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Jihadist hate preacher welcomed in Netherlands as it prosecutes Wilders for “hate speech”

Jan 23, 2009 1:58 pm By Robert Spencer

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Some “hate speech,” apparently, is just fine in the Netherlands. They say that he will be prosecuted if he says something “hateful” in the Netherlands, but his positions are already abundantly clear — if Dutch officials wanted to be consistent, they wouldn’t let him in. “Radical Muslim preacher welcome in Rotterdam,” by Rob Kievit for Radio Netherlands, January 23 :

Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin rejects demands by two parties to bar a radical Islamic preacher from speaking in the Netherlands.

Mr Hirsch Ballin wrote to parliament on Thursday that the preacher, American citizen Khalid Yasin, is free to enter the country and address audiences. The justice minister adds that Mr Yasin will risk prosecution if it turns out that his speeches incite hatred. He emphasises that everyone in the Netherlands has freedom of speech, provided they respect the rule of law.

What do you bet that no matter what Khalid Yasin says, he would not be prosecuted in the Netherlands?

The two major parties of the governing coalition, Labour and Christian democrat CDA, together with the opposition populist right-wing Freedom Party, had asked for a ban. They cited earlier utterances by Mr Yasin, who according to the Freedom Party is “a terrorist” and “an evil man”. Labour had asked the justice minister to verify reports that Mr Yasin preaches radical Islam and intolerance between muslims and non-muslims. The Christian democrats wrote to the minister that they feared Mr Yasin would issue calls to violence.

The issue mirrors the case of Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, against whom a prosecution was started on Wednesday for inciting hatred against Muslims. The MP is a vocal critic of the Qur’an, having compared Islam’s holy book to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and said it fosters terrorism. Mr Wilders says he was exercising his right to free speech, both inside and outside of parliament.

Converts to Islam

Mr Yasin is scheduled to give two lectures to Islam converts at the private Islamic University of Rotterdam; he will also speak in the town of Maaseik in Belgium. Rotterdam’s recently appointed mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb told the ANP agency that Mr Yasin is welcome in his city, but the mayor said he did not want to become involved in a discussion over religion. “Every individual has their own perception of religion.” Mr Aboutaleb rejected censorship and said he was hoping for a lively debate, “but if his texts are insulting or inciting to hatred, we’ll prosecute him.”

Khalid Yasin’s opinions

Khalid Yasin has been quoted as:

* advocating the death penalty for homosexuality
* claiming the HIV virus was deliberately engineered by Western governments
* questioning the existence of al-Qaeda and its involvement in the 9/11 attacks
* asserting that the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings were justified in the light of a history of Western oppression of Islam

Khalid Yasin:

“There’s no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend. If you prefer the clothing of the kafirs over the clothing of the Muslims, most of those names that’s on most of those clothings is faggots, homosexuals and lesbians…The Koran gives a very clear position regarding homosexuality, lesbianism and bestiality – that these are aberrations, they are immoralities and if they are tried, convicted, they are punishable by death.”

“Osama bin Laden is not everywhere, omnipotent. … where’s Osama bin Laden? That would warrant $68 billion in 17 countries hunting him and everyone in their houses being afraid of this kind of Osama bin Laden bogey man. This is a creation … in order to justify a war they call on terror but is really a terror they have put inside the people. It is a war against Islam… There has been no evidence that has surfaced, no bona fide irrevocable, irrefutable evidence … that there is a group called al-Qa’ida that did the September 11 bombings. I’m of the opinion there was a rogue operation that took place.”

Kathy Shaidle has more on this.

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