Geert Wilders Barred from Englandstan
London - Right-wing Dutch legislator Geert Wilders, who is being prosecuted at home for anti-Islam remarks, said he was barred from entering Britain on Thursday after he landed in defiance of a government ban.
Wilders wanted to show his film "Fitna," which argues that the Koran incites violence, in the British parliament. But he was told by British authorities on Tuesday that he was being excluded. Despite that, he took a flight to London.
"I am in a detention centre at Heathrow ... I will not be allowed to enter the country. They will send me back within a few hours," Wilders told the press from the airport.
"It is a very sad day, not only for me, but for freedom of speech," he said.
The Home Office said he would not be allowed entry into the country, but gave no other details....
Wilders' exclusion caused a diplomatic spat between the Netherlands and Britain.
"It is highly regrettable that a Dutch MP (member of parliament) should be denied entry to another EU country," Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said in a statement on the Dutch Embassy's British web site.
It said Verhagen had telephoned David Miliband to "express his displeasure" that a Dutch member of parliament had been excluded.
Miliband defended the decision. "A hate-filled film designed to stir up religious and racial hatred in this country is contrary to our laws," he told the BBC....
Oh, yeah, Miliband? Not that there are any Islamic jihadists in the UK are trying to stir up religious hatred, eh what? Oh no, only Wilders is doing that!
Of course, then there is this from Mark Steyn at The Corner :
As to the judgment of the British Home Office, they have no problem admitting to the United Kingdom the likes of Dr. Ijaz Mian, who preached as follows at the Ahl-e-Hadith mosque in Derby:"You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir. We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others... King, Queen, House of Commons: if you accept it, you are a part of it. If you don't accept it, you have to dismantle it. So you being a Moslem, you have to fix a target. From that White House to this Black House, we know we have to dismantle it. Moslems must grow in strength, then take over... You are in a situation in which you have to live like a state-within-a-state - until you take over."This so-called hate filled film "Fitna" that Geert made strangely enough has only hate coming from the mouths of Moslems and the Koran NOT Geert!. Multicultural England will tolerate any intolerance, except the guy who points out the intolerance. They can't tolerate that. Have you noticed that as the Moslems get stronger in Europe and Canada freedom gets weaker?
14 Feb 2009
