As you may not know, Wilders is being charged with 'hate speech' by the Dutch Courts, and they've decided to hold his 'trial' just before the elections early next year in the hopes of keeping him from getting elected, a very sleazy tactic on their part.

Is Wilders a hypocrite for calling for the banning of the Koran? Is the Koran hate speech?

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It's worth considering. Is supporting Wilders as a champion of free speech "a bit rich"? Is he just a totalitarian book-banner?

In fact, no. Wilders made a speech in the Dutch Parliament about banning the Qur'an in September 2007 (thanks to Andrew Bostom). In it, Wilders outlines some of the incitement to violence that is contained in the Qur'an -- here is just part of his argument:



Madam Speaker, I acknowledge that there are people who call themselves Muslims and who respect our laws. My party, the Freedom Party, has nothing against such people, of course. However, the Koran does have something against them. For it is stated in the Koran in Sura 2, verse 85, that those believers who do not believe in everything the Koran states will be humiliated and receive the severest punishment; which means that they will roast in Hell. In other words, people who call themselves Muslims but who do not believe, for example, in Sura 9, verse 30 [actually 9:29], which states that Jews and Christians must be fought, or, for example, in Sura 5, verse 38, which states that the hand of a thief must be cut off, such people will be humiliated and roast in Hell. Note that it is not me who is making this up. All this can be found in the Koran. The Koran also states that Muslims who believe in only part of the Koran are in fact apostates, and we know what has to happen to apostates. They have to be killed.

Then he goes on to call for consistency in the application of Dutch laws that restrict speech that incites to violence, but which have never been applied to the Qur'an or to the hate-filled imams who preach jihad and Islamic supremacism in obedience to Qur'anic dictates:

Madam Speaker, the Koran is a book that incites to violence. I remind the House that the distribution of such texts is unlawful according to Article 132 of our Penal Code. In addition, the Koran incites to hatred and calls for murder and mayhem. The distribution of such texts is made punishable by Article 137(e). The Koran is therefore a highly dangerous book; a book which is completely against our legal order and our democratic institutions. In this light, it is an absolute necessity that the Koran be banned for the defence and reinforcement of our civilisation and our constitutional state. I shall propose a second-reading motion to that effect.

In calling the Qur'an hate speech with reference to the Dutch Penal Code, Wilders is simply asking for consistent application of the Dutch law.

Dutch Government's Hypocrisy

It would seem Wilders is right about the Koran, and the Dutch enforcement of 'hate speech' laws is very selective, just as 'hate crime' charges are very selectively enforced here in the U.S.. The Koran should be banned everywhere, but for some reason it gets to hide under the umbrellla of a 'religious' text, even though it's merely a psychopathic fantasy devoted to mass murder and genocide, along with it's sister book, Mein Kampf, also a big seller in the ME and other Muslim countries, and this is no mere coincidence.