Whether or not you agree with his politics, he is being taken to court for having offended Muslims by quoting the Koran at them in a way that makes them look backward and barbaric.
I'm not a big fan of people being prosecuted just for being offensive, because I'll be in a world of pain someday myself. Especially when they're just making other people's beliefs public. I find it particularly appalling that the allegedly tolerant Dutch are doing this (just like I find it appalling how the allegedly tolerant English do equally stupid things.)
So click here and help out a man with a very strange hairdo.
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As ex-apprentice points out on Cranmer's blog, the prosecution is being driven by EU legislation. The setting happens to be Holland, but that is just incidental. It could as easily - maybe even more easily - happen here because of the drift of our legislation and the supremacy of EU law.
I posted on this yesterday as it's a disgraceful episode.
Freedom of speech is genuinely on the line this time. Naturally, no British politician wants to go anywhere near it.
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com/2009/01/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others.html
The Penguin
Isn't freedom of speech protected by the European Court of Human rights? Muslims are not a race. EU laws must be seriously badly drafted if this poor bastard is up before a court. So he insulted Muslims? Did he really? So how come our newspapers and others get away with insulting Christians?
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