Wilders' next film on Islam, the rightist Dutch legislator said last week in an interview for Haaretz. He praised Avigdor Lieberman, observing "similarities" between Yisrael Beiteinu and the Party for Freedom - a small movement which has grown to become Holland's second most popular. Wilders, a controversial anti-immigration politician, rose to international fame last year when he released a 14-minute film entitled Fitna, which attempts to portray what he considers as Islam's "violent nature." The film, which has been viewed by millions online, provoked mass protests throughout the Muslim world.

Here the interview Geert Wilders gave in Denmark.

Voters punish incumbent left parties for the economic crisis. Ruling liberal/leftist parties have been punished in EU-wide elections, the first such vote since the world went into economic turmoil. In almost every country, right and even far-right candidates gained ground in the EU parliament. The UK Labor party -- which is in disarray following scandal and the resignation of several chiefs just in the last week -- had a horrible night. Conservatives walloped the party of incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and even the ultra right British National Party picked up a seat, its first in the EU parliament. The...

While we have politicians like Mitt Romney making ignorant statements about jihad not being part of Islam, Geert Wilder who speaks the truth about Islam has lead his party to a strong second place finish in the Netherlands. The tide is turning.

The right-wing anti-immigration party of Geert Wilders was poised to become the second-biggest Dutch party in the European parliament, exit polls showed on Thursday night, a result that will send shockwaves through domestic politics and may point to wider European trends. The forecast – the first indication of results in pan-European polls that run across the 27-member bloc until Sunday – bore out predictions that large centrist parties stood to lose ground to smaller parties with closely targeted messages. Mr Wilders, who faces prosecution at home for inciting hatred and who has been banned from travelling to the UK, has...

If elections were held in the Netherlands today, polls predict that Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom could win more votes than any other formation. Since breaking away from the Liberal Party in 2004, Wilders has rapidly drawn support from all sectors of the population. And yet, the 45 year-old MP–sentenced to death for blasphemy by offended Muslims–has been living under 24/7 protection for the past three years. Far from defending Wilders right to free speech, the Dutch government is allowing a lawsuit against him for hate speech to be heard in the courts. And reputable media of all stripes commonly...

Unwavering anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders is not only going after Islam. He has now gone after and exposed a fellow politician who is pro-Islamic. Hopefully more will follow.

It appears as if another country is afraid of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders because of his outspoken views about Islam and his film Fitna, which intersperses excerpts from the Koran with depictions of Islamic violence. Following the lead of Great Britain, Denmark has postponed a conference on free speech to which Wilders was invited by the Danish People’s Party. The conference was scheduled for February, then delayed until June, the Copenhagen Post reports. “But now, according to information received by Berlingske Tidende newspaper, the conference has been delayed again because of government’s concern over Geert Wilders.” The Danish Foreign Ministry...

Goss: Obama Decision "Crossed a Red Line" Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. “For the first time in my experience we’ve crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage,” Goss said in an interview. Goss, a former CIA operative, has made few public comments since leaving his post as DCI in September 2006. In December 2007, he told a Washington Post reporter that members of Congress had been fully briefed on...

The Florida Security Council's (http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/events.html) self-titled "Free Speech Summit" later this month is bound to be an extravaganza, one in which known Islamophobes will use the guise of free speech to lambaste Islam as a "totalitarian ideology." The summit will feature the infamous Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders and his propaganda film "Fitna," released last year to overwhelming international condemnation. ...Last week in California, while on his U.S. tour of hatred, Wilders stated that "Muhammad was a warlord, a conqueror, a pedophile and a mass murderer."

The Dutch parliament on Tuesday approved a motion seeking to block any dialogue between government officials and Hamas, Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom announced. The motion - made in effort to counter growing calls in Europe to engage the Islamist group in dialogue - was put forward by MP Raymond de Roon, third on Wilders' list.

Tireless Dutch politician Geert Wilders who is by far the bravest politician in Europe is getting ready for his "next phase" in his war on Islam. He has announced that he will start working on Fitna Part II, which will focus on Muslim immigration in Europe and the USA. As I have stated in the past, Muslim immigration is the Trojan Horse to the West and it must be ended.

