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Geert WildersFar-Right Leader, Islamophobe, and Trump FanConvicted of Inciting Discrimination
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/09/geert_wilders_convicted_of_inciting_discrimination.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
Lets hope that the level-headed folks in the Netherlands pay very close attention to what is happening here in the US !!
Geert WildersFar-Right Leader, Islamophobe, and Trump FanConvicted of Inciting Discrimination
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/09/geert_wilders_convicted_of_inciting_discrimination.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
By Osita Nwanevu
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Dutch far-right politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders.
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Geert Wilders, the head of the Netherlands far-right, anti-immigration Party for Freedom and a legitimate contender for prime minister, has been convicted of inciting discrimination for remarks he made at a campaign rally in 2014, when he said the country would be safer with fewer Moroccans. From the New York Times:
Mr. Wilders was found not guilty of hate-speech charges in connection with comments he made about Moroccans in a nationally broadcast TV program filmed at a public market a week earlier, but he was found to have violated laws on inciting discrimination when he led a crowd at a political rally in chanting fewer, fewer to the question, Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and the Netherlands?
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Trumps campaign and victory have been invigorating for Wilders, who has adopted the slogan Make the Netherlands Great Again. We are witnessing the same uprising on both sides of the Atlantic, he wrote in a Breitbart op-ed the day following Trumps election. The Patriotic Spring is sweeping the Western world. People are standing up and liberating themselves.
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Geert WildersFar-Right Leader, Islamophobe, and Trump FanConvicted of Inciting Discrimination (Original Post)
riversedge
Dec 2016
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Jeroen
(1,061 posts)1. Unfortunately this verdict will only strengthen him and empower his supporters
What has happened in the US is about to happen here also. The far right is gaining strength.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)2. The Europians should also ban American hate groups from their country and regulate incoming media.
put them on their no fly lists, no visa lists and regulate any incoming media like they're a threat to their country. Because they are a threat.