A first happened today in the Netherlands. Uri Rosenthal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs responded promptly to defend Geert Wilders and Free speech against demands to ‘silence him’ by the Organization of Islamic Co-operation, the new name for the 57 nation Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The OIC in its new guise had accused Wilders of conducting a “Campaign of Hatred” by simply criticizing Islam for its totalitarian credo.
The OIC was endeavoring to override the recent acquittal in a decision by the Amsterdam District Court of Wilders of all charges brought against him under Dutch hate speech laws. This was patent intimidation of a sovereign nation by the OIC. [The Iconoclast] Read more
