Geert Wilders - Dutch MP

At first sight this case looks like heavy handed prevention of free speech, but it isn't. Wilders simply wants to condemn the whole of Islam. Most of all he wants to stir up hatred. This is no different from Third Reich Nazis stirring up hatred of the Jews, or radical Mullahs stirring up hatred for the west, or radical Christians stirring up hatred for other faiths, or any form of hatred of one against another. Hatred breeds violence and in Britain today there's more than enough of that as it is. All people want is consistency; the sure knowledge that this kind of verbal violence, whether it's clever and intellectual, coarsely threatened outright, or crudely framed in four letter words, will result in the full force of the law immediately stamping on whoever is involved, especially the self-important.
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