The West appears to
be in the febrile grip of a far right movement and it's in full swing. First
the British voted Brexit, America followed suit by electing Donald Trump, Italy
joined the party, Germany partially did with Angela Merkel's suggested ban on
Burqha and Austria avoided it by only a slim margin. Netherlands is the next
stop. Geert Wilders, a 53yr old Anti-islamic MP is the country's conservative
poster boy who has vowed to confiscate Qurans, close mosques and Islamic
schools and according to polls, his Freedom Party is set to be the country's
biggest in parliament after the forthcoming March elections.
He was recently
convicted of discrimination against Moroccans but is yet to be sentenced.
The three-week trial
of Wilders had focused in particular on a statement made at a 2014 local
government election rally in The Hague, when he asked supporters whether they
wanted 'fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands'. When the
crowd shouted back 'Fewer! Fewer!' a smiling Wilders answered: 'We're going to
organise that.'
Prosecutors told the
trial they had taken Wilders to court because 'racist remarks need to be
stopped' after police received 6,400 complaints about his comments.
Wilders boycotted
most of the high-profile trial, and refused to appear in court for the verdict.
If elected as the lowlands country's new prime minister, Wilders has vowed to
confiscate Korans, close mosques and Islamic schools, shut Dutch borders and
ban migrants from Islamic countries among a raft of other anti-Islamic moves.
Reacting to his
conviction, Wilders said the judges were on the "wrong side of
history".
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