Britain wrong to ban Wilders, says court

DutchNews.nl
October 13, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/506

Excerpt:

Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders should not have been refused entry to Britain to attend a screening of his film Fitna earlier this year, a British immigration tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

Wilders had been invited to the House of Lords, the upper house of the British parliament, for the screening in February, but was told he would be refused entry on public order grounds.

Wilders went ahead with the trip and was turned back by immigration officials at Heathrow airport. 
'This is a very black day. They are bowing down to Islam by refusing entry to critics,' Wilders said at the time.

The 15 minute film Fitna is a compilation of tv footage which equates Islam with terrorism. The London screening was only attended by a handful of people.

Disappointed

'We are disappointed by the court's decision. The government opposes extremism in all its forms,' a British home office spokesman told the BBC on Tuesday.

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