If you had told me, even just 10, that someone in a modern democracy would be facing prison for blaspheming a religion — any religion — I probably would have laughed. But here’s the Netherlands, a country our Canadian soldiers liberated in WWII, continuing their modern-day inquisition:
A controversial case against far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on alleged hate speech crimes is reopening in the Netherlands, but the country’s courts are being hamstrung by a lack of familiarity with such cases, according to experts.
“We don’t really have a tradition of convicting people for these kinds of things, it’s a rare occasion and the courts have limited experience in handling it,” Thierry Baudet, an academic at Leiden University, recently told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
The scandal-ridden trial against Wilders, who faces charges of hate speech and discrimination, resumed last Wednesday after the process was put on hold in October 2010.
It’s not complicated you bloody git. Give your head a shake. If Wilders had denigrated Christianity, there would be no trial. In fact, nobody would have heard of Wilders in such a case. Islam gets preferential treatment these days, and in non-Islamic nations. Like I said, just 10 years ago, I would have scoffed at anyone suggesting this was possible. Islamic heresy trials are now the norm in Western democracies.
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The Wilders Trial is a visible confirmation that a society or culture which panders to the lowest common denominator will degenerate, even gutting its most sacred principles if fundamental justice. My optics tell me the Dutch have experienced no benefit for sacrificing their freedom on the alter of self-destructive multiculturalism.
The international cult of multicult has resurrected star chamber show trial justice.
Geert is coming to London among many stops hosted by IFPS. $20 will get you in. Links to the registration over at BCF.
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