Democracy on Trial: Geert Wilders Goes To Court
By ABIGAIL R. ESMAN
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife
It may well become the trial of the century: this week, Dutch MP Geert Wilders stands before the judge on charges of “sowing hate” through his speeches and writings about Islam.
But it is not Geert Wilders who really is on trial here: it is, rather, that sacred principle of free speech on which democracy and the Enlightenment are born.
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