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[angels4u]

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders plans Prophet Mohammed expo after US shootings The Dutch politician wants to send a message after two gunmen attacked a Texas event that he and others were standing for freedom of speech

 

7:47PM BST 06 May 2015

 

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said on Wednesday he wanted to stage a parliamentary exhibition of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that sparked a deadly shooting in Texas that left two dead.

"I am going to request parliament to exhibit the same cartoons as those that were displayed in Garland," Mr Wilders told AFP on Wednesday, referring to the Dallas suburb where the shooting took place on Sunday.

Police said the two gunmen drove up to the conference centre in Garland, where the American Freedom Defence Initiative was organising a controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest, and opened fire with assault rifles, hitting a security guard in the ankle.

A Garland police officer then shot and killed both gunmen with his service pistol.

US investigators are probing the backgrounds of the two slain gunmenafter Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) claimed it had ordered the shooting.

Mr Wilders, 51, had left the conference centre, where he made a speech criticising Islam, shortly before the incident.

 

"I want to send a message that if you use violence to suppress free speech the only effect is that we'll do it even more," Mr Wilders said, adding "we must show we'll not be intimidated."

The platinum-haired Mr Wilders, whose Freedom Party (PVV) gained popularity in the Netherlands on an anti-Islam ticket, denied that a cartoon exhibition would be provocative.

"I don't want to provoke, but at the same time we must show that we're standing for freedom of speech," Mr Wilders said.

Ever since forming his own party in 2006, the firebrand politician has been a divisive figure in the Netherlands, which prides itself on its long but fading tradition of multi-cultural tolerance.

Mr Wilders himself has no hesitation in branding the Koran as a "fascist" book and have before likened it to Hitler's Mein Kampf.

But the politician is facing prosecution in the Netherlands after a controversial statement last year during local government elections in which he vowed to ensure fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.

Public prosecutors received more than 6,000 complaints of discrimination after television footage in March last year showed Mr Wilders asking party faithful in The Hague whether they wanted "fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands?"

"Fewer, fewer!" the crowd shouted with a smiling Mr Wilders saying: "We're going to organise that."

The Isil claim marks the first time that the extremist group, which has captured swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq using brutal methods, is alleged to have carried out an attack in the United States.

 

 

       

 

         

 

[ayin jade]

Good for him.

 

But he just signed his death warrant.

[OakWood]

Good for him.

 

But he just signed his death warrant.

 

He did that years ago. He has round-the-clock protection and apparently can only visit his wife once a week in a secret location for fear of putting his family at risk. He has sacrificed a lot for freedom of speech.

[angels4u]

 

Good for him.

 

But he just signed his death warrant.

 

He did that years ago. He has round-the-clock protection and apparently can only visit his wife once a week in a secret location for fear of putting his family at risk. He has sacrificed a lot for freedom of speech.

 

He sure did..remember Theo van Gogh too?