http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24075/geert-wilders-to-test-british-free-speech-with-anti-muslim-film-screening http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24075/geert-wilders-to-test-british-free-speech-with-anti-muslim-film-screening#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:33:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24075 Geert Wilders, the radical anti-Muslim Dutch politician, will seek to test free speech in Britain next month when he makes a second attempt to visit the House of Lords to screen a controversial film equating Islam to Nazism.

Lord Ahmed, a Muslim peer, has promised to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24075/geert-wilders-to-test-british-free-speech-with-anti-muslim-film-screening/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23777/geert-wilders-uk-visit http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23777/geert-wilders-uk-visit#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:11:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23777 Amsterdam - Dutch politician and Islam-critic Geert Wilders is due to travel to Britain later this week, the Netherlands' Freedom Party said Wednesday, following the lifting of a British travel ban on him.

The Home Office insisted Mr Wilders would still inflame community tensions if he comes to the UK and is considering whether to appeal against the ruling. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23777/geert-wilders-uk-visit/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23256/geert-wilders-12 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23256/geert-wilders-12#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:15:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23256 A diplomatic row over a decision by British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ban controversial Dutch film-maker Geert Wilders from broadcasting his anti-Muslim film in the House of lords has escalated.

Wilders insists he will fly to the UK. "If they want to put me in handcuffs, a Dutch parliamentarian and party leader and send me back to The Netherlands, so be it."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23256/geert-wilders-12/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:10:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23182 The Amsterdam court has ruled that the Public Prosecutor's Office should after all prosecute the populist politician Geert Wilders for anti-Islamic remarks.

"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.

Among other things, Wilders has compared the Quran to Hitler's book Mein Kampf.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22207/muslim-hackers http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22207/muslim-hackers#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:49:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22207 Independent, cybercrime observer Zone-H.org has reported that Islamic hacker communities are involved in the latest online "hacktivism" addressing perceived Dutch Islamophobia, particularly member of parliament Geert Wilders' controversial film released earlier this year.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22207/muslim-hackers/feed 0