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Date: 2008-07-01 (Tuesday)
Geert Wilders will not be prosecuted on charges of inciting hatred of Muslims
Mr. Wilders’s film, “Fitna,” or “Ordeal” in Arabic, and his published remarks, in which he called the Koran fascist, were hurtful and insulting, but not criminal
-- According to Dutch prosecutors






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democracy,   Eurabia,   Islam,   Koran,   Muslims,   Netherlands,   Politics,   religion,  

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