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Geert Wilders booed offstage in Philadelphia

Dutch politician and movie maker Geert Wilders raised a storm of disapproval and angry reactions with his movie Fitna. At a recent appearance at Temple University he was jeered offstage.
Oct 21, 2009 by  Gar Swaffar in Politics - 24 comments

Dutch Far-Right Politician Wins Appeal Against Ban from UK

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has won his appeal against a ban on him entering the U.K., imposed due to his outspoken views on Islam. Wilders wrote the film Fitna, which says the Koran advocated extreme violence.
Oct 13, 2009 by  Chris Dade in Politics - 3 comments

Florida GOP leader in row over co-hosting Dutch MP Geert Wilders

Dutch MP Geert Wilders's invitation to a Free Speech Summit in Florida plunged him in the middle of a political row, with demands that Majority leader Rep. Adam Hasner resign his post for co-hosting the summit.
Apr 30, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 1 comment

UK imam challenges anti-jihadist Dutch MP Geert Wilders to debate Special

Imam Dr Taj Hargey of the Summertown Islamic Congregation in Oxford, UK has issued an open challenge for a public debate with Dutch anti-jihadist MP Geert Wilders about his film Fitna and his planned sequel.
Apr 21, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Religion - 25 comments

Anti-jihadist Dutch MP received 285 death threats in 2008

Dutch politicians are facing an unprecedented number of death threats. The police corps in The Hague region received 428 serious death threats against politicians last year. And 285 directly targetted anti-jihadist Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders'.
Mar 13, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Crime - 1 comment

Did Amsterdam escape homegrown jihadist-terror attacks?

Dutch parliamentarians are livid about police claims that Amsterdam was only barely saved from a claimed jihadist-terrorist attack yesterday which 'may have been plotted by some residents with dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship'. No explosives were found.
Mar 13, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Crime - 2 comments

'Stop Tumor Named Islam' poster is not hate-speech: Dutch court

The Dutch High Council acquitted a man earlier judged guilty of racial hatred and -incitement for displaying a poster saying "Stop Tumor Named Islam'. Insulting a religion is not inciting racial hatred against a group of people, the court has ruled.
Mar 10, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 1 comment

Canada, Netherlands, Israel, U.S. snub UN anti-racism conference

Neither Canada, the US, Israel nor The Netherlands will attend the forthcoming United Nations anti-racism conference in April. They say the first one in 2001 in Durban 'degenerated into expressions of intolerance, hate speech and anti-Semitism."
Mar 2, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 9 comments

Dutch MP Geert Wilders would become next prime minister in poll

Dutch MP Geert Wilders would become the next prime minister of The Netherlands if elections were to be held this month. His Party for Freedom (PVV) now holds nine seats, but a top local pollster finds that he's now so popular that he would get 27 seats.
Mar 1, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 7 comments

Wilders says Pentagon fears Europe destabilised by Islam

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was told by Pentagon officials that they 'feared for European stability due to the continent's rapid islamisation'. Wilders said this in an interview after a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC Friday.
Feb 28, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 21 comments

Geert Wilders' showing of Fitna at Capitol Hill slammed

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first-ever US congressman to undertake a pilgrimage to Mecca, has slammed the Senate's Republican whip John Kyl 's sponsoring Dutch MP Geert Wilders's anti-jihadist film Fitna at The Capitol on Thursday.
Feb 27, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 5 comments

Anti-jihadist film Fitna screened at Capitol LBJ Room

The Republican Whip in the Senate Jon Kyl is hosting a screening at the Capitol building on Thursday for the anti-jihadist, liberal Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' short film Fitna, which cites passages from the Q'uran while showing Islamic terror acts.
Feb 26, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Religion - 5 comments

Dutch MP Geert Wilders on Fox TV: Europe needs a First Amendment

Anti-jihadist Dutch MP Geert Wilders, barred from the UK, arrived in the United States on Monday, and appeared on Fox News twice; first as a guest on the Glenn Beck show and then on The O'Reilly Factor. Wilders says Europe needs a First Amendment.
Feb 24, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 36 comments

Dutch politician Geert Wilders in USA Monday for speaking tour

Dutch MP Geert Wilders jets off to Washington DC today. The controversial leader of the Party for Freedom was invited by Republican senator Jon Kyl of Iowa to show his anti-jihadist film Fitna in a chamber of the US Senate.
Feb 22, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 4 comments

Anti-jihadist Dutch politician shows film Fitna in Italy

Dutch anti-jihadist parliamentarian Geert Wilders - who was denied access to the UK recently because of his views - was greeted cordially by Italian authorities when he landed in Rome today. Wilders' spokesman said he's in Rome to show his film Fitna.
Feb 19, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics

Islamic cabal behind demonisation of Dutch MP Geert Wilders

Bat Yeor, an author writing about the relationships of Jews and Christians and Islam's jihad and sharia law, writes that the all-powerful Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is behind the public, ongoing demonisation of Dutch MP Geert Wilders.
Feb 16, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Religion - 4 comments

Dutch MP Wilders goes to Rome for Free Speech award Feb 19

A new poll shows massive voter approval for anti-jihadist Dutch MP Geert Wilders - his party would become the country's second biggest. And Wilders was awarded the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award, which he receives in Rome on February 19.
Feb 16, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 1 comment

Three who threatened Dutch MP Geert Wilders tried in The Hague

Death threats against anti-jihadist Dutch MP Geert Wilders are ending up in two trials in The Hague on Monday. Three youths and man are charged with death-threats and 'deeply insulting racist language' against Wilders, who is guarded night and day.
Feb 15, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics

Opinion: UK are 'spineless pussies' says video-blogger Pat Condell

Famous UK video blogger Pat Condell said in his latest blog-blast that millions of people who didn't know the film Fitna existed, have now sought out the video on the internet "after the gross stupidity of the UK cabinet, who are spineless pussies"...
Feb 14, 2009 by  Adriana Stuijt in Politics - 5 comments

Defiant Dutch MP Wants To Sue British Home Secretary Over Ban

A defiant Geert Wilders has stated he is seriously considering legal action against the British Home Secretary. Jacqui Smith took the extraordinary step of banning Wilders from the UK after he was invited to the House Of Lords to screen his film 'Fitna'.
Feb 13, 2009 by  Tabatha Kaplan in World
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