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“Another example of Orwellian “hate speech” laws being used to silence view points that authorities don’t like. Europe appears to be awash in PC madness that will eventually lead to overt tyranny if not stopped.”  Admin

Last March, Geert Wilders, the controversial right-wing Dutch Parliamentarian best known for his stance against Muslims and Muslim immigration, stood before supporters at a campaign rally and asked a simple question: “Do you want more Moroccans, or fewer?”

He expected the question to raise enthusiasm among the crowd, and drive his party to greater Parliamentary success. It has also possibly landed him before the courts, to be tried for “hate speech” — a crime in the Netherlands, which, despite its claims of “freedom of speech,” still criminalizes speech that “offends” on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or even personal convictions and ideology.

Wilders, however, didn’t make a statement: he simply asked others what they wanted. It was the Dutch people themselves who, in response, cried out, “Fewer! Fewer!”

More problematic is that the prosecution of Wilders’s query goes beyond the standard concerns about political correctness. It reaches a point where discussion or debate is impossible because the questions themselves become a crime.

But aren’t discussion and debate exactly what democracy is supposed to be about?

The pending case also rips open other problems with European — and particularly The Netherlands’ — limits on free expression. Restrictions have, in recent years, grown more repressive in response to allegations of “Islamophobia” and attempts by many in Europe’s Muslim communities to censor expressions they consider offensive to Islam.

But is the cry of “fewer” really “hate speech”? Or is it the expression of a “personal conviction,” perhaps based on a nationalist “ideology,” held by many in the crowd — and therefore, under Dutch laws, protected?

Read More  Netherlands: When the Questions Become the Crime.