Hat tip to Klein Verzet (NL)
Dutch Politician Geert Wilders, currently on trial in his native Holland for "hate speech", spoke at a political gathering in Berlin a few days ago. The speech is in German with English sub-titles by Vlad Tepes and Counterjihad Collective.
Geert Wilders Berlin Oct 2 English titles from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
The speech is about 50 minutes long. I strongly urge you to listen to it.
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It doesn't seem to be coming through on my computer, and I don't think I have 50 minutes to devote to Wilders anyway. I have been trying to place this guy, who is an icon in Gary's prose.
According to a Verbatim in TIME magazine. Wilders is on trial in Amsterdam for allegedly inciting hatred against Muslims by comparing the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf -- not too far off from what Gary's Rabbi du Jour was preaching. Wilders said "I am sitting here as a suspect because I have spoken... nothing but the truth."
The man certainly flatters himself. Under American law, whatever Wilder said is almost certainly protected speech, no matter who is offended. You can legally call someone "nigger" in this country, if you are not on your employer's premises, and if you are not in the act of denying the person so offended access to public accommodations. You can also have a march with swastikas in a city with a 45% Jewish population, and call them "Kikes" or compare them to rats.
Perhaps he has urged his followers to beat up Muslims in the street wherever they might see one. If so, that would be incitement to several felonies, possibly including riot. Otherwise, there is no good reason to try him. He should be ignored, subjected to contemptuous smiles, and parodied. That's how we do it in America.
However, Europeans ARE a little more sensitive about inciting hatred than we are. After all, the entire continent was riven by a catastrophic episode about seventy years ago, and a lot of people are still noticeably missing. Since the last of the original title holders were rounded up and put on reservations, we haven't committed genocide in America in an area larger than a small city at any one time. Maybe those Europeans are a bit more sensitive for now, and maybe they want to be even handed about it. What's good for the Jew is good for the Muslim.
First of all, Siarlys, Wilders does not advocate violence against Muslims. It's a pity you dismiss him without hearing what he says. I strongly suggest you pull up one of his speeches. If not that one, try one of his speeches in the UK or US. I listened to the entire 50 minutes.
If he compares the Qu'ran to Mein Kampf, he has already taken himself off my priority list for reading time.
He may not have advocated violence, but if you had the opportunity to shoot Adolf Hitler, would you do so? I would.
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