Geert Wilders’s Anti-Islam Show Trial “Must Go On”

by Soeren Kern:

A court in Amsterdam has ordered the anti-Islam hate-speech trial of the Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders to resume after Dutch appeals judges on May 23 rejected his claim that the court is biased against him.

The Wilders trial, which has turned into a two-year legal odyssey, represents a landmark case that will establish the limits of free speech in a country where the politically correct elite routinely seek to silence public discussion about the escalating problem of Muslim immigration.

The single-minded determination with which the court has pursued the case against Wilders — contrary to the advice of the prosecutors — has led many to condemn the proceedings as a show trial.

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This is a political prosecution, pure and simple.

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