Geert Wilders - guilty of "insulting a group"

[icehorse]

Geert Wilders was found guilty of

'insulting a group' and of 'inciting discrimination'

From this article: The Guilty Verdict Dutch Politicians Wanted So Much

The trial began with a number of complaints, but the proceedings gradually honed down onto one single comment made by Wilders at a party rally in March 2014. This was the occasion when Wilders asked the crowd whether they wanted 'fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands'. The crowd of supporters shouted 'Fewer'.

I don't know much about the Netherlands' immigration laws, but here's a ling that explains the U.S.'s immigration laws, which I imagine aren't that unusual:

How the United States Immigration System Works

A few key concepts are that the U.S. limits the total number of immigrants per year, and it also limits the number of immigrants from individual countries. I guess the point for me is that modern countries typically limit immigration. Why would this statement by Wilders cause such a commotion?

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

At least he wasn't given a jail sentence or fine as the prosecutors had requested.

Ridiculous though. What do they hope to achieve by this? Will his supporters or potential supporters now shy away because he got a guilty verdict? Nope, it just adds to the entire image of the repressive nature of the establishment.

 

[George-ananda]

It sounds ridiculous to me. I hope the liberals here in America, don't try to take freedom of speech away. I think they would have a much harder time.

 

[Sunstone]

The Wilders verdict strikes me as nonsensical. I don't like the man, but this is ridiculous -- and dangerous.

 

[MD]

This will give him far more popular support. The Left makes another stupid move.

 

[Sunstone]

I hope the liberals here in America, don't try to take freedom of speech away.

Yeah, those damn liberals and their threats to "open up the libel laws" so they can sue penniless anyone who publishes something they don't like! Damn them!

Oh wait...it wasn't them who threatened that. It was Trump.

Which makes me wonder: Do you only care about threats to freedom of speech when they come from the Left, and not when they come from the Right?

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

It shows how the Dutch Society is suffering from the cruel double standard sickness.

This guy would definetely be punished if he insulted Jews.

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

Yeah, those damn liberals and their threats to "open up the libel laws" so they can sue penniless anyone who publishes something they don't like! Damn them!

Oh wait...it wasn't them who threatened that. It was Trump.

Which makes me wonder: Do you only care about threats to freedom of speech when they come from the Left, and not when they come from the Right?

The Rights are in truth fascist @ n@zis

 

[Sunstone]

The Rights are in truth fascist @ n@zis

I strongly disagree. Fascism is an extreme Right wing ideology and not representative of most of the Right.

 

[Notanumber]

This brave woman had problems in the Netherlands and decided to relocate to the USA.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

This brave woman had problems in the Netherlands and decided to relocate to the USA.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where she has now been deemed an Islamophobe by the SPLC

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

It shows how the Dutch Society is suffering from the cruel double standard sickness.

This guy would definetely be punished if he insulted Jews.

Europe has a reason to be guilty over how it treated the Jews in the past. Not so much Muslims. Stop building false equivalences in order to stoke the Muslim persecution complex.

 

[Kemosloby]

It must be part of the larger plan for the New World Order, along the lines of "nations without borders". Perhaps in part Jewish ideology, "be kind to the stranger in your land" , so if the New World Order considers the whole earth theirs, they don't want to impede us, the strangers from travelling wherever they (the heirs of the earth) will allow the strangers to go. So now they have busted down a notch, the fallacy that an individual nation can say who may enter their country.

 

[Notanumber]

Where she has now been deemed an Islamophobe by the SPLC

Are you referring to this?

Southern Poverty Law Center: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz Are “Anti-Muslim Extremists”

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

Europe has a reason to be guilty over how it treated the Jews in the past. Not so much Muslims. Stop building false equivalences in order to stoke the Muslim persecution complex.

Thanks for defending the evil double standard disease

U just proved my point

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Are you referring to this?

Southern Poverty Law Center: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz Are “Anti-Muslim Extremists”

Yes.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Thanks for defending the evil double standard disease

U just proved my point

That isn't a double standard. You keep using that term; it doesn't mean what you think it means.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Given that other politicians have made similar remarks aimed at Moroccans but haven't been prosecuted, this seems like a really targeted trial aimed at weakening Wilders' political position.

 

[Notanumber]

No doubt, they would like to get rid of him.

 

[fiat lux]

'The historic dimension of Wilders's conviction is related not only to the terrible injustice done to this MP, but that it was the Netherlands that, for the first time in Europe, criminalized dissenting opinions about Islam.'