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Amsterdam Gets a Harsh Lesson in Islam 101
by Bruce Bawer
Front Page Magazine
July 2, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/2742/amsterdam-gets-a-harsh-lesson-in-islam-101
Excerpt:
In January 2009 a Dutch court ordered Geert Wilders to be prosecuted for offending Muslims and inciting anti-Muslim hatred. The complaint was based not on slurs, as such, but on factual statements made by Wilders, in his film Fitna and in various public venues, about Islamic beliefs and about actions inspired by those beliefs. In June 2011, after a prolonged legal ordeal that cost Wilders greatly in time, money, and emotion, and that represented a disgrace to the tradition of Dutch liberty, he was finally acquitted.
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