A Dutch lawmaker is planning to make a sequel to the anti-Islamic film that sparked protests among Muslims around the world. Geert Wilders said in an interview published Thursday in a Dutch newspaper that the film will likely come out next year. He said it will not be a copy of "Fitna," the film he released on the Internet last year that coupled images of terror attacks with verses from the Quran. "This is the next phase," Wilders said in the interview printed in De Telegraaf.

My guest today is Bat Ye'or, the world's foremost authority on dhimmitude and Eurabia. She is the author of Islam and Dhimmitude – Where Civilizations Collide. Her recent study, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, came out in a Hebrew version in 2008, while her next book will soon be published by an Italian publisher. Véronique Chemla: Bat Ye’or, thank you for joining me today for an interview for Frontpage Interview. It is an honor to speak with you. Let’s begin with Eurabia. Is there a difference between the American and French versions?

Last year when the world guilty was read a total of 108 times in a Dallas court room as a jury convicted the Holy Land foundation and each of the defendants of raising money to fund Hamas terrorism, they were implicating CAIR also.The supposed Human rights organization was an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Indeed one key piece of evidence was the Wiretap evidence that put CAIR's former executive director, Nihad Awad, at a Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders. Participants hatched a plot to deceive Americans and disguise payments to Hamas as it launched a campaign of terror attacks. CAIR...

Counter-demonstrators dream opportunity to assure free speech is not intimidated in Orange County, Ca.

Good minds are studied; great minds are prosecuted. If this historical dictum holds true, then Geert Wilders is a modern great mind. The Dutch parliamentarian and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) currently faces trial in his native Amsterdam for “hate crimes” and incitement, for the sin of quoting the Koran’s less flattering passages in his groundbreaking film, Fitna. (Click here to view it online.) His film explores the religious roots of Islamic terrorism on the national and individual level. He considers the Koran the blueprint for a totalitarian theocracy, telling the Hudson Institute last year, “Sure, there are...

Geert Wilders has become the lightening rod for legal attacks by leftist allies of Islamists in Eurabia. Islam in Europe blog had this report about a French Human rights group that brought a cause of action under French law, concerning truth telling remarks in his New York speech last September. Note this bizarre basis for the French legal action and Wilders response. "Wilders made statements about French Muslims, about Muslims in Paris and Marseilles, which incite to racial hatred," says lawyer Yassine Bouzrou. He lodged the complaint on behalf of the organization, which is being studied by the public prosecution....

THE HAGUE, 12/03/09 - The cabinet has ignored a motion in which the Lower House almost unanimously called upon it to complain in the European Union about the United Kingdom's refusal to admit MP Geert Wilders. At the same time, however, the House is accepting that its motion is disregarded. A month ago, Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders could not enter the UK because the British government decided that his criticisms of Islam made him a threat to public safety. The Dutch government expressed its objections, though modestly, calling Wilders' refusal "very regrettable" rather than unacceptable. It but...

THE HAGUE, 11/03/09 - The Supreme Court yesterday produced an important ruling in principle in favour of freedom of speech. The highest court of the Netherlands acquitted a man of insulting Muslims although he dubbed Islam a tumour. The Supreme Court quashed a ruling by an appeal court in Den Bosch. As had a district court earlier, the appeal court did find the man guilty. Yesterday's acquittal can have consequences for all future court cases on insulting followers of a faith or ideology, including the notorious case against MP Geert Wilders. According to the country's highest court, people expressing themselves...

Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, written at the close of the 18th century, included this freedom of speech monologue in Act V, Scene 3, I cobble together a verse comedy about the customs of the harem, assuming that, as a Spanish writer, I can say what I like about Mohammed without drawing hostile fire. Next thing, some envoy from God knows where turns up and complains that in my play I have offended the Ottoman empire, Persia, a large slice of the Indian peninsula, the whole of Egypt, and the kingdoms of Barca [Ethiopia], Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. And so...

Geert Wilders, Dutch parliamentarian -- producer of the film expose Fitna -- and international champion of free speech, electrified a standing-room-only crowd in Washington Friday, declaring: “We will never apologize for being free men. We will never give in. We will never surrender. There is no stronger power than the force of free men fighting for the great cause of liberty.”

Chad Rogers was just on the radio here and he did not know who Geert Wilders was. Couldn't pronounce his name. And objected to him addressing CPAC because he was "one of those who led us over the cliff." Huh?

