No no, mustn't criticize Islam...
A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
"In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to... draw a clear line," the court in Amsterdam said.
Mr Wilders said the ruling was a "black day for me and for freedom of speech".
"I am shaken. I had absolutely not expected it," he told the Dutch news agency, ANP.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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