{"id":12534,"date":"2011-06-23T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2011-06-23T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:40:20","slug":"dutch-anti-islam-politician-geert-wilders-acquitted-12534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/dutch-anti-islam-politician-geert-wilders-acquitted-12534\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12535\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/geert_wilders_trial_anti_islam_speech_nationalturk_1234-520x360.jpg\" alt=\"Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders in the trial\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dutch politician Geert Wilders looks on during the reading of his verdict in trial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Geert Wilders trial ended. Court acquitted Dutch far-right lawmaker and politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and discrimination for statements against Islam.<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you,&#8221; Judge Marcel van Oosten told Geert Wilders. &#8220;The bench finds that your statements in your speech are acceptable within the context of the public debate,&#8221; Judge van Oosten told 47 years old Wilders, who has been on trial in the Amsterdam regional court since last October.<\/p>\n<h2>Geert Wilders Speech : Islam is like Nazism<\/h2>\n<p>The flamboyant parliamentarian faced five counts of hate speech and discrimination for his anti-Islamic remarks on websites, Internet forums and in Dutch newspapers between October 2006 and March 2008, and in his controversial 17-minute movie &#8220;Fitna&#8221; (&#8220;Discord&#8221; in Arabic). The dutch politician compares Islam to Nazism in his speeches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geert Wilders trial ended. Court acquitted Dutch far-right lawmaker and politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and discrimination for statements against Islam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":12535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,30,80,63,17,118,37,101,14],"tags":[16082,16078,16084,16077,16085,16081,16079,16080,16083],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-anti-islam-speech","tag-anti-islam","tag-dutch-politician-geert-wilders","tag-geert-wilders","tag-geert-wilders-acquitted","tag-geert-wilders-fitna","tag-geert-wilders-speech","tag-geert-wilders-trial","tag-islam-nazism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}