Sandra, I agree with you. But Bob makes a great point. Many "hateful" works are banned throughout Europe. In Germany you can receive a 6 YEAR prison sentence for denying the Holocaust. A 6 year prison term for saying something. That is not free speech by my definition. I absolutely do not believe the Holocaust did not happen, or that is was inflated. I personally know several families that were affected by it, and I have visited Auschwitz and cant even imagine how horrible it must have been. But the freedom of speech is too important to make exceptions. Absolutely no books should be banned. No speech should be banned. Banning certain works and certain speech did not stop the Neo-Nazi movement, in fact it may have fueled it considering that group now feels the government is "against them". If things are out in the open they tend to be marginalized. That being said, the West owes nothing to the cultures that would like to destroy us. If a radical imam is found in the West they should be deported immediately (if they are not full citizens or have dual citizenship). Everyone who attends the mosque where he preached should also be screened and potentially deported. Every available outlet is used in the Middle East to attack the West: speech, news, political cartoons, religious teachings, childrens' programing, etc., etc. I fail to see why we constrain ourselves in the name of political correctness, but they have free reign against us. There was a huge uproar over the Danish cartoons, but cartoons and kids shows broadcast to Palestinian and other Muslim children receive almost no media coverage. Often characters are martyred ON KIDS SHOWS! Here is a small excerpt from one of the countless twisted programs showed to kids in that part of the world (http://www.youtube.com/user/pmwvideos#p/search/1/lZEGsnWZKh8)

Free speech is one thing, but trying to ban a piece of History like the Koran, torah, or bible of such historic documentation is absolutely criminal and hateful.

At DB. Wait and see. If Mein Kampf is banned in the NL because it calls for the killing of innocent people, so should the Koran as it does the same. Furthermore anybody claiming to have Islam's prophet Mohammed as the ultimate ideal for a human being should get precautionarily locked up as well as potential murderers, wife beaters and child molesters and there is too much of that information in their own holy books to deny it. Oh, how they wished they would have stayed in their own countries in stead of exposing themselves to the rest of the world, but he, they asked for it so they will be getting it. That is why they are fervently trying to pass on UN resolutions that will prohibit criticizing religions. All this with the help and full support of the brand new Nobel peace laureate Barack Obama, who himself is bypassing the first amendment by pushing for hate speech laws in his own country. Getting back to GW, he is going to win big time in his NL trial and with the help of its own experts, the Islam will get exposed for what it is, a backward totalitarian ideology disguised as a religion.

Free speach when properly exercised is free speech, even for Geert. Let's hope he uses his rights wisely in the UK, where people will see him and his party for what they really are. The photo of Geert holding a pen in his mouth in quite metaphorical, signifying that he will come to eat his words. Once his views and comments are put under democratic scrutiny. Geert wpn't be able to defend them in a rational and logical manner.