Britain refuses entry to 'extremist' Wilders
Dutch News: 11-02-2009
The Netherlands has protested to the British government about its refusal to
allow the Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders to enter the country.
A spokesman for the Dutch foreign affairs ministry told DutchNews.nl that
Britain has banned Wilders ‘in the interests of public order and security’.
Wilders was due to go to London for a screening of his short anti-Islam film
Fitna on February 12. The showing of the film by the upper house of the British
parliament was postponed last month following opposition from British Muslim
community leaders.
Extremism
A spokeswoman for the British home office told DutchNews.nl she could not
comment on individual cases but that the British government 'opposes extremism
in all its forms'.
The British government 'will stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred
and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country,' a home
office statement said. Britain introduced tighter rules on exclusions for
unacceptable behaviour last year.
On his website Wilders says that he received a letter from the British embassy
on Tuesday in which he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter
Britain.
'Great Britain is sacrificing freedom of speech,' said Wilders. 'You would
expect something like this to happen in countries like Saudi Arabia but not in
Great Britain. This cowardly act by the British government is a disgrace.'
The Netherlands is ‘extremely disappointed at the British government's
decision' to ban Wilders from entering Britain, says the Dutch foreign affairs
ministry in a statement on its website on Tuesday.
Statement
Dutch foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen has phoned his British
counterpart David Miliband to express his displeasure that a Dutch member of
parliament was blocked from travelling to another European Union country, the
statement says.
Wilders is head of the right-wing anti-immigration PVV party which has nine
seats in parliament.
Film screening
‘Whether that’s possible [the screening] is a decision for the British upper
house [of parliament],’ said Verhagen. ‘But refusing entry to a Dutch
parliamentarian to another EU country is regretful,’ says Verhagen in Tuesday’s
statement.
Verhagen initially put pressure on the British ambassador in The Hague to
reconsider the decision to ban Wilders on Monday, the foreign affairs
department says.
As the decision was made by the British home secretary Jacqui Smith, the affair
will be now be discussed between her and the Dutch justice minister Ernst
Hirsch Ballin.
In January, the Amsterdam appeal court said that Wilders should be prosecuted
for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.
<http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/02/dutch_protest_at_british_ban_o.php>
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/02/dutch_protest_at_british_ban_o.php
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