Thank you.Thank you very much for inviting me. And - to the immigration authorities - thank you for letting me into this great country. It is always a pleasure to cross a border without being sent back on the first plane.I feel very honoured to have the privilege to speak and to show my short documentary Fitna here in this heart of your democracy, here in the US Senate.Today, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack all throughout Europe. Free speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth...

00:58 01 March 2009 Freedom Party largest in survey De Hond The Party for the Freedom of Geert Wilders is according to a survey of Maurice de Hond the largest party if elections were held now. It is for the first time that in a survey the Freedom Party obtains most of the seats. According to De Hond Wilders' party would get 27 seats, one more than the conservative Christian-Democrats (CDA). The PvdA (Labor-Socialists) stands according to De Hond at 21; Liberal D66 is with 19 seats the fourth party. Since the Court of Justice ruled six weeks ago Wilders...

Geert Wilders' speech in New York on February 23: Thank you very much for inviting me. And – to the immigration authorities – thank you for letting me into this country. It is always a pleasure to cross a border without being sent back on the first plane. Today, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack all throughout Europe. Free speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for. As you might know, I will be prosecuted, because...

NEW YORK – It’s been a tough few weeks for Geert Wilders. First, an Amsterdam appeals court announced in late January that it was going to bring the blunt-speaking Dutch parliamentarian to trial for offending Muslims with his anti-Islam film, Fitna. Just a few weeks later, Wilders was controversially denied entry into Britain after the British Home Office declared that his views on Islam “would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the United Kingdom.” Set against the near-daily threats on his life, the 24-hour security detail, and the restrictions on travel that have been Wilders’ lot since he...

"Our enemies should know: we will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the left" Today, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack all throughout Europe. Free speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for. Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue; I gave up my freedom four years ago. I am under full-time police protection ever since. The real...

Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.” Why would he say this and why should we take him seriously? Besides being asked to leave Great Britain on his arrival there outcast Wilders is also slated for trial for his recent video production of his anti-Koran piece called “Fitna.” Wilders is a common sense kind of man with a strong heart for the principles of free speech and an eye for anything that smacks of the strangling...

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is hosting a film screening at the Capitol building on Thursday for a far-right Dutch lawmaker who claims that Islam inspires terrorism. Kyl is sponsoring the event for Geert Wilders, who was denied entry to London earlier this month because British authorities said he posed a threat to public order. Wilders’ 15-minute film juxtaposes verses from the Quran with images of violence by Muslims. Wilders has called the Quran a "fascist book" and said it should be banned. Kyl agreed to facilitate the event because "all too often, people who have the courage to...

The flamboyant Dutch politician Geert Wilders has sparked a worldwide debate over free speech after being banned in Britain. But after his film was shown in New York, it became clear that Wilders makes for a strange kind of First Amendment martyr. It's the nature of free speech laws that the times we must defend them most forcefully are the times they are tested by the most extreme forms of speech. Yesterday’s visit to New York by Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the maker of the controversial anti-Islam film Fitna, belongs in that category. After sitting through the film, I can...

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is coming under pressure from stealth jihad groups and their allies and dupes for his plan to host a showing of the film Fitna in The Capitol. Please contact Senator Kyl and declare your support for his courageous decision to show this honest and accurate but politically incorrect film. He needs expressions of support more than ever today!

For those who missed the Geert Wilders interview on Bill O'Reilly last night, this brave politician has stated exactly what needs to be done. VIDEO

Freedom of speech no longer exists in the nation that gave the world the Magna Carta. It has been replaced by Islamist tyranny. I wish I could put it less bluntly, but the facts are against me. The British government -- my government, unfortunately -- has just sent a message to the world that no longer will it stand up for First Amendment-style principles. From now on, if you don’t like what someone has to say, our surrender-monkey government is quite happy to ban them from saying it. Provided, of course, you happen to be a Muslim. You may not...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Critics say the freedom to criticize Islam in Europe has been put in jeopardy after Dutch politician Geert Wilders was banned last week from entering Britain because of his attacks on Islam. But while the controversial politician may have failed to enter the United Kingdom, the Dutch public has rallied around Wilders, and support for his party has exploded.