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Geert Wilders' Fight
by Véronique Chemla https://www.legal-project.org/265/geert-wilders-fight Excerpt: My guest today is Bat Ye'or, the world's foremost authority on dhimmitude and Eurabia. She is the author of Islam and Dhimmitude – Where Civilizations Collide. Her recent study, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, came out in a Hebrew version in 2008, while her next book will soon be published by an Italian publisher. ....
Véronique Chemla: Dutch Parliamentarian and Fitna's director Geert Wilders was invited to a debate on freedom of speech which was to follow a Fitna screening at the House of Lords, on January 29. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham and Muslim leaders opposed that screening. The House of Lords cancelled that screening before Wilders arrival. Geert Wilders was denied entry to the UK at Heathrow Airport on February 12[i]: British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith alleged Wilder's views "would threaten community security and therefore the public security". Foreign Secretary David Miliband judged Fitna as a "hateful film" although he had never viewed it. His Dutch counterpart, Maxime Verhagen, insisted that Wilders be allowed as a Dutch MP to travel freely in the European Union (EU). Dutch and British media protested against the violation of freedom of speech. Bat Ye'or: There are three main aspects[ii] to this issue. First, Geert Wilders didn't violate Dutch and European laws in exercising his freedom of opinion. His movie, Fitna, which David Miliband vilified without having seen it—that's the limit!—reproduces the Islamists' own scenes and 'statements.
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