Geert Wilders Slams OIC on Out-of-Bounds Criticism of Free Speech

by Jen L. Jones
Suite 101
July 8, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1506/geert-wilders-slams-oic-on-out-of-bounds

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Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls on Dutch PM to rein in Geert Wilders, branding his speech anti-Islamic. Wilders says OIC lecturing hypocritical.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, is calling on the government of the Netherlands to reject the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's attempt to control free speech there. On July 6, 2011, Wilders prepared a list of seven questions for Parliament in response to the OICs recent statement urging the Dutch government to act to suppress Wilders speech because it is anti-Islamic.

Wilders was acquitted on June 23, 2011, on all charges of hate-speech and inciting discrimination against Muslims by a Dutch court. The decision was seen as a landmark decision supporting the right to freedom of speech

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