{"id":7252,"date":"2020-02-08T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2021-04-18T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:45:15","slug":"the-netherlands-the-geert-wilders-show-trial-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/08\/the-netherlands-the-geert-wilders-show-trial-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands: The Geert Wilders Show Trial Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/02\/08\/the-netherlands-the-geert-wilders-show-trial-continues\/wilders-trial\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7253\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/wilders-trial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/wilders-trial.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/wilders-trial-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Wilders asserts that the government\u2019s decade-long legal war against him is far from a principled pursuit of justice, and instead politically motivated, aimed at silencing his criticism of multiculturalism and mass migration from the Muslim world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The Netherlands: The Geert Wilders Show Trial Continues<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15553\/geert-wilders-show-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a>| February 8, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Newly released documents show that senior members of the Dutch government \u2014 including the prime minister and two former justice ministers \u2014 applied political pressure on public prosecutors to indict Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (<em>Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV<\/em>), for hate speech for comments he made about Islam and Moroccan immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The documents, which the government turned over to the Amsterdam-based newspaper <em>De Volkskrant<\/em> in compliance with a Freedom of Information request, appear to confirm long-standing allegations by Wilders that the government\u2019s decade-long legal war against him is far from a principled pursuit of justice, and instead politically motivated, aimed at silencing his criticism of multiculturalism and mass migration from the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15553\/geert-wilders-show-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilders asserts that the government\u2019s decade-long legal war against him is far from a principled pursuit of justice, and instead politically motivated, aimed at silencing his criticism of multiculturalism and mass migration from the Muslim world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49],"tags":[46,181,182],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","category-netherlands","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-netherlands"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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