The Geert Wilders trial

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It is not at all clear cut whether or not Wilders' more extreme/rabid pronouncements were well within the law: a lot of that depends on context, and there is a significant difference between e.g. an argument about the Quran as an insidious violence-condoning disgrace to humanity comparing it with Mein Kampf; and e.g. an argument about the Quran as such a book in a broader diatribe against immigrants. EDIT: Basically the judge's verdict amounts to that: a better, more thorough verdict beside OM's assesment on whether or not Wilders' was guilty of the charges must be established; and to do so requires a full trial, by law.

IIRC: Nobody accused Sibbel & Jansen for their show in which they slammed the doomed-to-failure proposals by overzealous CDA types to explicitly forbid blasphemy by using a deliberately blasphemous portrayal of Mohamed (and lets face it that portrayal was scarcely more of a hagiography than is Wilders portrayal of the same Mohamed); nobody filed a complaint about that.

At any rate: It is likely that he would be cleared of all charges (which is why OM didn't prosecute in the first place) but that is a different matter.