Friend or Foe of Free Speech?

by Robert Spencer
FrontPage Magazine
February 12, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1321/friend-or-foe-of-free-speech

Excerpt:

Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders has been hailed worldwide as a hero of free speech after Dutch authorities announced that they were going to prosecute him for insulting Islam and Muslims. However, not everyone sees him as a hero. Ian Buruma said it in the New York Times:

Whether Mr. Wilders has deliberately insulted Muslim people is for the judges to decide. But for a man who calls for a ban on the Koran to act as the champion of free speech is a bit rich.

It's worth considering. Is supporting Wilders as a champion of free speech "a bit rich"? Is he just a totalitarian book-banner?

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