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The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders “hate speech” trial in the Netherlands was thrown into sharp relief last week when the Amsterdam District Court refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense. Wilders in response was characteristically direct: “This Court is not interested in the truth. This Court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial. I can’t have any respect for this. This Court would not be out of place in a dictatorship.”
The three witnesses the court allowed Wilders are the Dutch Islamic scholars Hans Jansen and Simon Admiraal, along with the Wafa Sultan. Hans Jansen’s work on Islam is superb and groundbreaking, and he will be an excellent witness, as will Admiraal and the exemplary freedom fighter Wafa Sultan.
Nonetheless, this decision indicates the hollowness of Dutch justice and the court’s bias against Wilders. For some who would have been Wilders’s most effective witnesses were disallowed. He had wanted to call Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo Van Gogh.
Why Bouyeri? Wilders, in the bizarre inquisition that has replaced justice in the Dutch courts, is accused of offending Muslims by pointing out that Muslims invoke the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example to justify violence. However, Bouyeri quoted the Qur’an in the note threatening Wilders and others that he stabbed into Van Gogh’s body, and invoked the Qur’an repeatedly during his trial as well. “Kill them, and Allah will help you and guide your hand,” he said. “There’s no room there for doubt or interpretation there.”
Bouyeri would have proven Wilders’ point immediately: he is simply telling the truth about how Islamic teachings incite all too many Muslims to violence – and if telling the truth is now illegal in the Netherlands, so much the worse for the Netherlands. By disallowing Wilders from calling Bouyeri and others, the court has hindered Wilders’ ability to make this case – suggesting (and by no means for the first time) that the Dutch authorities are determined to convict Wilders, and are not going to let any inconvenient facts get in the way of their doing so.
It is not exaggerating to say that the Geert Wilders trial is a defining moment in the history of Western civilization. One would have to go back centuries to find a court case with as much significance for the future course of the free world. If the farrago of “hate” charges against Wilders stick, and he is convicted, it will herald the end of the freedom of speech in the West, as a precedent will have been set that other Western nations (urged on by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which is the organization most responsible for the global assault on free speech) will be certain to follow. The era of enlightenment and the understanding that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights will be definitively drawing to a close, and a new darkness will descend over Europe and the free world in general. For once the precedent is established that a man can be jailed and destroyed for offending a privileged class, the idea that every human being has rights that cannot be infringed will be damaged beyond repair.
And even if Wilders prevails, enough damage has been done already. The Dutch law (and there are others like it in other Western countries) that stipulates that someone can actually be tried and jailed for offending another person will remain on the books. Other trials will follow. The law will be used by the governing elites who developed it in order to maintain their power and silence independent and dissenting voices.
For that is, of course, the point of all this. The Dutch authorities stand arrayed on one side, with Wilders standing alone on the other. Yet despite the fact that he has nothing like their numbers, wealth, or resources, he threatens to topple their entire multicultural house of cards – for he has on his side a weapon that all of their power cannot defeat, the weapon of truth. And so they are desperate to silence him, and end forever his truth-telling about jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Yet even if they do silence him, the truth will still be the truth. They will not be able to obliterate it forever. But will they be able to help initiate a long, perhaps centuries long, period of darkness and oppression in Europe and its civilizational children?
Certainly.
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annie, get you gun. allan jens
I just discovered your site on Yahoo. Great article. I appreciate you
[...] FrontPage Magazine By Robert Spencer [...]
what a bunch of scary right wing remarks.
Wilders a complete fool who is only trying to get more
votes through popular oneliners.
And what the heck do you guys know about what happens in the Netherlands. As a Dutchmn I happen to know what I am talking about, and dare to say that Wilders is a threat to democracy. Get a life.
I can hardly believe the change in major cities I visited. There are Muslim areas of "Rotterdam where the police are afraid to enter except in groups. The citizens are fed up with the Muslim immigrants who refuse to integrate or honor Dutch ideals or customs, drain the welfare, and boast they will make Holland Islamic by heavy immigration (legal and illegal) and their birthrate. There is a Muslim crime wave that includes gang rape of non-Muslim women, who Muslim young men consider "whores" for not wearing the veil. There is forced child marriage, honor slayings, female genital mutilation, savage beating of children at mosque classes, and on and on. Meanwhile the liberal elite that dominates academia, the press and the government are in full appeasement mode. G. Wilders is a hero. He, unlike others, is sounding the alarm and standing up for his country. The response of the government is to try to silence him with a vicious, bogus prosecution. The response of the Muslims is attempts to murder him, as they murdered Theo Van Gogh and others. Got it, "Jan?"
GW is not a hero. A hero is someone with a high IQ. Unlike GW. And by the way who are you to judge ghe intents of a foreign Court, which is highly indpendant. I think if we would do the same, shame would go over us.
I just happen accidently to arrive o n this site. My judgement is that you are a poor set of people full of dogma's and prejudices. I pity you.
Jan, living and born in the Hague in 1930.
@David
How come one so easily forgets the murders on JFK, RFK, MLK and so on, and so on.
This all happened in the US – if I am well informed -? Why point your finger to a country you donot know anything about. I totally agree with Jan. GW is a very dangerous man who attracts the wrong people. It has nothing at all to do with – only the Islam -, especialy since he now states that 'all the people of Islamic descent can stay', if they adjust. Funny thing is that there are thousands of people in the Netherlands of Islamic descent, born and raised in this country and well adjust. People in Universities, schools and in other jobs. Just like in you country. And one should definitely not forget that GW is of Indonesian descent, who was in his younger days just like anybody else. Long hair, smoking etc. Point is politics is a well paying business in this country. Where else can you find with another group of losers such a well paying job on taxpayer wallet.
Joshua, Eindhoven
Netherlands
Joshua and Jan use the time-honored tactic of people who can not meet an argument: they call the speaker (Geert Wilders) names. The problems with Islamism in the Netherlands and other countries are obvious to anyone who cares to look. How many girls have to have their genitals mutilated, how many brave souls have to be stabbed to death or have their heads sawed off, before Joshua and Jan wake up? I have seen Mr. Wilders' short film and heard him speak. Sorry, lads, Mr. W. is a very smart, learned and wise man. And the Dutch public, though not the leftist elite, are with him.