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Geert Wilders to Be Charged with Hate Speech in Netherlands

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Pastorius1/21/2009 12:07:58 pm PST

I agree with Charles that Wilders is not an icon of free specch by American standards.

However, think about this. A few years back, and politican in the Netherlands was asked about whether Sharia law could become part of the Dutch legal system.

His answer was that once Muslims became a majority, they could vote Sharia in as the law, because “that’s Democracy.”

That was really his answer.

But, that is not Democracy as we define Democracy in Western Civilization. Instead that is mob rule.

Democracy is a Republic (protected by a Constitution which in turn protects human rights) under which the people vote for laws and representatives.

The people do not rule over the Constitution, other than in the sense that we can amend it.

No one rules over the Constitution.

Sharia is anathema to Western Civilization.

As such, we can never allow any Islamist political party to gain any legitimate political power in any part of the Western world.