Geert Wilders: Criminal

Look to Europe. Always look to Europe.

In Europe we can see much of our past, but more invaluably, we can see the American future. Europe is America's crystal ball. It is a living laboratory of social experimentation and the results of those experiments are now beginning to be recorded. From Cranmer:

A Dutch court has ordered the prosecution of Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders for ‘inciting hatred and discrimination’ against Muslims. The charges relate to Fitna, a film (censored in the UK) he made last year in which he compared the Qur’an to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and drew a direct link between Islam and violence. The film juxtaposed images of the September 11th attacks with quotations from the Qur’an. This, apparently, is not acceptable, notwithstanding that the perpetrators of this evil were professing Muslims and justified their atrocity with appeals to the Qur’an, and flew into the Twin Towers with ‘Allahu Akhbar’ on their lips.

May one not state this as a matter of historical fact?

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh was also murdered by a radical Dutch Muslim who left qur’anic quotes stabbed into his chest. His co-producer on the project, Somali-born former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, lived under government protection for several years after van Gogh's killing. She now lives in the United States.

May one not state this as a matter of historical fact?

The film also includes images of other terror attacks; bloodied victims; beheadings of hostages; executions of women; and footage, with subtitles, of Muslim leaders preaching inflammatory sermons against Jews and Christians.

Mr Wilders is simply of the view that in 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe; in 1989, communism was defeated in Europe; and in now Islamic ideology has to be defeated.

He has called the decision to prosecute him for making a film about this view ‘an attack on the freedom of expression’.

And he is not wrong.

Yet these things cause offense. They hurt feelings and pride. They call into question the foundation of thought.

In Europe these are things that are not routinely tolerated against Islam. Sure, it is easy to call the Jews pigs and dogs, and it is easy to call for the murder of all who question the superiority of Islam, but make connections between radical Islamists and violence and SOMEONE NEEDS TO SHUT UP!

America needs to look long and hard at Europe before abandoning its melting pot and free speech principles for the balkanizing effects of multiculturalism. We have been duly warned.