Anti-Islam, Dutch Politician Was Judged on Allegations of Discrimination

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing politician who is known for comment and action of anti-Islam to be tried on Friday (18/3) on charges of spreading hatred against a minority of Morocco in the Netherlands.

The case is sticking at the same time the right-wing politicians in other countries such as Donald Trump in the US and Matine le Pen in France, to gain sympathy on the call prohibition of Muslim immigrants enter their countries.

Dutch prosecutors said that in March 2014, Wilders asked supporters whether they want more or less of Moroccans in the Netherlands. Supporters answer that question by shouting: "Much less! Less! Less!"

Hearing that, Wilders smiled and said: "We'll take care of it."

Wilders, a member of parliament from the popular Freedom Party in the opinion polls in the Netherlands, denies doing wrong.

"No one's going to silence me. Nor about the Moroccans, "cuit Wilders last week. "There is a terrorist threat, not a judge. Not anyone. "

Wilders is now guarded 24 hours by security forces since 2004 when Theo van Gogh-are also making a film critical of Islam like Wilders-killed.

The case against Wilders in 2011 ranged about the tax appeal for residents hooded and equating the Koran to "Mein Kampf" Hitler. He said Dutch citizenship "Muslim criminals" should be revoked and be deported.

Although the statements Wilders offend many, he says he has no grudge against immigrants receive customary law and the Netherlands and he has never advocated violence.

The judge concluded that the statements Wilders may be rude, but he was released because it targets a religion, not a race.

"That's the difference now," said a spokesman for the prosecutor, Ilse de Heer.

He is now on trial for komentarnyanya "target a specific race, which is considered a crime."

Wilders is facing one charge of discrimination, and the second for inciting hatred against Moroccans, which is two percent of the approximately 17 million Dutch population.

Wilders has also been called the Moroccans "trash" in a television broadcast.

On such comments, he may be jailed for one year and could be fined up to 7,400 euros or the equivalent $8361.038

Wilders trial chamber in addition to Amsterdam Schiphol airport is often used for cases involving organized crime and radical Islam.

In France, last December, Le Pen acquitted of inciting hatred against Muslims in France for comparing Muslims praying in the street with the German occupation of France during the Second World War.