Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is fighting Islam's creeping takeover of Europe, has lost his appeal to stop the government from prosecuting him for producing and showing his film, Fitna, which intersperses excerpts from the Koran with depictions of Islamic violence.

When Wilders showed the film in the Netherlands, it drew the wrath of the multi-cult left and Muslims across the world. Last year, prosecutors wouldn't prosecute Wilders because the film is protected political speech or debate. That led the Islamic nation of Jordan to charge  Wilders with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims.

In January, however, an appeals court ruled that Wilders must be prosecuted for making "statements which create hate and grief."

Grief is one thing Wilders offers Islamists. He has compared the religion to fascism and, citing Winston Churchill, says the Koran, Islam's holy book, is comparable to Mein Kampf. The Dutch, he argues, should ban it.

Britain refused to permit Wilders to enter the country to show the film after Nazir Ahmed, a Muslim and Pakistani-born member of the House of Lords, complained. Wilders may also face charges in France, where the French human-rights crowd wants him prosecuted for a speech he gave in New York.

He committed his last polemical offense in Florida, but it doesn't appear that any of the myriad countries targetting Wilders have filed charges on that one.

In May, a freedom of speech conference in Denmark, ironically enough, was postponed because Wilders was scheduled to appear. Wilders, however, remains undeterred. "It's a political process," he said after the appeals court's ruling. "I am being prosecuted for saying about Islam what millions of Dutch think. Freedom of expression is at risk of being offered at the altar of Islam."

Wilders also explains exactly what the decision represents: the further Islamization of The Netherlands and Europe. "I see this as a black day. If you voice you're opinion, you run the risk of being prosecuted." Indeed. But that's now. In 20 years, if you voice your opinion, you may run the risk of being beheaded by an Islamic state.

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R. Cort Kirkwood, managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., has been writing about American politics and culture for more than 20 years. Mr. Kirkwood has written for Chronicles, The New American, National Review, The Remnant, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register, Taki’s Top Drawer online magazine, and LewRockwell.com. For several years, he syndicated a column, “The Hard Line.” Mr. Kirkwood is the author of the nonfiction title, Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans To Know And Admire, published by Cumberland House.

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Lee said:

Gutsy guy This man is showing nerve. His boldness and audacity to stand up to the anti-free speech fanatics is refreshing and a welcomed change coming from people who are in the limelight.

May 21, 2009

CaptainZen said:

I do not want Islam to conquer Europe Good piece, good punchline.

May 21, 2009 | url

Flu-Bird said:

The euroweenie union When europe was several seperate nations they were doing fine but now with the euroweenie union and too much unregulated imagration it looks like the once great european continent has surcumbed to a handful of radicals SO WHO REALY SAID THE SOVIET UNION WAS DEAD?

May 21, 2009

Jesmond said:

I support Geert Wilders 100% I will continue to support Geert Wilders. He has the guts to speak up for our values while everyone is too busy trying to be politically correct. Let's see where political correctness will get them when sharia law is declared in their countries.

May 22, 2009

Jesmond said:

Donate to Geert Wilders If anyone is interested in making a PayPal donation for Geert Wilders, you can visit the officila site: http://www.geertwilders.nl/ind...e&Itemid=1

May 22, 2009

Charles said:

Liberty George Orwell once wrote: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." We in the Netherlands are standing at a crossroad. We do not have a free-speech law through which anybody can give his or her opnion on just about anything. The islam is hiding behind the smokescreen of religion and within our political landscape there are many left-liberal-confessional politicians who do not want to sacrifice the 'right on religious beliefs' which is nailed down in our constitution. Geert Wilders and his party PVV (The Freedom Party) is now standing in high numbers in the last polls as the biggest political party, and is looking at promising possibilities to become the party who will be able to take control after the coming elections (in 2011 if not sooner). This coming courtcase will be historic. Not only for our country, but for all freedom-loving nations.

May 27, 2009

Jacob said:

Houston - we have a problem... Or should I say Europe...you have a problem. The strength of Islam can not be stopped until it achieves a very dominant position. Read http://thegoodguise.wordpress.com/ to learn the full story. Eventually, Islam will be decimated but that day is far in the future - some forty to fifty years. In the end, though, it will be understood that Islam was nothing more than a tool for Jesus Christ. As Jesus Christ said at the last supper - there is nothing greater that a person can do than to die for what he believes in. As we keep chatting on Islam keeps marching on, to put it plain and simple.

May 27, 2009 | url

Johan Sterk said:

... In the 16-hundreds, refugees fleeing religious intolerance formulated the basic Western values of Radical Enlightenment in the safety and freedom of the Dutch Republic. This is still deeply ingrained in the Netherlands' collective subconscious. It is no coincidence that the European movement against Islamic obscurantism and totalitarianism begins there, while the UK seems to have surrendered allready. Political correctness is dieing quicker in The Netherlands than in the US.

June 06, 2009