Dutch MP to screen anti-Koran movie in the Lords

The Christian Messenger
February 9, 2010

https://www.legal-project.org/650/dutch-mp-to-screen-anti-koran-movie-in-the-lords

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DUTCH MP Geert Wilders is due to screen his controversial anti-Koran movie in the House of Lords next month. Wilders has accepted an invitation from Lord Pearson of Rannoch to screen his film 'Fitna' on March 5.

'Fitna' is a 17-minute anti-Koran movie which features quotations from the Koran interspersed with footage of terrorist atrocities and speeches by Muslim preachers. This is the second time that the politician has been invited to the House of Lords to show the film.

Wilders was invited to screen Fitna in the House of Lords last February, but found himself at the centre of an international free speech row when he was held at London's Heathrow airport before being sent back to Holland.

The then Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was accused of undermining free speech and of 'appeasing' religious extremists by blocking the Dutch politician's visit. But the ban on Wilders entering the UK was overturned on appeal last October by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

A British official said: "He's free to travel and the Border Agency will not be alerted."

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