http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26048/geert-wilders-acquitted-of-all-charges http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26048/geert-wilders-acquitted-of-all-charges#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:12:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26048 A court in Amsterdam has acquitted MP Geert Wilders of charges of inciting hatred and insulting Muslims as a group.

The charges had been brought by individuals who felt they had been discriminated against by the anti-Islam nationalist MP. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26048/geert-wilders-acquitted-of-all-charges/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25694/dutch-politician-geert-wilders-renews-attack-on-islam http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25694/dutch-politician-geert-wilders-renews-attack-on-islam#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:11:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25694 Geert Wilders, facing a retrial on charges of incitement to hatred and discrimination, used a court appearance on Monday to engage in harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric, calling Islam a “totalitarian ideology” that seeks to “destroy” European civilisation.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25694/dutch-politician-geert-wilders-renews-attack-on-islam/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25245/dutch-court-to-hear-geert-wilders-case-over-again http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25245/dutch-court-to-hear-geert-wilders-case-over-again#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:31:42 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25245 A Dutch court approved on Friday a request from anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to have new judges for his trial on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims, forcing the court to start the case over again.

It is alleged that one of the judges tried to influence one of Wilders' witnesses.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25245/dutch-court-to-hear-geert-wilders-case-over-again/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25202/dutch-prosecutor-requests-some-charges-against-geert-wilders-be-dropped http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25202/dutch-prosecutor-requests-some-charges-against-geert-wilders-be-dropped#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:26:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25202 hate speech case against Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Tuesday requested the court drop charges of insulting Muslims from the list of crimes being considered.

Although prosecutors would continue pushing for a conviction on charges of discrimination and inciting hatred against Muslims, they said incendiary statements Wilders had made about the Koran and Islam could not be construed as a direct insult to people of the Muslim faith. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25202/dutch-prosecutor-requests-some-charges-against-geert-wilders-be-dropped/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25185/dutch-anti-islam-mps-trial-to-go-on http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25185/dutch-anti-islam-mps-trial-to-go-on#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:48:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25185 hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, set to become a shadow partner of the next government, will go ahead as planned after a court on Tuesday refused to dismiss his judges for alleged bias.

Wilders is charged with five counts of giving religious offence to Muslims and inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans, in comments made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on internet forums.

Seven days of hearings have been scheduled in the month of October, with judgment expected on November 4.

Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) came third in June 9 national elections, and is concluding a deal to support a new minority government of Christian Democrats and liberals in return for a voice in policy-making.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25185/dutch-anti-islam-mps-trial-to-go-on/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25177/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-geert-wildes-on-trial-for-inciting-hate http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25177/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-geert-wildes-on-trial-for-inciting-hate#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:32:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25177 Dutch anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders, who plays a controversial but pivotal role in the formation of a new Dutch government, went on trial on Monday for inciting hatred against Muslims.

Wilders is charged with inciting hate and discrimination against Muslims in comments he made in the media and for insulting Muslims by comparing the Islamic faith to Nazism.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25177/dutch-anti-islam-lawmaker-geert-wildes-on-trial-for-inciting-hate/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24775/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-forms-anti-islam-group http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24775/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-forms-anti-islam-group#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:20:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24775 An anti-Islam lawmaker in the Netherlands is forming an international alliance to spread his message across the West in a bid to ban immigration from Islamic countries, among other goals.

Geert Wilders told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday he will launch the movement late this year, initially in five countries: the U.S., Canada, Britain, France and Germany.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24775/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-forms-anti-islam-group/feed 0 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/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:18:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24045 Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders is due to appear in an Amsterdam court on Wednesday on charges of religious insult and anti-Islam incitement.

The prosecution claims his 2008 short film "Fitna", as well as statements made in interviews and speeches, incite hatred against Muslims. Wilders has called Islam a "backward" culture and the Koran a "fascist book that incites people to violence."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands/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