Amsterdam appellate court said right-wing MP Geert Wilders -who directed film "accusing the Qur'an of inciting violence- must stand trial. 'This is a very black day for freedom of speech,' Wilders said.
The court overruled the public prosecutor who had declined to prosecute Wilders, whose film "Fitna" urged Muslims to tear out "hate-filled" verses from the Qur'an.
The Amsterdam Appeals Court has ordered to continue the prosecution of MP Geert Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination, based on "comments by him in various media on Muslims and their beliefs", the court said in a statement.
"The court also considers appropriate criminal prosecution for insulting Muslim worshippers because of comparisons between Islam and Nazism made by Wilders," the statement said.
"Fitna", a Quranic term sometimes translated as "strife", relates shots of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and other bombings with quotations from the Qur'an. This is a very black day for me and for freedom of speech. I am shaken. I had absolutely not expected it," Dutch news agency ANP quoted Wilders as saying in an initial reaction.
Reuters Published: 01.21.09, 15:16 / Israel News
I am very surprised that MP Wilders did not expect to have trouble about his film. May be he is not very aware that there is something called "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" and it goes like this:
"Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights: "Freedom of speech will be protected, as a basic right and as an essential foundation of a democratic society. Nevertheless, freedom of speech is not absolute. It may be subject to certain limitations and even penalties, so as to justify the intervention of public authorities in order to protect inter alia the public safety or the rights of other people.
As a result, racism and xenophobia, as well as incitement to hatred or violence, do not fall within the right to free speech in Europe. On the contrary, they are prohibited and penalised in most national legislation".
As a result, racism and xenophobia, as well as incitement to hatred or violence, do not fall within the right to free speech in Europe. On the contrary, they are prohibited and penalised in most national legislation".
The "surprise" of MP Wilders talks poorly about the knowledge of legislation in the E.U. But also of an inexistent knowledge of the Qur'an. He descontextualizes paragraphs of the Qur'an to an extent, that he ends up giving credit to terrorists, that have been discredited by Muslims scholars and Imam around the world, such is the case of Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, that wrote a five hundred page, Fatwa against terrorism and suicide bombers after the events of 9/11.
Out of 114 verses in the Qur'an, 113 start with introducing the words "Merciful and Compasionate". There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today he is, indirectly condemning as violent. If that would be the case, the world as we know it would not had existes already for a long time.
UNDER THIS LIGHT... I wish we saw the same attitude when in London, the mad criminal guys so called "Islamists" take the word.
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